<p>Hey can you check and grade my essay
Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real
teach us anything useful? Plan and write an essay in which you develop
your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning
and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or
observations.</p>
<p>Storytelling has been a tradition that was passed down from generation
to generation. Many of the stories we have heard as children are
fictitious fables or myths about back to Greek deities. These fables
and Greek mythology about characters and events that are not real can
teach us something useful because they don’t target one specific group
of people when delivering an overall message to the audience.</p>
<p>First, fables, specifically Aesop’s fables, are centered around
talking animals. For example, one of the plethora of fables by Aesop
that is so ubiquitous, the Tortoise and the Hare, is about a tortoise
and a hare who are competing in a running race. The presumptuous hare,
knowing confidently, that it can win race easily decides to take some
rest. The tortoise on the other hand, is slow and steady. Finally, the
hare oversleeps and the tortoise ends up winning the race. The moral
of this story is that instead of being overly cocky, you should go at
your own pace. The use of animals such as the tortoise and the hare
instead of actually people avoids marking out people according to
gender, race, or ethnicity.</p>
<p>Next, Greek mythology utilizes aberrant events to highlight a
noteworthy moral. To demonstrate, the notorious story of Icarus and
Daedalus is still renown today. It is about
a King Minos of Crete who imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus to punish
Daedalus for helping the Theseus to the Minotaur. Daedalus knew that
Minos controlled any escape routes by land or sea, but Minos could not
prevent an escape by flight. So, Daedalus used his adroit skills to
create wings for himself and Icarus using wax. As they prepared for
flight, Daedalus warned Icarus to fly at medium altitude. If he flew
too high, the sun could melt the wax of his wings, and the sea could
moisten the feathers if he flew too low. Icarus, so enticed by the
idea of flying rejected his father’s precaution. The exhilaration lead
him to fly higher and higher. The sun melted the wax holding his wings
together, and the boy fell into the water and drowned. The moral of
this story is that you should always listen to your elders. This moral
is presented in a way which doesn’t target anyone specifically since
no one has flown.</p>
<p>Although all of Aesop’s fables and Greek mythology is fabricated, they
both teach lessons that are vital to life. We are told these stories
to teach us these beneficial lessons without be told directly as a way
of victimizing us. These fables and Greek mythology about characters
and events that are not real can teach us something useful because
they don’t target one specific group of people when delivering an
overall message to the audience.</p>