A short summary on the story ant and the cricket
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The poem ‘The Ant and The Cricket’ is a fable. A fable is a traditional story that teaches us a moral lessons. Usually the characters in fables are animals. This poem also teaches us a very important moral lessons of being industrious like an ant. It also teaches us we should not be like the cricket.
This poem is about a cricket (an insect), who found himself in trouble as the winter season arrived. He found he had nothing to eat; nor had he cared to make a shelter for himself.
He decided to go to an ant for help. He wished to borrow some grain from her and to spend a day or two in her hole during the rainy days. His intention was to pay her back later on.
However, the ant did not help the cricket. She told him without mincing words that it was rule of ants that they neither borrowed nor lent. She asked the cricket in astonishment if he had not saved anything for the winter. To which the cricket replied in negative. She asked him the reason. He replied he was so busy enjoying his life, he did not bother to save or put by anything. The ant taunted him to go and dance during the winter also.
In conclusion it can be said that we must be responsible for our future. We must not just spend our good times idly; we must also secure our future against the bad times also.
Summary of:- The ant and the Cricket
Once, there was a foolish young cricket. He was always singing and dancing. He spent the happy days of summer and spring singing. He layby nothing for the rainy days.
The winter set in the background and trees were covered with snow. The cricket had nothing to eat. He begin to starve. He was sure that he would die without food. So, he went to the ant. He requested to lend him a mouthfull of grain. He promised it to return the great next day. The wise ant told him that the ants neither borrow nor lend.
Then the ant asked him if he had lain by nothing for the winter. The cricket replued that the weather was very fine so he sang day and night. On listen to these words the ant said to him, " Go, dance the winter away". Saying this it facility opened its doors or at the idle cricket out of his house.
It is a fable with the moral that one must work hard and save for the rainy day. If you live without work you must live without food.