What a Reader is asked to know:
- About life:
What a lion is, what a mouse is
The relationship or lack of between a mouse and lion
How a lion can help a mouse
- About language:
The tone of the story
The voice in which the story is told
The perspective of the mouse and lion
What timid means
What roused means
What is means to spear someone or something?
- About literature:
What it means to use personification
What the theme of the fable is
What a reader is asked to do:
Using their imagination figure out how a mouse can help a lion.
Understand the theme once finding out how the mouse actually did help
Implied reader:
The implied reader of this text are children who are on a mature reading level with the ability to identify the theme among fables and the use of personification. Also those who associate themselves as an unlikely source to help in a major way in the case of the mouse.