The THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS includes heroic tales, didactic literature, beast fables, legends known through the world, literary debates and an array of poems. The narratee gets to know a large number of Characters in a short time and after learning about their past, present and future moves on to another tale with another set of characters. Scheherzade narrates these tales night after night to escape death. When the tales get to their end, she will see what life has in store for her. Her haste is transferred to the narratee through her omission of many minor events and through brief character sketches. To familiarize the narratee with major and minor characters, she makes use of both direct and indirect characterization methods. Characters are described only as much as they are relevant to the events of the stories. Their Characteristics, inner feelings and thoughts are rarely explicitly mentioned
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