Showing posts with label Week 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 6. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2016

Week 6 Storytelling: Micpandavas and Minikauravas, A love story

Here continues another night of Mary, Ally and Sarah’s life. As they were getting ready for a new bedtime story, Mary said, “Ally, which cartoon characters would you like for today’s story?”

Without taking a second, Ally said, “Mickey and Minnie. Mary, you should start a completely new love story of Mickey and Minnie.”

Sarah continued on, “Yeah, it was really cute imagining Mickey and Minnie as the main characters in the story.”

Mary said, “Alright. Sounds good. Here we go.”

Once upon a time there lived a prince named Mickey. He had four brothers, whom he loved more than his life. The brothers were known as Micpandavas. The Micpandavas' day would start with a morning walk in an apple forest. During the walk, the brothers would do stupid things such as yelling each other’s names and would hit and run. However, one day they all decided to go in the evening to enjoy the pleasant weather. As they were walking and talking, they saw five beautiful girls trying to grab apples from the tree. The first time they normally walked through the girls, but then the second time the Micpandavas kept their eyes on the girls while walking quietly and slowly.

One of the girls noticed and said to her sisters, “You saw those guys?”

The oldest sister, named, Minnie, said, “Yes, we should leave from here. Let’s go, sisters, before they come again.”

The girls quickly gathered their stuff and left. The sisters were known as the Minikauravas sisters. They also had a strong bond of love between them like Micpandavas. The Minikauravas had left by the time the Micpandavas came again. So, all five Micpandavas had a favorite Minikaurava. Therefore, they all planned to go for the walk around the same time the next day to meet those beautiful Minikauravas sisters. Since the sisters looked alike, it was really easy to tell that they were sisters. 

As they went by that same place the Minikauravas were sitting on the ground talking while enjoying each bite of apple. This time the Micpandavas were waiting to have some interaction with Minikauravas. As Mickey was badly in love with Minnie’s beauty, he went straight to her and he said, “I am Prince Mickey and they are my brothers. I am madly in love with you. I want to make you my princess. Will you marry me?”

Then, Minnie said, “One thing I hate about myself is that I smell like an apple. Yes, I know apples smells great, but not if someone smell like it all the time. Mickey, I do not deserve to be your princess. You have such a great personality and look at me. Who am I?” Then, Mickey said, “Do not worry about this. Apples have a great smell, but I can promise you that you will not smell like an apple after you marry me. I have an uncle who can magically make you smell like a rose.” While looking down Minnie said, “Yes, I will.”

On the other side, the other Micpandavas were looking aggressively at Mickey’s face for not mentioning their names with Minnie’s sisters. Finally, Mickey added, “On the day of our wedding five marriages will be held. Your four sisters will marry my four brothers.”


Mary said, “Here our story ends. They all live happily ever after. Goodnight, sisters.”



(Mickey and Minnie by source: Wikipedia)


Author's Note:  I used Mickey and Minnie as my main characters. In the original story, it was the Pandavas and Kauravas. Pandavas were the five sons of Pandu by his two wives Kunti and Madri. But none of the Pandavas acted like stepbrothers. They had a true bond of love. In addition to that, the Panadava brothers married the same girl named Draupadi. I changed this idea of marrying the same girl because marrying different girls would make the story appealing. Thus, in my story, they each married one of the Minkaurava sister. In the original story, the Kauravas were sons of King Dhritarashtra, who was Pandu’s older brother. Pandu and Dhritarashtra seemed to have good a relationship, but their sons did not continue to have the same relation like their fathers. So, the Pandavas and Kauravas were cousins in relation, but the Kauravas and Pandavas had true hatred for each other. Kauravas and Panadavas were mostly boys, except for Duhsala, who was kauravas' sister. So, I changed the story a lot, in terms of gender, characters and the plot itself. The reason I did that was to make the story different and to make it a love story. Another thing, I thought that it was unfair for all Panadava brothers to marry the same girl. So, that made me change the story around. In addition to that, I also connected the story with the Ramayana. Rama and his brothers got married the same day.



Bibliography: "Public Domain Edition of the Mahabharatha" by Public Domain Edition. Website: Image library for MLLL-4993, Epics of Ancient India


Thursday, February 25, 2016

Week 6 Reading Diary, continued: Mahabharatha Part D

Title: Mahabharata
Link: http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mahabharata-online-public-domain-edition.html

I read fourth part of Public Domain Edition Mahabharata(part D) for this week's reading diary post. It was interesting how in the story a female was turned into male by Yaksha. I like it how Arjun is a great warrior and he always wins against whoever is on the opposite side. It was great that he killed evil-hearted Jayadartha in the battle. "All men were maddened with the thirst for blood, and the night was filled with horrors." Imagining this part of the mahabharata frightens me of how that battlefield would look like, for instance, blood, bodies and heads all lying on the ground. I found that interesting how the widows were sent to heaven with their husbands by Vyasa mantras. I enjoyed reading the story especially, the afterlife. There were some very interesting scences, in fact unique things going on.




Arjuna slays Jayadratha.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Week 6 Reading Diary: Mahabharatha part C

Title: Mahabharata
Link: http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mahabharata-online-public-domain-edition.html

I read third part of Public Domain Edition Mahabharata(part C) for this weeks reading diary post. I found that interesting how at Hanuman first appearance in the story, he shared the story of Rama with Bhima. Plus, the way the author introduced Hanuman in Mahabharata that he was a heavy monkey and Bhima was unable to move him. In addition to that, the battle was very interesting. That built the excitement of who is going to win, for instance, Bhima was the hero of the fifth day, but that does not declare Bhima a winner. However, Arjun was also a great warrior and he would never let himself down. I found it interesting how Arjun sings Bhagavad-Gita just before the battle beings while looking at the opposite side of the battlefield.
Hanuman.