Reading Notes: The Voyages of Sindbad, Part A

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Sindbad the Sailor by Milo Winter (Wikimedia)

Reading Notes: The Voyages of Sindbad, Part A

First Voyage:
  • I like the use of first person narration, different technique that I have not used yet, might be beneficial to try. 
  • I also like the context of voyager on the sea, lends itself to nearly anything imaginable happening 
  • Islands are cool because they exist almost as their own worlds, good way to test a character against situations not normally present in “average life” 
  • Could be really interesting to retell this tale with Sindbad as an untrustworthy narrator or even through more of a dialogue with his listener responding: could also change listener 

Second Voyage:
  • Interesting how he goes from a somewhat reasonable voyage to a very strange one 
  • I like the rhino and elephant story, might be interesting scene for descriptive imagery and could be placed anywhere 

Third Voyage:
  • Description of small savages that attack as swarms a story I have seen before. Occurs in Moana so potentially Polynesian Mythology, the name of the creatures escapes me though 
  • Strength to hoist anchor and move ship, could make for some funny descriptions where they instead lift the entire ship above their heads 
  • Giant cyclops extremely reminiscent of Odysseus, could create an interplay between the two meeting in the same giants cave and working together to find out, could have some fun with dialogue and debate of who the best sailor is (only to realize neither are because they have been captured) 
  • Same solution to stick a red hot spit into the eye of the giant, why always violence? Perhaps in retelling I could find a new way for the heroes to best the giant. I would love to see a star wars AT-AT esque tying of the legs and tripping 
  • You would really think Sindbad would start reminding these captains not to leave without him. 
  • I think I want to try retelling sindbad’s story by having him meet Odysseus in the same cave, this will help me practice having two distinct characters meet each other for my Storybook project.
Bibliography
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

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