Storybook Favorites

The first storybook I chose was Mahabharata: The Heroes. The reason that this story stuck out to me so much was because of the very stories my great uncle would tell me about his times in Vietnam. Just as the boy in the story talks how his about his father told him stories of battle from the Kuruksherta Wars I too heard stories of battle. My uncle would tell me about the heroes he fought along side with. The valor and glory that they strove for while fighting in "the Godforsaken jungles". The stories of the roars of the helicopters as Fortunate son played in the background. The memoirs he told were beautiful and awe inspiring. 

                                                                                           

The helicopters my uncle described in his stories. 

The next story book I chose was The Burning Forest. I liked this one for a few reasons the first being I do agree with the previous student of how the preindustrial revolution earth was not as damaged by the technology of man. The next and more important reason is because of the wildfires that we seem to have in California every summer. People on the right like to say that it is God's wrath on the Californians for their sinful ways. This story shows that man will come to the same conclusions about why natural disasters happen. Sure there is not as much depth or folklore in the modern day version, at least in the mainstream, but there still are the same similar connections.

My final storybook was about creation and I am deciding to focus on The Golden Egg. Growing up in a Christian household I had heard the story of creation as told by the bible many times. I saw many similarities between the golden egg and the story I was told as a child. Both start with complete darkness where there is no light then all of the sudden there is a great amount of light. There are parallels between all creation coming from one being the egg and God. I find it amazing how people many thousands of miles and years apart come to some sort of the same conclusions on how the world was made. It really opens your eyes to the similarities between cultures.