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Hello everyone...How are you today? This is the third meeting. At the first meeting, we had discussed about the material of narrative text and reading the story of " The Bald Knight". Here, we still discuss about narrative story.
Today we will enjoy some valuablel short stories. Let' s read and comprehend them.
The best moral short stories :
1.An Old Man Lived in the Village
An old man lived in the
village. He was one of the most unfortunate people in the world. The whole
village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and
was always in a bad mood.
The longer he lived, the
more bile he was becoming and the more poisonous were his words. People avoided
him, because his misfortune became contagious. It was even unnatural and
insulting to be happy next to him.
He created the feeling
of unhappiness in others.
But one day, when he turned eighty years old, an incredible
thing happened. Instantly everyone started hearing the rumour:
“An Old Man is happy today, he
doesn’t complain about anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened up.”
The whole village
gathered together. The old man was asked:
Villager: What
happened to you?
“Nothing special. Eighty years
I’ve been chasing happiness, and it was useless. And then I decided to live
without happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m happy now.” – An Old Man
Moral of the story:
Don’t chase happiness.
Enjoy your life.
2. The Wise Man
People have been coming
to the wise man, complaining about the same problems every time. One day he
told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter.
After a couple of
minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.
When he told the same
joke for the third time no one laughed anymore.
The wise man smiled and said:
“You can’t laugh at the same
joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?”
Moral of the story:
Worrying won’t solve
your problems, it’ll just waste your time and energy.
3. The Foolish Donkey
A salt seller used to
carry the salt bag on his donkey to the market every day.
On the way they had to
cross a stream. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down the stream and the
salt bag also fell into the water. The salt dissolved in the water and hence
the bag became very light to carry. The donkey was happy.
Then the donkey started to
play the same trick every day.
The salt seller came to
understand the trick and decided to teach a lesson to it. The next day he
loaded a cotton bag on the donkey.
Again it played the same
trick hoping that the cotton bag would be still become lighter.
But the dampened cotton
became very heavy to carry and the donkey suffered. It learnt a lesson. It
didn’t play the trick anymore after that day, and the seller was happy.
Moral of the story:
Luck won’t favor always.
4. Having A Best Friend
A story tells that two
friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they
had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped
was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand;
“Today my best friend slapped
me in the face.”
They kept on walking
until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had
been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved
him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone;
“Today my best friend saved my
life.”
The friend who had
slapped and saved his best friend asked him;
“After I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend
replied;
“When someone hurts us we
should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But,
when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no
wind can ever erase it.”
Moral of the story:
Don’t value the things you
have in your life. But value who you have in your life.
5. The Four Smart Students
One night four college
students were out partying late night and didn’t study for the test which was
scheduled for the next day. In the morning, they thought of a plan.
They made themselves
look dirty with grease and dirt.
Then they went to the
Dean and said they had gone out to a wedding last night and on their way back
the tire of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back. So
they were in no condition to take the test.
The Dean thought for a
minute and said they can have the re-test after 3 days. They thanked him and
said they will be ready by that time.
On the third day, they
appeared before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a Special Condition
Test, all four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. They
all agreed as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.
The Test consisted of
only 2 questions with the total of 100 Points:
1) Your Name? __________
(1 Points)
2) Which tire burst? __________ (99 Points)
Options – (a) Front Left (b) Front Right (c) Back Left (d) Back Right
Moral of the story:
Take responsibility or
you will learn your lesson.
6. The Greedy Lion
It was an incredibly hot
day, and a lion was feeling very hungry.
He came out of his den and searched here and there. He could find
only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. “This hare can’t fill my stomach” thought the lion.
As the lion was about to
kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought;
“Instead of eating this small
hare, let me eat the big deer.”
He let the hare go and
went behind the deer. But the deer had vanished into the forest. The lion now
felt sorry for letting the hare off.
Moral of the story:
A bird in hand is worth
two in the bush.
7. Two Friends & The Bear
Vijay and Raju were
friends. On a holiday they went walking into a forest, enjoying the beauty of
nature. Suddenly they saw a bear coming at them. They became frightened.
Raju, who knew all about
climbing trees, ran up to a tree and climbed up quickly. He didn’t think of
Vijay. Vijay had no idea how to climb the tree.
Vijay thought for a
second. He’d heard animals don’t prefer dead bodies, so he fell to the ground
and held his breath. The bear sniffed him and thought he was dead. So, it went
on its way.
Raju asked Vijay;
“What did the bear whisper into
your ears?”
Vijay replied, “The bear asked me to keep away from friends like you” …and went on his way.
Moral of the story:
A friend in need is a
friend indeed.
8. The Struggles of Our Life
Once upon a time a
daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she
didn’t know how she was going to make it.
She was tired of
fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved,
another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took
her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high
fire.
Once the three pots
began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground
coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a
word to his daughter.
The daughter, moaned and
impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned
off the burners.
He took the potatoes out
of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in
a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to
take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the
hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to
sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that
the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the
boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in
strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile,
with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in
the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground
coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed
the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter.
“When adversity knocks on your
door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Moral of the story:
In life, things happen
around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how
you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about
leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into
something positive.
9. The Fox & The Grapes
One afternoon a fox was
walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from over a
lofty branch.
“Just the thing to quench my thirst,” he thought.
Taking a few steps back,
the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few
paces back and tried to reach them but still failed.
Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, “They’re probably sour anyway,” and proceeded to walk away.
Moral of the story:
It’s easy to despise
what you can’t have.
10. The Lion & The Poor
Slave
A slave, ill-treated by
his master, runs away to the forest. There he comes across a lion in pain
because of a thorn in his paw. The slave bravely goes forward and removes the
thorn gently.
The lion without hurting
him goes away.
Some days later, the
slave’s master comes hunting to the forest and catches many animals and cages
them. The slave is spotted by the masters’ men who catch him and bring him to
the cruel master.
The master asks for the
slave to be thrown into the lion’s cage.
The slave is awaiting
his death in the cage when he realizes that it is the same lion that he had
helped. The slave rescued the lion and all other caged animals.
Moral of the story:
One should help others
in need, we get the rewards of our helpful acts in return.
These are the pictures of the stories. Which one does suit for each story?
Source https://wealthygorilla.com/best-short-moral-stories/
Procedure :
work in group of 3-4. Choose one of the stories. write, translate and tell the story in front of the class.
For next individual assignment, tell the story and make a video of it.
