Thursday, April 14, 2016

Storytelling week 12 : The power to stop a storm.

The day in Oklahoma was bright and warm. The perfect spring night well that is what all the residents of Oklahoma believed. Everyone was going around enjoying their day except Hanuman. He was a super hero which was gifted with extreme strength and amazing ability too jump at extreme heights. He had just received news that an extreme storm was heading towards his city. He was miles away from home and he was not sure if he could make it on time to save his people.The thought of losing his people really worried him. He had no choice but to contact his worse enemy Drona.
                  Drona and Hanuman had trained together in the planet before coming down to live among humans. They had both chosen the same planet to live in. Drona was a good person but easily felt jealousy towards any one that could be slightly better than him. He had already felt a bit jealous for Hanuman. They had even gotten in a minor fight before Hanuman decided to move away for awhile to clear his mind. Drona was also very easily distracted to problems around him. Drona had been gifted with amazing precision and accuracy with a bow and arrow. Unfortunately, Hanuman was not sure if Drona would respond to him.
                  Hanuman made the attempt and nothing. He repeatedly called and nothing. NOTHING! Hanuman was rushing and jumping trying to make it to the city in time before the storm took his people by surprise.
                  Drona had heard the message left on his phone and immediately started shooting his amazing arrows at the clouds approaching busting them over empty fields. There was just too many for him to take them all out. He was too prideful to call Hanuman back. He continued for another hour but some clouds began to cross over him. He finally decided to call Hanuman and ask for his help. As Drona was calling he felt the ground shake under him and he knew that could only be caused by one thing, Hanuman.
Tornado in Illinois: Wikipedia

                  Hanuman finally arrives and is jumping and slamming the clouds down to the ground as Drona continues to take them out with his arrows. The saw that something much bigger was coming from the horizon. They saw a tornado so big they feared they could not stop it. At that instance Hanuman and Drona were gifted by the gods with the ability to grow one hundred times bigger. Hanuman jumped in the sky and grabbed the son with his hands and brought it lower dry away the clouds. Drona was able to shot a large arrow right threw the middle of the tornado to break it in half, making them small enough where they could each step on one.



Author’s note


I based my story off of two comic books that I read this week. The name of the comic books were Hanuman: The Epitome of devotion and courage and Drona: Valiant Archer,Supreme teacher. Hanuman and Drona do not collaborate in anything in either of these two stories but I loved both of them I decided to combine them. In the comic book about Hanuman he actually grabbed the sun when he was little believing it was food. He was given amazing strength, ability to jump, and the ability to grow in size. Drona was actually the teacher to many students as we read in the Mahabharata. I gave Drona the power of archery because in the comic book about him he actually has a favorite student named Arjuna. There is another student who is wanted to be tutored by Drona but he refuses to teach him because the student, Ekalavya, already has natural amazing skills with his bow. Drona fears that he will be better than his favorite student, Arjuna. Ekalavya cut the thumb for one of his hands to where he could no longer shot his arrow. Drona finally takes him in. That is also why I gave Drona the jealousy issue.

3 comments:

  1. Alexis!

    I absolutely love how you mixed the characters we know so well with our state and its crazy weather. I was rooting for them to beat the storm as I was reading through your story. You also picked a terrific picture as it really captures the scary weather we have and what the characters had to fight against. Great job!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Alexis, I loved this story. Hanuman is one of my favorite Hindu epics characters. My entire storybook is based around him! I love what you did in this story. It was clever that you set the story in Oklahoma because we are definitely known for our crazy weather. I like how you briefly describe how Drona gets jealous of Hanuman's talents. Your story was perfect, short and sweet. Great job!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Alexis,

    What an appropriate story. This is definitely tornado weather. I thought your story was very interesting. Hanuman was one of my favorite characters in the Ramayana readings. I liked how you made the main characters work together to solve the weather problem. The author's note was very helpful since I have not had a chance to read either one of this books. Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete