Reading Notes: The Mahabharata Part B

The stories that I am interested in is the story of Bhima and Hidima. This is the perfect opportunity to retell a story using the Wizard of Oz setting. When I was reading about the Pandavas escaping it reminded me of Dorothy and the rest of her crew escaping to get to Oz land. Throughout  my story I will have different creatures coming out of the forest playing the "man-eating asuras and rakshasas. I like how the original story is so vivid in how they explain, the painfulness of them traveling in the forest. I think the character for Bhima should be the lion because lions show strength even though the lion in the Wizard of Oz. Bhima carried all of the others on his back through the forest. I like how Bhima is portrayed as this character that watches over and protects the people that is in the forest with him. 

The rakashsa's play an essential part in this story and as I was reading the rakshasa's reminded me of the monkeys and the trees that came a live in the movie. The ferocious rakshasa are described as big red eyed, red haired creatures. In my mind I picture, big trees with evil faces that have red eyes and red leaves. Human eating trees to be exact! At the end of the story I want to have Bhima fighting the trees just as he was in the original epic. I want to keep the plot the same so having Bhima defeat the rakshasa's.  I love battles, in these epic stories. I plan to make this one pretty vivid. 

                                       
                                       Image Information: Bhima fighting the rakshasa's 
              https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhima_fighting_with_Bakasura_color.jpg


Bibliography:Donald A. Mackenzie, Mahabharata - http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/pde-mahabharata-pandavas-in-hiding.html

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