Myth vs Legend

Legend is a narrative of actions that have been told as a true story. Many people don't know whether the story is true or is it pure fiction, because it's always hard to confirm the contents of the story to confirm whether the story actually happen or was it made up. The persons who is telling the story is basically retelling what have been said before, but they're not eyewitness to what actually happen and since it's been told from people to other people, they're always changing the contents of the story. Making it difficult to verify whether it actually happened or not. On the other hand, Myth are stories of cosmos and the origins of the human beings. While legend is told to give us morals, myth are told as a make believe story of what people think the humans were created, and usually involves gods and animals to tell the story. The similarities of legend and myth is that there's no evidence to suggest that they happened, and the differences is that Myth refers to gods, beliefs and places; While legend refers to stories of certain places and countries.

The type of story which i like the most is Legend. Because i get to learn about the beliefs of a certain place or country, which i have never visited and makes me wanna someday visit that place. Also i get to learn certain things that i have never know about my country as well. One of my favorite examples of legend is "The Legend of Robin Hood" that legend as a child has always fascinated me, the story of a prince who steals from the rich to give to the poor and how what he did changed a whole country. That legend has always fascinated me, it has a good moral about giving to people who are in need and not be selfish like the rich people who never helped the other people who were starving and living in poberty while they lived like royalty and how he challenge that to help everybody has always fascinated me since i can remember.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

About Aesop:

There's not much details about Aesop's life since he was born in Greece BC, there's not a lot of historical records that can tell us, how he lived or where did he found the inspiration for his fables. Or if they are even his own fables, because in that time, stories were told orally, they were not written like nowadays. We know that he was born as a Slave in 6th Century Greece, BC. But there's not a whole lot of information regarding his life, so it's a mystery even to this day. Historians agree that he told his fables as a way to make the other slaves, forget their troubles and give them hope that one day things will get better, all they have to do is have faith in theirselves. 

About Aesop's texts:

All his stories are morals fables, that teaches us a valuable lesson so that we can apply them to our everyday life.

About Aesop's audience:

When he told his fables, he told them to adults but within time, we see that kids have taken a liking to his fables as he uses animals to teach us the lessons that he wants us, the reader to learn.