The Ant and the Grasshopper is one of Aesops Fables. In it, the ants toil all summer long collecting food while the grasshopper sings and dances the summer away. When the winter comes, the grasshopper is hungry and asks the ants for food, the ants refuse and rebuke his idleness during the summer. The moral being Idleness brings want, To work today is to eat tomorrow, or Beware of winter before it comes. I recently ran across a childrens book called Frederick in which the fable is completely reversed. Frederick the mouse idles about all summer gathering sun rays, colors, and words and then tells his fellow mice stories during the winter as they all slowly starve after the food runs out, and yet somehow he is the hero of the book. Wondering how the moral of the story could be so perverted, I looked into the author and discovered that Leo Lionni was a half-Jew who married the daughter of one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party and was forced to flee Italy for America when Mussolini came to power due to his far-Left politics. -Admin Texas
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:41:29 +0000
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