Indian Epics

Based on my feedback from last week as well as the topics that I have expressed interest in, my favorite topic by far are the Jataka tales . I really liked the ideas that Laura gave me for connecting the tales together. I really liked the tales with turtles as the main characters and I also like the tales that took place at water. There are so many possibilities that I could do by connecting the stories that have water as their setting. Something that I could do to connect stories together is connect the Jataka tales, "The Crab and the Crane," "How the Turtle Saves His Own Life," and "The Monkey and the Crocodile." All three of those stories not only connect because the setting is around a body of water but they also have interlocking themes. (Crane eating the fish from "The Crab and the Crane" ) In the tale, "The Crab and the Crane" the crab fights for his life. The crane tricks a pond full of fish that the pond that he is f...

A topic that I am interested in for the project are the Jataka Tales . I really enjoyed reading some of the stories this week, especially the story that I rewrote , "How the Turtle Saved His Own Life." I think I enjoyed them so much because they reminded me of fairy tales that my parents would read to me as a child. If I continue on with this topic for the final project I think that I would either like to rewrite "The Crab and the Crane" or something I haven't read already such as "The Princes and the Water-Sprite" . (Image from "The Princes and the Water-Sprite" from the Jataka Tales ) Another topic that I am interested in for the project is karma. Karma is something that I have always heard about as a kind of cliche saying. So far, what I know about karma is that it stands for every action will have a reaction. If people do something bad then then something bad will happen back to them and if people do something good then something...