Week 13 Review

Vishnu's Bedtime Stories

I liked this link in the most recent list of course activities.  I love classic fairy tales, especially some of the ones that the Disney classics are based off of.  That made this post really stand out for me compared to the others.

Famous Last Words: Week 13

Looking back on this week, I did not get nearly as much done as I had originally planned.  I wanted to get all of my assignments done early and then do a good amount of extra credit points as well.  This way, I could finish the class early and get ahead in this class so I would have less to worry about during dead week when I begin studying for my finals.  I am kind of starting to stress out a little bit as the time to start studying draws near, so getting these assignments done early would have been really nice.  This week was busier for me than I originally thought it was going to be and on top of that, the football game was on Saturday so I ended up not getting very much work done that day due to all the excitement.  As far as my Indian Epics assignments go, I really enjoyed the reading I did this week.  It was a bit more difficult to read compared to all of the other story books, but overall very interesting.  The dialogue was in the form of a poem so the reading just seemed to flow really well and made the experience more enjoyable.  I did not end up writing a storytelling post for this week because I honestly just forgot about it and by the time I remembered, it was too late to do anything about it.  I liked that for this week’s project feedback, we got to vote on which stories written by our classmates we liked the best.  There was one storybook in particular that I thought was exceptionally well written, and by far the best in the class.  With that being said, there were a lot of very good story books and portfolios in this class and I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of them!

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Reading Diary B: Legends of India, by Washburn Hopkins

This story is split up to be read over the course of two weeks, so after finishing Reading part B for this week, I am now half way done with the story.  For Part B of this week, the story begins with telling the tale of the Mahabharata from the perspective of the Kurus.  The reading begins with the Kurus speaking of killing the Pandu brothers and serves to show the hatred and anger the Kurus feel towards their cousins.  The dialogue and way the story is told definitely gives off the impression that the Kurus are much more evil than the Pandus and portrays them as the villains.  I personally do not feel that the Pandus are so virtuous and pure and I also do not believe that the Kurus are entirely bad either. Both sides have done wrong to one another and both sides have goodness within them as well.  The story then goes on to introduce Ulupi, one of Arjuna's wives, as well as Subhadra, the younger sister of Krishna.

Arjuna with Subhadra

Reading Diary A: Legends of India, by Washburn Hopkins

For this week, I thought I would read "Legends of India" as it sounded like an interesting title, and I decided to just jump into reading it without any background knowledge.  Through the reading, I learned that this story unfolds the events of the Mahabharata, but in a very different way than the online PDE version we read previously.  This format of the story feels much more proper and maybe traditional in a way, because of the language style used i the story.  The story isn't written in "pain english" like the PDE versions are, and at times it almost feels like the dialogue between characters is purely a poem.  This makes reading the story a little bit more difficult and turns it into a slower process, but also makes it enjoyable since it feels very different from the original copy and I don't feel like I'm reading the same thing over again.  For this week's reading, the first set of characters and their roles in the story are introduced starting with the Pandu brothers and then Krishna.  The reason for the fight between the Kurus and the Pandus is also explained.

Scene from Krishna's Wedding