The Tortoise and the Hare






The Tortoise and the Hare
Hillary Zumsteg
Art and Humanities
October 1, 2013
Lisa Dimitriadis

The Tortoise and the Hare
The Tortoise and the Hare is one of Aesop’s Fables. (Childhood Reading, 1997) It is a fable about a tortoise and a hare that decide to have a race. The Hare is the fast animal in the land so he thought it was funny that a hare the slowest animal in the land wanted to race. So the race began and the hare took off as fast as he could. The tortoise was going slowly like he always did. The hare got tired so he wanted to take a rest so he did. The tortoise just kept going and going. The hare took such a long nap that he woke up just in time to see the tortoise cross the finish line. He could not believe that a tortoise bet him in a race.
The moral or the lesson of the story is slow and steady wins the race. I believe that the reader should learn from this fable that not always going fast is the best. Taking things slow in life instead of fast can help you in life. If you do everything fast then you might miss out on things in life. I believe that this lesson is effective in guiding an individual’s and actions or beliefs. This is because learning to take things slowly in life you can appreciate things better. This is what I believe. I know that I have tried to do things fast in life and should have done them slower so that I did a better job at them. If we all took our time with things we need to do then maybe we can all do things better in our lives. We are always in a rush to do things, to grow up, to move on with our lives. I know that when I was growing up I was in such a rush to move out and to become an adult. Now that I am an adult I wish I would be a child again. That is what happens we are all ready to go fast in life so if we slow down and take our time we can enjoy things better.
I believe that the value of narratives or storytelling is very important. It gives adults easier ways to talk to their kids about things...