1001 Nights

1 - It seems that everyone has a different daily activity, and everyone is involved in a different event all the time, one is studying, others are working, partying, complaining, some have questions. But at the same time some events are related to one person to another person, such as school activity, asking how a test or your opinion about something that you have interest, talking about the weather… and so forth. At some points it seems that we are in the stellar time, but only if there is an interest or if is something related to what you are participating. And at some instances our lives are not connected at all (entropic), if we didn’t participate and have no interest to whatever is going on we would not pay attention or be affected to what is going on.

2 -I felt that the narrator was trying to connect her situation with the story from the beginning to the end, she used the theological time, she has an intention for two purposed telling the stories to the king, the first would be that she tells the story linking to the next story making him curious to what will happen next and by telling the story she tries to influence his idea of killing someone and forgiving. While reading the tale of the trader and the Jinni, when the trader goes back to pay his “debt” to the Ifrit, three other characters come to the story and each tries to help him by telling what happened to them and who each animals were before they became animals, and why they became animals, in exchange for a fraction of the trader. All of them seems related because a women always takes part of the story, and an act of betrayal. Which made it sound that even someone stabs in the back you should learn how to forgive, or to spare the life, and that there are alternatives to punish a person.

3 - In the past it seems that in the Islam culture women were treated as an object, with no respect, and no right to anything. Throughout time, women were able to gain respect and be part of the “men” society. Today they are somewhat equally treated, not in all aspects but from what it was before, where women had a worse punishment for a same crime committed by a men, from being a “property” of a men, sold and bought in exchange of money, they have overcome and “gained” a lot of respect and right. I believe that if they read the story as something that would be happening now in today’s world, they would be furious and burn the book, for placing them in such inferior being. But still there are some countries that still treat women worse than a dog like in Afganistan.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html