For my Diary Post, I just finished reading part C, the story about the Himalayas was pretty cool to me. It was my favorite during the part C reading. It was good because it introduced Arjuna and his brothers. It also talked about there travels to the Himalayas and then introduced the character Kubera. He was an interesting man because of all the treasures he had and it makes for any interest story to right about because I could work a lot with the king of treasure and make a twist with all the details I read about him. I could use his character but make my own story with him and describe how he got the treasures and if maybe something bad happened to him in the end because of how much treasure he has. The reason why they were in the Himalayas was because of their exile so I could link that to my story as well. I just have to think of ideas to make them tie together. I also enjoyed this story because it is very short and open ended so I could really turn this into any type of story I wanted. They author also told us about two more characters, which were Apsaras and Gandharvas. Toward the end of the story they return but they visit another character known as Markandeya. It has plenty of characters to work with in my story, so I could use these extra characters to make up a story.
Link: Himalayas by D. Mackenzie
| Treasure of Kubera |
Thomas, I just noticed your blog post: Kubera is VERY cool, and he is related to Ravana, which makes for a great connection to the world of the Ramayana too. Are you ever in Bizzell Library? One of the best Indian comic books we have on reserve there is about Kubera and Ravana! Here it is:
ReplyDeleteKubera: The Lord of Wealth
Bizzell Reserves call number:
PN 6790 .I443 A437 v.839
You might want to choose that as a reading option in Week 7 or in the second half of the semester. All the comic books are good, but this one is especially good! Excellent artwork. :-)