A few story details
Who you'll meet
The Man: A poor man who owns a wooden statue of a god and prays for riches., The Wooden Image: A wooden statue of a god that the man prays to daily.
Aesop
The Man and the Image
A family classic chosen for the StoryBloom shelf.
A few story details
Where the story goes
The Man's Home: The place where the man keeps the wooden image and prays, and where he throws the statue against the wall.
Guiding ideas
Themes
faith and doubt, unexpected outcomes, irony
Moral
Takeaway
Respect without action or understanding yields no rewards; outcomes are sometimes achieved not by reverence but by confronting the truth.
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