Week 6 Story: Georgie's Voyage

Georgie's Voyage

Hi, I am Georgie. I am from Portland and I have a story to tell you. I was just a young boy from Portland that was just doing normal middle school kid things. I was playing sports, playing outside, and I especially played in the rain. Rain was my favorite weather as you could do so many different things in the rain that weren’t possible on a dry day. I raced boats a lot when it rained. My brother, Carl, and I would always race boats and he would always win, but I got one win and that win ended up changing my life.

When I beat my brother, it was like a curse was broke or something of that nature. I felt something grab me by my ankles and it startled me. I turned around and saw a group of small beings, about 2 feet tall, that all looked like clowns. For some reason, they were all holding balloons in the shape of boats, but I couldn’t get passed the fact they were so tiny. The clowns began to chant, “Sail with us!”. This was concerning but I made the decision to be adventurous and take up their offer. They lead me into swear which was a little nasty, but it was like I was in a trance. The number of clowns that were surrounding me was too much to just leave and get away. As I made my way into the swear and small ship appeared and the foggy, musty air of the sewer. The clowns lead me onto the ship and named me captain and we set sail.

I had no idea where we were sailing to, but the clowns gave me a map and helped me navigate. The clowns could do everything as they controlled the ship with ease and made the trip as smooth as it possibly could go until the last 15 minutes. A shadow casted over the ship and I could hear the water begin to get angry and waves began to crash the ship from all sides. I looked up and there it was, the king of all Clowns, Dimewise.

It was the scariest sight I had ever seen!! He was at lest 40 feet tall! The small clowns began to run in a frenzy. The clowns had no idea what to do other than run around and hope Dimewise became confused. Dimewise was focused and began to wreak havoc on the ship. I didn’t know what to do except try to fight back. I threw a metal bucket at Dimewise, but that only made him direct his attention at me. Dimewise reached down and picked me up and it was like I was a small doll. I was tossed and thrown around to the point of me being sick to my stomach. Dimewise then stopped. It was like time had stood still as Dimewise stared into my soul then did the unthinkable, threw me in his mouth. Dimewise ate me and that is pretty much the last thing I remembered until now.

Yes, I know you may be wondering how I am telling you this story. Well, there is one answer that you may expect. I still in the belly of the beast. I am sending this through an email in hope of someone defeating the beast. I will survive as long as I need but time is slowly running out for me and the couple other guys in here with me.

The looks of the giant clown that attacks Georgie's ship https://images.app.goo.gl/RbX197DuGAzTzuVt9

Author’s Note: I based my story off of a couple of stories. The first is from the stories of Sindbad. I used the story of the third voyage as a giant eats the captain and creates some turmoil of the ship. I also used the tiny beings concept from the story as well with the small clown characters of the Sindbad story as well. I also used the story of the novel IT. The use of the clowns and the boats in the rain both came from that novel. I used the character names as well with Georgie and the clown’s name.

Bibliography: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/sindbad-third-voyage.htm

IT by Stephan King. https://epdf.pub/stephen-king-it.html

Reading Notes: Sindbad: Fifth Voyage

Today, I have decided to continue the story of Sindbad and continue to read through his voyages. I decided to analysis the beginning of his fifth voyage today. The story I read on tuesday was so well written and fun to read I had to continue to read some of his other stories that were in the collection. This one stood out amongst the few other ones that were available. This story has a quality that the previous ones did and it has a first person point of you. I will reiterate what I said in the fact that i love to have characters talk to me or have myself feel like I am in the head of the character which I definitely am in this case. It seems throughout all of the stories I have read, Sindbad is always having a issue with something that is going in this voyage. This story is no different from the rest of them. Sindbad's voyages seem to always go awry and this story doesn't take long. One of the many favorite parts that I have from this story is in the second paragraph as the suspense of the story already began as the parent birds that would attack the ship and crew and the captain knew exactly the situation. The story gets into action immediately and I am always up for action as quick as possible in stories. As long as the background of a story is decent I am fine, but most of the time stories are a little slow for me. The story continues with the action and suspense and that is awesome for me as a reader. The final paragraphs are extremely dramatic. Sindbad seems to be, always, flirting with death and he is choked out by his enemy as the story comes to an end. He survives, somehow, again as the bird lets go of him as he is near death from not being able to breath. He is tortured all night by the monsters and was given a glimmer of hope but was brought right back in when there was some hope to survive.

Giant bird stalking its prey https://images.app.goo.gl/VkppyKQ61nRpJzZ68

Bibliography: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/sindbad-fifth-voyage.html

Reading Notes: Sinbad: Third Voyage

The reading I decided to for this week is the stories of Sinbad. The specific story I decided to do notes on for the day is his Third Voyage. What caught my eye with the stories is that the stories were being told in first person. Sinbad is talking to the reader throughout the story and it is cool to read and feel like the main character and star of the show is speaking directly at you instead of other characters in the story. That connection means a lot to me as a reader as I like to have a connection to the main character and not feel like I am on the outside of a group looking over them. The story itself is a great story. The savages that took Sinbad's ship were small beings, but strength comes in numbers as they swarmed the ship. I got a slight chuckle as two feet tall and red fur savages took over a ship and took it hostage with no problem whatsoever. The terror that the crew had was crazy to read as you would think a burly ship crew wouldn't be scared at all of a few small savages but they must have been truly terrifying. The giant comes into the picture and I truly got wide eyed reading that. When the giant took the captain and roasted him, I got a little scared myself. That is one of my fears is dying to a fire as it would be slow and painful. The thought of being roasted over a fire for someone else's food is creepy and gives me the chills. The end of the story was interesting though. The giant ate and scared the crew to death, but when he awoke in the morning nothing happened. My thought was that the giant would have "breakfast" but he left the castle with no attempt to do so which was odd, especially after the events of the night prior.

Saturn devouring his son https://images.app.goo.gl/Ee2QZ2HG5hu7MZNW9

Bibliography: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/sindbad-third-voyage.htm