ANALOGY

ANALOGY Reading comprehension often involves analogy. Analogy, is inferring the meaning about one thing from another thing. So, old ‘Aesop’s Fable’ about the “Fox and the Crow,” is really about the power of inner credulity, vanity, flattery to induce some loss: material or spiritual. Iconic animal stories, living or dead, animate or inanimate, or historical myths, whether then told by Aesop, Homer, Jesus, “Brer Rabbit” relate very powerful philosophical lessons. We are taught that fables are “old wives’ tales” or kid -stuff in modern society. We are being deceived . We who believe that canard are being taken for a ride. Adults need Aesop at least as much as do children, as they do Jesus, Brer Rabbit, Anansi the Spider, Mother Goose, Grimm. For stories of plants, animals, myth, fables that depict dynamic vagaries of life and death within animal and human society, in capsule, by the means of natural symbolism, frame analogy, reading comprehension .