Molly's Thoughts on the Reading

• For Mistress of the House's Tale, I actually found it interesting to find out why the sisters had the two dogs and why she whipped them.  I also thought it was an interesting concept that the jinni/genie had feathers and that was how he appeared and disappeared. To me when I think of a genie, I think of a ghostly figure. So reading that it was a bird was find of interesting.

• For the final Porter story, I was completely lost until the third page. I thought that it was a random part of the story and didn't know why were reading it until it started talking about Shazarad...but I didn't understand why that was mentioned but the title referred to the Porter.

• I think the role of the body in reference to women is power. As we had said before in class that the women in these tales tend to have the upper hand in these relationships. It seems that they use their bodies and beauty to gain control.