Apricots: A Narrative Analysis

I gained a new perceptive during class, when reading “George Saunders Explains How to Tell a Good Story”. The reading of this article help me understood how to use more details to makes my story’s more meaningful. The reading of this article help me build up my paper on “No such Things” to use details to descipbe a story. Through the reading of the article, it help me to use experience through my life to build on my topic “…memory is an unreliable traveling companion through the years”. The reading of the article help me to create a meaningful story to blend it in with experience in my life and also to blending in with the topic of my paper.

The story of The Arabian Nights begins with Shahriar, a sultan who has just found out that his wife has committed adultery. In his angry and shocked state, he decides that all women are terrible and that there should be less of them in the world. So every day, he would marry a girl and have her killed by his vizier the next morning. However, the vizier’s clever and brave daughter, Scheherazade, makes a plan that she hopes will save the rest of the women in the kingdom: she volunteers herself to be the sultan’s next bride. On their wedding night, she asks the sultan if she may bring her sister, Dinarzade, into their chamber as it is her last night alive and would like to be with her. The sultan agrees and a mattress is brought in for her. Dinarzade then asks her sister to tell her one of her famous stories. Scheherazade asks permission to tell her story to the sultan, and he allows her to do so. She goes on to tell an

One Thousand and One Nights is centered on a scorned sultan named Shahrayar, who was cheated by his wife and in retribution kills his wives the day after he marries them. Scheherazade marries the Sultan and in order to save the lives of not only herself but all of the woman in their country. The one way that she can think to do this is by telling the king some of the bed time stories that she was told by her father. These story not only the purpose to intrigue the Sultan but keep him from murdering Scheherazade. The plan works well, allowing Scheherazade to live for as long as her stories go on, being able to leave cliffhangers at each story so that the Sultan would have no urge to kill

(HOOK) The characters that are present in short stories can leave an imprint on one’s vision of literature for an eternity. (CI) These memorable characters have made an impact on the way I view literature, primarily because of the way that I have been able to relate to them. (GS1) One character is a powerful, but envious princess. (GS2) Another is an abandoned orphan who seeks for love and companionship through his honesty and openness. (GS3) A final character shows her aptitude for her passions, but often finds herself quarreling with those that are closest to her. (GS4) When I read the stories involving these characters, I see myself in their places. (GS5) I relate to a multitude of their traits and characteristics, whether they are positive or negative. (THESIS STATEMENT) I can best relate to the short story fictional characters of (I) the princess in Frank. R Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, (II) Jerry in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s “A Mother in Mannville”, and (III) Waverly Jong in Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game.”

Throughout the beginning of the course we have read a wide variety of short stories all written by people from different backgrounds and nations. Despite these differences I have found that there is a continuing theme in the majority of the works we have read. Many of these stories are about a character or characters journey and what this reveals to them about themselves or the world around them. In particular Young Goodman Brown, Araby and A Good Man Is Hard to Find all deal a character 's realization of the bitter world they live in. The journey is merely a prompt or tool that helps to unearth the misery that each character finds. I will be comparing and contrasting the characters journeys in the three stories and determining what I

Outside of sex, learned women could manipulate powerful men via their intellectual abilities, reflecting the increased amount of knowledge they could potentially gain. Shahrazad takes on this role in A Thousand and One Nights, a frame narrative translated from Arabic into a Syrian manuscript in the fourteenth century centering on King Shahrayar’s disillusionment with women. After seeing his wife, his brother’s wife, and a demon’s wife all have affairs, he decides to take a bride every night and kill her at dawn in an attempt to avoid women’s cunning nature. Yet Shahrazad, the vizier’s daughter, makes the king face women’s cunning nonetheless by volunteering as the next bride to save women. By telling nightly stories that end on cliffhangers, Shahrazad ensures that the king’s desire to listen to her overpowers his desire to kill her. Simultaneously, she weaves moral lessons into her stories that make Shahrayar reconsider his generalizations of women. Unlike the average person, Shahrazad could keep up the charade because she “had read the books of literature, philosophy, and medicine. She knew poetry by heart, had studied historical reports, and was acquainted with the sayings of men and the maxims of sages and kings” (Nights 562). With her unique knowledge of literature and philosophy, Shahrazad wins the king over by producing meaningful stories night after night. In the end, she outsmarts him by manipulating him into changing his plans without even noticing. As she subverts

The Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights or its name in Arabic Alf Layla wa Layla has captivated its audience for hundreds of years and we can still see its influence spilling into our society even till this day in forms such as movies, magazines, and television. Beginning with selected tales for the first time translated into French by Antonio Galland, Western audiences have been captivated and fascinated by the many stories of courage, adventure, comedy, drama and sexual promiscuity. For the first time ever Western audiences had a look into the strange land of the Orient and the collection of stories that have made up The Thousand and One Nights, and ever since it was made available The Nights has greatly shaped the views on Middles

Stepping away from a judgmental attitude and embracing people’s stories have changed my perspective. Instead of creating cruel and obnoxious characters out of these people, I have begun

Apricots was an interesting and evocative chapter. With this chapter, it is evident how much story and storytelling plays a major role in our lives. It made me realize, we are always telling a story, or reliving a memory and discussing it with others. When empathy was mention, it reminded me of when I was in film class; our characters didn’t need to be likable, but the audience must care for them and empathize with them on some level.

The Thousand and One Nights, generally known to the English, speaking world as the Arabian Nights, is a compendium of Arabic tales compiled between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. The collection starts with the story of King Shahrayar. Betrayed by his adulterous wife, he swears never to trust a woman again, deciding instead to marry a different virgin every night and have her executed the next day. He carries out his plan for three years, until his Vizier can no longer find a virgin to offer the king. The Vizier's courageous daughter, Shahrazad, then attempts to change the king's mind and save the remaining maidens of the kingdom. Shahrazad offers herself as a bride. With the help of her sister, Dinarzad, she obtains permission

Do you know when your sister and mom eats all the candy that you like, and you are just mad at her. Well I am getting tired of her always eating my candy when I am not home. So I am going to make a little treat for her. She will not like it now. I will put mud,peanut butter, and Chocolate all together.

The stories of The Arabian Nights examine the idea of living a more meaningful life. Indeed, the stories suggest that certain life lessons need to be learned in order to live a more prosperous and meaningful life. In each story, therefore, Sheharezade imparts a great deal of wisdom to her husband, the Sultan Shariar, in an attempt to change his perspective on life, and to save her own. From her stories he learns, firstly, that in order to live well a person must accept responsibility for their actions. The sultan also learns that trust and loyalty, either given or betrayed, has a significant impact on a person’s capability to live a life with meaning. Finally, he learns that wealth offers opportunity to accomplish great good or great evil; however, it is important for a truly successful person to treat wealth responsibly and to value people more than material items. From every story she tells him, both the Sultan and the viewer understand more about the importance of living a truly meaningful life and how to do so.

“One Thousand and One Nights” which is also known as "The Arabian Nights," is a compilation of folk tales of Middle Eastern and Indian decent and its original authors and date are unknown. Although, it was compiled from different folktales from across the world they all had the same frame story. The frame story tells the clever idea of a brave young lady named Shahrazad who married and told stories to Shahryar the King of Persia. She told him stories every night from their wedding night in order to prevent him from killing her by teaching him moral lessons. One Thousand and One Nights offers a unique perspective on the roles of women in Muslim society which is notably misogynistic, but partly feminist. In the story, there were several portrayals of women as mischievous, slaves, courageous, unfaithful, independent, and cruel.

Apricot kernel is rich in various macronutrients and micronutrients such as fatty acids, sterol derivatives, polyphenols, carotenoids, volatile compounds and cyanogenic glucosides (CNGs) (), which CNGs responsible for a bitter taste of apricot kernels divided into two types of sweet and bitter based on the amount of cyanogenic compounds () .

Storytelling is a major theme in Tales from the Thousand and One Nights that encompasses every story in the book. Compiled over centuries by numerous authors, it explores a variety of themes throughout the stories. Each story in the book is one told by Shahrazad to King Shahriyar, and the characters in the stories told by her also tell tales. Shahrazad successfully keeps herself alive by sharing stories that complement her intentions. Various characters in her stories use storytelling as a way to survive, to teach a lesson, or simply to entertain. Regardless of the storyteller’s intentions, the stories told typically complement each other.