One of the most important elements of a folktale is the lesson, sometimes called the central message or moral. Teaching a lesson to the reader is the basic reason folktales have been created and passed down through generations in cultures all over the world. When we determine the lesson of a tale, we often discover the purpose of creating that tale in the first place. Today we read "Anansi Goes Fishing" by Eric Kimmel. What are some of the important messages we learned from this story? Was what happened to Anansi at the end of the story fair? Why or why not? What explanation about nature was this story trying to teach?