We were supposed to pick an object from any one story of the Arabian Nights. The object which I chose ‘The Tale Of The Woman Cut Into Pieces, Three Apples and The Negro Rahamn’. Following is the report that I wrote:

THE TALE OF THE WOMAN CUTE INTO PIECES, THREE APPLES AND THE NEGRO RAHAMN

The Tale of the woman cut into pieces, three apples and the negro Rahamn partially. The story starts when the caliph’s appointed fisherman finding a heavy chest in the river, which contained a woman cut into pieces. The caliph orders his wazir to find the murderer. The tale then unfolds. The story is therefore about a man who wrongfully kills his beloved wife, cuts her into pieces and throws her into the river Tigris. He did so because a negro tricks him in believing she was his mistress. The negro had one of the three apples that the man had bought for his wife, the negro uses it as proof for his statement.

Thus, the story starts with the wife demanding for apples, the husband further struggles in finding the apples and lastly he ends up killing his beloved wife because of a misunderstanding regarding the apples. Thus, Apple was the most significant thing in the story and the entire story revolved around it. ‘Cultural significance of apple in Eden’

The story first highlights the importance of the fruit and further justifies the rare nature of it as well. The protagonist in the story is the man who wants to fulfill his ill wife’s wish of eating apples. The story further develops when the man believes a lie and misunderstands his wife’s loyalty. If the wife wouldn’t have demanded apples in the first place then the story wouldn’t have turned out the way it did. The story revolves around apples and how three apples affected the lives of more than three people.

The wife demanded apples as she had just recovered from her illness, the husband was so much in love that even though all his attempts for finding apples were constantly failing, he didn’t lose hope and didn’t stop until he found apples for his wife. Thus, the initial part of the story through apples showcases the love and bond that the couple shared. The story then showcases the amount of chaos and misunderstandings that an apple could create. The negro unconsciously ends up sparking up the misunderstanding between the couple, which finally leads to a very unfortunate event. The man ends up believing the slave and thus the mystery of one missing apple ends up with a woman chopped into pieces, locked away in the depths of the river Tigris. Thus three normal looking apples end up creating so much chaos and trouble in the lives of so many people. Therefore no other element in the story can match the significance of the three apples. The story started and ended with those three apples.

Apples have always been culturally and mythologically important, it appears in a lot of religious traditions. In the Book of Genesis talks about the forbidden fruit which does not identify but popular Christian tradition holds that Adam and Eve ate an apple from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. The unnamed fruit of Eden, therefore, became an under the influence of the story, The Golden Apples in the Garden of Hesperides. As a result, Apple became a symbol for immortality, knowledge, the fall of man and sin and temptation.

Thus even the story portrays the forbidden nature of the fruit. 

Today’s class was dedicated to the Renaissance period.

The Renaissance period originated in Florence, Italy, started from the 14th century and comes to an end by the 17th century. It is a period which is considered to be a bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history.

Well known for European economic, political, artistic and cultural rebirth which promoted the rediscovery of philosophy, literature, and art. It is an era when art and architectural design returned to the Classical ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.

We learned about Napolean Bonaparte.

Napolean Bonaparte was a French statesman and the military leader of Italian descent. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution. Under his leadership, he led several campaigns during the wars of the French Revolution.

The class was about the Crusades. Crusade came from the Latin word for cloth cross. The purpose of the Crusade was to recapture the Christian lands that had been invaded by the Muslims.

The Crusades were a series of military missions which was organized and promoted by the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. This series of military missions took place from the 11th century A.D. to the 13th century A.D. The symbol of the Crusades was the Christian cross. They believed that the cross made them invincible against the armies of the Muslims.

Today we studied all about The Dark Ages.

We learned that the “Dark Ages” is a historical periodization referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.

We also studied the causes of the decline of the Roman Empire, first king of Italy, the Vikings and Alfred the great are some of the topics that we discussed in class.