Harris

How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox

I have always thought that the fox is supposed to be the sly one but somehow the rabbit in this story is able to outsmart him.  Maybe the moral of this story is that maybe the typical is not always the truth. Then there is also maybe even if someone says that is not what they want the truth could be they are repeating it so that you will do just that. Which in this case was exactly what the rabbit wanted.

Free Joe and the Rest of the World

I found this story to be sad. You would think that every slave just wanted to be free but freedom was the worst thing to happen to Free Joe. Free Joe seemed that he had a fairly good life as a slave but when he had been freed he had to find a way to support himself and still be able to see his wife that was still a slave. He seemed to just about anything to be close to his wife even though his wife’s owner would allow him to see her. He would sit in the woods near the plantation that his wife was working on under a big tree and listen to the slaves sing in the evening. His little dog would go and fetch his wife that would come and sit with him. But once his wife was taken where he wasn’t able to see her and his little dog had been killed I don’t think that Joe thought that he had anything to live for. He just sat there and it was like he willed himself to die because he no longer had anything to live for, he had lost everthing that was important to him.