Epics of India

 Learning about microfictions. When I first clicked on the assignment I was only expecting to find 100 word microfictions. Once I got to the website I was excited to see that there were many different types of microfictions including 25 word and 6 word ones. I have read a lot of the 100 word short stories but I have never read any of the lower word count stories until today. I really enjoyed reading the 25 word stories because it lets the reader, me in this case, fill in the context before and after these 25 words. These words also give just enough context that the author gets the main point across of which was the story is going. I did not like the 6 word stories as much because they were open ended and relies on the reader to fill in basically everything. I think that I would really enjoy trying to write my own microfictions with different word counts. Although, I know that I would like the 25 word stories a whole lot better than the others.  Filling the Gaps

Here are my reading notes for week 14 part A.  This reading is Twenty Jātaka tales, retold by Noor Inayat. Link The Monkey Bridge There was a mighty king monkey that ruled over 80 thousand other monkeys. They live up in the Himalayan mountains and lived near the Ganges river. This river led all the way down to a town where humans lived. This river also had a branch that hung over it which produced mangos.  The king monkey had told his followers to "never let a mango fall into the river for it will flow down to the humans and they will come find these trees and we will have to leave." One day, a mango that was hidden ended up falling into the river and going all the way down to the town.  The king of the town, Brahmadatta, was swimming in the water while a fisherman caught the mango. He immediately brought it to the king and they were all amazed. The tasted it and said that it was unlike any fruit they had ever tasted.  Soon after, the king led a boat up the river to find this

   The Danger of a Single Story This Ted Talk was about falling into the tendency to take a single stories that you see on the news and placing everyone from that region into the same stereotype. In this Ted Talk, the speaker was talking about her real world experiences about coming from Africa. Her roommate was surprised that she was able to properly use the stove. She couldn't believe that her roommate thought that everyone from Africa was poor. She then fell into this single story phenomenon.  Imaginary Friends and Real World Consequences I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk because the speaker talked about a lot of relatable characters that most everyone knows. She first started off by talking about characters from the Harry Potter series. She talked about how everyone that has watched the movies or read the books have developed connections with the characters. She later goes on to talk about the Game of Thrones series, specifically about the red wedding. They killed off many of th

The Ox who won the Forfeit  Long ago a man owned a farm where he raised and sold animals of all kinds. He owned chicken, sheep, horse, ox and more. One day while the man was strapping one of his ox up to tug his carriage around, something phenomenal happened.  The ox was accidentally attached to the wrong carriage and began tugging the whole line of carriages along with him. Astonished by the strength of this ox, he began testing the ox's abilities by increasing the weight of what the ox could handle. Starting with his line of carriages, he began to fill all of these carriages up with rice, making them heavier and heavier. The man began talking to the ox saying, "How much more can you pull? I continue to add more and nothing seems to phases you." Until it got to the point where there was no more weight that he could add, yet the ox was still able to pull it along.  The man was speechless, proclaiming "only if you could speak to me then we could move mountains."