Reading Notes: Extra Credit (Week 10)
This is a tale about a man named Pandu who has five tall sons. I
really liked this story for many reasons. The whole story can be found at this link and
has many bends. But I have written a note regarding the first section of the story.
Upon Pandu’s death, his blind brother becomes the new king. Pandu’s blind
brother has one hundred son’s. One of his son’s, hates Pandu’s sons, who are
his cousins. It will soon be decided by a tournament who will be the next king.
The young princes are reread up to master the arts of war. However, after a
tournament is held, a mysterious warrior wins the rights to the throne. One of
the things I enjoyed most about this story was that it maintained that the
characters were mortal. It was about good old fashioned family rivalry. Not to
say that I do not like when the characters are gods or supernatural, however,
it was nice to see the story in a different context. On a related, I really
liked how the characters used regular weapons. This built-up suspense for me as
their weaponry was described. Moreover, I thought it was very interesting that the
characters even held a gambling match that is reduced to trickery. This have me
the main idea for my story that I will be writing. In my opinion, the
simplicity of the trickery gives the story a layer that the supernatural
stories lack. However, to reiterate, I really enjoy those sorts of stories, it
was just refreshing to see a story that hardly used much of that.
Furthermore, my personal favorite topic
was the rivalry between the cousins. Therefore, I was really surprised to see
that an outsider would ultimately win the tournament. So, I decided to place an
emphasis on the rivalry between the cousins and let them duel in out in my
story.
Title: The Five Tall Sons of Pandu
Link: url
Author: Richard Frank
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