One day, he got really tired of constantly wanting something but not being able to achieve it. He devised a sneaky plan. He figured if he dressed up as a goat and got herded into the goat shed at night, he could feast on ALL the goats he wanted and no one would be able to stop him. His dream could finally be accomplished! And instead of being able to eat one goat, he could take his sweet time and eat a dozen! Getting super excited, the fox made his costume and around evening time, sneakily immersed himself into the herd of goats. He chuckled to himself slyly as he wandered around the goats, mentally picking the ones he would feast on at night.
Soon enough, the sun started setting and the herder started herding the goats into the shed. Luckily for the fox, the herder seemed to be in a hurry and just wanted to get all the goats into the shed before sunset. The doors of the shed finally closed and the fox stood right at the front of the doors overlooking all his foolish prey that had no idea what was coming for them. But before he could pick out his first delectable meal, the doors flung wide open... light from the setting sun streamed through the doors onto the goats and in walked the herder. Giving no mind to which goat was the biggest or smallest, deformed or not, the herder picked up his gun and shot the first 3 goats he saw straight in the head.
The herder had been told to go get meat for the next day and being in a hurry, the herder did not care one bit whether the goats he shot were "good" goats or not. Unluckily, the first "goat" he happened to see was the fox dressed up as a goat. The fox died instantly.
This is a picture of Ravana's magicians creating an illusion for Sita
(Image Information: Image retrieved from Ramayana)
Author's Note: This story was very loosely based off of Ravana's two magicians that tried to fool Sita. Ravana's magicians had this elaborate plan of fooling Sita into thinking Rama was dead. But amusingly, Prahasta burst in, in the middle of their illusions and Ravana's entire plan ended up backfiring onto himself. Had Prahasta not foolishly burst in, Sita would have believed the magicians and this would then be the story's turning point. The story above has a similar storyline. The fox was trying to fool the goats, but his plan backfired on him, and he ended up getting shot. Had the fox thought more into his plan and not stood foolishly by the door greedily trying to pick out his first meal, his plan would have possibly worked. The ending is a bit drastic to my story, but the overall storyline is similar.
Bibliography: Buck, William (1976). Ramayana: King Rama's Way.
Hi Sehrish! I love how original you made your project! I too thought it was funny that Prahasta totally messed up the plan, and Ravana has to recover from his plan completely failing. It was really neat that you decided to make a a story similar to fable from the story, which was kind of the opposite of our very first storytelling assignment. This was really well-written; great job!
ReplyDeleteHowdy Sehrish!
ReplyDeleteI think your choice to remake this story from the Ramayana into a sort of folk tale from an animal's perspective was quite interesting. The ending to the fox's life was abrupt, but that is how death can be sometimes.I think it was a well-written passage, but this "One day, he got really tired of constantly wanting something but not being able to achieve it." part was a bit too abstract. Good job.
Hi Sehrish! Your story was really fun to read especially when you called the goat fat. I think you did an excellent job of retelling the story in your own terms, basing it off the two magicians who tried to trick Sita. You are very creative and the story was very original. I had insane fun reading your story and will be looking forward to be reading more!
ReplyDeleteGood Job with this story. I think you were very original in your approach and the fact that it is loosely based is even better. So many of the story telling posts have been about love or whatever and have been basic retellings of the original so it is nice to see someone step outside of the box and take it to another level. Though it is loosely based you did a great job with the aspects of Karma in the Ramayana. The fox used deception and because of that his consequences were death showing that there is only one right path to follow and straying from that path in a negative way has negative consequences. Good Job.
ReplyDeleteHey Sehrish,
ReplyDeleteYour storytelling post was a very creative twist on the Ramayana story. At first I thought your story was about Ravana disguising himself as a old man to capture Sita, but then I quickly realized it was not.
You took a very unique approach with this. I like how you just loosely used the story and took it to a whole new storyline.
I think it is good that you made it clear the fox had bad intentions because that mirrors the magicians intentions when trying to trick Sita.
Good job! Keep it up!