Garden Of Forking Paths
Running head: FICTION CRITIQUE
Fiction Critique The Garden of Forking Paths By: Jorge Borges Zaabalawi By: Naguib Mahfouz Carlen Moore June 29, 2009
Two very different stories have such great meaning behind them both. I have seen loyalty, honor, persistence, hope, and respect for elders, our selves and for our culture in both stories. There were also differences in the way they both were told.
The Garden of forking paths is based upon a German spy sacrificing his already distended for death life to get information back to his German leaders. Yu Tsun, a Chinese national, is a German spy and knows he is going to die sometime that night, he was figured out. His contact, Runeberg, was captured …show more content…
This man named Zaabalawi was known as a true saint of God, a remover of worries and troubles (Mack, 1997 pg 2886). The narrator is the one seeking help for his illness after he has expired all other options. He remembers his father singing a song with Zaabalawi name in it. It had been a popular song from his childhood and remembers his father telling him “May his (Zaabalawi) blessing descend upon you..” (Mack, 1997 pg 2886). As it is now in his older age that the narrator needs Zaabalawi’s help but he has moved from the city and some do not even know if he is still living. He decides to search he goes from city to city and people to people to get any information about this saint. He had traveled and talked to shopkeepers, the local Sheikh of the district, Calligrapher, a musician, and a hard drinker. As many of these people he talked to were astonished by the narrator asking for the whereabouts of Zaabalawi but all had close to the same answer, Zaabalawi comes and goes at his own will it was the nature of saints to be a mystery therefore unpredictable (Micki, 1996). As he was with the hard drinker, Mr. Wanas, his final encounter, he makes the narrator become drunk before he was able to talk. After the fourth glass of the wine the narrator forgot why he was even there and soon fell into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping Zaabalawi was there to visit Mr. Wanas and had tried to wake the narrator …show more content…
The most impressive moment in The Garden of Forking Paths was that Tsun completed his mission even though he came to know Dr. Stephen Albert. It took courage to finish the job knowing that he was going to suffer in the gallows the rest of his living days. I feel that we can learn great meaning from both of these stories. Loyalty, honor, persistence, hope and respect for elders, our selves and for our
Fiction Critique The Garden of Forking Paths By: Jorge Borges Zaabalawi By: Naguib Mahfouz Carlen Moore June 29, 2009
Two very different stories have such great meaning behind them both. I have seen loyalty, honor, persistence, hope, and respect for elders, our selves and for our culture in both stories. There were also differences in the way they both were told.
The Garden of forking paths is based upon a German spy sacrificing his already distended for death life to get information back to his German leaders. Yu Tsun, a Chinese national, is a German spy and knows he is going to die sometime that night, he was figured out. His contact, Runeberg, was captured …show more content…
This man named Zaabalawi was known as a true saint of God, a remover of worries and troubles (Mack, 1997 pg 2886). The narrator is the one seeking help for his illness after he has expired all other options. He remembers his father singing a song with Zaabalawi name in it. It had been a popular song from his childhood and remembers his father telling him “May his (Zaabalawi) blessing descend upon you..” (Mack, 1997 pg 2886). As it is now in his older age that the narrator needs Zaabalawi’s help but he has moved from the city and some do not even know if he is still living. He decides to search he goes from city to city and people to people to get any information about this saint. He had traveled and talked to shopkeepers, the local Sheikh of the district, Calligrapher, a musician, and a hard drinker. As many of these people he talked to were astonished by the narrator asking for the whereabouts of Zaabalawi but all had close to the same answer, Zaabalawi comes and goes at his own will it was the nature of saints to be a mystery therefore unpredictable (Micki, 1996). As he was with the hard drinker, Mr. Wanas, his final encounter, he makes the narrator become drunk before he was able to talk. After the fourth glass of the wine the narrator forgot why he was even there and soon fell into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping Zaabalawi was there to visit Mr. Wanas and had tried to wake the narrator …show more content…
The most impressive moment in The Garden of Forking Paths was that Tsun completed his mission even though he came to know Dr. Stephen Albert. It took courage to finish the job knowing that he was going to suffer in the gallows the rest of his living days. I feel that we can learn great meaning from both of these stories. Loyalty, honor, persistence, hope and respect for elders, our selves and for our