Part A: This unit was really interesting and entertaining to read. It was full of mythical talking creatures, changing shape and magical events. In Fear, a young boy is looking for what it's like to feel fear. Through his journey, he encounters three pigeons, who transform into maidens and help him become a Shah and finally feel fear. The The Fish-Peri, a fisherman caught a beautiful fish, who turned out to be a maiden and helped him complete impossible tasks assigned by Pardishah like building a palace, a crystal bridge, a talking infant and a huge feast. The Crown-Peri is similar in that a woman helps him complete impossible tasks and ends with him getting married and being rewarded. In the end of most of these stories, the male main character marries a princess and lives happily ever after. The female characters usually start out as animals and the male characters think they are beautiful, they usually transform and help the main character and in reward they get to marry each other. This timeline is constant through most of the stories.
Part B: Some of these stories had similar plots as the ones in Part A. However, some got even more strange. Kunterbunt seemed be to the most random set of events and circumstances, it was hard to follow and then at the end it was actually just a dream. Other complicated plot lines included The Wizard and his Pupil, where towards the end each transformed into many things and tried to catch each other, changing so many times resulting in the pupil killing his teacher. The Liver was another that grew more and more complicated as the story went on. In an effort to get back the liver a stork stole from her, the maiden had to get barely from a farmer for the stork, incense from a merchant for the farmer, shoes from a shoemaker for the merchant, leather from a tanner for the shoemaker, an ox for the tanner, straw for the ox and a kiss from a peasant for the ox. Whew, what a long set of tasks for just a liver!
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