Reading Notes: Sinbad, Part A

I have to admit, I really enjoyed this week's reading: Sinbad's Seven Voyages. It felt like a great fusion of Hercule's 12 Labors and Homer's Odyssey. The main things that really stood out to me and that I feel that I could implement into my own stories would the fact that the stories were told in a first-person perspective and almost all of the stories turned out the way they did due to luck. I believe a first-person perspective will almost always be a better device to develop your protagonist, so using it for one of my stories will allow readers to better relate and learn to love the character. As for the fact that luck played so heavily in the stories, I feel that I can use the theme where my character is INCREDIBLY lucky and create the most outlandish situations for which he/she has experience. For my story, I feel that I can recreate Sinbad's tales, but have him experience things that are funnier and not as traumatizing. I think I will wait until I have finished reading about the rest of his voyages before creating my stories.

Bibliography: The Voyages of Sinbad, The Arabian Nights: Andrew Lang. Link

(One of the man-eating giants Sinbad faced in his voyages:

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