Week 3 Story of the Extraordinary Sita in Lanka


          Sita, the wife of Rama (also known as Ramayana) was taken by rakshasa women who kept her locked away in the palace of the villain referred to as Ravana in vengeance towards Rama. Rama and Ravana clash head to head very often and as a result of Rama winning the battle against Ravana, Ravana decided to take something that Rama held very close to him and guarded with his life. Sita is known for her gentle and praising beauty as the author puts it. Ravana tried over and over to win her over from Rama and tried going about it a different way. He tried sweet talking her to choose him over her soulmate, Rama. Ravana kept praising her beauty, intelligence, looks, vocals, etc. to win her over as he couldn’t win her over by forcing her into having her fall in love with him. 
          Sita in a way was like Princess Fiona from Shrek being locked away in a castle and playing prisoner till she gets saved. She was protected by the god Brahma who was previously seized by Indra’s heaven who was referred to as Rambha. Sita was the wise and powerful one who always spoke straight to the point and said it as it is. While Rama was out and about doing good deeds to the people around him, Sita was at home teaching her community how to live a good and healthy life as well as farming and growing her own crops and taking care of household work and chores. 
          Brahma also kept vigilance to a low and threatened to banish people who acted up and did anything that disrupt the good life that all the civilians portrayed and followed through in the city. Ravana had to keep his violence on the low as he did not want to risk his head being cut off again by a higher-powered god. Brahma didn’t allow other gods to speak to women in a bad manner or else he would remove them from the face of the earth as well. Once Rama knew that Ravana had possession of his soulmate, Sita, he marched right up to the palace and demanded her to be let free so that both men can battle it out. Ravana agreed and ended up dueling Rama in the most sacred battle ground and the two fought it out for hours and the result ended up being predictable. Rama overthrew Ravana into the hot lava under the cliff on which they were battling on and Rama rose to victory. 
          Unfortunately, Ravana planned ahead and locked Sita in the castle with the hardest to figure out lock combination that only him and the maids knew the password to. Rama turned himself to an animal form and finally communicated with the holy cows in the areas and was able to translate the code from animal to a divine form and let Sita out. Sita was ecstatic to see Rama as she was locked up as a prisoner for weeks. In the end, Rama and Sita lived happily ever after around their friends and family and went about their lives together.



                                                              Rama and Sita

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Donald Mackenzie, Indian Epics: Ramayana http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/pde-ramayana-sita-in-lanka.html.

Comments

  1. Piper AllredSeptember 8, 2019 at 10:02 PM

    Hi, Asha! I enjoyed reading your story. I really appreciated your attention to detail! I also thought you did a really great job of outlining character traits! I liked the comparison of Sita to Princess Fiona from Shrek, but it seemed kind of random in the story. Maybe in the future, you could write a story of famous childhood fairytale characters (like Shrek or Snow White or whatever you can think of) and retell the Ramayana Epics in that way? That's just a suggestion. Great job overall though!

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  2. JessSeptember 16, 2019 at 4:42 PM

    Hey Asha! I liked how for your story you told it in a way that explained the story and the characters. I feel like the original story doesn't focus on characters as much. I liked the comparison you made to Fiona from Shrek and actually think that's a really good idea for the story next time. I also think some Author's Notes would really help the reader. But overall a really good job!

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  3. jackieaustinSeptember 19, 2019 at 2:25 PM

    Hi Asha! I enjoyed reading your story.I really liked the comparison between Sita and Princess Fiona. I had never thought about it that way but now that you mention it I can see the similarities. I really like the picture you chose as well, I think it goes with the story.Did you consider telling that portion of the Ramayana from Princess Fiona's point of view? I think it could've been a really cool story idea. Only a suggestion though, what you write is entirely up to you. One other suggestion would be to have your author's notes, like Jess said I think it would be helpful to the reader. One final suggestion I might make is going through and reading it aloud one more time, there just a few tiny mistakes that I see, but nothing major. Overall a really good job, keep up the hard work, and keep on writing!

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