Week 4 story

The Final Putt

We start back with our golf team and have another special day of qualifying. One of the young freshman has to play against the powerful senior for the last spot going to the national championship. This is the biggest tournament of the year and everyone wants to be on the traveling team. To make the last spot the senior and freshman will play 18 holes for the coveted last spot. The freshman is defiantly behind the 8 ball because the senior defiantly has the advantage and experience to win the final spot. However, the freshman has a secret weapon that he will have to use at the right time to take down the senior. As the two start their round they are neck and neck through the first nine holes. The coach wants it to be a close race all the way till the end so he can see who will perform best under the pressure to make the team but he doesn't know that the freshman has a secret weapon. Only the freshman has this secret weapon and it is a special putter given to him by his swing coach from back at home. He was told that this putter would make any putt from anywhere but it would only work for one putt so he needed to use it wisely. As the round is coming down the stretch the freshman is hanging in with the powerful senior and waiting for his time to use the powerful putter. They come to the last hole and they are all square. The senior thinks he will win for sure because it is is favorite hole on the course. Both players hit their drives in the fairway and then both on the green about 20 feet away. The freshman is just slightly closer than the senior so the senior putts for his birdie first and just barely misses. The senior thinks the freshman will miss his putt for sure and they will have to go to a playoff. The freshman knows it is his time to pull out the putter and make this final putt. He putts the putter out of the bag and everyone is confused. Why would he use a different putter on the most important putt of the day when he had been putting so good already. The freshman however knows what he is doing as he lines up the last putt. He hits the putt right at the hole and it of course goes right in the middle to beat the senior and win the final spot on the team.

(the final putt)

Final putt

This story is similar to how Rama used his special weapons to defeat Ravana and gain his wife, Sita, back. He would of never been able to defeat Ravana without the help of his special weapons and he used them at the perfect time so that he was for sured to win. 

Reading Notes: Part D

Ravana continues to use his special powers to one up Rama and hide Sita from him. This obviously still does not stop the pursuit of Sita by Rama. Garuda comes into the story and plays a big role for Rama being the healer. This could be huge of their group because he can help Rama's wounded soldiers gain their health again. Ravana continues to play mind games with Rama and make him feel like Sita has already been killed but Rama gets a tip from Vibhishana to find the right attacking point to find Ravana at his weakest. Ravana only wants to avenge his son's death in battle and will not stop till he finds Lakshmana. Rama and Ravana square off in the final fight but it has been plans the entire time that Ravana was gong to die at the hands of Rama. This would be a good story to write about as it was always in the destiny that Ravana was going to die and Rama got the help of the gods to do it. Rama finally becomes king after his fourteen years of exile. Sita is ended up in exile and it is weird ending to the story because she was why everyone worked so hard to gain in the first place. Rama realizes his time has come and he ends up going back heaven to be with his brother.

(Statue of Ravana)

Ravana

Kamban / R. K. Narayan, Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Guide D

Reading Notes: part C

I completed the reading and published a blog post with my notes


Part three opens up with some new characters and the traveling of existing characters. Rama gets a leader of his fan club with the new leader Sugriva but has to wait for the right season to go after his wife Sita. Finally they start on their quest to find Sita but it obviously is not going to be easy. Sita is finally found but it will not be easy to regain her from Ravana as he is trying to pursuade Sita to drop Rama. Hanuman has to find a time to talk to Sita but Sita is weary to talk because she does not know if Hanuman is just Ravana in a different form. Hanuman used the things Rama gave to show Sita that Rama was looking for her. Hanuman gets caught by Ravana and his people leading to ways they would get rid of Hanuman. Hanuman finally gets away from Ravana and goes back to Rama to tell of the news and to get a group to return to save Sita from Ravana. This is tough for Ravana because he knows war is coming if he does not give Sita back and this leads to turmoil in his close knit group. His brother ends up leaving him to ally with Rama and now there will be war over the wife of Rama, Sita.

(Picture of Hanuman)Hanuman

Kamban / R. K. Narayan, Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Guide C