Description: Description & Moral Value of the Story
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The Goose that laid the golden egg
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Genre
- Fiction
- Aesop Fable
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Characters
- The Man
- The Wife
- The Goose
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Setting
- The Man's house/farm
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Beginning
- A man and his wife were poor
- They had enough money to purchase a goose
- Fortunately, the goose laid a golden egg every day
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Middle
- They sold the golden eggs
- They became wealthy; owners of the 'Golden Goose'
- However, they soon began to think they weren't rich enough
- They imagined if they cut the goose, they may become mighty rich
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End
- They decided to cut the goose
- Unfortunately, they found that the innards of the goose was like any other goose!
- They could not find any golden egg or precious metal
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Moral Value
- THINK BEFORE YOU ACT!
- BEING GREEDY LEADS YOU TO DISAPPOINTMENT
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