Extra Reading Diary: Arabian Nights Reading B

Arabian Nights

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 1:

• When Aladdins dad died and his mother cried and prayed, Aladdin never changed his ways
• Aladdin was an idle boy, which my guess means he did nothing and had no trade
• Randomly in the story the started calling the unknown uncle the "false uncle" with no explanation 
• The magician was not really Aladdins uncle, he just wanted the lamp and to kill Aladdin in the end
• The ring had a genie in it!

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 2:

• The lamp Aladdin had found had a genie too, but this one was ugly
• Aladdins mother thought the lamp had to do with devils
• Aladdin was not supposed to look at the princess but did anyways and fell in love
• Why does the mothers in these stories ask for the bride of their choice from their father and not the boys themselves
• Aladdin had the genie take the princesses husband out of her bed and slept next to her?
• Thats just weird

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 3:

• After being taken out of the princesses bed multiple nights the Vizirs son said he would rather die then go through that fear again, his wish to be separated from the princess  came true
• The Sultan wanted his gold sent to him by black slaves and led by as many white slaves
• Aladdin summoned the genie who granted the wish 
• Aladdin wanted an elaborate palace for the princess
• I wish I got to eat as many feast as these people
• Aladdin became Captain of the Sultans armies

Aladdins mother kneeling before the Sultan

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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 4:

• The magician found out Aladdin was not stuck in the cage and miserable 
• The princess gave the lamp to the magician for a new lamp not knowing its worth
• The magician took the princess and the palace to Africa with him
• The Sultan sent for Aladdin and was going to cut his head off
• The ring genie sent Aladdin to Africa

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 5:

• Finally Aladdin finds out who took the lamp
• The magician wants to marry the princess
• Aladdin has a plan for the princess to get the lamp back
• The powder made the magician pass out 

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 6:

• I guess the magician didn't pass out, Aladdin had killed him
• More eating! A 10 day feast!
• The magicians brother was crazier than he was
• The genie took offense to Aladdin asking for a Rocs Egg, which was his master
• The genie told Aladdin about the magicians brother, which then Aladdin killed him also

Week 4 Storytelling: The Boy with No Fear

It was just a boy named Bart and his mother in the house. His father had left them along time ago when Bart was a tiny infant. Bart was supposed to be the man of the house, he took care of all the "manly" duties.

Sitting around the dinner table one evening his mother asked him to shut all the doors and lock them at once, for she has fear.

Bart looking puzzled asked his mother, "what is fear?"

Her answer was simple, "When one is afraid".

Not understanding Bart went out on a quest for this thing called "fear", he was not sure what he was looking for but knew he had to find it before he made it back to his mother.

The first thing Bart stumbled upon was a group of older kids from his school, the leader of the group came up to him asking what he was doing coming into their territory. Then Bart explains, "Im looking for fear, where can I find it?".

The leader tells him to find the closest cemetery and to do the ghost dance, if he sees anyone to run as fast as he could because they were there to take his life.

Bart then left practicing the ghost dance the leader showed him, once he arrived at the cemetery he picked a spot and started dancing. A ghost appeared from the ground of one of the memorials, Bart remembered in his head he was supposed to run but the woman looked so nice. After speaking to Bart for a few minutes the ghost went back to its original place leaving him standing there not sure of what happened.

Everyone in the group was curious as to why Bart came strolling back so slowly instead of running, because if he did the ghost dance there was no way a ghost did not appear. The leader asked, "did you find the fear?" Bart answered "no, but I met a nice friend instead".

Stumped the leader told Bart about an abandon building, and he surely could find fear there.

Following the leaders instructions, Bart went into the building expecting to find fear and instead found a girl named Lanie. Lanie was trying to reach her screeching toy on the top shelf, and asked Bart if she could use his shoulders.

Bart agreed and Lanie made her way on to his shoulders, she could not reach the toy so she pressed harder and harder into Barts neck making it almost impossible for him to breathe. The girl got the toy to stop making that horrid noise and jumped down from Bart throwing him on the ground, and she ran away with nothing left to say.

Going back to the group, Bart thought there was nothing out of the ordinary in that they must have something else. But the group was stumped, they thought surely not being able to breathe and almost losing his life he would have the fear but into him.

Not finding fear through the task the older group told him, Bart decided he would go home for the night to see if he could think of any ideas.

Dark Forest Path

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The path home was dark, but Bart was used to this he walked home in the dark almost every night. No one ever in sight it was peaceful, he never heard a sound so had a lot of time to think to himself. This night was no different complete silence, then all the sudden BAM! someone jumps out from behind the trees, and scares Bart.

His exact words were "YOU SCARED THE CRAP OUTTA ME!!"

Come to find out it was just one of the older boys from the group, he knew something could scare Bart he just wasn't sure yet.

Bart wasn't easily scared especially by things that were supposed to be scary, but if it happened so fast Bart couldn't think about it then it scared him. The older boy then explained to Bart, having your heart race or stop at any moment is fear. That is how you feel when fear is around.

Author's Note:  
My story was based off the original story of Fear, which is from Turkish Fairy Tales. I took only part of this story and made it my own, instead of taking the whole lesson front this story. The boys mother said she fears something, and the boy was unsure of what fear was so he went out looking for it. The boy could not find fear no matter what he did, he went through some of the scariest and life threatening things and never had the fear put in him. Then the littlest thing at the end of the story put the fear in the boy. What I did was make the story shorter, and took out the maidens and the king from the original story. I made it when fewer characters, with the same story line.

Bibliography:
"Fear", by Ignacz Kuno's, from Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales. Website:UnTextbook

Reading Diary B: Turkish Fairy Tales

Turkish Fairy Tales

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife:

• Why didn't the mother want her daughter hearing what the bird had to say
• Why did the author use the word purr for a bird.. that makes me think of a cat
• Was the bey dead when the maiden found him? Since should would find her Kismet in someone who was dead?
• Since the Maiden let someone else (an Arab) fan the bey, the Arab then wed the bey
• I thought the Arab was supposed to be a lesson to the maiden, but really the Arab simply defied the maiden
• The ending of the story was my favorite part, happily ever after

The Imp of the Well:

• The mans wife was rude and inconsiderate
• She followed him when he told her not to, and ended up at the bottom of a well with no help out
• The next day the man went back and could not find his wife in the well
• The Imp told him what to do to become rich
• The man became a healer and married the princess

The Soothsayer:

• The man in the story had a beard which made him look a lot older than he really was
• The mans wife wanted him to become a soothsayer, but the man claimed he had no time
• The man became hodja, he found lost or stolen rings for the ladies 
• Being able to find these things so easily, the man became the chief soothsayer

The Soothsayer

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The Wizard and His Pupil:

• The women's son always ran away from the schools she sent him
• The boy like the wizard and wished to be his apprentice 
• The master turned into various animals, and the boy was told to sell them but keep the rope
• The boy then turned him self into a bath and had his mother sell it telling her to keep the key
• The Wizard bought the bath and made the woman give him the key
• The boy after changing into a bird and many other things changed back into him self and wrung the cocks neck, which was his master
• The boy got to marry the Padishahs daughter, and him and his mother were no longer poor
• I think this story could have a better lesson to it, the boy did lots of bad things and still ended up with good

The Liver:

• The girl told her story, and every time just added something to it
• The story got so long it was hard to read 
• Everyone wanted something in return for what the girl was asking
• The girl did everything everyone asked her to, and in the end was returned the liver from the stork
• I feel as if the story had no point to it

Madjun:

• The young man did not know any trade, but wanted the princess
• He asked his mother to ask for the girls hand in marriage 
• The Dervish told the young boy all the things he needed to do to please the Pardishah
• The boy crying "Madjun" stopped everything so he could continue on his quest the Pardishah gave him
• The bald young man got to marry the princess

Kunterbunt:

• The very beginning of the story made me think of the three stooges
• How did they do the things they did when the things they came upon were already dead?
• This story made no sense at all to me throughout the whole thing
• Until I came to the end and the man was dreaming, which makes sense because I dream of some weird crap all the time that makes no sense

Reading Diary A: Turkish Fairy Tales

Turkish Fairy Tales

Fear:

• I liked how the young boy mocked the dead "naturally I should feed the dead before the living"
• The robbers in the big group should have tried to put fear in the boy themselves
• Did this boy have superpowers, or was he just not startled by anything?
• Everything that scared normal people, could not scare the young boy
• All the people who were supposed to have scared the boy and didn't, drank to his health
• 3 pigeons landed on the boys head, that must have meant something 
• The most unexpected thing cause the boy fear, a bird flying out of the soup pot

The Wizard-Dervish

• He was taking a walk with his "lala" I like that name 
• Why did the young girl give the Prince advice?
• The Prince married the young girl the maiden, without her mothers consent
• Her mother was a witch
• The maiden had powers of her own
• You would think after the 2nd time the maiden would know better to turn them back into themselves right away, because her mother always saw
• The ending of this story made the least bit of sense to me 

The Fish-Peri

• When the youth went out fishing for the day his magical fish was cleaning the house for him
• The youth did not know it was the fish until, he stayed behind one day to watch
• The maidens always know what to do in these stories
• After one wish is granted, they always want more because they want what they can't have because the people keep proving them wrong 
• The youth was careless and didn't listen to the maiden, and the egg he dropped a mule sprang out of
• The youth eventually got to marry the maiden, and the Padishah did not

The Crow-Peri

• The boy has 40 days to find something that is impossible to find Ivory
• The boy got wine for the elephants to drink, so they would get drunk
• The boy got the queen for the Padishah and they married
• The crow that had been helping the boy was once the queens fair-servant
• The crow turned into a beautiful maiden and the boy wed her

The Crow-Peri

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