Myth & Folklore

 Reading Notes Part B  Photo by Jeremy Bishop from Pexels Part B: In Sinbad’s fifth voyage he and his crew that he assembled climbed aboard his ship and set sail for more adventure and trade.  They end up on an island and encounter the Roc birds again.  Once again in this story, Sinbad becomes abandoned on the island by himself and loses all his crew as well as his ship. I feel like all of Sinbad’s voyages have gotten him into a similar situation where he becomes trapped on an island and rescued later.  So, on this adventure I have thought about maybe including a longer duration of time spent on the island.  I will maybe write about how he finds the Old Man and the man captures him and holds him prisoner.  I think it would be interesting to write about a great escape on an island all alone with man-eating birds and a crazy old guy who quite possibly could also be a man eater.  Since Sinbad is a wealthy merchant, I think this would be a different...

 Sinbad Notes Part A  Photo by Asad Photo Maldives from Pexels 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 ...