Sunday, April 2, 2017

Week 11 Story planning: A few different ideas


I have a few different ideas this week for story planning.  My story will be based off of Pattanaik's Seven Secrets of Vishnu Link to Videos

I liked the idea of Vishnu and Mohini because they are two sides of one god.  It would make a cool story to have them be two personalities from one person.  I could also write up a story about them being twins.  I could use their characteristics and turn them into special talents or superpowers and create a story based off of that. 
Another idea I really liked was based on the story about the man and the fish.  He saved the fish from the water and let it grow big where it was safe, but the story points out that although he saved one creature he did an injustice to another.  This rule of Vishnu is interesting to me because it talks a lot about how humans are the only animals that can empathize and can make moral decisions, and that is what makes us different from other animals.  In this story I could create a place where animals make moral decisions or I could try to envision a world in which humans do not empathize or use their moral compass.  It would depend on which way I took this story, but it could be a scary story, or something with a moral.  If I base it around animals it could be kind of cute and it could be about baby animals trying to figure out the difference between right and wrong. 
I also thought it could be a cool idea to create a story about the balance between Dharma and Adharma.  The two forces are opposite of each other and one basically represents peace between humans and nature and sharing for all, while the other represents greed and destruction.  The two forces could be personified and they could fight which would be interesting to write about.  It could also be kind of comical if I personified them as twins and one is an evil twin.  They would have to run around cleaning up each other’s messes. 

3 comments:

  1. I know you have already started your story book and what not, but I just wanted to say that your second idea about the man and the fish, and than almost directly related to karma, is a very good one. You could take that a lot of interesting places, especially with the aspect of universal karma.

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  2. Karma, in a brief view, is like the ripple of water after you throw a pebble into a pound. You know the ripples will appear, but we sometimes don't know what they will look like, or what they will envelop or be broken by. (Like a rock or bug.)
    Aiding a fish could lead it to become a giant mutated monster, where as it could also lead to a terrible predator of the fish dying off. Understanding that effects happen is essential for karma, and in a way, accepting the good and the bad consequences of our actions is also vital.

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  3. It sounds like you want to write a story about juxtaposition of some kind. Most of the story ideas you’ve written down here contain two different elements that contrast with each other but in some way serve to balance each other out. It can be extremely interesting to examine common threads like this throughout literature. I wonder what made you ultimately choose to examine the relationship between Lakshmi and the goddess of peace.

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