Week 5 Story Planning: The Girl and the Thief

     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.
     Twenty Two Goblins is an old folklore from India. Arthur Ryder is the writer and translator for the story and the story is typically compared to One Thousand One Nights. This information was from wikipedia.


Rapunzel looking down at her lover on her balcony: DeviantArt

Bibliography. "The Girl and the Thief" from Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder, websource

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  1. Laura GibbsSeptember 21, 2017 at 4:27 PM

    Hi Rosa! For this post, it doesn't look like there were any background questions or research that really connected with the story, so you should go ahead and just write the story now. The planning is for when you have some real research you want to do, research that will help you with the story's contents, details, etc. If you are ready to write the story just based on what you learned from the reading, then go ahead and write the story now. The planning is for when you have some gaps in your knowledge that you want to fill before you write your story, and that does not seem to be the case here.

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