Week Two Blog

ABOUT THE READING

In the introductory note I found it interesting that “THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS” was first translated into French. I think it is neat to see how stories tell a story themselves when you learn about the history of where they came from. I also like how the story was told nightly by Wezir’s daughter which was left unfinished nightly because of the practice of a King who had the habit of killing his wives after the first night. This story in particular is not one that I have read before but it seems like it would be a good read. In the introduction I found it interesting that the messenger prayed and kissed the ground before the King. It is such a different era to see such respect for leaders in such a manor.

ABOUT THE GAMES

I have been trying my best to beat Prince of Persia, as of the time of this blog post I have not been able to beat the part that I am at. I am stuck in this part where I am near a cliff and have to beat about 8 guys or so to move on. I am not sure why this part is so hard but it took me more than ten tries to beat the last part that was similarly difficult. I had the girl with me for the last part and it took me a long time to figure out that I needed to kite the entire time to spread the guys out so they were not all on top of me at the same time. This time it is harder to kite because I am at a cliff and am not sure what strategy to use to get them off me without falling off of the cliff or being pummeled by them all at the same time. I think it is interesting that even the way you get past things in the game involves a time dimension to the game in that your timing has to be right on to move forward.