 Well-known modern examples of this literary form include George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and the Br'er Rabbit stories derived from African and Cherokee cultures and recorded and synthesized by Joel Chandler Harris.The term is applied more particularly to a story in which the actors or speakers are either various kinds of animals or are inanimate objects.An apologue is distinguished from a fable in that there is always some moral sense present in the former, which there need not be in the latter.