After reading the first of the Shaykh's stories, I decided to continue my reading with the second story.
The story tells of three brothers who all open individual businesses and start to be come profitable. One of the brothers decides to go on an adventure and after being gone a while returns to the main character. Since the main brother has been profitable in his business he helps the brother by giving him food and and money. In the mean time the third brother decides he also should go on an adventure. After a year of travel, the third brother returns to the main brother asking for help for he is now poor and penny less. Again the brother give money to the third brother and he also reopens a shop. After a while the brothers try to persuade the main brother in to going on an adventure with them and eventually he concedes and goes with them on the adventure. Before he leaves he buries 3,000 in money and takes 3,000 with him on the trip. While on the trip the main brother meet a woman on docks and she asks for help. Because she has no way to repay him she becomes his wife and thus she starts on the voyage with the brothers. During the trip the other brothers see the two of them together and become jealous. The brothers decide to kill their brother and steal all that is precious to him. The two brothers then throw the main brother and his wife over the side of a boat. The wife, saying she can use magic vows to kill the two brothers after rescuing the main brother from the river. She claims she will fly to the brothers, sink their ship, and kill them while they try to escape. He pleads with her not to do such terrible deeds to his own brothers but she ignores him and fly him home and drops him off on his roof. A few weeks later, the brothers appear in front of his shop gaged and bound. The brother kept them tied, as his wife had requested even though she flew off again never to be seen, for ten years and only then did he release them.
the story was quite strange to me but was a good read none the less.
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Dray, it does sound like an adventurous tale. I wonder how you might analyze it. How does it portray the characters? Men vs women? Poverty vs wealth? The role of trickery? The justice of fate? Things like that I would love to hear your opinion on.
To me, you can see how the main brother can be easily tricked but yet he knows how to handle his family and his life. The men are portrayed as being dumb and small minded. While the woman is described as being smart but tricky. Trickery to me is shown by both the brothers, much worse than the wife, and the wife, not telling who/what she was. The fate in the story was the main brother showing love an then the brothers betraying him and in the end the brothers being controled by the main brother. Justice was semi-swift in this story.
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