Anthony Garafola and 1001 Nights

1.Using twitter was an awesome experience. It gave me a chance and others a chance to see a play by play of what was happening in theirs and others lives. I was anxious to find out what everyone was doing and what was going on in their daily lives as well as share anything that was going on with me. I feel that the posts were very random and not intimate at all which is understandable. After all we only had a short time to do the assignment and people do not really know each other that well to post anything too revealing about their lives. But overall it was interesting to see what people’s thoughts at a particular moment in time were. For this assignment, I feel that the time in general is teleological. I believe that there is always a beginning middle and then an end. But I also believe within these sub categories stellar time kicks in and affects our daily lives I also believe that things happen for a reason and that no matter how things work out it was meant to be. Now, I am not saying that everything is predetermined in our lives but that there are many factors that contribute to how our lives are shaped.
2. In the tale of 1001 night’s fate plays a huge role. It is clear that what happen to these characters are acts of fate meaning they are meant to be. With the story of the fisherman and the jinni, it happens that this old, poor fisherman catches many things. One of the items he catches on his 4 casts is a copper jar. Now there is no way anyone can convince me that that was a coincidence. It was clearly meant for this fisherman to get a hold of this jar. He was there at the right moment at the right time and luckily became wealthy. There was even a point where this fisherman was in fact going to lose his life as this jinni was frustrated that no one has freed him up until now. And that is was the jinni’s promise to give the option how the person who freed him would lie to die. Luckily, the fisherman was quick on his feet and was able to trick the jinni to go back in the bottle and when the jinni became desperate to be set free, the fisherman was able to barter a deal with the jinni to let him out of the jar and where he wouldn’t lose his life. Therefore this story depicts not only Teological but stellar time as there is a beginning, middle and end but the fisherman was affected by this jinni who he was not aware was going to affect his life that day.
3. In the tale of the Husband and the Parrot, the husband purchases a parrot to watch over his wife while he is away. The story starts off with how he is deeply in love with is wife and is made mad-jealous. It is also discussed how beautiful she is. When the husband is away the wife commits adultery and when the returns he finds out about it and kills his wife and the Turk who she was sleeping around with. The ending is a bit over the top depiction of the Islamic culture and what men will do to their wives. However in the Islamic culture according to the Quran 4:34 the man is not only the head of the household but he is in charge. The women are treated as subordinates and must obey the man; men are the protectors and maintainers of women. As in this story and as of todays Islamic practices it is similar that the man is clearly superior to women since women are not viewed the same as men; they are inferior.