Sinbad The Sailor: Character Analysis

In Sinbad the Sailors fourth voyage that he tells Sinbad the Porter and other companions that are there, he discusses how he came to an island that had black men that brought them to their king. The Sailor had become restless for more voyaging after his third journey, and decides to go to sea to trade and make more money (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 28). The high seas knock him and others off the boat, and they arrive to the island of the black men who take them to their king (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 29). They feed the Sailor and his friends, but he does not eat since he had never seen the food before and it appeared repulsive (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 29). Taken over by hunger, everyone else decides to eat, and surprisingly they …show more content…
Shortly, the Sailors wife dies, and he is forced to go into the cemetery pit with her, even after telling the king that this custom is vile, and he is a foreigner who should not have to endure it (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 35). The scene depicted in the painting is Sinbad the Sailor being put down in the pit after they have thrown his dead wife in. For the most part, the scene painting is congruent with what happens, but the part that does not match is how the Sailor is lowered down. Here, it shows him on a platform, but in the book, it says, “they bound me by force and let me down into the large cavern” (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 35). Not only in this scene we learn how he is lowered, but when he watches his neighbor go into the pit after his own dead wife, the Sailor describes him being lowered, “then they brought the husband and, tying a rope of palms fibers under his armpits, let him down the well, with a jug of sweet water and seven loaves of bread” (Sinbad the Sailor voyage 4: 34). The scene painted does clearly show the seven loaves of bread and the water, but the way he is shown being lowered is not how the book describes the