setsails
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The author ( Peter Singer ) quotes a nursery rhyme in his article titled Animal liberation(it's main idea is : Childhood expierence, especially eating meat and fairy tails reading has an impact on our attitudes towards animals when we grow up since we were brought up in a context of non-vegetarian: feeding on meat.)The exercises following the text asks of what the theme of the rhyme is.I can't figur out the theme anyway though I tried hard to do so. So I come here and hope some teacher will help me see the light (shed a little light on it).
The following is taken from the article:
...... Not so long ago children were brought up on fairy tales in which animals,especially wolves,were pictured as cunning enemies of man.a characteristic happy ending would leave the wolf drowning in a pond ,weighed down by stones which the ingenious hero had sewn in its belly while it was asleep. And in case children missed the implications of these stories,they could join hands and sing a nursery rhyme like:
" Three blind mice,see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife
who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
as three blind mice?"
......
Thanks. I'm looking forward to your answer!
The following is taken from the article:
...... Not so long ago children were brought up on fairy tales in which animals,especially wolves,were pictured as cunning enemies of man.a characteristic happy ending would leave the wolf drowning in a pond ,weighed down by stones which the ingenious hero had sewn in its belly while it was asleep. And in case children missed the implications of these stories,they could join hands and sing a nursery rhyme like:
" Three blind mice,see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife
who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
as three blind mice?"
......
Thanks. I'm looking forward to your answer!