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In "The Sociopsychological Analysis of Folktales" by J.L Fischer, Fisher mentions the aspect of these folktales and how to some people they are just tall tales told to younger children but to others it is a tradition to tell these myths and stories with animals portraying human chatcteristics. Fischer also mentions Folklore in European parts and how it focuses on nationalism, I thought that folklores were fake stories so how does that symbolizes nationalism. Well if view nationalism as in world wide it is true these stories are told world wide even stories that orginated in Europe or even others hired world countries like china. Throughout the years,each time these stories are told over orally, these stories onus to change, so who knows what the original story actually is. But that is important is moral behind each story.  I feel like Fischer mostly focuses on how these folktales are a bigger picture, it starts off with these folktales and then the importance behinds them is what is really important. I didn't really get all of Fischer's article because it was just so long and a bit hard to comprehend, well for me.  But also Fischer compares folktales to a lot of anthropology and philosophy and anthropology is he study of things like human behavior and etc so what does folktales, animals stories hav to do with the studies of anything, well I think when Fischer mentions anthropology he's talking about in the past and present day people are still studying the importance and the reasoning for Hesse stories and myths that are being told all over the world, mostly to children to teach them lessons on moralality. 

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After reading that long article, one thing that interested me was learning about how philosophers used these folk tales and fables for years.  Philosophers are thinkers about life and to use fables in their way of thinking is an eye opener because like said in the article these fables cannot be proved. So what evidence can these philosophers base it on? Some where along page eight, it said that these animals have human characteristics but we are obviously distinguished a part from them. We have similar characteristics and thats probably the reason why the authors of these fables used animals. I would say that animals are very important in our society, even though they cant talk and function like us, human beings. They function in their own ways and we humans have observed their actions, like elephants are known to be loyal mammals, if a spouse of a paired up elephant dies the other will starve itself till its death as well. Anyways back on task, i just think that animals have important characteristics that will make it easier for us to compare and demostrate actions being taken by one another.  I had no idea that most of these fables orginated from Greece, I never really thought about the Greek gods as a fable but isnt it? Its not proven that there are these greek gods and from time to time the stories of them have been passed down from family to family and today we are still learning about them.  Even the greek gods, that are gods have been given certain animals to represent them.  I wonder how it is determined to give a specific person an animal that represents their characteristics.  But anyways, this article able fables is interesting because it touches on parts that we dont think about, like how is it even proven that these fables happen and the moral lessons behind it. Its still a unknown why people read and follow fables, I personally don't really think too much about it, as a kid i was just told these stories and they were interesting and taught me stuff like not to lie and steal. But thinking about it now, how are these fables proven that they have ever happened, for something that never happened, why do people believe in them?