She becomes the queen of the empire, but then as the plot thickens he is considering killing her. However, she can stave off her destruction only by entertaining him night after night with a wonderful story. And she s got to keep it up, a tale a night, for a thousand and one nights. Some of the great stories to come out of these desperate evening ventures include Aladdin , of course, as well as the stories of Ali Baba and Sinbad. In addition to her becoming queen, though, in A Thousand and One Nights , this girl, Scheherazade, also wrangles to get her father into the high court as a vizier, or a kind of prime minister.
Girl becomes queen.
Dad becomes prime minister. Queen tries to save her life . . . As the Bible account concludes chapter two, we read that Mordecai, Esther s cousin who basically was a stepfather to her was a kind of civil servant. Some commentaries deduce that he was a fairly minor official, perhaps a palace attendant. The New International Version s text notes suggest, on the other hand, that he was actually holding already a fairly high position in the civil service of the kingdom.