Week Four Reading Diary Cont.: Tales of a Parrot

The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801).

• The first story in this section the parrot tells about friendship and how a snake and a frog repayed a prince for his kindness to them but once they had repayed their service they went back to their homes. I also like how he took his money to charity and did not become rich from it. 
• The main woman starts to question her new lover's personality
• The next story was probably the best so far it is of three men fighting over a young woman trying to win her over with their skills. She is captured and all their skills were used to save her but only one was willing to actually go in and rescue her with no regard to his own life. 
• A princess runs off with a man of no status and takes enough gold from her father so they can live in peace outside his territory for the rest of their lives
• This was another tale about who deserved the woman in this one her husbands head and body got displaced so which one was the rightful husband? head or body? the head because of the thoughts, memories and wisdom kept there
• Now the main woman feels like she is shameful for even thinking of going and is questioning her "lover"
• The next story is actually one that is about not committing adultery. It is about wanting to and realizing the wrongs but then dying without their one true love. 
• The next story a man tries to help a snake then the snake goes to bite him so the man tricks the snake and ends up killing him
• This story basically tells that no secret is truly safe unless it is only in your mind. Once he confided in his wife he was busted.
• The lesson of the next story is not to always follow other's actions because it may not have the same outcome for you. Like hitting a man and him turning to gold because of a phrophecy 
• this story was awful, the elephant just had a scratch he was not trying to harm the eggs it is awful that he had to die for it. especially in such a cruel and suffering way
• Now the main woman wants to be completely single
• This story was weird, basically some animals came into the garden and got caught because the donkey started singing poorly
• HOLY COW! The ending was entirely unexpected. Not just with the last tale but also with the original characters. As for the tale I am glad the son was not killed and that family could rejoin. As for the main story I am so surprised as the parrot for telling everything, and I am surprised she was killed considering she never actually went out to meet the man.

Elephant from one of the tales, I really enjoy elephant pictures