As the two dogs, Penny and Buddy, sat in the back of the car
they couldn’t feel more like royalty. Their owners had just picked them up from
the groomers and now they were hanging with their heads out the window as the
cool wind flew through their fur. They knew their fur was as shiny as a brand-new
chew toy. They knew they were softer than the grass in the spring. For Penny
even had a new shiny bell on her collar and Buddy was wearing a bandana.
Just as the dogs were feeling their
selves, their owner said, “We aren’t going home pups, instead we are going to a
friend of mine’s house.” This was new to both of them for they never got to go
to friend’s houses.
As they arrived at the friend’s
house, the two were bombarded with compliments as to how good they looked. This
was no surprise to the dog’s though for they knew of their beauty. Soon after
arriving, the dogs were told that they were going to make a friend of their own
as the dogs were let outside to the yard.
At this moment, Bosco heard nothing
but the sound of Penny’s bell from her collar. As he turned around, he had
never seen a more beautiful dog. For Bosco could see the white as snow fur
glistening in the sunset of this warm winter night.
At the same time that Bosco saw
Penny, she also saw him and thought to herself “I’ve never seen a more rugged,
manly dog.” As Penny too was attracted to Bosco.
Trying to keep it cool, Bosco began
to play with the new friends of his and even shared some of his toys with them.
For Bosco knew that in order to make a good impression on Penny, he must be
cool to Buddy as well. The three got along great and ran around the yard for
what seemed like forever, until finally Penny and Buddy’s owner gathered them
up to leave.
As they left, both Bosco and Penny
became sad though they tried not to show it. Bosco just laid around outside as
he usually does, but Penny upon reaching home did something unusual for her.
She begged her owner to let her out into their yard. Without knowing it, both
dogs began to look up at the same time in the moonlit sky with millions of
stars out.
Penny and Bosco both howled at the
moon longing to hang with the other one for they had such a connection that
they both felt the love in their heart for each other. At the time of the howl,
a shooting star whizzed by the moon as fast as ever, and they both felt a comfort
that they knew each other was looking at the moon feeling the same love for
each other.
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| I found this image on SketchPort to symbolize Bosco looking at the moon. |
Author’s Note:
This story is based on that of Sita from the Ramayana book.
In this story Rama, a prince, and Sita, a princess, fall in love by meeting in
a garden. Rama was known to be exquisite for he was full of high quality
materials to make him very attractive to women, which made people realize that
he and his brother as well would be good fits for Sita. In the story, Rama is
trimming flowers in the garden when he hears a jingle in which he turned as saw
Sita whom he immediately fell in love with. Neither of them exchanged a word
before one of Sita’s companions made her leave. Upon her way home, she decided
to stop at the goddess Bhavani’s house, where she prayed to find if this was
real love which was followed by a sign that it was. Rama also felt the love for
at night he confessed to the moon how beautiful he found Sita. Although my
story varies and uses dogs instead of humans, the idea of two falling into love
remains the same. In my version, I use Bosco to symbolize Rama, Penny to
symbolize Sita, and Buddy to represent Sita’s companions. Although the stories
are very similar, I used to different objects to replace each other as well
such as the bell on Penny’s collar representing the bangles on Sita’s feet. I
felt that since both Rama and Sita wanted signs of the love they felt, I would
use a common object such as the moon for the confirmation, which Rama used as
well in the original story. Overall, I used dogs to make the story more
relatable and modern, yet the principle of two lover’s finding each other for
the first time remains the same.
Bibliography:
The story of Sita from the Ramayana comes from The Divine Archer by F. J. Gould (1911). [600 words] This selection comes from Gould's versions of the Ramayana which is based both on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana but also on Tulsidas's Hindi Ramayana
Hi Gavin! I really like how you remixed the story and used dogs. It made it so much fun to read! The story was very descriptive which made it easy to picture what was going on. It was also easy to tell that this was based off Rama and Sita which was really nice. While I was reading this, I actually the thought the royal dogs would be snobs but was surprised when they turned out to be friendly. The title is very clever! I would have never thought of it myself. Your explanation is really good too! Using dogs definitely made the story relatable cause who doesn't like dogs right? I look forward to seeing what happens next to these two pooches! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteHowdy, I enjoyed reading your story, and think that the use of dogs as the characters made this story very relatable to most people. I think it can be difficult at times to read through these Indian epics, and often find myself looking things up as I read (which i guess is not a bad thing, but still makes it more of an effort than reading more Western stories).I liked the dogs felt like royalty in theback of the car, that really made me laugh. You made it very clear who the characters were representative of, I especially liked the description of Penny. I knew right away that Penny was in the place of Sita.
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