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Lieh Tzu's The Missing Axe

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Lieh-Tzu’s tale “The Missing Axe” teaches us about how people tend to judge each other. The man’s suspicions changed in the end after he, “found his axe while digging in the valley” (Taoist Anecdotes) .At first the man saw the boy as a thief since he apparently, “looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief”(Taoist Anecdotes 416). Afterwards the man saw the boy again and thought he, “walked, looked, and spoke like any other child” (Taoist Anecdote 416). We know that his opinion changed because he found it in a certain area not in his neighbors possession. This teaches us about how we see each other in society since we immediately consider it the people we see the most or those people that look differently. We can learn from this tale that we
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