Scheherazade: I understand where the sultan is coming from not being able to trust women and thinking that they're all terrible because of what his wife did. But I don't think it was necessary for him to marry a girl every night and have her killed the next morning. And so did Scheherazade. She took it upon herself to come up with a plan to stop the sultan from killing more girls. She involved her sister and had her wake her an hour before dawn and ask for her to tell a story before she was to be killed.
The Merchant and the Genius: A merchant was sitting down and eating dates when an angry genie appeared and threatened to kill the merchant. The merchant had thrown away a date seed and hit the genie's son in the eye with a seed and had accidentally killed him. The genie gave the merchant a year to live and then he was to come back to the same spot and be killed. Scheherazade stops her story in order for her to live another day because the sultan is curious to hear the end, but she doesn't end her story.
The Husband and the Parrot: There is now a story being told in a story to the sultan. A husband brings home a parrot who knows how to talk and can tell what has happened in front of it. The parrot tells the husband that the wife has been bad and she has some of the slaves trick the parrot into seeing a "thunderstorm". When the husband returns from his trip and asks the parrot what has happened, the parrot says that he didn't see anything because of the storm. The husband knew that it hadn't rained so he took the parrot and threw him so hard that the parrot had died.
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| (Schererazade telling stories, Source: Female Fortitude) |
I really like how you wrote your reading diary. You did exactly what Laura told us to do, focus on our favorites. You did a great job at picking three stories from the first half of the unit. I enjoyed reading the summary of each story and your thoughts about the specific story. Each of your links worked as well and made it easy to read the original story.
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