Being able to chose my readings for the semester will allow
of a lot of creative freedom. I am looking forward to it! This week I decided
to focus on the relationship between Rama and Sita. When reading the Ramayana,
I really like their relationship and seeing what the other meant to themselves.
The part that I would like to write about this week is the task that must be
completed for Rama to have Sita. I think that I could make it a modern and humorous
story. It has a lot of potential.
The phone that Sita uses to tweet
In the original story, Rama must lift the divine bow and
string it. He successfully completes the task and wins over Sita. This is not
what happens today when people are wanting to be together. Unfortunately,
social media and technology is taking over this generation, so I could write a
story about how Rama must write the perfect Twitter post and get a certain
celebrity to follow them. I think a lot of people my age could relate to the
story. Not in the sense that they must win someone over in social media, but
that social media is everywhere and that a lot of emphasis is put onto it. I
think that writing a story along these lines would be very different for me. It
would still be a love story, but it would be silly and very modern.
In the original story there is a lot of details involving
the looks between Rama and Sita and the challenge itself. I would take these
details and modernize them. This would mean that Rama saw Sita’s Twitter
account and thought that it was the funniest page he had ever seen. From that
moment he knew he had to have her. Sita’s father would want Rama to complete a
task that would benefit him and know that Sita would be safe with him. This
would mean that Rama would have to get a certain celebrity that Sita’s father
loves to follow him because that would give him an “in” for the celebrity. I
look forward to writing this story.
Bibliography:
Stories of India’s Gods and Heroes written by W. D. Monro M.
A., online source
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