Sunday, November 15, 2020

Extra Credit Reading Notes: Arabian Nights

 Story source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

The Story of the Fisherman

Inception style storytelling! Are we still telling stories? Is the top still spinning? 

Layers of storytelling with our main narrator actually telling the story, but within that story another character narrating a story. 

A fisherman is having bad luck fishing that turns really bad when he fishes up an angry genie. He frees the genie from the lamp and the genie is so angry about having been stuck in the lamp that he is going to kill him. But since the genie is such a nice guy, he will let the fisherman chose how he dies - bonus!

The fisherman tricks the genie into getting back into his lamp and so he has better luck and does not die.

 


 "Genie's lamp." by AnaChristina_ is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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