Monday, April 10, 2017

Week 13 Reading Notes: Tales of Ancient India, Part A

When I read the title “How Krishna Was Born” it made me very curious as to how he was born. That is not a typical title, so I was very intrigued.

I like how at the beginning of the story there is a lot of description. It is very visual and it makes it easy for the reader to actually imagine what is happening in the world of the story. It seems like the entire world is happy for Krishna’s arrival. Everything in the world that can be bad was happy for him to be apart of their world and to “take away the burden of the world”. I wonder if Krishna will be able to live up to this expectation?

possible baby Krishna

The parents of Krishna are happy that he is safe. I like this part of the story. They pretty much say so what if Kans kills us, we know that our child is safe. This shows the love of the parents. Also, it probably helps that they know that someday Krishna will be back to take down Kans. This seems to give them some sort of closure in case something bad does happen to them. Hopefully something doesn’t. I could see myself writing a story about the parents of Krishna. Right after Krishna was born, he said that he must go. It must have been devastating for the parents to hear that. They do as he says though. Writing a story from their point of view will add more to the story. I would make them said in the sense that Krishna would be gone, but happy in the sense that they know that he is safe.

It seems that the parents did a good thing by letting Krishna leave because the king went and killed all of the children and old people. This king sounds insecure almost. He is afraid of the powerful infant that was born so he has to kill them all. He knows that his time is coming so he tries to put a stop to it. This obviously will not work.



Bibliography: Tales of Ancient India written by Edmond Charles Cox, online source

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