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The document summarizes two stories - "Edju and the Two Friends" and "Thousand and One Nights". It provides context on the themes, point of view, settings and characters of each story. For "Edju and the Two Friends", the summary states it is about a trickster god named Edju and his two friends, and explores the theme of testing friendships. For "Thousand and One Nights", the summary explains the frame story of King Shahryar and how Shahrazad saves herself and other women from execution by telling the King stories each night for 1,001 nights. Symbolism in the stories is also discussed, with the ocean representing the supernatural world in "Thousand and One N

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Week 5

The document summarizes two stories - "Edju and the Two Friends" and "Thousand and One Nights". It provides context on the themes, point of view, settings and characters of each story. For "Edju and the Two Friends", the summary states it is about a trickster god named Edju and his two friends, and explores the theme of testing friendships. For "Thousand and One Nights", the summary explains the frame story of King Shahryar and how Shahrazad saves herself and other women from execution by telling the King stories each night for 1,001 nights. Symbolism in the stories is also discussed, with the ocean representing the supernatural world in "Thousand and One N

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Edju and two friends

Theme

The story is about the guy who are testing their friendships.

Point of View

The POV of the story is third persona.

Setting

Nigeria

Summary

Realizing that Edju was teasing them, the two friends move back to what they used
to do every day before being tricked by the Trickster God. Edju and the Two Friends is
about his two friends, his Enja, who means endless man, and his Edju, who is a god.

Characters

Edju, Two friends, King

Thousand and one night

Theme

Desire and lust are the main themes and motifs of Arabian Nights. In the Frame Story, King
Shahryar struggles to accept his wife's erotic desires, leading to his wife's infidelity in his absence
at the time the war, as does his younger brother.

Point of View

The POV of the story is second persona.

Setting

Middle East

Summary

The main story is about Shahryar and Shahrazad. When Shahryar discovers that the queen
is unfaithful at the beginning of the story, he declares that all women are equal and vows to
welcome her new bride every night and kill her the next morning. The people are shocked by the
brutality of this law and watch in disgust as the emperor murders her daughters. The grand
vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, persuades her father to offer her to Shahryar. She asks her sister
Dinazad to wake her up before sunrise and listen to her story. Dinazad wakes her up as ordered,
and with the king's permission, Shahrazad begins telling her the story. But she stopped her story
in her tense moment and told Dinazad that if the king allowed her to live that long, she would
finish her story the next night. Shahryar wants to hear more, so he agrees. This lasts him 1,001
nights (although he actually had 280 nights counted). Shahrazad tells stories of romance, tragedy
and epic adventure. One of the characters often tells their own story, building an embedded
narrative. Eventually Shahryar falls in love with her and renounces his constitution.

Symbolism and Image

The Edju and the Two friends symbolizes the friendship and the trust while the Thousand nights
and one night symbolizes; The ocean as a indecation of the supernatural world is ubiquitous in
The One Thousand and One Nights. Like the supernatural world, it is the setting for many of the
stories in the collection. It spawns magical things like bottled genies, donkeys, monkeys, whale-
riding islands, and giant snakes, throwing both obstacles and opportunities in the path of
characters like Sinbad and Kalifa the fisherman. Many of the characters, especially Sinbad, are at
the forgiveness of the sea in much the same way that all characters in the compilation are often
at the mercy of the supernatural world, especially the Genie and Jinnyah. Still, the sea-shaped
supernatural, in particular, allows characters like Sinbad to travel the wide world, earn a living,
and encounter delightful wonders. Therefore, she is feared and respected.

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