Reading Notes The Story of the Fisherman- Part A

The Story of the Fisherman

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

 This story focuses on a fisherman so old and so poor that he could scarcely manage to support his wife and three children. He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times. A large cloud of smoke appears after crying out to a Genie, a glass jar appears. A huge monster comes out, he begs for saving. The story basically goes on to where the Genie is going to kill the fisherman. Though the fisherman order the genie to tell him a story. The fisherman then plays a wonderful trick on the genie, which then transitions into the fisherman as storyteller, with the genie as his audience.

This was a pretty confusing story to follow but I like when the little guy in stories wins. In this case the fisherman was able to overcome and end up not getting killed. It seems his life is much better now even after all his troubles. 


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https://americanliterature.com/author/arabian-nights/short-story/the-story-of-sindbad-the-sailor

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