Reading Notes: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Part A

Notes from: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments


READING A:
Scheherazade

I think for this story I might change it from the Sultan just having the women killed to having the women perform a magic trick or show for him each morning, and if he didn't like it, then the wife would die. If he did like it, she had another day to live. 

Then I would change Scheherazade's original idea to think up of a magic trick that transported the Sultan to a different time period or something where he couldn't kill any more wives or Scheherazade herself.


The Story of the Merchant and the Genius 

Scheherazade continues doing her magic trick and making the Sultan think he is in a different time period and place and he enjoys what it has to offer him so much that he doesn't think of killing her because he still thinks it is a magic show. When really, Scheherazade and her father have drugged the Sultan and flown him indeed to another country where he is living. The Sultan never figures it out, but gets upset with Scheherazade so she must drug him again to fly him back to his home. When he gets there, he plans to kill her, but Scheherazade stops him again and tells him she has one more magic trick. Her magic trick is she disappears and takes all the women with her outside the village. The Sultan can no longer take from the land he has power over. 

The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs
The Story of the Fisherman
The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
The Story of the Parrot; The Story of the Ogress
The Story of the Physician's Revenge
The Story of the Sultan and the Fish
The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles

A genie that I would image in a story. Source: funnyfactsss

After reading these stories that Scheherazade is telling, I feel I could make up any tale that was intriguing. I think I would base my story loosely based off The Story of the Merchant and the Genius as well as Aladdin. There would be a genie who granted wishes, but every wish granted the grantee would realize that what he asked for wasn't really what he wanted.


Bibliography: UNtextbook, India Unit, Arabian Nights