Story Planning: The Green Eyed Monster

(Sarabha saving the king)

I want to write a story about greed as a person. I’d like to have greed be the narrator maybe and talk about some of the instances where he has overtaken people such as the king in the sabala story. I want to include other stories we’ve read this semester as well. I think since it is all about greed when a person gets consumed with greed have their eyes turn green. I want to research through all the stories I have read so far and find the instances where greed consumed a character. I then need to really analyze those characters and find out everything they gave up. In the end I want to have Sarabha break Greed’s winning streak of overpowering people till they eventually end or waste their lives.

Styles:

Here in Oklahoma- This would be fun but I am afraid I’d change too much of the stories I am planning on retelling that my peers from class wouldn’t recognize them. However, it would be a very relatable story since everyone is so familiar with campus.

Stories for children- This would be fun to do since I got the idea of writing this story while reading a children’s book. At the same time though my readers are college students so I don’t know how much they’d be interested in that.

Courtroom Trial- I think this would be a really great setting for my story. Mainly because I am reviewing all the instances where Greed was responsible for someone’s death or loss of everything. Maybe the characters that died I could have their ghosts come back and speak as witnesses against Greed. I could even have one of my old characters, Detective Meena, come back to prove Greed is guilty.

Character sketch:

Greed: boastful, arrogant

Sarabha: wise, beautiful, strong

Pictures:

I want to find photos that really show the characters filled with greed. I think that would make the photo of Sarabha helping the king even more powerful.



Bibliography: My reading notes and The Sarabha