Reading Notes: Tales of a Parrot, Part A
For the first story, I think I would focus more on the bird than the couple's love, although I could make a new story just from their relationship. Instead of a parrot, I would use a magic 8 ball. Its answers would be far more detailed and accurate than those of any magic 8 ball you've ever used. It would help my protagonist, and prove its value, in a similar way to the parrot.
The next part is very short, so if I wrote about it, I'd likely combine it with the first section. A little girl would see a cute boy and when a magic 8 ball, though not THE magic 8 ball, told her he was bad news, she'd crush it.
I liked the idea of the wife's friend begging her husband to forgive her. I could rework this into a story of an unfaithful husband whose best friend begs the man's wife to forgive his adultery. In my version, the woman would not forgive the cheater. Why would someone forgive another person when they don't even have the guts to beg for their own forgiveness? This also reminded me of the story of a girl who continuously postponed her sister's execution by entertaining the executioner with stories. The parrot just postponed the wife's infidelity with his story.
For the story of the four men, I would write something similar in a modern setting. Four friends at a bar would see a beautiful woman who would argue over who should get her. Eventually, they would approach her and she would reject them all.
In the next section, I thought the royroyan should've ended up with the girl. He was incredibly generous and helpful. The dirveish did nothing except ask others for help. I would rewrite this as a young man trying to seduce a girl. She wants nothing to do with him so he enlists the help of his friend to get her. She starts to fall for her seducer and the friend begins to fall for her. When she realizes the seducer was simply doing what his friend said would make her happy, she decides to be with the friend instead.
I'm not sure how a parrot could be a physician, but apparently this bird was a miracle worker. I don't understand why the bird didn't just cure the king. Surely, he would've been so grateful that he'd let her return to her family.
I liked the idea of the wife catching her husband in the act of trying to cheat. He had no way to talk himself out of it. But for her to catch him in this way, doesn't that mean she would have committed adultery too? She did not know it was her husband. That would be quite interesting. A married couple catching each other trying to cheat.
I didn't think the next story was fair. The frog was a cruel ruler. Then, he used someone more powerful than himself to get what he wanted, but he did not pay a price for this.
The next section is a fairly simple tale of greed. A person wants more and more and more until he has nothing. I liked the last story quite a lot compared to the others. The lovers were able to spend time together and the person who covered for them got to enjoy himself as well. I would've been sad if they simply used him.
Bibliography: The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi, link to the online reading.
The next part is very short, so if I wrote about it, I'd likely combine it with the first section. A little girl would see a cute boy and when a magic 8 ball, though not THE magic 8 ball, told her he was bad news, she'd crush it.
(Image Information: Magic 8 Ball
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I liked the idea of the wife's friend begging her husband to forgive her. I could rework this into a story of an unfaithful husband whose best friend begs the man's wife to forgive his adultery. In my version, the woman would not forgive the cheater. Why would someone forgive another person when they don't even have the guts to beg for their own forgiveness? This also reminded me of the story of a girl who continuously postponed her sister's execution by entertaining the executioner with stories. The parrot just postponed the wife's infidelity with his story.
For the story of the four men, I would write something similar in a modern setting. Four friends at a bar would see a beautiful woman who would argue over who should get her. Eventually, they would approach her and she would reject them all.
In the next section, I thought the royroyan should've ended up with the girl. He was incredibly generous and helpful. The dirveish did nothing except ask others for help. I would rewrite this as a young man trying to seduce a girl. She wants nothing to do with him so he enlists the help of his friend to get her. She starts to fall for her seducer and the friend begins to fall for her. When she realizes the seducer was simply doing what his friend said would make her happy, she decides to be with the friend instead.
I'm not sure how a parrot could be a physician, but apparently this bird was a miracle worker. I don't understand why the bird didn't just cure the king. Surely, he would've been so grateful that he'd let her return to her family.
I liked the idea of the wife catching her husband in the act of trying to cheat. He had no way to talk himself out of it. But for her to catch him in this way, doesn't that mean she would have committed adultery too? She did not know it was her husband. That would be quite interesting. A married couple catching each other trying to cheat.
I didn't think the next story was fair. The frog was a cruel ruler. Then, he used someone more powerful than himself to get what he wanted, but he did not pay a price for this.
The next section is a fairly simple tale of greed. A person wants more and more and more until he has nothing. I liked the last story quite a lot compared to the others. The lovers were able to spend time together and the person who covered for them got to enjoy himself as well. I would've been sad if they simply used him.
Bibliography: The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi, link to the online reading.
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