Week 13 Story Planning: 20 Jataka Tales

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Twenty Jataka Tales. Link to reading.

Author: Noor Inayat

THE MONKEY-BRIDGE
monkey ruler, rocks and river and valley and honey
happy monkeys
fruit tree
don’t want men from village looking for it
fruit falls
want to find it
find it, monkeys, king orders to kill and eat monkeys and mangoes
chief finding way to save them
king sees chief break his back for his monkeys, has him come down to bathe and clothe and feed him
rule with love for they are your children
chief dies and king learns lesson

i really like this story but it’s told so well, that I’m not sure that i want to mess with it or remake it. but ***

THE GUILTY DOGS
king with chariot and horses,
dogs come at night and chew leather harnesses
king ordered to kill seven hundred dogs that were in the city
chief dog
wanting to save them
common theme of love, i like it
chief tells king royal dogs did it
wise
proved him right king saved all the city dogs
happily ever after

i could change this into a story about a family, a king being a mom or dad, the royal dogs being ornery brothers chief being sister or friend or something

BANYAN
golden deer
forest
palace
king hunting, not golden ones
doe w baby
more love <3
golden deer takes place of doe, king agrees to never kill another animal and he ruled with love

THE TORTOISE AND THE GEESE
geese carying tortoise
he fell (hearing kids in village laugh at him)
counselor told king that he fell because he could not hold his tongue, directing message at king
king learned only to speak when needed

not so interesting

THE FAIRY AND THE HARE
wise hare teaching others
animals get food for others, hare has nothing
offers himself as food
fairy took place of beggar and hare jumped into flames of fire, fairy created test, flames were fake, hare was honored across the land

i could modernize this make it realistic or keep it as a children’s story and change it up, i like this one

THE GOLDEN FEATHERS
father leaves, promises daughters wonderful things on his return
meets fairy, changes him into a goose with golden feathers
could no longer search for riches
lets family pluck his feathers one by one
mother gets greedy say they need to pluck all the feathers
feathers grew back and he flew away

not a good ending, kinda sad

I am thinking that for my next story, I am going to modernize and change it up a bit. The last one I wrote I just added more details and enhanced what had already been happening in the original piece.
My two favorite stories from this week's reading are The Guilty Dogs, and The Fairy and the Hare. I think I could turn the themes presented in those stories into a modern, relatable one of my own. I am excited to see what I can do with this.

Hare jumping into the fire. Image source: Pinterest.