Response to "Aesop,Aristotle, and Animals: The Role of Fables in Human Life."

After reading Edward Clayton's, "Aesop, Aristotle, and Animals:The Role of Fables in Human Life" I  now have a better understanding of why animals are used in fables. The theme of many fables include dominance, the strong over powering the weak which when looked at carefully can be lessons toward many humans lives. But Clayton goes in depth revealing four connections between animals, and humans as the reasons why humans can connect and learn from fables. While reading these four connections, I began to get a better understanding of fables and the reasons for the use of animals. Humans and animals share similar but also alternate characteristics, where humans can pursue justice and construct a political environment animals can't. Where in fables animals can not reason or make justified decisions, humans can and from reading fables we humans are persuaded to to do. Humans are persuaded to take the lessons from fables and make a difference within our surroundings.