JLE#19: Reading Notes on the Voyages of Sinbad, Part A
Sinbad Notes Part A
I think I am going to incorporate some of the plots from the third and fourth voyages (stories) and try and focus on those for the upcoming story. I like the story of the third voyage because it starts out with Sinbad and the crew docking on a remote island. The fourth voyage begins with Sinbad and his crew shipwrecking on an island so I figure I can potentially merge the stories/voyages together since they both have similar settings. I like how they spend a lot of time figuring out where they are on the first island and then realize there are small inhabitants that are quite aggressive. The inhabitants stole the ship and left the crew for dead with the cyclopes. I wanted there to be more cyclopes and we only got to see that in the end of the story when everyone escaped. My plan is to introduce more of them early on and maybe even having Sinbad discover an entire settlement of them.
Once that happens, he will escape and set up the next story by discovering a different part of the island and encountering these same inhabitants....only they are cannibals.
In the fourth voyage Sinbad and his crew are greeted by cannibals
and offer them nourishment after they shipwreck. They fatten up the crew, but Sinbad was keen on
not staying long because he knew the possible outcome. He escapes the area on the island only to
find more people who speak Arabic. They
took him back and he lived well with the King and had amassed riches and the
favor of the people in the city. I like
this because I want to merge the city and his crew together and sort of create
an establishment against the cannibals and the cyclopes. I think this would make for an awesome rendition
of the fight between the men and the cyclops in the third voyage!
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