Reading Notes: Sinbad, Part A

 Sinbad Reading Notes Part A

Theatrical Release Poster for the movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. (Source: Wikipedia )

First Voyage

- First-person Point of view 

- telling stories to an impoverished man also named Sinbad

-inherited wealth from parents

-stopped voyage at a small island to rest, but was really the back of a whale

-Sinbad got left behind while leaving the "island"

-he drifted to another island on a piece of wreckage 

    -Mihrage-king of the island Sinbad floated too

First Voyage (cont.)

-Cassel- tiny island owned by Mihrage

    -supposedly inhabited by a spirit named Deggial

-found the captain of the ship from the beginning of the voyage 

Second Voyage 

- got left behind after falling asleep on an unknown island

-"a white ball of immense size and height....marvellously smooth and soft"

-"fifty paces round"

-whate ball was really roc's egg

-roc- a huge fiercesome bird 

-tied himself to the leg of the roc with his turban 

-stranded in valley of diamonds

Second Voyage (Cont.)

-camphor trees

-bound to a piece of meat to escape valley of diamonds by being carried out by eagles

-"my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor"

Third Voyage 

-repetitiveness in the beginnings and ends of each story

-giant with one eye

-"He was as tall as a palm tree, and perfectly black, and had one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead. His teeth were long and sharp and grinned horribly, while his lower lip hung down upon his chest, and he had ears like elephant's ears which covered his shoulders, and nails like the claws of some fierce bird."

-passed out at the sight of the giant 

-similar to odysseus 

-more giants

-Sinbad escaped on a raft with 2 others

-the giant snake on the next island crushed and ate one companion and ate the other 

Third Voyage (end)

- built tent made of reeds to protect from huge snake 

-repetition again because he found the captain of his ship at the start of the voyage 

-bought land and gave money to the poor

Fourth Voyage 

-violent hurricane 

-savages on the island who ate the rest of the crew 

-Sinbad went with other men he found on the island who were exploring and gathering up peppers

-he pleased their king by making saddles, stirrups, and bridles for their horses and entertaining them with stories. He was rewarded greatly 

Fourth Voyage (Cont.)

-King ordered him to marry a girl there and stay

-Sinbad still had plans to leave the newer country asap

-spouses are buried together on the island when one dies

-Sinbad was buried alive with his dead wife 

Fourth Voyage (end)

-found a way out of the cavern with the many treasures he took from the dead

-found a ship to take him home

Bibliography:

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