The Beaver and the Hare
For this project we had to write a fable. A fable is a short story that uses animals as characters with the intent of teaching the reader a lesson. The reason why anthropomorphism or personified animals are used is to establish traits of the character without stating it in the story. In developing my fable, I first picked the moral of the story. I chose the beaver as one of the characters because of the patient and hard working traits and I choose a hare because of their trait of being impatient. Next I thought up my conflict, setting, mood and tone of the story. After I made the first draft, I had someone review it I used the feed back in this final draft. The Beaver and the Hare One foggy Monday morning a determined Beaver crawls out from his den and starts to collect wood for his new home. The friendly, outgoing Hare walks up to the Beaver and asks, “What are you doing?” The Beaver replied uninterested “Making the dam.” The Hare keeps trying to get the Beaver’s attention sa...