Week 5 Story: Ravana Tries to Steal Sita

Fast forward to sophomore year, everyone is coming back to Norman after spending the summer back at home.  Rama and Sita have been officially dating for several months.  Of course the couple had to spend the appropriate amount of time in the “talking” stage.  After about 2 months, Rama decided that time had come to make this girl his official girlfriend.  They were happy as ever and things were going great.  They were so excited to begin their school year together as a couple.  So many people had told them that they shouldn’t date so early in college.  But they did not think that there was any way it could go wrong.

There was a new guy in town and his name was Ravana.  So many weird names for 2017, I know.  Ravana was a Lambda so in a way, he was Rama’s rival.  Ravana was tall, good-looking, funny, smart, and of course, he was in one of Sita’s classes.  Ravana was a huge flirt and he noticed Sita right off the bat.  Sita would tell Rama about how Ravana would always look at her in class and try to talk to her.  Rama would get a little jealous but he knew that his precious Sita would never reciprocate.

Homecoming was approaching and Sita decided she wanted to try out for Theta’s dance.  Of course, she made it.  And of course, Theta was paired with Lambda.  Upon seeing that Sita had made it on the homecoming dance, Ravana decided he would try out too.  He made it on the team and made sure that he and Sita were paired up for the parts of the dance that involved couple dancing.  Long nights were spent practicing for Homecoming.  In a way, Rama had felt that Ravana had stolen Sita from him.  He had to get her back.  Rama decided to confront Ravana and tell him to back off.  Ravana explained that it was “simply a dance.”  Rama spoke of how flirtatious Ravana had been.  Ravana brushed it off acting like it was no big deal.  The days went on and Sita didn’t accept any of Ravana’s advances.  Ravana was starting to feel bad because he knew he was not doing the right thing.  He decided to drop out of Homecoming because he actually did respect Rama confronting him.  From then on out, he never spoke to Sita again and Rama no longer had to worry.

 Ravana Stealing Sita (Wikimedia)

 

Author's Note:
My story is a play off of the Divine Archer.  I pulled the episode where Ravana steals Sita away.  In the original, Ravana tries to be tricky and seduce her but she refuses.  He takes her anyway.  Rama definitely had to go through a lot more to get her back in the original story.  My take is definitely a lot different.  I set the tone at OU again and made the story a lot more lighthearted.  I just wanted to to a light twist!

Bibliography:
The Divine Archer by F.J. Gould. Link to the reading online.

Reading Notes: The Divine Archer, Part B

This section starts with with the fight between Rama, Sugriva, and Vali.  Rama, the Divine Archer, was the one that ended up killing Vali with an arrow.  I really liked the description in this scene because it painted a nice mental image.  Now that Rama has helped Sugriva, the search for Sita has begun!  Hanuman is able to find Sita and sort of spy on her in a way.  At a point, he is able to confront her, give her Rama's ring, and tell her that Rama is coming.  Unfortunately, Hanuman is caught and sentenced to death.  But, of course he does not go down without a fight and ends up torching the entire city of Lanka.  This makes everyone scared of Rama, even Ravana's giant brother.  This was funny to me because I remember reading before how he was in an eternal sleep, only waking up every so often to eat as much as he could.  Now he is begging for peace!  Rama eventually kills the beast and wins the entire battle.  Rama and Sita confront each other and Rama makes Sita prove her fidelity again! Just like in the other story! I still don't like this part.  He also still exiled her because of all the gossip other people were talking.  I wish he would just trust in his awesome wife!  Much later, the two meet again and Sita declares her fidelity once more.  But this time, instead of the two coming together again, Sita is taken by the Earth.  I guess she proved her point!

Sita proves her fidelity once more (Blogspot)

Bibliography:
The Divine Archer by F.J. Gould. Link to the reading online.

Reading Notes: The Divine Archer, Part A

I chose to read The Divine Archer by F.J. Gould this week.  Something about it just caught my attention!  Around page 8, I liked the description of Videha and of the boys walking through the town.  It was like the brothers were celebrities!  When Rama had to bend the bow of Shiva, I had a couple ideas run through my head for potential story topics.  I thought that I could come up with a different way in which Rama had to win Sita's heart.  I also thought the wedding scene around page 16 was beautiful so I also thought of that as something I might like to recreate.  I really did enjoy this version of the story so far.  I thought it was very well written.  I also appreciated the detailed reading guide.

 The Divine Archer (Blogspot)

Bibliography:
The Divine Archer by F.J. Gould. Link to the reading online.

Learning Challenge: Desk Exercises

I actually really liked this article from Small Business Trends.  I work three days a week so I gave a couple of these suggestions a shot. I especially liked the Active Arm Stretches and Shoulder and Neck Stretches.  I liked these because I felt an immediate release of tension.  I will definitely have to keep trying these out moving forward!

It works at any desk! (Pexels)