The Farmer and the Stork

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"The Farmer and the Stork" is a classic Aesop fable that teaches a moral about shared responsibility and the consequences of keeping bad company.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Aesop's fable
literary work
moral tale
hasAlternativeTitle The Farmer and the Stork (Aesop's fable) NERFINISHED
hasAuthor Aesop NERFINISHED
hasCharacter cranes
farmer
stork
hasCulturalOrigin Ancient Greece NERFINISHED
hasGenre fable
hasLanguage Ancient Greek (original tradition)
hasLiteraryTradition oral tradition
hasMoral People are judged by the company they keep
Shared responsibility for wrongdoing brings shared punishment
hasMoralCategory personal responsibility
prudence in friendships
hasPlotSummary A farmer sets a net to catch birds eating his grain and captures a stork along with the cranes; the stork pleads innocence, but the farmer punishes it for keeping the cranes' company.
hasSetting farmer's field
hasTargetAudience children
general readers
hasTheme consequences of bad company
guilt by association
justice
responsibility
isAdaptedIn children's story collections
moral education materials
isUsedFor character education
teaching ethics
partOf Aesop's Fables NERFINISHED
teaches that good intentions do not erase bad associations
to avoid associating with wrongdoers

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Aesop's fables hasNotableFable The Farmer and the Stork
subject surface form: Aesop's Fables