For One Night

Among the wonders of the dazzling world portrayed in The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith are genies, spectacular palaces, elephants, a singing tree, valleys of diamonds, and poisonous serpents. While The Red Tent by Anita Diamant has some of its own wonders, such as a reverence for religious tradition, overall it describes a harsh way of life. The constant struggles, dangers and toil of Dinah’s life, and those of her mother and aunts, overshadow the

A girl has people saying mean things about her. The bullies are trying to push her down and make her miserable but she realizes that she is in control of her own life and no one can push her down. People will try to knock others down, but everyone is in control of his or her life. This idea can be seen throughout both poems using literary devices. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, both convey the message that everybody is in control of his or her life and do

dream showing him that he had treasure waiting for him in Egypt. He took this as a sign that he needed to move in that direction to discover what the dream meant. Everyone knows that with treasure hunting, comes trials and “booby traps”. Santiago faces one immediately. He is robbed of his savings when he arrives in Africa after the first leg of

them hopelessly fall in love with her and remain in her control not until she dies. Her beauty is legendary that no man can look up upon her and keep his own will. Arabian Nights is a collection of Arabic short story told by a woman, Shahrazad who willingly to marry her lustful King. The King marries a virgin woman every night and kills them the next day because he is once being cheated by his late wife but not until he is married to Shahrazad. Her generous nature to save other women in the kingdom

Marjane visits her uncle in the hospital after he had just had his third heart attack. His last wish is that he gets to see his son, who is in Holland, one more time, but he dies five or ten pages after (pg. 124, Persepolis). Marjane Satrapi included cliffhangers in this novel to draw the reader in. Even though this is a autobiography, she still finds ways to hook the readers in and keep them wanting more

Tales from 1001 Nights is a group of tales rediscovered and originally translated in the 1700s. This copy is a translation by Malcolm Lyons from the most original texts available. I am familiar with the tales through pop culture. They have been adapted and changed to suit modern tastes, such as in Disney’s Aladdin. I thought that a book of stories would be a pleasure to read and an insight into what the original authors had thought to be good qualities, as stories try to embody. The stories are

Alchemist can help you and will guide you on where you need to go. The Englishmen had asked around to many of the people at the Oasis if they ever had heard of the Alchemist. No one had heard of the Alchemist and the Englishman was upset. He could not believe he had traveled all this way and the Alchemist did not live there. One night when Santiago was traveling back to his tent he had seen a man appear on a horse and was scared he was going to be killed. The man had a sword and had asked Santiago what

have gotten the inspirational people that he met along the way including himself and nature push him forward to accomplish his goal in life and find himself. With that being said the theme of this story is to never forget that the darkest hour of the night comes right before dawn as the alchemist once said.

well as the message he or she wants to portray to their target audience in favour of their own culture (Sabouri and Karimzadeh, 123). An example of this is The Arabian Nights where the authors of the stories are unknown and were all translated from Arabic to many languages including English. Even though it was written through one perspective, once translated, the meaning was modified to promote the Western perspective of the

The story ends the way it does in order to show the dramatic irony of the story and to represent the theme. In the ending Elisa feels depressed and starts to cry. This is one of the vivid examples of irony found in the story, it is ironic because the tinker who uplifted Elisa ended up making her even sadder than she was before. The tinker encouraged her so much, and boosted her confidence, without thought, threw away her