This week I read the first section from The Voyages of Sindbad unit from the Un-Textbook. This unit had a lot of daring adventures for Sindbad to go on, and he gained so much knowledge about how the world worked in many different ways. The story I found most compelling from this unit was the second voyage Sindbad went on during his life. I appreciated his wit and ability to test fate.
This story followed Sindbad out to an island where he got deserted while he took a nap. Luckily, he found a massive egg that caught his attention. Soon after, a gigantic bird known as a Roc landed on the egg and over him. Quickly coming up with an escape plan, he tied himself to the bird's leg with his turban. This was a nice piece of quick thinking and luckily for him, this strategy worked as he was carried off the island the next morning. I often do not put enough worth in characters being given a decent amount of luck to help drive the story forward. Couple luck with wit, and you have a combo of characteristics that makes a unique tale. I would like to include luck more often into my stories. This is a nice parallel to life because sometimes, things do just work out for the best.
The last half of this voyage ended with Sindbad in a ravine with snakes easily capable of swallowing an elephant. He again got lucky in the case that the snakes only came out at night. His wit helped him at night as he used a rock to cave him in successfully in a crack between rocks. This ravine was full of diamonds. Some were so big that they could have easily been as large as someone's head. This made getting into this specific ravine more desirable, so merchants would toss chunks of meat in there, so the large birds would pick them up with diamonds. So again, with his same technique as before, Sindbad secured himself to a piece of meat and got carried to the bird's nest where the merchants found him. The diamonds he brought with him secured his safe travel back to civilization. Using a simple recurring action is nice because this shows how an ingenious move can be used over and over again for different applications.
This story followed Sindbad out to an island where he got deserted while he took a nap. Luckily, he found a massive egg that caught his attention. Soon after, a gigantic bird known as a Roc landed on the egg and over him. Quickly coming up with an escape plan, he tied himself to the bird's leg with his turban. This was a nice piece of quick thinking and luckily for him, this strategy worked as he was carried off the island the next morning. I often do not put enough worth in characters being given a decent amount of luck to help drive the story forward. Couple luck with wit, and you have a combo of characteristics that makes a unique tale. I would like to include luck more often into my stories. This is a nice parallel to life because sometimes, things do just work out for the best.
The last half of this voyage ended with Sindbad in a ravine with snakes easily capable of swallowing an elephant. He again got lucky in the case that the snakes only came out at night. His wit helped him at night as he used a rock to cave him in successfully in a crack between rocks. This ravine was full of diamonds. Some were so big that they could have easily been as large as someone's head. This made getting into this specific ravine more desirable, so merchants would toss chunks of meat in there, so the large birds would pick them up with diamonds. So again, with his same technique as before, Sindbad secured himself to a piece of meat and got carried to the bird's nest where the merchants found him. The diamonds he brought with him secured his safe travel back to civilization. Using a simple recurring action is nice because this shows how an ingenious move can be used over and over again for different applications.
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Image Information: Roc, by E. J. Detmold
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