(Image Information: Broken Earthen Pot
Anton Croos Source: Wikipedia)
Reading the Part A of Indian Fairy Tales was really interesting! I never actually got to read these while in the Indian Epics class so this was a great chance to read something new. I really enjoy Indian Folktales and Fairytales because they usually have an underlying message. Usually, many carry on from generation to generation. My dad always uses Indian Tales as a way to teach us life's various lessons, and I know so many by heart because he's said them so many times!
In Part A of the reading, I really enjoyed the story of the broken pot. The story itself talked about a man who declares his plans for the future starting with this pot of rice, and eventually ends his plans by saying he would kick his future wife. He kicks the pot as an example and the rice goes spilling, inhibiting from future plans from happening. This just comes to show that bad thoughts have karma. There was a reason that that happened, and it clearly was to prevent the bad thoughts in the man's mind.
If I were to rewrite this story, I would think about making the story longer about a kid who continuously faces bad situations due to bad karma. I would then take the plot to a classroom, where this kid begins bragging to his classmates around him talking about how successful he will be, how he always gets good grades, and what plans he has for himself for the future. Only this bragging would lead him to get an email asking him to meet with the Dean of his college for a cheating incident that happened the last test -- all plans would be canceled just as in this story.
This would just be a new way to write the story that would be a 21st-century example.
Bibliography: Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Reading Guide Part A
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