Today in class we discussed two short stories and one fable. I wish we could have spent more time on the fable, entitled “Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls”, because IT WAS FANTASTIC!!! Mark Twain was brilliant when he selected this topic, then wrote it in the perspective of animals after man’s extinction. The fable was extremely entertaining, yet profound.
His selection of animals and their assigned tasks showed the amount of thought he placed in the character analysis. He selected turtles for transport, glow-worms and fireflies for illumination, and tumble-bugs and ants for excavation. It reminded me of the movie Ants that either Disney or Pixar put out a few years back.
Trying to describe a known object as if seeing it for the first time is a difficult task. It was fun figuring out what the animals were describing.
I loved the way Mark Twain made fun of the professors and the educational system in the book. It rang so true to the contemporary world. Professors were believed no matter how absurd their analysis was, and the “uneducated” were immediately discounted even after providing valid points.
Bring us some more of this genre, I can’t get enough!
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