The post does well to categorize the stories in the Arabian Nights as a presenting a mix of moral tales, fables, fantasies, and adventure. The writer’s ability to link personal literary experiences with the Arabian night narratives portray their preference for stories that refer to supernatural characters and aspects, and this depicts the response as a thoughtful. The fact that the author of the post also supports the claims by providing a quote from the text is an important aspect of a response because it provides the reader of the post with a concise overview of the original content of the narrative one is evaluating. Identifying the specific aspect that one will be addressing in the response is an essential aspect, and it is noteworthy that the author has identified an interesting subject worthy of discussion, that is, the supernatural features of the stories.
At the beginning of a response post about a literary work, it is important to include the title and the author of the text as well as the general idea of the text that that one is reviewing as such information enables the reader to contextualize the information that is likely to follow (Jewell n.pag). Although, the beginning of the response provides the title of the work, the name of the author and the general situation surrounding the text are conspicuously missing. As such, it becomes difficult for anyone reading the response to place the response into context in a bid to conceive a general idea of what follows. It is remarkable that the information that at the beginning the post seems to give a general overview of the stories as encompassing a mix of writing perspectives, but in effect, the biggest part of the post seems to focus on only one story among many, which is “The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban” (Lang, n.pag). This portrays the author as narrowing the post from discussing on all the stories in the Arabian Nights collection to focusing on only one of the narratives, and this betrays the obvious bias of the writer towards a specific tale. There is also poor structuring and punctuation of sentences, which has profound interference with the flow of the writer’s idea, an aspect that makes the reader have a difficult time understanding what the writer is trying to communicate, such as when a sentence begins with the word “And”. Overall, the post is informative.
Work Cited
Jewell, Richard. “Chapter 24: What Is a "Response" to a Reading? Why are responses needed? What are intelligent responses?” WritingforCollege.org. 1 Aug. 2013. Web. 15 Jun. 2016. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/WRITEREAD/way%20of.htm
Lang, Andrew (Eds.). The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Feedbooks, 1898.
