ENG - English ENG 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter pages 371-387: Total Annihilation, Frame Story, Origin Story
15 Nov 2017
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Conference of the birds - birds on a quest to find smorgh - great bird they want to become disciples of. Attar - fairly unknown in lifetime, 200 years after his death his works gained traction. Comes from the homeland of rumic- focuses on practice of sufis and the search for god. Path to god involves total annihilation of the self. Conference of the birds = frame narrative (story within a story) birds run into people who tell them stories that are lessons the birds can learn on their journey to find god. Origin story of sheikh - holy man, revered and seen as an example of what a follower of islam can look like. Dream - in christian holy land, this troubled him = catalyst to go to. Sheikh meets beautiful girl - a christian. Knows she has power (almost supernatural because she was so attractive) Changes faith for her, she becomes his religion.
