(Sage Viswamithra awaited the day that he would bestow the greatest honor to Rama, in conquering the five fold evils. On Rama's first quest his brother Lakshmana and himself would have to slay the
the ferocious creature Thataka. On their journey, they make a pit stop to rescue a lovely princess whom catches Rama's eye from a distance).
*Rama and his brother Lakshmana are their journey*
Rama and Lakshmana were coming across a kingdom named Far Far Away when they heard the scorching cry of a woman trapped in a tower. As they ran to the side of the treacherous rocks of the biggest mountain, and observed the rather large structure of the mountain, Lakshmana hesitated because of his fear of heights. Rama knew that he could not do this task alone and convinced his brother that the Princess had a twin sister waiting for him to rescue here also. Lakshmana was a hopeless romantic and fell into his brothers lie. They started their journey to the top of the mountain.
The princess was locked away in the tallest room of the tallest tower. Her parents, the king and queen of Far Far Away, locked her away because of a curse that the evil fairy godmother bestowed among her as a child. As Rama and Lakshmana were walking up the side of the mountain, the temperature rapidly increased causing them to get dehydrated. As they reached the top of the mountain, they heard a swoosh of water which gave them hope that it was a stream of water for them to drip from. Instead it was a bridge, and the bridge was located just above a boiling river of lava. Lakshmana was very hesitant to cross the bridge. He started envisioning pictures of himself falling into the boiling river of lava and becoming a delicious roasted meal for the birds that were circling around the tower. But Rama knew that his brothers hesitation was because he was afraid of heights.
To ease his brothers fear across the bridge, they took one little baby step at a time to get across the bridge. To keep Lakshmana's mind off of the fact that he was walking on the bridge, his coping mechanism was to continuously talk his brothers ear off. As they were approaching the half way mark, a piece of the bridge started to slowly break from underneath their feet. Rama knew that it wouldn't be much longer before the bridge gave out. His brother was in no rush to get off the bridge because he didn't want to fall into the boiling river of lava, so to encourage his brother to hurry, he told him that there was a beautiful, smoking hot princess who is awaiting a "true love's first kiss" from him on the other side of the bridge.
*Entering the tower*
As they enter into the tower, they observe all of the armor that was displayed around the tower. Rama was confused as to what happened to all of the knights. Lakshmana started to yell to see where the princess was located, and also he couldn't wait to kiss her "sister". But instead of finding where the princess was, Lakshmana awoken the fire breathing dragon that guarded the tower, Rama and Lakshmana felt the intense vibrations of the ground and thought that it was a mini earthquake and was soon greeted by the dragon. Rama told Lakshmana to distract the dragon while he went to go and rescue the princess. Of course Lakshmana did not agree with that plan, but before he could oblige, Rama took off running the other direction. Lakshmana was left to distract the dragon and decided to tell "yo mama" jokes to the dragon from eating him.
Rama reaches the tallest room of the tallest tower and breaks through the door. And there she was, a beautiful, tall, breath-taking woman waiting for him to rescue her. Rama goes up to the princess speechless and stunned by her beauty. She reaches out her hand to shake his and introduces herself as Sita.
*To Be Continued*
Author's Note: For this story, I decided to draw my story from when Rama and Sita first met. My inspiration for the story came from the movie Sherk. I thought that I could add little twist to it and plus my favorite scence from that movie was when Sherk and Donkey were on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona. I added the "To be Continued' at the end so that it could keep my audience guessing and tuning in to my story for next week.
Bibliography:
Title: The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
Author: Kamban/ R.K. Narayan
Year: 1972
Link: Click Here
I really enjoyed reading the story, the plot reminded a lot of the Disney movie Shrek, where Shrek has to go save a princess from the top of a castle guarded by lava and a fire breathing dragon as well. The part of the story that was most unique to me was Lakshmana's use of "yo mamma" jokes to distract the dragon while Rama went to save the princess. That made the reading more comical and unique. I also enjoyed how the princess at the top of the tower ended up being Sita, and that the story left with a cliff hanger as the reader does not know what Rama's and Sita's first words to each other are. Another fun part about the cliff hanger is that it draws on information from the Ramayana so the reader can infer what happens next between Sita and Rama. The story was good overall, but it would have been more interesting if the story elaborated a little more on what the curse actually was, that Sita was placed under, to give more context as to why she is locked away in the tower in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI think this is one of the most unique takes on the love story of Rama and Sita that I have read so far. It was easy to tell who Donkey is represented by in this story. This does add a great comedic touch which helps lighten the mood when this story is otherwise rather serious. I enjoyed the way you have made both stories your own and I am very interested to hear the rest!
ReplyDeleteJordan! Why was your piece so long? Don’t you know I have papers to read for Prof. P’s class? Just kidding. I thought your story was very fun to read. I really enjoyed the smoking hot princess lie and the fact that “yo mama” jokes was the only way for Lakshmana to survive the dragon. I thought it was interesting that we both chose animated princess stories for our themes. Good job, girl!
ReplyDeleteBy this point I have completed the normal blog comments, but I decided to come back to your blog and write my extended comment on your second storytelling. Your links that are within your story do work, however I feel that with your reference links you should post to the material specifically the picture link. Most pictures have a button to click that takes you to the specific website that the picture is pulled from I would use that link rather than just the Google search link. Overall all I would say that the spacing for your story was good, and I like the idea of having the scenes being changed by *. If it were me I would possible provide a little more detail for the reader. I understood the location because of the movie Shrek but without it I feel that I may have been lost. The picture was spot on and did contribute by setting the stage for the reader.
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