Brooklynn's Indian Epics Blog

Story: There once were two bird brothers. There names were Jatayu and Sampati. They loved to fly together across the sky, they sometimes even raced.  One day they decided to race to the sun. Jatayu and Sampati had been competing all their lives, they were good matches for each other. As One brother increased speed, the other increased more. Suddenly Sampati began to feel the heat of the sun, he realized that going any further would be dangerous to his brother and himself. Sampati yielded and yelled for his brother to stop and turn around, Jatayu, believing this was all a trick for Sampati to beat him in the race, continued. Before thinking, Sampati raced in front of his brother, spreading his wings as far as possible to protect his brother from the sun, but Sampati had gotten to close, his wings were seared by the heat and he feel to the ground. Jatayu realized the reality of situation and began flying towards the ground to look for his brother. Jatayu spent many days and many nigh...

Rama returns to Ayodhya PLOT: Part D contains stories of the war and what took place leading up to Ravana's death. Then it continues on to Rama and Sita's life after returning to Ayodhya. After returning home to Ayodhya Rama and Sita lived happily, Sita even became pregnant, however the doubts of others pushed Rama to send Sita away. Sita then stayed with Valmiki and she had her sons, who eventually came to meet there father, bring Sita back to Rama.  The ending of Ramayana ends in many deaths, Sita sank in the ground to prove herself, Lakshmana beheads himself for disturbing Rama and Kala, and Rama, overcome with grief, departs into Sarayu river. When visualizing these stories, they do not resemble the happy ending I expected them to. For instance, Rama doubts Sita and treats her as less than before directly after rescuing her. And after a short period of time of everyone being happy, Rama again doubts Sita.  Bibliography: Laura Gibbs, Tiny Tales from the Ramayana

Plot:  Most of part C contains stories of the quest to find and rescue Sita from Ravana. Throughout these stories Rama creates allies to help him. Many of these stories follow one of his allies named Hanuman, and his mission of locating Sita. During his mission Hanuman is reminded of the power he posses and he uses this power to help.  Towards the end of part C, it begins to speak of a war, the instances in which the war is mentioned is a use of foreshadowing. It is preparing the readers for a big event to come.  When I visualize these stories I see what resembles any "rescue-mission".  It begins with a person in trouble, and another person doing everything in their power to rescue them, with help along the way. I ultimately see this ending well for Rama because it would follow the plot of a "rescue mission" to have a happy ending.  I mentioned in my Part B notes that it had yet to reach the climax of the story, Now I believe that the war that is beginning is t...