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

Week 13 Reading Diary: Kumbhakarna: The sleeping giant

I chose to do my reading diary over the comic book story Kumbhakarna: The sleeping giant. I wanted to read something that was different this week. I have mainly focused on stories about the Pandava brothers and Hanuman. I want to incorporate this week’s stories in to my story book project that deals with Sampati and Jatayu. I will have them fight with the beast and in my retelling of the story I will have the giant be noble. As I read the story I found out that this is the giant that Ravana tried to use to take out Rama and his army.  Also from reading the Wikipedia site I learned that he is also related to Ravana. I may actually use these two evil brother vs Sampati, Jatayu, Sugriva, and Hanuman. That would be an epic battle! I also learned that in the battle against Rama he injured Hanuman and Sugriva. I also learned from the Wikipedia site that he had two brothers which I might actually create in my own story to try and revenge his father’s death. In my story I will also add a bigger scene to where his awakening is much more devastating to the city of Oklahoma which I have created my story around. I am also interested in incorporating a scene where I can relate his ability to defeat Indra. Maybe have him fight Drona in my story to represent this scene.

Cover of comic book: Blogspot

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.