Lakshmana is extremely loyal to Rama, though they are only half brothers
everyone keeps offering to kill themselves
the passage reminds me of jesus somewhat being tossed into the wilderness and being tempted to sin by satan.
mutilation of women that are not completely pure of heart.
Sita being stolen is another example of Gods acting like humans, though the gods seem to be prone to reacting to the extremes of their emotions, there is no middle ground they are either totally in love or they hate and want death. This could be the stories way of saying that it is better to be level headed and and do what your mind says to do rather than what your heart tells you. Another example of this is when Ramas father makes him leave.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Reading Diary Week 1
the king seems to be a kind ruler
the king seems to fear the sage, maybe because the sage although not the ruler is more powerful politically than the king
love was murdered? The god of love was killed by shiva another god for ruining his meditation, but was he killed or just turned to ash?
the desert acts as a mirror to the human soul or rather the effects that negative energy can have on a human beings soul. If a person is filled with hate and anger then their soul eventually becomes a desert, a place that no seed can take root and sprout. Basically if you have hate in your heart then there is no place for love to grow.
A woman in this society would be valued as a woman only as long as she remained pure, but once she was no longer pure (not sexually but pure hearted) she loses her womanhood.
The gods in this story seem to share the same plaine as the humans, though they have powers that are clearly supernatural, they are still mortal.
Rama is unknowingly vinsu, one of the three most important hindu gods.
The Ganga's Story shows an awareness that long after a person has passed on their presence on earth can still be seen, that everything we do gives us a sort of immortality.
Indra and ahalya sounds much like Zeus taking Hercules mother and almost the same as uther pendragon sleeping with Arthurs mother.
The task of stringing the bow is almost exactly like the story in the odessey.
lakshmana sounds like an authurian knight, much like the knights in the lancelot chronicles or any of the original authurian legends.
rama is available almost a jesus figure to the people...which makes sense because he is the savior god in hindu beliefs
This is much like the story of the fall....the woman is to blame for it all...she is made out to be evil when in reality she too has been tricked but a hunch back which in those timea I imagine would represent some kind of less than human thing...she did this out of fear of what rama would do if he were to become king...she truly loves him but is scared of her fate..this is much like Christianity because it takes complete faith and her is an example of what can happen when a person loses faith...ramas banishment is a punishment much like jesus's crucifixion. ...it is happening because of a fear of loss of power.
Rama leaving the city reminds me of the moses story.
the king seems to fear the sage, maybe because the sage although not the ruler is more powerful politically than the king
love was murdered? The god of love was killed by shiva another god for ruining his meditation, but was he killed or just turned to ash?
the desert acts as a mirror to the human soul or rather the effects that negative energy can have on a human beings soul. If a person is filled with hate and anger then their soul eventually becomes a desert, a place that no seed can take root and sprout. Basically if you have hate in your heart then there is no place for love to grow.
A woman in this society would be valued as a woman only as long as she remained pure, but once she was no longer pure (not sexually but pure hearted) she loses her womanhood.
The gods in this story seem to share the same plaine as the humans, though they have powers that are clearly supernatural, they are still mortal.
Rama is unknowingly vinsu, one of the three most important hindu gods.
The Ganga's Story shows an awareness that long after a person has passed on their presence on earth can still be seen, that everything we do gives us a sort of immortality.
Indra and ahalya sounds much like Zeus taking Hercules mother and almost the same as uther pendragon sleeping with Arthurs mother.
The task of stringing the bow is almost exactly like the story in the odessey.
lakshmana sounds like an authurian knight, much like the knights in the lancelot chronicles or any of the original authurian legends.
rama is available almost a jesus figure to the people...which makes sense because he is the savior god in hindu beliefs
This is much like the story of the fall....the woman is to blame for it all...she is made out to be evil when in reality she too has been tricked but a hunch back which in those timea I imagine would represent some kind of less than human thing...she did this out of fear of what rama would do if he were to become king...she truly loves him but is scared of her fate..this is much like Christianity because it takes complete faith and her is an example of what can happen when a person loses faith...ramas banishment is a punishment much like jesus's crucifixion. ...it is happening because of a fear of loss of power.
Rama leaving the city reminds me of the moses story.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Story Telling Week One
Lucius Kwok Online image from the Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox and the Boat
Jonathan Fox was a silly man. He was always spending his days sleeping in, doing nothing that resembled work. To his neighbors this would have been fine should Mr. Fox not have spent his waking moments walking through their yards, playing practical jokes on each of them. Miss Pearl, that lived next door to him had grown tired of his daily attempts to sell her land that belonged to Mr. Peters, and Mr. Peters was not fond of this attempt either, since Mr. Peters lived with Miss Pearl, and did not think it prudent to by his own land from himself. Ms. Thompson the town mayor that lived across the street from Mr. Fox also did not enjoy the constant pranks she suffered at the hands of Mr. Fox. The list of people in the town of Barrymore that did like the pranks that Mr. Fox played on them grew in numbers by the day.
Now as it has already been established Mr. Fox was a trickster type of person, but more so he was a lazy soul. Healthy and well fed the only allergy the man had was calluses on his hands. One day Mr. Fox thought it would be nice to have a boat so that he could take a nap on the lake. The only issue for Mr. Fox was that he was lazy if you remember and did not wish to build this boat himself, and this concerned Mr. Fox. So Mr. Fox thought on it and thought on it all day, for about ten minutes and he came up with a plan.
Mr. Fox grabbed his bible and told the people the story of Noah. He told them of the flood, and how God had told Noah to build the Ark. He then told the people that God had come to him in a dream and that another flood was coming, but unlike the selfish Noah, Mr. Fox would let anyone who worked on the boat find safety when the time came. The town debated and although they did not trust Mr. Fox, they decided better safe than sorry.
Work on the boat began, and Mr. Fox was deleighted because soon he would have his boat and his new place to sleep. Everyone helped, Mr. Peters cut the wood, Miss Pearl hammered nails, and Ms. Thompson painted the boat. They all worked hard, all with the exception of Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox just slept in and then danced around all day, playing pranks like hiding the saw from Mr. Peters, stealing nails from Miss Pearl, and taking the paint from Ms. Thompson. It was not long before the boat was finished, and on that day there was a ceremony to name the boat.
At the ceremony the town realized that a prank may have been pulled on them by Mr. Fox. They realized this of course because Mr.Fox showed up with pillow and a blanket to take a nap in the boat. They were not upset because they felt it was better to have a boat and not need it rather than need a boat and not have it. After taking this better safe than sorry approach they decided to name the boat the S.S. Just in Case. As soon as they named the boat it began to rain.
It rained for three days and three nights. Now the town of Barrymore was down river from the largest lake in the world, Lake Gonnagetcha. On that lake was a dam that kept the lake from flooding the town. For three days and nights the lake waters rose. The waters thrashed against the wall of the dam and on the fourth day the water began to crack the dam. In the town of Berrymore the alarms were sounded for everyone to board the boat S.S. Just in Case, for safety. Everyone showed up, Mr. Peters was there along with Miss Pearl and Miss Thompson, the entire town was on the boat except Mr. Fox because he was sleeping and showed up late. He begged the town to let him on the boat, after all it was his idea to build it. Still there was not enough room on the boat for Mr. Fox because the townspeople only built it to seat the people that worked on the boat, and Mr. Fox afterall did not help build the boat. He was too busy sleeping in, hiding saws, stealing nails, and taking paint to help. As the dam broke and the waters flooded the town Mr. Fox realized that he should have bought an alarm clock and been more prudent.
Authour's Notes
I took this from the story The Wild Boar and the Fox. It is a story about a Fox that plays tricks on everyone and then comes across a boar sharpening his tusks. The fox sees no danger and thinks it is silly but the boar beleives it is best to be prepared. I kept that best to be prepared theme to my story but changed up the events a little, though I beleive that the reader will be able to get the same message from my story as the other stories.
Bibliography
The Aesop for Children by Aesop. 2006. web source The Project Gutenberg Ebooks
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Week One Story Book Favorites
For this post I tried to read three stories that based on their title, would give me a different option of how to put my storybook together. Each of the stories had a similar layout as far as page navigation, each one being a basic webpage with buttons on the side of the page to navigate through the storybook, and a pictures in the middles. The titles of these stories is what set them apart for me when I was searching for different stories to write about.
The first story that caught my eye was Delilah's Radio Hour . This story put an interesting twist on the the oral storytelling tradition. In the introduction I was thrown into a radio show that had just come out of a Backstreet Boys song. The host of the show began talking about a recent listener, and the story of Rama and Sita began. In the next chapter of the storybook the story continued as if the show had just come back from commercial break and the rest of the storybook followed in that same method from chapter to chapter. I found this to be an interesting spin because the author was able to tell this story in a very unique way, by placing an epic story in the confines of a cheesy late night radio show. I found this version to be a creative way to tell an old story in an updated way.
The next story book I read was the Nighttime Nagas. The introduction of this storybook seemed to take a historical approach to the retelling of the epics. It gave a brief description about what the stories were going to be and then jumped right in with a god telling his/hers child a bedtime story. I do feel that this introduction was more effective that the first example because it helped me know what I was about to read before I got into the story, although the first story I read was a little more entertaining in its approach, this storybook's introduction was more informational. This author was extremely effective in making the god's more relatable to human beings, thus removing their godliness and in effect making them more human.
The third storybook I read was Hindu Goddesses: What They're all About.This storybook was similar to the second example because it used the characters of a parent reading a bedtime story to their child. The introductions of these two examples are different in that in the Nighttime Nagas the introduction took a historical approach, in this third example the introduction was much like a children's fairy tale book might start. Pandimi runs to bed and asks her mother about a goddess and her mother gives a brief introduction about the goddess and then in the next chapter the mother begins the bedtime story. This story took an interesting approach from the first two examples because the first two seemed to be written for an adult audience and this story was created for young children. This was a creative way to show that these epics are not just for adults but can be told to children as well.
The first story that caught my eye was Delilah's Radio Hour . This story put an interesting twist on the the oral storytelling tradition. In the introduction I was thrown into a radio show that had just come out of a Backstreet Boys song. The host of the show began talking about a recent listener, and the story of Rama and Sita began. In the next chapter of the storybook the story continued as if the show had just come back from commercial break and the rest of the storybook followed in that same method from chapter to chapter. I found this to be an interesting spin because the author was able to tell this story in a very unique way, by placing an epic story in the confines of a cheesy late night radio show. I found this version to be a creative way to tell an old story in an updated way.
The next story book I read was the Nighttime Nagas. The introduction of this storybook seemed to take a historical approach to the retelling of the epics. It gave a brief description about what the stories were going to be and then jumped right in with a god telling his/hers child a bedtime story. I do feel that this introduction was more effective that the first example because it helped me know what I was about to read before I got into the story, although the first story I read was a little more entertaining in its approach, this storybook's introduction was more informational. This author was extremely effective in making the god's more relatable to human beings, thus removing their godliness and in effect making them more human.
The third storybook I read was Hindu Goddesses: What They're all About.This storybook was similar to the second example because it used the characters of a parent reading a bedtime story to their child. The introductions of these two examples are different in that in the Nighttime Nagas the introduction took a historical approach, in this third example the introduction was much like a children's fairy tale book might start. Pandimi runs to bed and asks her mother about a goddess and her mother gives a brief introduction about the goddess and then in the next chapter the mother begins the bedtime story. This story took an interesting approach from the first two examples because the first two seemed to be written for an adult audience and this story was created for young children. This was a creative way to show that these epics are not just for adults but can be told to children as well.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Week One Favorite Place
I never traveled much as a child, so when the opportunity came up for me to move to Chicago for a job I jumped right on it. When I arrived in the big city I was overwhelmed by all the noises, the traffic, and to be honest the people. After being there for a little over a month my brother in-law caught me eating a Pizza Hut pizza, which in Chicago is blasphemous, so fearing for my own well being and safety he and my sister took me out for what they called "Real Pizza."
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Pizza Uno in Chicago, Ill from Athony92931 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uno_Chicago_Grill |
They took me to the home of the original Chicago style pizza, although there they just call it pizza, Pizzeria Uno. The inside of the place was exactly how you would picture an stereotypical pizza joint to look, from the checkered table clothes to the family pictures on the wall, this place seemed as cheesy (if you don't mind my pun) example of a pizza place as you could find. Still there was an feeling of authenticity about this place, while all these items used to decorate the interior of this place would have seemed like a forced corporate ambiance creation in a Pizza Hut for example, in Pizzeria Uno, the items provided a genuine feeling comfortableness.
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| Interior of a Pizzeria Uno from Mangnus Manske http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uno_Chicago_Grill |
If you have never been to Chicago then chances are you have no idea of what a real deep dish Chicago style pizza is, and that is a shame. Eating a Chicago pizza is something that in my view should be on everyone's bucket list. If you take the time to actually go to Chicago then you should take the opportunity to in a pizzeria and wait the forty-five minutes for your pizza to be delivered. If the wait seems too long well then just do what I did and order an ice cold beer (I had a Fat Tire beer).
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| Personal Picture of Me from a trip to Chicago in 2011 |
While I was waiting for the Pizza I looked around and began to notice people talking to each other. This may not seem like an uncommon observation to most people, but since I had arrived in Chicago all I had noticed was people talking at each other rather than engaging in actual conversations that help to form connections between people. Being from Oklahoma, I am used to perfect strangers smiling at you with you pass by, waving at you on the road when they see you, or having conversations with perfect stranger, yet in Chicago I had been starved of these types of interactions. It was not that people were rude, it is more that they did not have time, like they were always in a hurry. However here in the pizzeria there were conversations happening at every table, and between tables. At my table some from another table over heard my accent and asked me where I was from, when I told him I was from Oklahoma this started a series of questions from the person, which in turn allowed me to ask some questions of my own. I found out where the best place to get a hot dog was, what an Italian Beef Sandwich was, and that the person had family from Oklahoma. I did not feel so much like an outsider to Chicago. Then the pizza was delivered.
I still do not posses the words to properly describe a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza other than to say it is like two angels came down from heaven and blessed my taste buds. This is truly a case in which a picture is the best way to describe the Pizza.
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| Personal Picture of a Chicago Deep Dish from a trip to Chicago in 2011 |
I have always loved food, but most importantly I have always loved the way sitting down and having a great beer and an amazing meal can bring strangers together. This is the reason why this is one of my favorite places because it was the first time I didn't miss Oklahoma in over a month.
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