The story begins in the great town of Bihar where two monkey
brothers attended the nearby school. The eldest, Vali, was the most popular
monkey in the school with all the girls, except one. Her name was Sita and she
was dating the younger brother Sugriva. The story begins on a brisk night where
Vali simply could not take not having the beautiful Sita any more:
“Sugriva, get up from your nap now! We are going to be late to the dance” Vali
screamed up the tree to his younger brother. Vali was irritated.
Sugriva had stayed up all night writing a letter Sita,
singing out loud whatever he wrote. They had been dating for a year now and he
could not wait to give her the carefully written letter before the school dance.
He yelled back at his borther, “I am coming brother! What, did you wake up on
the wrong side of the limb today?” Both of them quickly ate their bananas for dinner
and swung as quickly as possible to school.
As the two arrived, Sugriva quickly went searching for his
Sita while Vali went straight for the food. Sugriva finally saw Sita. “Sita my
love! You look so beautiful!” Sita was wearing a long, bright blue dress that
went all the way to the ground. The two embraced and Sugriva handed the letter
to Sita. As she read the sweet words of her boyfriend tears rolled down her
face. As she finished, she looked up and smiled at Sugriva. The two began
dancing to the slow paced song that was being played. All was right in the world,
except for Vali. He looked at the two with detest. He wanted Sita and he could
not understand why she had no interest in him. As he drank a glass of fruit
punch, rage poured into him more and more. All of a sudden he snapped.
“Sugriva! You do not deserve such a beautiful woman. I am
the most handsome monkey in Bihar and I want what you have!” He quickly sprinted
to Vali, hands tightly bound into fists.
Sugriva, in total shock, was not ready for what was happening.
He dodged the punch of Vali just in time. The two brothers fought in the middle
of the dance as the other students looked in horror. Sita cried out as Sugriva
punched his brother and Vali punched back. Sita begged and begged for the two
to stop, but all she got in return from Sugriva was, “Shut up Sita!”
Source: Sugriva and Vail
Finally, the teachers ran to the two monkeys and broke up
the fight. Both bloody, the two were pulled back from each other. Sita could
not take what just happened. She did not want to date and love a monkey that
was so quick to anger and disrespect to her. She ran up to Sugriva and spoke
words that sliced through his heart.
“Sugriva, you were my love. However, your quick reaction to
anger and rude comments to me does not make me desire your affections anymore. I am through.” As tears ran down her face, she walked out of
the dance. Never to be seen again by Sugriva.
Sugriva filled with rage! As the teachers let him go. He spoke
these words of revenge to Vali. “I do not care what happens in this world,
however I do know one thing. You will pay for this one day.” Sugriva walked out
of the dance and swung away to a place far, far away to plot his revenge.
To be continued…
Author’s Note: I wrote this story in reaction to the Divine
Archer I recently read this past week. I felt the story was very similar to the
original Ramayana, therefore I wanted my own twist. I wanted to have more of a
connection between the monkeys, Sugriva and Vali, and Sita. Allowing the two to
be in love and them end due to Vali will make his revenge even greater when
Rama needs help. I felt that creating a
story that connects all three of these characters early on in their lives would
help explain why Sugriva even helps Rama get her back in the first place. I am
wanting to continue my writing on this in order to apply my own twist to the
Ramayna and Divine Archer. The desire to get Sita back from Ravana will be even
more because Sugriva actually loves Sita. I plan on applying a major twist in
the original story in my upcoming stories.
Bibliography: The
Divine Archer. F.J. Gould. 1911. http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2014/05/reading-guide-week-1-gould-divine-archer.html
Trevor,
ReplyDeleteI loved this story so much! I love the use of humor and you used it so well throughout. I laughed so much at the “did you wake up on the wrong side of the limb today” part. I loved that you changed up the plot to fit into a high school romance theme. I also really enjoyed how you gave a great backstory to the whole revenge aspect between the brothers in the Ramayana.
This is definitely one of the best stories I have read this semester. The cliffhanger at the end is going to bother me until you post the next part of the story. Revenger is really fun to read about. It’s sad that Vali couldn’t be happy for his brother and be fine having the rest of the girls in the school. I feel bad for Sugriva. When you describe Vali sprinting at Sugriva you “He quickly sprinted to Vali”. I think this is a typo, so maybe look back at that.
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