The setting of the story starts of in one of the most
protected prison in the palace. Prince Vidura and his family have just been put
in the prison for robbing Prince Duryodhana. They have been sent to prison for
life for robbing one of the most important princes. In prison Prince Vidura has
been devising a plan to escape with his family. To make sure he knows every
step of the plan he has put secret images over his body. The guards of the prison
have no idea what the images stand for but the plot is genius. The plan
involves a skillful miner that they have found to dig a passageway from under
the jail to the forest outside the palace. The tunnel took a couple days to
make but time was running out because Prince Duryodhana has decided to send the
family to hang. Vidura plan did not know this was going to happen but he finds
a way to send a message to the miner to speed up the digging process. Once the
miner saw the message he spent long nights digging the passageway before the
family was set to hang. The day has come for the family to hang and when the
guards begin to open the ceil door they are shocked. The guards say, “Where
have they gone, what is this hole”. The family is long gone and has already made
the escape to the forest. This is not the end of the Vidura’s plan. Before they
escaped they set a trap for the guards when they close the ceil door and it
will create a huge fire. The guards began to close the door and that’s when the
fire explodes in their face and the prison begins to light up in flames. The
flames are so powerful that it begins to set the palace on fire and it burns
down the palace and Prince Duryodhana. The family has been in the forest
waiting for their plan to succeed and when they see the fire burn down the
palace they know everything has worked. The final part of the plan was to go
back in the palace and go back to their normal lives without the evil prince leading
the palace. Prince Vidura is happy to live his life in peace and without the
fear that he and his family will be put back in prison.
Authors Note: The Story is mainly about a cruel plot by
prince Duryodhana. Vidura and his brother Yudhishthira thought the plot was to
burn his their family alive. Yudhishthira warned his family that the prince
might try this awful act. Vidura sent a skillful miner to try and dig a hole
under the house for their family’s safety. The miner was very sneaky with
building the tunnel. Then a character named Purochana, the wicked captain, is the
one in the plot that is suppose to burn the palace down. The very night the
miner ended the work they entered the passageway and descended into it. Queen
Kunti walked until they reached the mouth of the tunnel. A new character is
presented called Prince Bhima. He was important because he set fire to the
guardhouse where the wired captain lived. The captain was destroyed in the fire
and then the fire was so big that it began to burn the lac palace. The Pandavas
were all burned alive because of the drunken night and were all unconscious.
The people of Varanavata awoke and went outside and saw the palace destroyed
and nothing was left but ashes.
Bibliography: House of Fire, Mahabharata, C.A. Kincaid, 1921, Story Link
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Oh wow! What an intense story! I really did not know which direction you were going to go with your story, so I was getting nervous! I cannot imagine being in prison with my family just anxious of if the tunnel was going to get built in time. I definitely think it is a lot different if it is your entire family's life on the line compared to just your own! What a great story!
ReplyDeleteThomas you did a great job. I like that you were very descriptive to the point that I could imagine the characters in my head. I was not sure how you were going to end the story, as to whether or not Vidura’s family was going to go back and rebuild a palace for themselves or become rulers of their own land. Excellent job!
ReplyDeleteThis was a really creative way to rewrite this story. The palace that the family was staying at in the original story seemed like a prison cell because they had to dig a tunnel to escape without being seen. I like the way you tied in a little bit of prison break into it too with the whole plan being all over his body. Good job!
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