Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins Part B
The story starts off with a merchant's daughter named Pearl who lives in Ayodhya and rejects all the men. She is beautiful and charming but refuses kings and great merchants. Her father is deeply sad about her love life but then the citizens were being robbed every night by thieves so the king went to go stop the thieves. The king found one and told the thief that the king was also a thief so the thief took him home to show him hospitality but the maid told the king to escape or he would be harmed so the king escaped to go get help and came back to capture the thief. He successfully captured the thief with his own hands and brought him back to be killed. Pearl saw the thief out of her balcony and cried at the sight of his death because she fell in love with him at first sight and her father thought she was crazy to love a thief but not kings or merchants but she wouldn't have it. She said she would go die with him and took his body to the stake to be burned with him but then a goddess granted her a wish to bring him back to life and make him a good person so that the king would accept him and it worked so they lived happily ever after!
A possible way for me to change the story line is to build up a background story between pearl and the thief rather than having it love at first sight because she literally only saw him and fell in love. I want to make it as if no one knew of their affair and that's why Pearl was rejecting all the kings and merchants.
A possible way for me to change the story line is to build up a background story between pearl and the thief rather than having it love at first sight because she literally only saw him and fell in love. I want to make it as if no one knew of their affair and that's why Pearl was rejecting all the kings and merchants.
The king fighting the thief: Mythfolklore
Bibliography. Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder: link to reading online
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