nificant identity, and an ability to talk like human beings. An example is the story which involves a lion being trapped, and requires a mouse’s assistance to set him free, both are given the abilities to talk like humans, if necessary to make my point more evident, the story, “Tortoise and the Hare”, is a famous fable about animals having human characteristics such as laziness and determination. When animals are being described as behaving like people and having human characteristics, this is known as anthropomorphism. Similarly, in this story, anthropomorphism is definitely being practised here, and we can presume that the animals featured in this story are given significant personalities which can bring out some of the common characteristics which humans have. Accompanying that, humour might be present in this story as well, as most fables do contain some humour qualities to amuse and entertain the children readers so as to keep the enthusiasm high to complete the whole story. Usually in fables, there is always a moral value attached to it, which is ofcourse meant to teach the young readers moral lessons in life. So we can come to a conclusion that this story, “Why apes look like people?” will definitely have a moral value behind it, which ofcourse will reflect human nature through the different animal characters. But we can have a guess at the moral value that it might be of humans’ relationships with animals or maybe the bad human qualities such as greediness, selfishness or even jealousy. The next story, “Full Stop”, can be briefly interpreted by the first sentence, “My grandmother writes without commas or full stops”. From the mention of “without commas or full stops”, we can assume that the story is about the way the grandmother writes her letters, or maybe the interchange of letters between the narrator and her grandmother. The grandmother has a weird way...
