(Sindbad Plots Against the Giant by Maxfield Parrish: Wikimedia Commons)
I like how Sindbad just decides to build his own ship and
travel even though he has gone through so many terrible experiences already.
Whenever their ship gets destroyed by the Rocs, I think it
would be funny to see everyone freaking while Sindbad is calmly floating with
his driftwood because he has been through this scenario plenty of times.
It was extremely weird reading the part about the old man
that forces Sindbad to carry him around. However, it is actually a pretty funny
scene which I could use in my retelling.
My favorite part so far of this entire unit is when they
throw rocks at the monkeys because they know they will get mad and start throwing
coconuts at them. I can just picture this happening and someone next to Sindbad
saying, “Watch this,” as he throws the rocks at the monkeys.
Whenever Sindbad the crew get shipwrecked this time I would
like to change it to where he is like on a phone or something while the captain
and everyone else is freaking out. They see Sindbad on his phone playing a game
or something and he just looks up and says that he’s bored and he’s been
through more exciting adventures.
It would be funny if the people of Serendib prank Sindbad
once they realize he’s harmless. They hear him speaking in Arabic to himself and
they decide to pretend like they’re savages or something to scare him. They let
this prank go on for awhile and then reward Sindbad with treasure for being a
good sport.
It seems as though Sindbad really does not want to go back
to see. I’ll change it to where he secretly does and puts up kind of a fight
against the Caliph’s wishes. However, he’s secretly excited about going on
another adventure.
Everything seems to go fine at first during the first few
days. I would like to see Sindbad just constantly looking over his shoulder or
something just waiting for something bad to happen since he’s so used to it
now.
In my retelling, Sindbad will be relieved when he sees the
pirates because it wouldn’t be a voyage for him without something terribly
wrong happening. Sindbad will be like, “Oh no, pirates,” but say it in a tone
to where you can tell he’s not scared.
I found it interesting how the elephants decided not to kill
Sindbad. In fact, they showed him where an abundance of ivory was even though
he had killed so many elephants.
Sindbad’s whole story kind of made me think of the movie “Groundhog
Day” because he’s sort of reliving the same day over and over again, but with
different adventures. I could possibly incorporate something like that into my
version of the story.
Bibliography: The Voyages of Sindbad by by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).
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