In an ancient Arabian village two boys listen attentively to their father as he tells them a story from One Thousand and One Nights. At the end of each story the boys will acknowledge that there is a moral to be learned. Although the stories have many different morals they all in particular teach one, the significance of life which I think is the key element of these stories.
There are a few different values in which life is portrayed in this story. There is "self-sacrificing," it's very much like selfless love but with out the whole love dilemma. For example, my interpretation of "self-sacrificing" life is when Shaharazad risked her life for her father's life, by marring the king and asking her father the Wezir nothing in return. Even though it was not actually stated in the story that the king would have the Wezir killed it was most likely that he would have been killed do to lake of accomplishment against the king. In any case that wasn't the only reason Shaharazad married......

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Title: Nuestra Vida
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Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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