Epics of India

I thought the reading for this week was very interesting. I enjoy reading a lot of the shorter Jataka tales where the stories themselves are simple but they messages they can convey are deep and powerful. Each one gives a different perspective on a variety of human interactions and emotions, and they also give a different perspective on what it means to be human, as often the stories are described using animals. I didn’t do a lot of writing this week, but I did thoroughly enjoy reading through Eden’s blog.. She’s taken a similar approach to me in her writing, often trying to intermingle Greek mythology and our Indian epics, and she’s done a wonderful job with it. I enjoyed the way each story flowed into the next, as well as the emphasis she put on the difficult moments each of her characters experienced. Things in my other classes are somewhat interesting right now. I’ve only recently heard from most of my professors, and while some of them have proven themselves to be fairly adept a...