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* ''[[Bedlam Boyz]]'': Some people deserve to die. Let them. Don't dirty your hands making it fast or painless, either. |
* ''[[Bedlam Boyz]]'': Some people deserve to die. Let them. Don't dirty your hands making it fast or painless, either. |
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* Babette Cole's ''[[Winni Allfours]]'': Apparently, when your parents won't give you a pony and would rather have you eat your vegetables, not only is it sound to trick them by eating your veggies to turn into a horse ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) but when they actually promise to grant your earlier wishes, you can refuses because you're having too much fun! Never mind the fact you may not live long and certainly won't have much family or social life. |
* Babette Cole's ''[[Winni Allfours]]'': Apparently, when your parents won't give you a pony and would rather have you eat your vegetables, not only is it sound to trick them by eating your veggies to turn into a horse ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) but when they actually promise to grant your earlier wishes, you can refuses because you're having too much fun! Never mind the fact you may not live long and certainly won't have much family or social life. |
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* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210312145301/https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.6/css/all.css Mimì Fiore di Cactus e il suo porcospino]{{Dead link}} |
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210312145301/https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.6/css/all.css Mimì Fiore di Cactus e il suo porcospino]''{{Dead link}} (''[[Cacti Flower Mimi And Her Hedgehog]]'')'s Aesop is, basically, "every stranger is a pedophile". |
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* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' contain the lesson that the real world is a harsh and violent place that sometimes takes a fair amount of violence to survive in. [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] was even quoted once as saying that pretending otherwise would do a great disservice to children. Once again, an example of a very true and important Aesop, but one that many parents would rather their children didn't know. |
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' contain the lesson that the real world is a harsh and violent place that sometimes takes a fair amount of violence to survive in. [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] was even quoted once as saying that pretending otherwise would do a great disservice to children. Once again, an example of a very true and important Aesop, but one that many parents would rather their children didn't know. |
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* One of the [[Stock Aesops]] is that cowardice doesn't pay. In extreme cases, the brave survives where the coward dies (sometimes [[Driven to Suicide]]), or alternatively they both both survive/die, but the coward is marked forever. So it comes as a tragic surprise that in [[Bridge to Terabithia]], {{spoiler|Leslie, who had no fear from the creek, drowns, whereas Jess, who feared the water (and couldn't swim) survives - and while he does suffer, it's not because of cowardice.}} |
* One of the [[Stock Aesops]] is that cowardice doesn't pay. In extreme cases, the brave survives where the coward dies (sometimes [[Driven to Suicide]]), or alternatively they both both survive/die, but the coward is marked forever. So it comes as a tragic surprise that in [[Bridge to Terabithia]], {{spoiler|Leslie, who had no fear from the creek, drowns, whereas Jess, who feared the water (and couldn't swim) survives - and while he does suffer, it's not because of cowardice.}} |
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