Reading Notes: Ramayana: D

Indrajiti
 This was a pretty cool story. It has a lot going on in this story. Rama is basically defeated by Ravana's son named Indrajit. So Indrajit has magical power that he uses basically to win this battle. Once it tuns dark he turns himself  invisible and rains like snake magic arrows to kill everyone. This leaves Rama and Lakshmana in the dirt where they are basically almost dead. Everyone loses hope because their leaders are dying. All the monkey's want to go home. Sita also gets captured again (Seems to be a common occurrence in the story's). By the end of the story a guy called Garuda comes in like an angel and heals everyone with his magic and they recommence the war. I think I could tell it from Indrajitei's point of view. I kind of like to write stories from the other side. But probably write the way that the battle happened as more of a inner personal way like maybe from Rama's mind and what he was thinking. Place a one on one fight with him and Indrajiti when he is invisible maybe.

Kumbhakarna
 A very interesting story. I read a of wiki post about this story when I was reading it. I think it really cool that the dude is a freaking giant that has to sleep for 6 months before he is woken up. However I dont think they came enough of a story before they killed him. I would definitely tell the story from the view point of one of the rakshasas or Kumbhakarna himself. Just imagine being in the shoes of this lumber jack of a guy, Has to sleep for 6 months just to be woken up early to fight a war then get your head cut off. That would be cray cray.

"The raskshasas wake Kumbhakarna: Source

Feedback Focus

1. Copy-and- paste - I liked this one a lot. By the time I finished the reading this strategy was able to give me a lot of commenting questions and just general ideas to ask about the story. I this also really great since I was able to really take time on the paragraph I was one and write my idea underneath it to have specific details that I wanted to retain in what I just read. 

2. Use a timer-This strategy was able to give me a lot of focus on what I was reading. Since I was only giving myself so long to finish the story I was able to focus on what I was reading. I found it kind of hard to finish the time just because I might want to go back and reread a part or go over something again if I wanted to. 

 

3. Reading Out Loud- I can see how this would be a good way to find mistakes in a story, but I was not able to really focus on the reading itself. I would find myself focusing more on trying to read out loud then actually reading the text I was given. I also found it hard to write notes on this because I wasn't able to really focus on what I was reading. 

I think I will use the copy and paste and use a timer techniques in the future to help me out not only in this class but in other future classes. 

"Focus":Source

Reading Notes: Ramayana Part C

Sugtiva and Hanuman 
Rama and Lakshmana traveled into a lake country in search of Sugriva a monkey king in exile. But they run in Hanuman which is a monkey god that can shape shift. They meet him while he was shifted into a beggar lake country.  After Hanuman realized hat he was talking to the two powerful brothers he befriends them in hoped that they will help get back Sugriva's wife and the kingdom he once ruled over. This story was pretty cool. I like how Hanuman can shape shift so I could us this in a lot of different ways.

The Burning of Lanka
This story was one of the more entertainign one's I have read. When Ravana order to have Hanuman's tail to be burned Sita prayed to the Fire lord to have the flame "be cool' to Hanuma. So indtead of burning his tail it stayed on fire but it did not burn him at all. He continued to go around Lanka until he burned it down. He thought that Sita had died in the fire but he fod he after sitting in the Ashoka tree.  I think that I can add a fighting seen in this to have some depth, or I could tell the story from an other monkey that heard the story from Hanuman once he returned.

Lanka on fire

Reading Notes: Rayamana Part B

Rama and Bharata
Bharata meets Rama in the jungle after being apart for years. Bharata gives the power of the government to Rama infront of the army so that he can return to Ayodhya. Rama refuses to return to the city becaue his fathers will was not completed. Jabali tell Rama that he doesn't need to listen to the will of the dead because he is dead and there is no after life so they do not need to waste their time with it. Rama countered to Jabali that nothing that he said was proven so he will continue completing the rest of his fathers will.


Lakshmana and Shurpanakha
after Shurpanakha left Rama she approached Lakshmana. He ended up offending her and attacked him. So he cut off her ears and and nose. Could recreate this fight in a where he cuts off something different and have some kind of conversation with he. Shurpanakha goes back and get her brother involved. Khara ends up having 14 rakshasa's to go back and fight them but Rama shoots all of them with celestial arrows. Also could illustrate this story in Shurpanakha's point of view would give it a nice twist.

Lakshmana cuts Shurpanakha