Taylor Calvert

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. Th...

I enjoyed reading Part A of The Mahabharata! The story that caught my attention most is "Bhima and the Nagas". First, I would like to say, listening and reading to the story really has helped me visualize what was happening in the story. In the beginning of the story Duryodhana poisoned Bhimas food and tried to kill him. I am going to retell this story by keeping the plot the same but just changing the characters and setting. Duryodhana obviously had much hate towards Bhima because he casted him to the Ganges. In my story I can have Bhima poisoned and casted to the spiders den. Instead of having the spiders bite him and the poison from the snakes balance out his consciousness, I could have the poison from the snakes to be the reason why the spiders don't bite him but have the spider webs squeeze the poison out of his body for him to regain consciousness. Then he could burst out of the spider webs and scatter the spiders. Then be approached by someone, I'm not sure ...

In this post I want to talk about the influence of the Ramayana on Hindu beliefs. Hinduism is practiced commonly in South Asia. The interesting things I have found out about Hinduism are, it is the oldest religion, some refer to it as the "eternal religion" because it is know to extend beyond the history of humans beings. Hinduism is also know to be a combiniation  of many Indian cultures and traditions. The Ramayana tradition of this culture is taught widely through-out South Asia just like the tales of homer was taught. Rama who is one of the main characters in the Ramayana is a god who is idolized and his lessons have a huge impact on Hindu beliefs. I am suprised to say that Vishnu is apart of the Hindu trinity. The other two gods that are apart of it is Shiva and Brahama. Rama is the seventh avatar of Vishnu. in the Ramayana he came to Earth as a god of strength and he defeated Ravana who was embodied with demonic behavior. Rama is a very positive character in the Ramay...

After watching Part B of Sita Sings the Blues, I realized I could write a part B to my Willy Wonka story. I like how the story showed the commitment and despair of Sita. In my story I want to show that same despair however, I can switch the story up and make it to where the children she is pregnant with is actually for Ravana. That would be a pretty cool plot twist because she would have to prove her purity to Rama once again and she would not be able to. After  that I can make the story really my own because I can decided whether or not Rama will take back Sita or if she will go back to Ravana. Another switch up I thought about doing is making the twins that Sita had actually be rebels instead of learning to speak highly of Rama. It would be rather easy to come up with that , if I decided to make Ravana their father and not Rama. In Sita Sings the Blue they are found singing "Rama is just". I was thinking I should make them chant unruly things about Rama. I think it would be...

Sita Sings the Blues is an entertaining short film. I really enjoyed how they talked about the story and then the characters acted it out. The story is very similar to the book we read. In my next story I would like base it off of the  character Ravana, because watching the movie made  me realize something. I realized that Ravana never did anything wrong except take Sita. Even when Sita rejected him he did not force himself upon her. I was surprised he did not because he had the audacity to take Sita from Rama. I am thinking about retelling this story by making the character in my story have one really bad flaw but id genuinely a good person. I think we kind of oversaw the fact that Ravana is not a bad person around the clock. The bad flaw in my story will represent him kidnapping Sita. Bibliography:   Nina Paley  Sita Sings the Blues  2008   Sita Sings the Blues Image Information: Ravana and Sita :  https://scroll.in/article/826322/ramayana...

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