What is a fable

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What is a fable?
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The Ants and the Grasshopper
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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The Tortoise and the Hare
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Right-Mind and Wrong-Mind

• From the Panchatantra
• An Indian manuscript of various animal fables
• The first section The Loss of Friends
• 34 stories most of them told by 2 jackals,
  Victor and Cheek
• Cheek tells Right-Mind and Wrong-Mind
• Utilizes frame tales and epigrams
• Epigram brief clever verses that contain moral
  and practical advice

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• What is the significance of the names of the two
  main characters?
• Why did the two friends travel away? Why did
  they return?
• Why does Wrong-Mind suggest they do with the
  gold?
• Predictions?

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• What does Wrong-mind do to live up to his name?
• Paraphrase the message of Right-Minds first
  epigram.
• According to Wrong-Minds epigram, in what order
  should evidence be relied on?
• Courts original decision? New decision?

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• How does Wrong-Mind plan to win the challenge?
• How is the tale of the heron and the mongoose
  supposed to serve as a warning to Wrong-Mind?
• What proverb does the crab follow?
• How does the story end?
• Does the story teach a moral or a practical
  lesson?