Shepherd's Daughter by William Saroyan
The text I'm going to analyze is “Shepherd's Daughter” by William Saroyan. As an immigrant he lived and died in America being noted several times for his great work seasoned with gentle humor.. He even got awarded(but didn't accept) the Pulitzer Prize. Features of American and much older Armenian cultures and their interaction have effected his works.
The story starts like a piece of autobiography, told on behalf of a 1st person singular, as the author introduces his grandmother as a women, who thinks “Every man should know how to craft, create something that can be touched, used”. Without paying any attention to describing his grandmother's appearance, the author immediately proceeds to the story his grandmother wants to tell him in order to back her ideas about manhood. It turned out to be the story involving the actual “shepherd's daughter”.
The story is told in way like a fairytale. There was a Persian prince who fell in love with shepherd's daughter. Without any regards for his father's will, he was determined to have her be his wife, so he had told his father. The King took the notion of that love as God's sign, so he accepted it and sent a messenger to shepherd's daughter to inform her about his son's intentions. The only condition of hers was for Prince to learn to do labor, because she had been convinced of that a man should know how to craft. Prince took the news well and decided to learn how to weave straw rugs. Having been impressed by the king son's work, after three days she married him.
Time past, and one day king's son was walking in the streets of Baghdad when he saw this clean and neat eating place. When he walked in to sit there, it tuned out it had been the place of “thieves and murderers”, so got captured.
Being held captive, he told his kidnappers that he is a straw rug weaver, but a very good one. So they gave him all the materials and after three days he weaved 3 rugs, followed by telling the bandits that if they took these rugs to the
The story starts like a piece of autobiography, told on behalf of a 1st person singular, as the author introduces his grandmother as a women, who thinks “Every man should know how to craft, create something that can be touched, used”. Without paying any attention to describing his grandmother's appearance, the author immediately proceeds to the story his grandmother wants to tell him in order to back her ideas about manhood. It turned out to be the story involving the actual “shepherd's daughter”.
The story is told in way like a fairytale. There was a Persian prince who fell in love with shepherd's daughter. Without any regards for his father's will, he was determined to have her be his wife, so he had told his father. The King took the notion of that love as God's sign, so he accepted it and sent a messenger to shepherd's daughter to inform her about his son's intentions. The only condition of hers was for Prince to learn to do labor, because she had been convinced of that a man should know how to craft. Prince took the news well and decided to learn how to weave straw rugs. Having been impressed by the king son's work, after three days she married him.
Time past, and one day king's son was walking in the streets of Baghdad when he saw this clean and neat eating place. When he walked in to sit there, it tuned out it had been the place of “thieves and murderers”, so got captured.
Being held captive, he told his kidnappers that he is a straw rug weaver, but a very good one. So they gave him all the materials and after three days he weaved 3 rugs, followed by telling the bandits that if they took these rugs to the