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After reading today's assignment, please take a few minutes to think about what you have read and compile your important quotes, questions, and observations in the following format:

Identify and copy THREE quotes from this reading that you found interesting or provocative.
Write TWO questions that came to mind as you read this text (make sure the questions are related to the text for today).
Try to answer ONE of your questions in a 150-word (1-2 paragraph) response. For this response, there is no right or wrong answer: instead, the goal of this assignment is to start thinking critically about your text--to go beyond the words on the page to the connections you can make between texts, between the text and yourself, or the text and the world.

The Princess in the Suit of Leathert Neither here nor elsewhere lived a king who had a wife whom he loved with all his heart and a daughter who was the light of his eyes The princess had hardly reached womanhood when the queen fell ill and died. For one whole year the king kept vigil, sitting with bowed head beside her tomb. Then he summoned the matchmakers, elderly women wise in the ways of living, and said, "I wish to marry again Here is my poor queen's anklet. Find me the girl, rich or poor, humble or well-born, whose foot this anklet will fit. For I promised the queen as she lay dying that I would marry that girl and no other." The matchmakers traveled up and down the kingdom looking for the king's new bride. But search and search as they would, they could not find a single girl around whose ankle the jewel would close. The queen had been such that there was no woman like her. Then one old woman said, "We have entered the house of every maiden in the land except the house of the king's own daughter. Let When they slipped the anklet onto the princess's foot, it suited as if it had been made to her measure. Out of the seraglio went the women at a run, straight into the king's presence, and said, "We have visited every maiden in your kingdom, but none was able to squeeze her foot into the late queen's anklet. None, that is, except the princess your daughter. She wears it as easily as if it were her own." A wrinkled matron spoke up. "Why not marry the princess? Why give her to a stranger and deprive yourself?" The words were This Egyptian follktale appears in Arab Folitales, trans. and ed. Inea Bushnaq (New York: Pantheo, 1986). Copyright19S6 by Inea Bushnaq Books. Used by permission o Panthcon Books, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights rescrved.

Explanation / Answer

The following qoutes which I found interesting :

- "Feeding the fire and Taking out of Ashes "

-" One foot Lifting and other SetttSe her down"

-"She escapes as easily as her hair out of dough."

The questions I sought of after reading today's text are:

- When the Prince will come to know about the reality of the Princess will the he keep her secret and accept her ?

- Will the Queen be offended, for the lie the Princess has been telling and staying in her Herem ?

To this I feel that she might feel a bit disappointed but her admirance and awe for the Princess at the dinner will make her forget that fact. Also her love for her son and desire to get him as suitable wife will make her forget about the lie the Princess has been telling.

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