Fables and Short Stories. the Fox and the Grape vs. a Pair of Tickets

drill Fables and Short Stories Fables, parables and terse stories only tell a written report and both try to pass along a meaningful message or honorable. Fables break away to be unequaler, use animals and clearly state the moral the author is nerve-racking to portray. Parables a analogous tell a base and portray a message, that it basically illustrates a moral or religious lesson. Therefore, I gamble it is safe to say that all parables can be fictionalizations but not all fables can be a parable. Short stories however slope to be a lot longer than a fable or parable and also use a lot of literary elements.These elements ar plot, settings, point of view, characters, dialogue and others. In this essay, I will be talk about Aesops fable, The Fox and the Grapes and Amy erythema solares short story, A Pair of Tickets. I will try to explain the morality for apiece story and how the author portrays these morals. Aesops fable, The Fox and the Grapes, is a very short f able with a really big moral. It is simply a story about a famished bedevil trying to find food. He eventually stumbles upon ripe grapes. However, instead of complaining that they are out of his reach, he concludes that they were inadequate and not good for eating.The reason this fable catches my attention is because I am amazed on how Aesop can put such an Copernican moral in the fable by using a fox and grapes. Also, the fable is so short but also has such a big meaning. I suppose there are many morals in the stories, such as, you cant continuously get what you want. However, the chief(prenominal) moral of this story, which is very clearly stated, is, it is easy to despise what you cant get (Aesop 7). Since this fable is so short and has such a tidy moral, it is very easy to remember, making it very easy to retell. This fable also has such a hysterical plot twist and this is what makes it a prominent fable.The fox is supposedly so hungry but when he cant reach the grapes, he all of a sudden is not hungry anymore and does not find the grapes appealing. This is why I debate plot twist is the well-nigh definitive part of a fable because it is when the moral is given to us. The short story, A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan is about an American woman of Chinese descent who is struggling to engage her Chinese heritage. Jing-mei is the protagonist in this story and she is traveling to china with her preceptor to meet her family and to understand her Chinese culture. The element that is most intriguing to me in this story is symbolism.I realize this when Jing-mei is on a train in China to go visit her family and it is so hot that the makeup on her typesetters case begins to literally melt off her face. But I had not judge the heat in October. And now my hair hangs limp with humidity. I put on no makeup in Hong Kong my mascara had melted into dark circles and every debaseg else had felt like layers of grease. So today my face is plain, unadorned except f or a thin mist of shiny sweat on my forehead and nose (Tan 148). I believe the melting of the makeup symbolizes her acceptance of her Chinese heritage and is graceful a whole new person.It also symbolizes that she is growing up and finally realizing how important your heritage is to you and how it shapes the person you are. While Jing-mei is on this trip, I echo she begins to realize that her family is more like her than she thought. When she meets her fathers family, her cousin Lili, she says, I hold up the Polaroid camera, beckoning Lili with my finger. She immediately jumps forrad, places one hand on her hip joint in the means of a fashion model (Tan 150). I think of this is when she first realizes that maybe she isnt that much variant than her family in China.She belike thinks back at when she was younger and remembers that she had pose in the same manner her cousin Lili did. The other realization Jing-mei has that her family and China isnt that much different than her and America is when she enters the hotel. The hotel is magnificent. A bellboy complete with uniform and sharp-creased cap jumps forward begins to carry our bags into the lobby (Tan 151). The hotels are as nice as she has most likely seen in America. She was most likely expecting a small hotel with cipher but a bed in the room. The hotel is also like a shopping mall with a bunch of shops in it.I believe all these things make Jing-mei realize she isnt that different then the family she never knew and how important family is. In conclusion, Aesops fable, The Fox and the Grapes, as well as Amy Tans short story, A Pair of Tickets, have a moral. Obviously, it is easier to find the moral in the fable, which is, it is easy to criticize something you cant have. Howev11er, I believe the moral in A Pair of Tickets, is never lose sight of where you came from, always remember that family comes first and that youre background and where you come from helps build your character.I dresst think it is wrong to reduce a short story to a simple moral as one usually does in a fable or parable. I believe every generator writes his or her story to make a point or to drill a lesson. I think the writer is happy when the referee learns a lesson from his or hers stories. When writers use plot, setting, characters, or other literary elements, I believe they do this to paint a clearer picture for the reader so the reader can really understand the moral the author is trying to relay through the story.