Reading Diary B: Persian Tales

Persian Tales

Fayiz and the Peri Wife:

• All these stories have maidens that are beautiful, and no one has ever seen someone so beautiful. 
• These people must be caught up in looks
• He just goes off with some random girl and he is married?
• Why would the salve girls have their hands on their breast
• Things are always so complicated in these stories
• In the end the man lost everything

The Hemp-Smokers Dream:

• I like how the guy thought he was the most handsome guy, that is some confidence
• I like how the story was told from the guys dream

The Story of the Wolf Bride:

• First off I like how short the story is 
• How did the guy get a son with no wife? Makes no sense
• The girl didn't know how it happened, but she actually did
• It was very easy to understand

The Man Who Went to Wake His Luck:

• I like how they used the word luck, but in this story luck is a person
• All these lazy people wanting the poor brother to do their work for them
• The luck said the king is a woman, thats why no one obeys her....umm excuse me..
• Of course the wolf is going to eat the poor man...I could have called that when the luck told him to tell the wolf to eat the first foolish man he saw

Tortoise Bowl-On-The-Back and the Fox:

• Love these short stories, they are easy to read and keep up with
• Another person thinking they deserve everything for doing nothing
• What a smart Tortoise, he out smarted the fox!

The Shepard Who Found a Treasure:

• Haha a fly come out of the guys nose
• The fly was the shepherds soul
• The other shepherd bought the shepherds dream and became rich

The Merchant and The Saffron:

• I like how the people were nice to hime when he wasn't in a familiar place
• I still like how they talk about luck, Im always talking about my luck running out
• When the sheep stayed alive they knew his luck had awaked
• Story just randomly ends never says anything about the guy who took care of him

Shah Abbas and the Poor Mother:

• The guy who stole the ring gave it to someone else to give back to the person he stole it from without them knowing
• People in these stories are way to trusting
• So the baker was the liar not the Shah

The Apparition of the Prophet Khizr:

• The stakes are always so high in these stories
• The guy in this story was a good man, and did right by his family even if it meant his life
• The poor man ended up with a village and some money!

The Story of the Baker and the Grateful Fish:

• He didn't have to work for 40 days 
• But the 40th day he worked 2 hours and was carried to the top of the mountain
• He was supposed to throw down jewels when he was finished he asked for the way down 
• But there was really no way down, all the people up there were dead
• But he fell into the river that the fish he fed were in and they carried him to his place
• Then the baker did the same thing to the merchant who did it to him in the beginning

Baker and the Fish

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