Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Essay --

There was once a poor, elderly fisherman with a wife and three children, who was in the habit of casting his net exactly four times each day. Despite he lived near a sea, his catch wasn't enough to feed the family and earn money for life, sometimes he had to choose between these things. His wife was always angry, she complained to herself about living with nothing. The children weren't clever, but they were good at fishing, and most of the time the old man took two of them with him when he was going fishing leaving one to help his mother. Once there was a storm, cloud were covering the whole sky so the sun couldn't be seen. Nobody in their right mind would go in such weather to the sea. But in fisherman's house left no food, so he was made by his wife to go there. He was standing on a cliff holding the net in his skinny, quavering. Suddenly a wave bumped him and he fall down in water. Waking up he realized that he was lying on sand in the sun. He found his net lying in seventeen meters from him, he came to it. But what's this? A golden lamp was entangled in his net. When he found the way to his home he put the lamp on the kitchen table for taking it to sale in a town. Telling his wife not to touch the lamp he went for fishing again, because he brought nothing but an old dirty lamp. He caught some fish for the dinner and went home. "I'm going to the town today to sell this lamp"- he said to the family. Before he went out he decided to polish the lap firstly to get more money. He started to polish it and a bright light illuminated the entire room. When the light had gone he saw a man looking at him, but there were no legs, there was just a smoke instead of them. "Who are you?!" - the fisherman asked. "I am called Jahar. I can f... ...aming that there had been no gold left, that she had spent all money and when she had not been able to pay the guard, they burned the house, killed her sons and took the gold. The man felt nothing but rage that fueled by his hatred for her. He smiled and told her to come with him, when they came to a room he took a dagger and slowly put stubbed it in her back. Seeing her dying in pain he understood that he caused all troubles by allowing jinn intervene in their lives. He took the lamp and came to the smith with the dagger with help of which he killed his wife. He gave it to him telling him to be careful with his wishes and put the dagger in his neck. He opened his eyes. He absolutely shocked lying in at home his bed near his wife absolutely shocked. It was just a dream. He went to the kitchen, took the lamp and ran to the sea to throw it away for nobody to find it.

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