Reading Notes "Scheherazade"

This story is part of the Arabian Nights unit. Story source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

Scheherazade - A sultan had a wife whom he loved more than anything in the world, but she betrayed him to the highest degree so he had her killed by the grand-vizir. So from that day forth, the sultan swore women were the root of all evil. He would then marry one every day and have her slain by the grand-vizir the next day, he would repeat this practice every day.

One day the grand-vizir's daughter came to him and requested to be the next girl to marry the sultan. The grand-vizir wept and asked her why she would wish death upon herself, she promised him that she had developed a plan to stop the sultan's madness.
Scheherazade asked her sister to sleep in her chamber with the sultan that night. She asked her sister to ask herself to tell a story that night before sleep, apparently, it was all part of the plan.
That night they were all in the chamber and the sister asked for Sheherazade to tell her a story before bedtime and she turned to the sultan and asked for him to tell one. Then the sultan goes on to tell the story of the merchant and the genius.

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