Reading Notes: Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales, Part B
Authors Note: For this weeks reading assignment, I have continued with the Untextbook option titled "Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales" written by Ignacz Kunos.
The first story I read was titled "The Wizard and The Pupil" and was about a boy who became an apprentice for a wizard and learned everything he needed to in order to overrule his master and eventually kill him, thus being able to provide for his mother. I like the way this story was written because it took the reader on a journey without being incredibly long, but also without leaving out any details. The author did a good job of making the story feel like time had passed, but without leaving out anything of importance. The author did not add unnecessary details, and kept the story short and to the point. This will be a good story to come back to for my future stories so I can remember how to write a short, but detailed story.
The last story I read was titled "Madjun" and had the same sort of storyline as the first story did. It is about a young boy who kept running away from his mother unless she did something for him. She went to the Padishah and asked for his daughter to marry her son, and then made the son go on a journey in order to marry the princess. Again, I liked this story because it was short and to the point, but it still felt like it had taken me on a journey and that time had passed in the world of the story. I think for my future stories, I will also look back on this one and try to replicate the length and amount of detail, simply because these stories are the ones that I find most appealing.
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