The Baffalo and the Field Mouse

The mouse was frustrated with the buffalo for flattening out the grass that he hid in so he challenged him to a duel.. The mouse was a very proud animal, and was positive that he could beat the buffalo. He ended up succeeding by using his size to an advantage and hiding in the buffalos ear until he was so irritated that he died. The mouse wants to cut up the meat so he calls over a fox with a knife and tells him to cut the meat for him in return of a portion of the meat. After the mouse gave him more than he had agreed to the fox pounced on the mouse and killed him. The moral of this story is “ If you are proud and selfish then you will loose all in the end” according to the last sentence of the story. I am assuming that they are talking about the mouse because he was the main character throughout the story. I however do not think that he was selfish at all, and I do not think that to be proud is a bad thing at all. If I understood the story correctly, I absolutely think that the fox was unjustified in killing the mouse because I did not see how the mouse did anything wrong. The mouse was merely asked a fellow animal a favor in return of meat, which the fox was clearly in need for. I was completely disgusted the fox’s behavior.