"Hmm.. I know I will disguise myself as a cat! If they see me, a cat roams free at night, and may explore wherever he is curious to go. I will begin to shape-shift myself into long-haired cat!"
*transforming into a cat*
Hanuman now realizes that he has turned into a cat.
"Oh wow, look at me! Look at my tail and my fur is so long! Oh and the vision! I can see better in the dark, this is amazing! Now, no time to waste admiring my beautiful self, I must go find Sita!"
Hanuman runs as fast as he can to enter Lanka but he was eventually stopped. Hanuman started to think about what it will be like if Rama and Sita found each other. The two would be so happy and all Hanuman wanted was for Rama to be happy.
"In my head I kept thinking about Rama and Sita.. oh how happy will they be when they find each other. I am running as fast as I can.. oh wait what is that in front of me? A woman?"
"You cannot enter me you little cat!" said the dark-haired woman. "I am Lanka and ruled by the hands of Ravana!" said Lanka. She kicked Hanuman. Hanuman was furious, this woman was not going to let him enter.
I cannot believe this woman just kicked me! I have to find Sita so I'm going to punch her!
Finally I have entered into Lanka, now where is Sita? I see Pushpaka and his fly chariot but where oh where is Sita?! I know.. maybe she is in Ravana's bedroom!
As Hanuman rushes into Ravana's bedroom, he was hoping to find Sita in there but instead she was nowhere to be found. He looked at Ravana's miserable wives...
"Oh these poor women.." he said. "But where is Sita?! Where is Sita?!"
Rama and Hanuman's friendship: Best Buddies
Author's Note: I decided to make a story of Hanuman's experience as a cat. I did put a lot of dialogue and narrated a few sentences just to show Hanuman's thoughts. I thought Hanuman becoming a cat was significant in the book because he was clever enough to transform himself to get into Lanka. Hanuman knew that he would never be able to get into Ravana's lair if he remained his personal imagine so he thought a cat was a good disguise. In the book, Hanuman said a cat was able to roam free at night and can quickly move around. I decided to add some descriptions of him being a cat and how he was able to get pass Lanka. In addition to his experience, I added how important it was for him to find Sita. His mission was to find her and let her know that Rama is here to save her. Throughout the story I indicated the importance of finding Sita as well as him picturing what it wouls be like if Rama and Sita had found each other. I stated his thoughts in the beginning of the story how Rama was his best friend and the importance of their friendship. Throughout the story Hanuman was concentrated in finding Sita, he was loyal to Rama and knew what his mission was. For my picture, I noticed there were a lot of cat pictures of Hanuman and even though my story was about Hanuman as a cat I wanted to add a different picture. I found one of Rama and Hanuman and thought it was a good painting of their friendship so I chose that one instead.
Bibliography: William Buck, Ramayana 1976
Christine, I think it is interesting that everyone chose to go with the Hanuman story. Although it was the focus of this reading it is nice to see how many different variations of the story people were able to come up with. I really like the different details you used to alter the story from it's original form so much. Hanuman is such a great character that I feel we just all ignore quite a bit but he actually allows for quite a bit of creativity from all of us.
ReplyDeleteGreat choice of story topics! :) Great minds think alike! I wrote about the same thing, but I really enjoyed reading your story. I think you did a good job of describing the scene, it really helped me picture what you wanted us to picture. I liked how you told more of Hanuman’s immediate reactions to being a cat. You did a good job using dialogue, it really brought the scene to life! Keep working hard!
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