The Hare and The Tortoise

I have read a lot of good stories on this site...this is not one of them!

Short and sweet!Kirsty

FUNNY!!!!!!!!!

To big of words for little kids

The reversal of this story is funny. However, I see quite a few run-on sentences (They got off well together, the hare at the top of her speed, the Tortoise, who had no other intention than making his antagonist exert herself, going very leisurely") which are difficult to follow. Also, verbs that end in "ing" tend to be weak (and seeing a chance to win pushed on as fast as he could, arriving at the goal hours afterward, suffering from extreme fatigue and claiming the victory.") Good idea for a story, however. I like it. =)

whats the moral of this story??..Not a good one..

COOL STORY, MISTER

Sorry- didnt do it for me.

I did not like this story at all. Try putting more time into it next time.

Ha! Very clever, and made me snicker to myself. Short, but good.

Not that impressing

The best short story ever!!!!!!!

not a bad one. ~kael

The “The Hate and the Tortoise” is a good fable that teach us about the different abilities and how you can do everything that you want, you only need to be perseverant and constant in your life. Life is a mix of personalities: People like a tortoise always want to be careful with all the steps that they do it in their life. Others like a hate always like the things fast, but they are arrogant and they feel that they are more than the others. This is a good story to learn about the life but it is for children and adult too.

this is good story and gives children good lesson about power is already important but nothing without intelligence

obahan19

bad

this story reveals that the tortoise was wrong all along.

I really admire the way some of the expert comments aim to help Ambrose Bierce the amateur fledgling become a better writer in the future.

"Try putting more time into it next time"

well said. Bravo.

(by the way, Mr Bierce has been dead since 1914)

good story

I dint understand the moral of this story. And, the reversal was also an ordinary one.

This story is funny but i dont understand it so much is like wired but is cool i like it because is king of misterious but cool

att; Lilybeth Feliciano

well i think this moral was kind of wired but funny make me laught a LOT JAJAJAJAJA

ATT:Lilybeth Feliciano

I tink this is a really funny and itrusting story. Is hard to understand it because are some words hard to understand. Is a good fable that teach us about the different abilities, specialise the kids. Something that make me laught were when after sautering along for some time he descovered the hare by the way side. The best thing of this short story is that is for all kind of ages kids and adult.

att Lilybeth Feliciano

I think that this story is good ,because its says that no matter what movement slow has the tortoise it coud be clever than the otre an might won the competition

no offence to those who did not get it...but how the hell can you not understand all of this??? ...and what words are there that are considered hard??? ...i believe that you should all do more serious reading and that typing in slang, is a crucial offence to English.

i think that this fable has a very good and important moral because everyone must believe in himself and must try to push the limit.

There is something missing in this story...
When I started to read it I thought that there would be something unusual, something that would make the story very clever....but, at the end, i got completely disappointed... Trivial!!!

i really saw the story was lacking imput but the end had me smiling

Good One.

lol haha i fink it is genius!! lol! it was simple n weird n random n funny! it was like a twist on an old tale... it didnt need a moral.... it was kinda like HAH! u fort ud get a nice story but NO! HAH! reality sux! hahaha i fort it was hilarious very funny

or mayb i just hav a wierd sense of humour.......

This is a funny fable. It tells us more about our lives. In fact, some of us live like the hare. They run fast and smart, but they sometimes too pride and too confidential, sometimes look light others. Parts of us do things randomly like a fox, cheating is nothing for them. More people like tortoise. They work hard and diligently but aren’t smart. They often forget to raise their head and see far away. They are interfered by others easily.

I am sorry, but i just dont understand the message conveyed........

I think this is good story,it taught me dont ridiculate
at the people,and you have to be clever and dont be slowly acting butI think it has diffecult words to understand.

This beautiful story reflects the patience.Whatever you had a force wounded vanity.If you want to win, you fight the difficulties.Everyone knows that the tortoise Slow,and the fast,but no one knows the winer.If you see any one don`t judge him.

Only laughs at the end and win
IF you Have A strict will You can reach to what ever you want

At the end of this story, its funny. the tortoise cant win the match. It refers that the fox is very sly....

The hare and the tortoise; humorous reversal of Aesop fable was written by Ambrose Bierce in June, 2001. There are no summurized Moral on the website.

So, I think, this fables moral is
"Be a smarter,faster and stronger peron for love another people."

I think, the Tortoise represent such a greedy ans selfish people. He try to get his goal so hardly, but for what? Success? Money? Power? Whats next? There are no love.

The Hare want to cheer The Tortoise up. Because, he(or she) has love in his(or her) mind. That point is best moral in this fable, I think. So, I love this fable.
------------------------------by Moses

Lol. Very amusing and one of his better tales.

this storie is not the normal classical storie which is read in fairy tales

Hi, this is christina. i am a freashman at phs and i will like to adresss this story. This story has been out for the longest time and i really do love it. It also really does grab the attention of the reader. The author did such a amazing job doing this book,... it also teaches you a lesson. The lesson that the story teaches is that no matter what you can always win. thank you for listening for my comment and if you need anything i am here for tthe company
1 keep it up with the neat books.

haha, i like the twist. i dont think was supposed to be a "moral" so i dont know where all the speculation is coming from. why cant a story just be funny?

I dont read anyone addressing the role of the fox. My take is the tortoise is in the lead and winning while the hare is fast asleep, but when the tortoise gets to the finish line the FOX tells him "falsely" the hare has already been there and back.
Thus, the sly fox ruins the tortoises elation and quite possibly he never finishes the race neither. The sneaky fox destroys the whole idea of the overused fable with his own calculated twist.

Hi. I think this story tells of the hares change of heart. He started out mean and selfish with intentions of belittling the tortise. But thanks to the tortises bravery, not only did he finish a hard race, He turned a wicked hare from his prideful ways. What a thoughtful and fantastic twist.

Mer, maybe I am missing the point but how was the hare cheering the Tortoise on by sleeping?

I think this story is good because it shows another point of the traditional fable "The Tortoise and the Hare". It is also funny and there another animal in the story, the fox.The hare was selfish at first, but then it was humble trying to cheer the tortoise. By Juan .

:P thumbs up :) sent by addie from kansas

This story was a waste of time

Its a wonderful story for anyone.
it is very useful.

It helped my friend
Thanks Anbrose Birce
to help my friend

Hmm. I believe that this story is changed to reveal an alternate purpose for this fable. It was a story of triumph in which the humble tortoise defeats the prideful hare; however, our focus is elsewhere when the introduction of a sadistic character, the fox, is created. We see that the hare is "apparently asleep," which implies that the tortoise merely speculated that since the hare wasnt moving, then obviously she was asleep. But by looking at the evil intent of the fox (and what they typically eat), we see that he is either trying to destroy the tortoises sense of accomplishment by lying, or he is covering up the fact that the hare wasnt asleep but was killed by the fox instead.
You can definitely teach children about how trusting strangers is a "no-no" with this story :)... or it is a story used to interpret how the government deceives the lower class (tortoise - they survive) and crushes the middle class (rabbit - dead on the side of the road) in whom they typically love to devour...

Oh my, I went there...