Of a King and His Sons
This piece took a turn that I didn't expect as the princess, through a strange turn of a few events, ended up with the prince. For a rewrite, it might be interesting to focus more on the princess and talk about how she might have been feeling through the whole process.
The Merchant Whose Daughter was Lost
I really am coming to like the way that the wife keeps going to the parrot, allowing him to distract her at this point without him having to make as much of an effort. It might even be fun for some random project to focus a story on this part of the piece. For a rewrite on this piece, however, I might make it to where the merchant was lost instead of his daughter.
Of a Brahmin Falling in Love
I always love dealing with stories about love. I feel like this might be the simple answer but for a rewrite about this piece it would be fun to modernize it and write about a guy looking for a girl in the city and finding her through some crazy circumstances or something along those lines.
What I imagine the character that fell in love in this piece might
have looked like. Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Son of the King of Babylon
In this piece, I think the best way that I know to do a rewrite is to focus on an outside character that would find the severed heads and write what his/her feelings would be in such a situation. There are many different ways to express such an occurrence but this perspective enables me to then continue the story beyond where it ends now if I decided that I wanted to somehow for some reason.
The Merchant's Daughter
As interesting as this piece was, I think it's one that is told quite a bit in some variation. To make it more unique, I might would change the daughter into someone that is not beautiful but is the exact opposite. While that seems like a trivial change, it would ultimately change the entire layout of the story due to this one characteristic.
The Nobleman who Concealed a Snake in His Sleeve
This piece was unique on its own but I think it might be fun to put a totally unexpected turn on it and make the animal something that is otherwise thought of as cute, even if it were something like a dachshund around his neck or something like that.
The Soldier and the Goldsmith
This piece was entertaining but also simple and just kind of ended where one would have expected. A rewrite might be fun to take it even further, focusing more on what the soldier did with his newfound wealth after the goldsmith was robbed for trying to rob him.
Of the Merchant and the Barber
The stories in this selection have started to become more and more random and seemingly disconnected. I feel like this section had a very "Disney like" feel to it and for that reason I thought it would be fun to turn the barber into a genie like character of sorts and see where that could go.
The Fog, the Bee, and the Bird
While it is a seemingly small aspect to focus on for a rewrite, I think it would be fun to focus this one on what might happen if the bird and her eggs had gotten stuck on the elephant and were cared for and nurtured there as opposed to falling off.
The Elk and the Ass
This piece was also simple but fun to read. I think it would be a fun idea for a rewrite to focus on the friendship that is so briefly mentioned at the very beginning of the story and to explain how such a relationship between two unlikely figures came to be instead of just mentioning it and then moving on so quickly.
A King Falls in Love, and the End of Khojisteh
As is common with many of the stories regarding love, I think this one would also be fun to modernize in some way as the King falls in love. This was an interesting but fitting piece to end the collection with, at least in my opinion.
Bibliography
Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi's Tales of a Parrot
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