Elephant in the Village of the Blind

I found The Elephant in the Village of the Blind to be a very good story with powerful morals. This story is about a man traveling by elephant to a village of blind people. When the Blind people try to figure out what he rode there they all walk up to it and touch it. Since Elephants are so big they all get a different body part (ex. trunk, leg, ear, stomach) and they cant agree on what it is. In the end they all share what they have found to discover what it is as a whole. This was a well chosen introductory short story because we can directly relate this story to literature because there are infinite ways of perceiving literature. We all have our different interpretations of what we find or feel, no one is wrong when interpreting literature. Also through class discussion we should be able to focus on the big picture.