Extra Credit Reading Notes: Sinbad: First Voyage

 Sinbad: First Voyage.

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


Plot:

Sinbad is a sailor who meets another man named Sinbad.The two sit over a banquet telling stories such as follows. 

Sinbad had inherited a lot of wealth at a young age.

He wasted a lot before he god wise.

He sold his goods and joined some merchants. They set sail selling all sorts of things on various islands. 

They had stopped for the night on an island and it began to shake. Turns out it was the back of a sleeping whale! 

Sinbad didn't make it onto the boat and was cast to the waves. 

He enventually drifted upon an island. He found some herbs and water and went to explore.

HE then found some people! They told him of a civilization they had on the island and he was saved. 

Thoughts:

This story seems a little anticlimactic to me. Ok so a guy gets shipwrecked and he finds some people to help him. What is the point of that story? And honestly how hard is it to tell the difference between a sleeping whale and an island? The whole thing seems confusing. If I wrote it I would have at least left the readers with something to anticipate. some kind of cliffhanger or something to try to get them to keep reading.






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