Editing Grasshopper (section)

===In literature===
[[File:Egyptian-snḥm 2.PNG|thumb|left|Egyptian hieroglyphs "snḥm"]]
The Egyptian word for locust or grasshopper was written ''snḥm'' in the consonantal hieroglyphic writing system. The pharaoh [[Ramesses II]] compared the armies of the [[Hittites]] to locusts: "They covered the mountains and valleys and were like locusts in their multitude."<ref>{{cite web |last=Dollinger |first=André |title=Insects |url=http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/bestiary/insects.htm |publisher=Reshafim |access-date=30 March 2015 |date=January 2010 |orig-year=2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401025144/http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/bestiary/insects.htm |archive-date=1 April 2015 }}</ref>

One of [[Aesop's Fables]], later retold by [[La Fontaine]], is the tale of ''[[The Ant and the Grasshopper]]''. The ant works hard all summer, while the grasshopper plays. In winter, the ant is ready but the grasshopper starves. [[Somerset Maugham]]'s short story "The Ant and the Grasshopper" explores the fable's symbolism via complex framing.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sopher |first1=H. |title=Somerset Maugham's "The Ant and the Grasshopper": The Literary Implications of Its Multilayered Structure |journal=Studies in Short Fiction |date=1994 |volume=31 |issue=1 (Winter 1994) |pages=109– |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-15356444/somerset-maugham-s-the-ant-and-the-grasshopper |access-date=30 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151114/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-15356444/somerset-maugham-s-the-ant-and-the-grasshopper |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> Other human weaknesses besides improvidence have become identified with the grasshopper's behaviour.<ref name=Klein/> So an unfaithful woman (hopping from man to man) is "a grasshopper" in "Poprygunya", an 1892 short story by [[Anton Chekhov]],<ref name="Loehlin2010">{{cite book |author=Loehlin, James N. |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0BPgUl8-B8C&pg=PA80 |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-49352-9 |pages=80–83}}</ref> and in [[Jerry Paris]]'s 1969 film ''[[The Grasshopper (1970 film)|The Grasshopper]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenspun |first1=Roger |title=Movie Review: The Grasshopper (1969) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE4DC1538EE34BC4051DFB366838B669EDE |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 April 2015 |date=28 May 1970 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402140742/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE4DC1538EE34BC4051DFB366838B669EDE |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref><ref name="www.museumofflight.org aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper">{{cite web |title=Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper |url=http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper |publisher=The Museum of Flight |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123034005/http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/aeronca-l-3b-o-58b-grasshopper |archive-date=23 November 2017 }}</ref>