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Week 6 Story - Shantanu and Satyavati

One day in a quiet village, there was a quiet young woman named   Satyavati. Satyavati liked to keep to herself, but she always had an eye for the baker's boy, Shantanu. Shantanu, was the son of the town's bakers and it was his destiny to take over his parent's baking business after they died. At the moment they were grooming him and teaching him how the business worked. His parents were also getting him ready for marriage, for Shantanu was already to be wed to the daughter of the cheese makers, but Shantanu wasn't in love with that girl and he only wanted to marry someone he was in love with. This was a problem because Brishma was already being groomed as well by his parent's to take over, when and if Shantanu decided he didn't want to take over the bakery business. Brishma's parents assumed because of Shantanu's disdain for arranged marriages that he would forfeit his right to the bakery business so Brishma could take over and be the sole baker f...

Reading Notes - Narayan's Mahabharata, Part B

I really enjoyed reading the section of the dice game. I think it would be fun to retell that part and change the stakes/the reason why they're playing. Maybe not gamble a person since that seems very inhumane. I could retell about Arjuna going to the mountains and then being in exile as a eunuch. I could make it some big adventure and how he comes back with all of these weapons. Statue of Arjuna  Title: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Author: R. K. Narayan Year: 1978

Reading Notes - Narayan's Mahabharata, Part A

The Mahabharata was very different from the Ramayana. I didn't enjoy reading this as much as I did the other one. The part of the story where a child was sent off in a basket and raised by another woman reminded me of the Moses' story. However, during this part of the Mahabharata there wasn't any part that I really felt like I wanted to retell. It was much more graphic and nothing I felt connected to with all the wives and killing. The only part I could maybe retell Shantanu and Satyavati  story and make it where Shantanu was supposed to marry someone else but her heart is in love with someone else. I'm looking forward to part B, and I'm hoping that part will have a section of the story I really like which I can retell. Shanatanu - Web Source Title: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Author: R. K. Narayan Year: 1978