In the article, Grossman “entertained the illusion that by writing…, he was somehow protecting his children.” In The Thousand and One Nights, Shahrazad was also telling these stories as protection. Shahrazad is trying to teach him that killing women the morning after he spends the night with them is wrong. This story, which can somewhat be compared to Grossman’s own life, teaches the lesson about the “importance of home.” Though Shahrazad tries to teach Shahrayar different lessons, there is an overall lesson being taught. The New York Times article explains the novel To the End of the Land written by David Grossman around the time of his youngest military son’s death. Storytelling as a way to teach lessons is prominent throughout The Thousand and One Nights and in an article in The New York Times “An Israeli Novelist Writes of Pain, Private and Public” by Ethan Bronner. Shahrazad, the vizier’s educated daughter, tells her father to marry her to Shahrayar so that she may have an opportunity to change his ways through storytelling. He would spend the night with a woman and kill her the next morning. In The Thousand and One Nights, Shahrayar was a king who went mad and killed many women in the kingdom due to his wife’s infidelity.
