Week 14 Reading Diary:Subhadra: Beloved Sister of Krishna and Balarama.

This Thursday I will be doing my reading diary over the comic book Subhadra: Beloved Sister of Krishna and Balarama. As my previous reading diary I wanted to do my story over characters that I feel like really did not have a main focus in our assigned readings. So the story begins by giving background information on Subhadra. She is the sister to Balarama who is Duryodhana’s teacher. This actually gives me an idea of having Drona and Balarama fight since they both represent a person of knowledge. Arjuna is actually attracted to her hich happens to be one of Duryodhana’s worst enemies. He first sees her after being exiled for interrupting Draupadi’s and Yudhisthira’s private time. She actually choses him over Duryodhana giving him more reasons to hate Arjuna. Arjuna basically “kidnaps” her while on her way home. When the people find out of what Arjuna has done they initially plan to go after them but after talking to Krishna he tells them to bring them back but to congratulate them. I would also like to include the part of the story where she fears returning to Duryodhana’s hometown because she Is afraid that his other wife Draupadi might not like her. It turns out that Draupadi actually likes and accepts her. I would like to switch this up and have them hate each other and even have a fight scene!

Cover of Comic Book: Blogspot

Reading Diary Week 14:Abhimanyu: StarCrosses Prince

This week I will be doing my reading diary over Abhimanyu: StarCrosses Prince. I want to do my readings over characters that I am not use to reading about. I also enjoy comic books the most! Abhimanyu is the son of Arjuna! I would definitely like to bring him back in to one of my stories. Arjuna was exiled by his cousin but his son remained in town. He had made a promise to avenge what they had done to his father and his brothers. I would definitely enjoy having some rivalry between Arjuna’s son and Duryodhana’s son. Arjuna is also given Uttara who is the daughter of king Virata. He then gives her to his son and they marry. It would also be a cool idea to have a love issue between son and father. Abhimanyu also plays a major role in the fight against Drona. He is the only one who is able to combat against the formation of Drona’s army but he is unclear of hos to come out of it. He goes in but is cut off from his rmy and is about to be attacked by Drona and his army. Duryodhana’s son Lakshmana is actually killed by Abhumanyu. Drona is also impressed by his fighting capabilities. At the end he is not successful in his fight against Dushasana’s son and is killed by him. IN return his father and brother avenge his death!

Cover of comic:Blogspot

Week 13 reading diary:Ganghari: a motherblinded by love

This reading diary is over the story Ganghari: a motherblinded by love. This week I wanted to read stories that deal with characters different from the usual that I am use to writing about. Even though most of the comics revolve around our two assigned readings at the beginning of the semester I try to give emphasis to characters I feel did not receive much attention. In this story I am looking at the wife of Dhritarashtra who if you remembered is the father to the Kauravas. I really want to focus on her blind folding herself just to share the same fate of her husband who is blind. I also want to talk about how Duryodhana could have been abolished since a baby but his dad decided to keep him. The story continues and it explains how kunti and Gandhari really like each other but their children hate each other. I want to create a story in which the Gandhari realizes that her son is bad but she actually decided to take control and tries to get rid of her son even if it hurts her. I would also like to focus on the scene where she has a vision that her son is going to fall to the hands of Bhima. I am also interested in writing about how Gandhari burns the toes of Yudhisthira through her blind fold. I also want to talk about who she curses Krishna.

The cover of the comic:Blogspot