ENGL 2740 Lecture 3: Child Lit Class 3
16 Oct 2015
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There is nothing inherent to the fable as a genre that precludes ambiguity and moral. Most fables have elements of ambiguity and moral complexity close reading. Note patterns or clusters: details that seem to do something together. In spite of it"s current status, fable has been considered important at times in western history. Fables taught in schools, quoted in sermons, depicted in manuscripts, etc. Used as a teaching tool to confront subject matter. Whoever is writing them has enough exibility on how he/she retells a known story and what it is about. By using the fable to get a message across that is implicit they can hide behind it. Using animals instead of people can hide the social con ict.
