Wir behandeln gerade eine Fabel von James Thurber : The Bears and the Monkeys , mit den vier Aufgaben
1. Summerize the fable in your own words.
2. Explain the message behind it.
3. Think of a suitable moral to this fable.
Wäre echt nett von euch ,wenn ihr euch mal meine Ansätze durchlesen würdet und Ausdruck- / Grammatikfehler korriegieren könntet.
Und evt. habt ihr ja noch weitere Ideen, die ich denn hinein nehmen könnte.
Ich sag schonmal Danke im voraus!!!
Hier erst einmal die Fabel ->
The Bears and the Monkeys
In a deep forest there lived many bears. They spent the winter sleeping, and the summer playing leap-bear and stealing honey and buns from nearby cottages. One day a fast-talking monkey named Glib showed up and told them that their way of life was bad for bears. 'You are prisoners of pastime,' he said, 'addicted to leap-bear, and slaves of honey and buns.'
The bears were impressed and frightened as Glib went on talking. 'Your forebears have done this to you,' he said. Glib was so glib, glibber than the glibbest monkey they had ever seen before, that the bears believed he must know more than they knew, or than everybody else. But when he left, to tell other species what was the matter with them, the bears reverted to their fun and games and their theft of buns and honey.
Their decadence made them bright of eye, light of heart, and quick of paw, and they had a wonderful time, living as bears had always lived, until one day two of Glib's successors appeared, named Monkey Say and Monkey Do. They were even glibber than Glib, and they brought many presents and smiled all the time. 'We have come to liberate you from freedom,' they said. 'This is the New Liberation, twice as good as the old, since there are two of us.'
So each bear was made to wear a collar, and the collars were linked together with chains, and Monkey Do put a ring in the lead bear's nose, and a chain on the lead bear's ring. 'Now you are free to do what I tell you to do, ' said Monkey Do.
'Now you are free to say what I want you to say,' said Monkey Say. 'By sparing you the burden of electing you leaders, we save you from the dangers of choice. No more secret ballots, everything open and aboveboard.'
For a long time the bears submitted to their New Liberation, and chanted the slogan the monkeys had taught them: 'Why stand on your own two feet when you can stand on ours?'
Then one day they broke the chains of their new freedom and found their way back to the deep forest and began playing leap-bear again and stealing honey and buns from the nearby cottages. And their laughter and gaiety rang through the forest, birds that had ceased singing began singing again, and all the sounds of the earth were like music.
Meine Ansätze
1. The fable ,, The Bears and the Monkeys'' written by James Thurber is about a group ofliberate and happy bears living in the forest , which are badly influenced by monkeys with the consequence that the bears are temporarily dependent of these.
At first the bears spend their life with sleeping in winter and with playing leap- bearingand stealing honey and buns in summer. Until a monkey called Glib tell them ,that they are prisoners of their own daily routine. He makes the forebears scapegoat for the situation. The bears are impressed of his ideas despite that they fell into the old daily routine , when Glib walk off .
Later appear Monkey Say and Monkey Do , successors of Glib , with the intend to liberate the bears with a kind of New Liberation , which is much better than the old one .
The two monkeys put on collars on the bears ,which are linked together and the lead bear has a ring in the nose with a chain .
They say that the bears are free to do and say what they tell them to do and say .
The bears endure the new rules a while.
Towards the end they free themselves , go to the forest again and keep going on with playing leap-bear and stealing honey.
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