Don't accept things from total strangers, you never know where it will leave you! Next time some dude gives you a handful of beans, tell him you're legume-intolerant and give them right back to him!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_moral_lessons_of...
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So the moral of this story is a command to grow up, go to Heaven, do the work, and take its riches. Not a bad story… no wonder it is so popular. ... So, this would hint that the Jack and the Beanstalk story is a “rite of passage” story, and the meaning is to take take the gifts of adulthood by… well, growing up.
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www.howardism.org/thoughts/001009.html
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The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump onto the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder. So Jack climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed till at last he reached the sky.
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www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0328jack.html
www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0328jack.html
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Jack and the Beanstalk Poetry ... And this is The Moral that lies in the verse: If you have a go farther, you're apt to fare; Worse. (When you turn it around it is different rather: - ; You're not apt to go worse if you have a fair father!)
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www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/poetry/carryl...
www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/poetry/carryljackgiantsore.html
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Beneduce, Ann K. Jack and the Beanstalk. Illus. Gennady Spirin. Philomel, 1999. A retelling of a Victorian version that gives Jack moral justification for killing the giant. A fairy urges Jack to avenge his father's death and theft of his magic heirlooms.
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www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/beantree.htm
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Jeff Clarke has taken another bite at Jack and the Beanstalk, re-writing his script from some years back, and it has paid off. The strong, intertwined storylines drive right through the pantomime, leaving no room for improbability to destroy the ... And the sensational transformation scene is novel, moral and hilarious,
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www.chippingnorton.net/Features/review.htm
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Jack and the Beanstalk, Reviewed ... 9. We find the giant living in a state of moral decrepitude. His marriage is a sham at best, as we see that he and his wife do not even share common purpose--one eats little boys, another shields them.
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www.jewishmag.com/20MAG/JACK/jack.htm
www.jewishmag.com/20MAG/JACK/jack.htm
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The Early Creation of Jack and the Beanstalk ... Reading the original Fairy Tale, it is noticeable that the moral is all important to the story. The Fairy is at great pains to explain that everything Jack does- stealing, plundering, executing- is all in the name of fairness and justice.
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www.its-behind-you.com/storyjackbeanstalk.html
www.its-behind-you.com/storyjackbeanstalk.html
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Students will develop ideas of responsible citizenship by seeing there is often more than one side to a moral dilemma and sympathizing with the "villain" of Jack in the Beanstalk.
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www.opencourtresources.com/ocr/grade2/newunitpages/shar...
www.opencourtresources.com/ocr/grade2/newunitpages/sharing_stories/jack_lessonplan.html
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