Week 2: Reading Diary Pt. B

This section makes me love Bharata. Even though his little brother was supposed to be king, and his mother found dirtily for him to be king, he knew that only Rama could truly be a great king for the kingdom. It’s quite sad that the king had to go and die when two of his children left him. He had thee sons, and that makes me wonder what happened to that third son. Did he just accept everything? Or did he revolt and join Ravana? It’s an interesting story that could be delved into further for the storybook project. Like, what happened with the son? In this reading, I was just thinking of how much I love and hate the women in these stories. With Sita especially, there’s that star-crossed love aspect, but then with the other women in Rama story there’s nothing, and I think that’s important. So, so far I want a story about Ravana’s 10-headed demonic self, the lack of feminism in epic stories and more of Rama being a beast!