English Help!
The Ants and the Grasshopper One fine day in winter some Ants were busy drying their store of corn, which had got rather damp during a long spell of rain. Presently up came a Grasshopper and begged them to spare her a few grains. The Ants stopped work for a moment, though this was against their principles. They asked what the grasshopper was doing with himself all last summer. The Grasshopper replied, "I was so busy singing that I hadn't the time." "If you spent the summer singing," replied the Ants, "you can't do better than spend the winter dancing." And they chuckled and went on with their work. Recall the first step in the process to determine theme. Summarize at least three events that happened in the fable.
Summarizing is just taking the main idea and putting it in your own words
@GabeBae Thanks but what is the first step in the process to determine the theme?
theme as in place?
@GabeBae um..? the theme of the story... not place.
I don't know how to explain it I'm sorry :(
@GabeBae um okay
the theme for this story is when the grasshopper was singing all last summer had did not remember to store up food for the winter when winter was almost there he found out that he had no food, so he went to the aunts and beg them for food the anuts told him you should store up food rather then singing.
@JasperRayWolf88 thanks(: does that also include the 3 events? i couldn't tell
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