Night book summary each paragraph4/10/2023 ![]() ) At irregular intervals, Ranofer hears Gebu sneaking out at night, but he puts the matter out of his mind. ) One night hears Gebu sneak out of the house and wonders why he would go out at such a late hours when spirits roam the night. Gebu comes to the shop once per day and sometime goes over some linen scrolls of temple plans with Wenamon. ) Ranofer has no friends at the shop to eat lunch with, so he just observes the activities of the shop. He learns o hate stone cutting for its monotony, but has to be attentive because mistakes mean mutilated hands and harsh reprises from Pai. The third day he is set to rough dressing stone with chisel and hammer. Next, he is set to smoothing sandstone with blocks of granite. ) While working, he learns the slab will be a coffin lid. ) The next day Ranofer very reluctantly reports to Pai, the foreman, at the stone cutting shop and is given the dull job of putting cutting sand into holes so Zahotep may drill sockets in an alabaster slab. ) Ranofer offers to live in the desert and cut papyrus for the sail makers if Gebu will buy him a donkey. ) Gebu informs him that he starts the next day cutting stone. ) Ibni begs Gebu for intercession: Ranofer pretends to know nothing. ) The next day, Ibini has been replaced at the vats. ) He encounters the old donkey owner who tells him that an execution of grave robbers is taking place. Chapter 5: 1,) 8 days later, as Ranofer walks home, he sees people rushing scrambling past him and dashing about shouting. ) While Ranofer shows Heqet how to make solder, he confides in him his belief that Gebu and Ibni are stealing the gold, and asks him to tell Rekh at the right time. ) Because he feels his father’s ba had brought him the plan in his sleep, Ranofer takes an offering of half his meager breakfast to his father’s grave before work. ) Ranofer awakes with a plan to expose Gebu as the gold stealer. ) When Ranofer comes home empty handed, Gebu beats him severely and forces him to agree to bring home the wineskins from then on. ) Jubilant, Ranofer leaves work with his friend Heqet and when Ibni approaches with the wineskin, he refuses to take it. When Rekh oversees, he allows Ranofer to make 50 leaves of gold for a necklace ordered by Lady Irenma’at. ) Ranofer shows Heqet how to make coals then shows Meryra how to pound a bowl. Ranofer feels better knowing he will refuse to transport the wineskin with the stolen gold inside. He overhears the scribe tell Rekh that the tally of weightings shows that there is missing gold again. ) At work, Ranofer accepts a fig from his new friend Heqet, and then goes to his tasks of passing out the gold, and stocking the furnace. ) On the way to work Ranofer recalls what symbols he had learned during his lessons with the scribe and practices writing in the sand. ) Ranofer decides to tell Ibni that Gebu doesn’t want his wine so he won’t have to carry home the stolen gold which he believes to be inside. ) Ranofer imagines running away and becoming an apprentice to Thutra. ) Gebu threatens to make him an apprentice at the stonecutter’s shop unless he continues delivering the wineskins. ) Ranofer confronts Gebu with the crime and warns him that Rekh is suspicious. ) Ranofer meets the Ancient an Old papyrus cutter and his donkey, Lotus. ) He can’t expose the crime or he might be sold into slavery. ) Ibni, a Babylonian porter has Ranofer delivering wine to Gebu and Ranofer becomes suspicious that the wine is hiding stolen gold when the head goldsmith Rekh discovers gold has been stolen from the shop. ) Ranofer makes friends with Heqet a new apprentice. ) He is forced to work-k as a porter, to sweep out the goldsmith shop instead of working as an apprentice. ) Ranofer had hoped to become his father’s pupil one day but instead he now had to live with his half- brother Gebu who starves and beats him. ![]() ![]() ) Ranofer dreams of his father Thuthra, a great goldsmith who had died.
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