week 14: The Girl Face Elephant

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Testing one to act out of character is a good way to see if their head strong or very influenced by other people around them. So, in this story their is a sweet ole elephant that is being played about him being to nice and sweet. Then one day his own demerer was switched by listening from a different points of view on how he was supposed to act. Hearing somebody talk about you and how you should be could hurt you as an individual.

Being in a situation where you have no control over it will drive a person crazy and usually after a person has did them bad activities comes to realize what they did was out of character. A person should not let other people effect them in away where things will be up going wrong. But this is a lot of the times people need to pick and choose their battles wisely.

Men: Aye why do you think the elephants is so big but so scared to do anything

• the men all laugh
• Men: I tell you guys all the time that just because a person is big does not mean they are what people perceive them to be.
• Different Men: I know, but i want to see some action

Days went by and the elephant sat there and thought about all the nasty thing those people said about him and how could he be so big and not do anything. But in reality that is not what the elephant wanted. But at the end of the day so many people will judge people off of their likings and well beings. Trying to think other people's problems helps brings out a person emotional and most of the time the do not need to be expressed.

Its crazy that a person can listen to a group of men and act the way they hear because they know no better. In this story an elephant lived in a stall and loved his owner but one nights his whole mind set changed. One night there were these men that jumped over the fence and they were trying to rob person and they said some of the nasites things you could think of. And the elephant not knowing any better liked what they were saying. In the elephants head he heard them say spare nobody, take their life, be mean and cruel. So, the next day the keeper of the elephant came of the see the animal and he attacked him with no warning then the other person heard him killing him and tried to help but ending up getting killed to. So, there was this one keeper that was trying to find out why the elephant was acting like this. And he was like maybe the elephant heard some bad things so of he was to bring positive people around him it might change the attitude of the elephant and to be honest that was all the elephant needed. Some positivity !

Author's Note: I think the author was really trying to preach a real life story that happened in their lifetime . We all know that human beings are very talked into things it is not that easy that things are happening. I think the author was trying to tell us that pressure is hard when a person is trying to prove something to people. And its crazy that after the elephant did what he did, People want to be confused on how the owner died, But all that nasty talking about him drove him up the wall. And after those men see what the elephant was capable of they felt so bad about what they said to each other the night before. I find this story fun to read because of the simply fact there are so many thrills that make a person be intact to it.

Week 6, Story:

Mayasura

This tale, tells about two people that go on a famous adventure and discovery so many new things they would of never thought. The first person they meet with is Maya the divine architect of gods. This name Maya stands for something so great and it is opposed to the feminine name Maya. It has more of a masculine meaning so it tends to have a different name. Mayasura has another story where he had befriended a snake named Takshaka and they lived in a area where they had friends and family. But when Pandavas came they burnt the entire forest down which caused the snake to run away and everything was dead in the forest. Krishna and Pandavas were some troublemakers, looking for some trouble to get into. So one night they seen this picnic going on and wanted to join, walking into that party they seen so many women that they fell inlove. In the party there were two mother boys named Draupadi and Subhadra that gave in to the females in that party simply because they was intoxicated. Later on, Krishna and Arjuna were telling stories when two men in ragged up clothes and the two of them thought these men were hero. Angi was a unique individual and did not just eat any kind of food, he was the god of fire so he could not just eat anything. After, eating so much Ghee it had made him sick where he was weak and pale. After, see Angi this way Krishna and Arjuna said they were going to help him if he was able to get them some weapons to carry on them. He provided them with some many weapons that they were ready for anything that would come their way. A great battle was sure to come and they were going to be ready for anything.

bibliography: The Burning of The Forest  

Week Story 2 The Mouse and The Snakes

Author Note: Orginal Text, Remake text below

Lovers and Friends

A mouse lived in the tall savanna grass in Africa all by itself. There was so many different creatures that roamed in this savanna grass. You never knew what to expect, so living out there so small anything was bound to happen. Two snakes lived just about half a mile away from the rest of the animals in the grass. Theses snakes had something up their sleeve, they were so determined to get the mouse away from it's safety zone. They did not mean no harm, but they thought it would be best if the mouse came with them and traveled a little bit, rather than being stuck in the village not knowing nothing for the rest of it's life. So, the mouse thought long and hard about making this decision and he thought it was the right one. Then, one this day they peered through the grass and seen the mouse out eating and yelled "Mouse Hey were going to be great friends one day and you can travel with us back to our tunnel.

: How am I able to, if I'm not allowed to leave ?"

"No worried about that we will help you move through the grass without being seen"

As a few days went by, the mouse sat there waiting for the snakes to come up with a good plan. Waiting on them to arrive the mouse looked at his surroundings.

Out of nowhere, "Hey Hey" (the snakes) Are you ready to go across the Savanna grass with us"

Mouse replied, "Yes I am, I finally get to have friends"

As, the mouse and Snake tried to move through the grass without being seen, some of the mouse that lived close to the mouse and seen him leaving! "Where are you going" "We see you leaving!!!!"

Looking back the mouse replied, "All you guys mind your business, I am finally getting from the danger zone, I will now live with my snake friends and be protected forever!" 

Within, 2 seconds a hawk comes down and grabs the mouse by the head and it kills him instantly. The two snakes started to move on, and heard the neighborhoods of the mouse say "Man he thought he was endangered here. but i guess not. Maybe next time he will listen to us.

Now, the moral of the story is not as deep as people might think it is. The moral or the story is not that the snakes had a master plan up their sleeve to get the mouse killed, but they wanted the mouse to get out his comfort zone and see what the real world was like, being enclosed in the same environment since birth the mouse did not know any better when dealing with the real world. So, to make the long story short, never let peer pressure , pressure you into doing something you know is wrong because at the end of the day you might end up dead like the mouse. 

Bibliography: "Turtle" by Ellworth Young. Website

"Week 2 Story" : Are you Really My Friend

Are You Really My Friend

This story reflects a story from the Jatakas reading specifically targeting The Crocodile in the River tale that was written. But in my story I talk about two friends "friendenemies" that go overboard when it comes to trying to either bully or "fake" love one another. The cat is the Pet of the Jones Family, so when the owners leave this gives the cat the opportunity to act up with the mouse. The love hate relationship is a nonstop continuous thing, so you would think the two friends would know where they stand at.

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Once upon a time there was a mouse and a cat who lived in a single household family with no regrets. In reality, everybody knows cats and mouse can not live together because one of them is considered supper but in this tale the mouse is to clever to accept the cats "fake gestures of friendship". These gestures lean toward death for the mouse, but he is always one up on the cat. Always out smarting the car, makes the cat frustrated where he at times wants to hurt himself.

In the Jones Household, the Cat roams around while the mouse lives between the walls. When the family leaves the house the mouse and cat start up, with breaking things, trying to hurt each other and acting like everything is civil when the Jones return.

On July 29 2005, the Jones family went of vacation for a whole week and within this week the mouse and cat have been through hell and back with trying to hurt each other. But on this very day things changed. All the holes the mouse had made appear to have a string blocking the doorway to enter the house.

(mouse)  *sticks head out of head "CATTTTT WHERE ARE YOU" 30 secs pass
(mouse) "CCCCAATTTTTT I CANT LEAVE ANY OF MY DOORWAYS IN THE HOUSE !
(cat) *laughing loud "hahahahahahahahaha"
what is it that you want? said the cat.
(mouse) why am i not able to leave my room?
(cat) becuase if you do, your head will be cut off!

Hearing that brought so much anger to the mouse, that the only friend he had in the house was trying to plot to kill him. The mouse thought it was all fun and games until on that particular day. So, the house knows the cat tries to grab him when he sees a opportunity, so the mouse goes in his room and makes a stuffed mouse. This mouse looked just like him. He dangled the mouse close to the string then BOOMMMMMMM the cat's hand is chopped off !

Friends are also tricky, so you have to pick and choose which friends have there best interest in you, because a lot of friends are backstabbers. Keeping a small friend circle is the best way to stay out of drama. 

Moral of the story: Do not try to outsmart the smart or act like a friend towards a person. Because in the end the person who tried will be the one to lose in the end.

Hey Pal

Bibliography Source to Different Stories like this one:

This is an anthology of Buddhist Jataka stories from ancient India.