by Brad Beals
On a perfectly ordinary morning by the sea, Groundhog said to Otter, "Why don't you leave the ocean and come live with me in the hills?"
At this, Otter looked to the hills and to the great mountain behind them, and it was not hard for him to imagine what marvelous things might lie on the other side of it all.
"I have never been very far from the ocean," he said to Groundhog after some thought. "But then, I have never been very far into it either." And at that moment it seemed to Otter that his life until then had been quite small. "I will," he said to Groundhog. "I will leave the ocean."
And so Otter packed his few things and left the ocean to see what the land had for him.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
The Otter and the Groundhog
Labels:
allegory,
children's fiction,
children's literature,
fable,
fairy tale,
parable
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