Further Insights into the Second Day...

As The Arabian Nights was read to us today in class, it became clear that throughout the book's long history, the fact has not changed about the truth of how real, harems, infidelity, and murder were and still are in today's society as well as how real it all was back in this society this book maybe be just a retelling of events, but the way the world works is still very much the same. The picture that even the translator can show is vivid and allows one's mind to soak in the true emotion of the characters. The fact was brought up that Shahrazad was intellectual, and well read and how this rarely being a factor of brilliance in today's world, and I thought that oddly amusing, that unlike if it were written today, she was not described as beautiful. I also found it very thrilling to be comparing the beginning to Disney's Aladin showing again that even as children we are absorbing customs from distant lands even without our knowledge. As for The Great Expectations where, I have reached the chapters in which the convict comes back, and what I find oddly fascinating at this time in the book Pip is feeling so guilty when again in the world we live in now, even children would find this less true, due to video games and the world being brought up, by the television creating a sort of reality in which one doesn't have to feel guilty about such little problems. The way Pip starts thinking about life, and wanting to better himself with education, and reading amazes me, by the actual way he seems to want to be better then nothing and that truly brings out a interesting color to him. He obviously becomes a better and more talented reader and writer in the book, and I cannot wait until I see him doing just that.