- In the Nights themselves, tales divert, cure, redeem, and save lives (Haddawy 7).
- During the Nights, the stories alter, heal, reclaim, and rescue lives.
- The stories help change, restore, and improve the lives of the people in the Nights.
- The tales that are told help revive and aid lives throughout the Nights.
- The mania for collecting more stories and “completing” the work led some copyists to resort even to forgery (Haddawy 10).
- The rush for gathering more of the stories and finally “finishing” the collection caused writers to turn to forgery.
- The scramble to assemble more tales and “finalize” the Nights resulted in a fabrication by some scribes.
- The tussle to accumulate all the tales and “conclude” the nights created falsehood in the works from scribes.
When choosing what passages to paraphrase, I chose sentences that stuck out to me while reading Haddawy’s “Introduction.” After completing the task, I noticed that paraphrasing ingrains the true meaning of what the author is trying to say. The repetition of the same message in different words helps the brain recall and truly understand what Haddawy described about the Nights. From this exercise, I learned that I actually know more vocabulary than I initially thought. I sat down and started to write, letting my mind take control of what words to replace. I thought of numerous ways to reword parts of the text, which, in my opinion, will help understand the book better as a whole moving forward in this class.
