Indian Epics

Maybe for next week, I can write a story based on one of the stories from the Jataka tales. Nothing really grabbed my attention yet, but I feel like I can combine Hanuman and Sun again. Hopefully it i can get creative one more time. Jataka Tales

For my next story, I want to focus on Hanumans characteristics and his amazing strengths. I want to list his incredible feats. and write about his humbleness. I think I will write it as if I am interviewing him. I dug up wikipedia and the Ramayana to discover Hanumans feats such as - Jumping across a sea with one jump - Carrying a mountain - Shapeshifting power - Immortality Since this story will be in a interview format, I can add his personal stories such as childhood experience, his time with Rama, war stories and etc. I feel like I can really delve deep into Hanuman as a unique character this way. I can also write about his parents since he is the son of wind god, Vayu, which is very interesting. Maybe I can make up a story between them or find one if I can come across it. I feel like this interview format will be very interesting since I have never tried this way to write a original story. If I manage to come up with some good interview questions, I feel like this will ...

- For this week I researched a story of Sun Wukong to figure out how to integrate Hanuman and Sun Wukong in the same story. - Origin story is different from Hanuman in a sense that Sun Wukong was born in a stone compared to Hanuman, where Hanuman actually had parents and Hanuman's father was the wind god. - Hanuman was also serving a king named Sugreeva where in Sun Wukong was deemed as king of monkeys when he found a hidden village inside a waterfall. - Hanuman also serves Rama, who was the reincarnation of Vishnu. Hanuman is portrayed as the loyal and faithful servant. In comparison, Sun Wukong is seen as troublemaker and delinquent since he constantly goes against jade emperors wishes and wreck havoc in heaven.  - Researching a right story to fit both of them was a hard one. Since both of the characters were heroic on their own way, I had to find a story where I could make both of the shine. - There was a story called " The Bear and the Travelers" in Aesop...