Portfolio Introduction

Rama and the Plan: A story that you thought you figured out until the end.
 The Himalayas: Treasure Hunting with a little bit of a twist.
The Farewell: The Farewell of Rama.
The Army Sets Off: A story that ends with mystery.

Storytelling for Week 11: The Army is Off

Hanuman begins to sail across the firmament feeling so overwhelmed with happiness. He has finally discovered where Sita is and does not know how to approach Rama with the great news. He thinks to himself how he must approach this in a calm manner because this is what Rama expected from him. He does not want to come off too excited to Rama because, even though he found Sita. It will be such a hard task to get her back because of how protected she is by the enemy. He has this great news he thinks he still will approach Rama very excited even though she is still captured. When Rama finds out where she is Hanuman believes that Rama has the power to destroy everyone to get his love back.

Hanuman says to himself, “ I think I will say something along the lines of, Rama, to no surprise I have found where Sita has been. She is still alive and I have been flying for many hours as long as I could just to tell you the great news.”

While Hanuman goes over what he is going to say, he is approaching Rama with the good news and finally has reached him. Of course, Hanuman is still filled with joy when he tells Rama.

Hanuman says, “ Rama, we have found her. We finally found Sita.”

Rama is in shock when he hears the news about Sita but he thinks "is she okay? Is there something wrong with her?"

Rama says, “ My friend, I cannot believe you have finally found her but why is my beloved Sita not with you?”

Hanuman has been so worried about what he is going to tell Rama that he forgets Ravana still has Sita at his palace.

Hanuman says, “ Rama, I was not able to get her because of the strength of Ravana’s army. You must go to your wife and bring everyone you have because Ravana is ready for a battle.”

Rama thinks to himself that he must gather the strongest men to create an army that will defeat Ravana. While the time passes, Rama finds his army and he sets off to defeat Ravana.

Rama tells his army, “ My fellow soldiers, we have set off to find Sita and destroy our long-time enemy. This will be the battle of the century for us. We must be brave and we will outlast our enemy. “

Rama closes in on the palace and the first to await him is Ravana and his men. Without any words the battle begins and for many hours there is a lot of blood shed and many good men that are lost but at the end of the battle there are only two left.

Rama says, “ I will spare your life if you give me what I came for, Sita.”

Ravana says,” I will not just give up that easy. You must get past me first.”

Rama and Ravana go at it and through the strength of both men the fight lasts a long time but in the end…….

The battle

Author's Note: In the story of "The Army Sets Off" it begins with Hanuman setting off to tell Rama the good news about Sita. It deals with Ravana and Rama about to go to battle and that’s what I am going to focus on in my story. I am going to talk about a version that I think is more dealing with the beginning of this story. I am going to talk about how Rama and Ravana begin this battle and use dialogue that makes it more interesting to me. I am going to stick to the plot pretty close but add some details that I have imagined. I also have little interest in bringing in more characters because I think it will cause confusion on how I tell this story. I also started the story off exciting by telling the readers how Hanuman found Sita. The unfortunate part of the story is that Ravana and his men protect Sita and the hard part will be getting Sita. I also said in my story that Hanuman thinks Rama has the capabilities to get Sita back with his powers. This story is filled with excitement but it ends with curiosity and mystery. My story is a little bit different because the original story involves monkeys and bears but my story involves men. 


Bibliography: Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom,
Author: Krishna Dharma, 2008

Reflections

During this class, I learned a lot about my writing. I learned that I need to improve on my writing skills but I also learned that I could produce some creative stories. I also enjoyed this class and I have never taken a class like this before. It was really interesting and it gave me a new prospective on how to write stories.

Storytelling for Week 14: The Fatal Dice

Duryodhan came back from the Imperial Sacrifice with hatred towards Yuhishthir. He wants to strike back Yudhisthir with the help of Sakuni. The plan was to get Yudhisthir to start gambling his riches. What we know about Yudhisthir is he loves gambling.

The plan that Duryodhan and Sakuni set up was to get Yudhisthir to start gambling and get him to lose all of his gold and jewels. The game Yudhisthir loved to play was dice and he really could not get enough of it. He always wanted to play but he knew that it was not good for him. The only thing was it was dice night and Yudhisthir knew he could not pass this up.

The bad thing for Yudhisthir is that Duryodhan and Sakuni have a plan to get the dice to always be against Yudhishtir so he would lose all of his money. The overall plan was to pay off a man to throw rigged dice that would also land on the wrong numbers in order for Yudhishthir to lose everything. While the gambling will be going on Duryodhan and Sakuni will be hiding so they will not be seen. They will be there watching the dice dealer to make sure he does everything he gets paid to do.

The two men have been making up this plan for along time and will not risk it failing. They have been very angry and filled with jealousy and have made up this genius plan in order to shoot down Yudhishthir. The plan is about to be a go and Yudhishthir is walking up to the dice area with all of his riches. He starts being cocky and gets everyone off just for him to play. He begins to start playing and he starts to lose a few hands and is getting frustrated that he keeps losing. He then starts to bet more and more and Duryodhan and Sakuni start to grin with happiness that their plan is working.

He then starts to wonder why he is losing so much so fast and notices something wrong with the dealer, like he is nervous. He starts to look around and notices Yudhishthir and Sakuni hiding. He is furious and orders his guards to kill them immediately. The guards begin running to kill them and the two men start to run for their lives and before Yudhishthir can look back at the dice dealer he has vanished.

Author’s Note: The story is a twist to the story called Fatal Dice. I just use the same characters but switch up the story line a little bit.

Ramayana and Mahabharata

Bibliography: The Fatal Dice from The Ramayana and Mahabharata by Romesh Dutt. (1899)