Love Stories from India : Styles Brainstorm

 Topic My storybook will be about love stories from India. My goal is rewrite stories over four different love stories from India. One of the main story I will include is the story of Rama and Sita. There will be other love stories from India which I can use as storybook material. I am thinking about incorporating couples like Pandu and Madri, Santanu and Ganga, and Gautama and Ahalya. By making this storybook, the other bloggers and readers will get to enjoy more detailed and exciting love stories. There are a lot of stories to choose from so I have to be wise with my choices.

Bibliography:
1.Sita's diary from the Love diaries, by Amita Zavari.
2.Narayan, R. K. (1972) The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.

Possible styles

Counselor: I think it will be interesting if I become the counselor and the couples coming to see if they can get some counseling over their relationship. In this way, the couples are explaing each others opinion and telling the story. It might be a little confusing for the readers, but I think it will be fun to write in a third person point of view.

Diary : I could write a Diary of each women's perspective. I can  describe the events that happened with the male character. I think in this way, I will be able to understand how specific women thought about the relationship. Because I still write a diary, I will imagine myself as the character and describe what happened and how I feel as the character.

narrative: This will be a traditional way of writing the story.  I will be in the third person point of view which I can just tell the story like a typical book. This might be the easiest way and easy, but not as fun. I will just add some details and events which can spice things up!

Tv Show: If I decide to  choose this style, the storybook won't be a anthology anymore. For this, the characters will be somewhat related to each other. Similar to the movie Love Actually, all the couples might be friends, co-workers, family, and etc. This will require a lot of thoughts because I will have to integrate the relationship between the charaters.



My storybook is going to be anthology.

Rama and Sita

Week 3 Reading Diary B

• I think there was a significance of jewelry in the story. I thought it was symbolic how Sita was able to have Rama's ring when Hanuman appeared in front of her. I remember reading about Sita throwing her jewelry because she wanted to leave a mark so that Rama can come save her. I thought it was interesting for the two characters to use similar way to find each other. 
• My favorite scene from the reading was the fight between Rama and Ravana. The whole chapter was filled with so many details. I thought it was interesting how they had a battle circling the globe. Also, because Ravana had many heads, no matter how many times Rama cut his head, he would grow it back. the Image of Ravana helped me understand more how he looked like. Although Ravana was insensible to pain, I thought it was amazing how Rama was able to win the battle. To defeat Ravana, Rama had to change the tactics several times.

Image Source Rama slays Ravana

• Once again, Sita's character fascinated me. After Rama defeated Ravana, Sita comes back to Rama. When Sita came back, Rama wasn't excited to see Sita because Rama believe that Ravana had touched her. Because of this accuse and doubt, Sita jumps into the fire to prove that she was pure, clean, and untouched. This  action was too extreme for me to understand because throwing yourself into a fire is something I will never do. Sita's action described what kind of person she was and that she loved Rama very much.

Week 3 Reading Diary A

• I really enjoyed reading the book for this week. There were a lot of drama and action involved in this week's reading 
• I thought is was smart for Sita to throw her jewelry down. In the book, it quotes that Sugreeva said " long ago we saw Ravana carrying off Sita in the skies. we were attracted by her screams as as we looked up , she bundled her jewelry and threw it down. Perhaps to indicate the way she passed." When Rama heard this, he teared up and was determined to find Sita. This indicates the  true love between Rama and Sita. This was my favorite part of the reading because I think it was very wise of Sita to leave marks of her path so that someone could rescue her. 

Image source  Sita and Ravana

• I enjoyed reading the story of Dundubi. The visual image of the story was fascinating to me. When I visualized what was going on the story of Dundubi and Vali, it was fascinating I thought it was amazing how Dundubi and Vali fought for a whole year without a break. This story showed how strong and fierce Vali was.
• Following up with the battle with Dundubi and Vali, Sugriva fights Vali. Although in the previous story, its showed how strong Vali was, the battle with Sugriva was different. With Rama's help, Sugriva was able to defeat Vali. When I was reading this, I thought it was not fair for Rama to assist Sugriva in the battle. Although Rama just helped, I thought it was slightly unfair for Vali because it was 2 people against one.