Life presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those hardships are the ones that really do have a lot of success. We have read and analyze stories from the Ancient Arab World, which we made many connections to that deal with hardships. From the Collection of stories in “The Arabian Nights” we read “Story of King Shahryar and his Brother” and “The Tale of the Bull and the Ass.” In these explicit stories we meet two characters, King Shahryar and a Merchant. Within these two characters we distinguish similarities and differences when it comes to dealing with hardships. King Shahryar ruled his own kingdom with equity and fair dealing to his subjects, in extreme solace and enjoyment, that …show more content…
Since he merchant had the power to understand animals one day spending the morning in the animals crib he was just laughing out loud laugh and kept laughing till he fell on his back. His wife wants to know why the laughter he explains he can’t, because he will die. She doesn’t care she wants to know and cries. With this conversation, he felt the need to be sincere with his wife and tell her the secret even if meant his own death. This shows the honest, kind, trustful husband he is. However, when he was about to do he changed all his emotions towards the situation due to a conversation he heard from a dog and a cock. Which described him as a lack wit, a man with no kind of sense, not being able to handle just one wife, no wisdom, and no judgment. When the merchant heard the wise words spoken by his cock to his dog, he arose in haste and cut some twigs. He came down upon his wife beating her back and shoulders, ribs, arms, and legs, saying "Wilt thou ever be asking questions about what concerneth thee not?" Presently she cried out: "I am of the repentant! By Allah, I will ask thee no more questions, and indeed I repent sincerely and wholesomely." Then she kissed his hand and feet and he led her out of the room submissive, as a wife should be. If we analyze the hardship this Mercahnt we can see his reaction is due to creativity, he really didn’t do it for