Paige's Indian Epics

Mahabharata By: C. A. Kincaid introduces characters explains their relations to each other describes each character  describes all characters thoughts and actions explains the introduction to the problem describes oil and wood roof describes the fear and emotions describes the death of other characters explains the misconception describes the emotions of the people in the town the king and prince were tricked describes their feelings about the deaths The Escape

Mahabharata By: John Madeville Macfie introduces each character provides background for each character explains how each character is related detailed setting supernatural references references to Gods introduces the problem tells story within story describes emotions of the different characters connects to previous stories and characters many instances of bearing children in the future the children have their own stories refers to indian custom (days of mourning) characters fight over each other to marry them introduces amba involves trickery with each new story there is a new setting challenges  reads as a novel The Arrival of Karna

A King and His Evil Wife Once upon a time, there was a King who lived in beautiful kingdom. The King was known as a nice, caring and fair man. He had 3 children, one boy and two girls, all of his children took after him and were also known to be very kind people. His wife, however, was a woman he had recently married after the mother of his children had passed away, and she was not nice or kind or honest. The wife was only concerned about herself and being the Queen, she had no care for the children or the King but had a great talent of tricking her husband that she was a great woman. One day she came to the King and told him that in her sleep the God of Good Fortune came to her and told her that his children were plotting against him in order to gain the throne. The King was devastated that his children could do such a thing, even though his wife had made it all up. The King immediately went to his trusted advisors and had them banish his children from the kingdom for the rest of ...

Sita Sings the Blues By: Nina Paley written as a novel switches back between both stories expresses anger and hurt  rama continues to listen to what other people have to say uses dialogue between characters rama gives commands both women are sad stories coincide with each other women grieve  sita has twins, mixed emotions rama forgives once again supernatural gods help prove her innocence again refers to gods and indian custom ends without sita, she goes back to the womb Sita and Rama 

Sita Sings the Blues By: Nina Paley begins by showing all of the characters portrays what they are known for uses imagery discussion of the history and past of the ramayana use dialogue to describe the story introduce who is involved begin the story by using dialogue to describe that rama leaves rama is banished uses emotion to describe the father's feelings about rama leaving sita is sad and leaves with rama rama expresses his concern through dialgue song to express their life in the forest imagery to show the enemies in the story refers back to nina and her boyfriend the narrators discuss the back story  uses dialogue between characters goes back and forth between multiple characters uses trickery sita is captured dialogue and emotion to describe rama's sad emotions revenge occurs, a fire is set refers to indian custom, no kissing rama questions sita because of other peoples words and thoughts sita is sad rama did not trust her switches to other st...

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The King and His Missing Queen The King wept in sorrow when he had come to the realization his bride had disappeared. He was unsure if she had run or if she had been taken but he knew there was only one person that could be behind this, his enemy King Archer. The King and King Archer had hated each other for years and he knew that only he would do something so cruel as to take away his wife. "I want a search party of 300 people to enter the woods and find my wife" shouted the King to his trusty advisors. They all nodded in compliance. The next day the King's wishes were followed through like promised, a search party left with 300 people to find his wife. They searched high and low through the woods looking for any sign of her. Many days passed with no sign until a young bird came to a group of searchers and told them he saw the young bride leaving the kingdom on a horse with a young child. The people were confused as to who she could have left with. They find out ...