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Storytelling Week 4
Title: HEAR HEAR! Harold, the Invasive King
Story: NEWS FLASH! The great king Harold is now invading the Sooner tribe. This people group was once rich in their beautiful forestry and pastures of the Boomer. These people travelled to and from and were wanderers in the land. BUT A TWIST HAPPENS! These people suddenly suffer from a great disease called Crimson Disease and suddenly they are dropping at rapid rates. This kind then targeted this community and decides to invade at a weak, weak time of their existence even though they were his own people. "Now is the time", he proposes. "Now is the time to go in and win the battle they can no longer fight." Though Harold had supplied the food for these Sooners for every winter, he betrayed them. No doubt.
He was everything in regards to provision.
He brought ALL of the food and rivers they needed! He was completely aware of this and took the utmost advantage of the disease to finally rid of them once and for all, simply for his own pleasure. Though he had power to do all the good for the vegetable people, he chose to often times do the opposite, simply because he could. At many points in history, he even killed the Texas giant and slaughtered the Pigs. He was faithful to the people, regardless of where he came from. But gods tend to do what gods want to do, and he was felt it was time for a test to come upon the people of the Sooner tribe.
It is possible he has pressure from other gods to finally do something to even out the goodness and evil he expressed. This we will never know for sure, for gods business is their business and mere mortals only know so much. The Sooners lived near and under the Boomer hills and this is where he intended to slice through them and do a good amount of destruction.
He planned the day, the hour and the minute he would strike his "thunder strike" from the heavens above. He was preparing to make his strike, when he realized he couldn't do it. He just couldn't. But justice had to be served somehow! How? How could he do no harm but still serve justice? So he decided to take it out on the grass instead. The wind comes sweeping down the Boomer hills and he could wait until the wind was sweeping through the town and send a flame from the bolt to light the grass on fire. He knew this would be damaging for a while, and hurt them for a while. But the Sooners were so good at agriculture and farming that they would be able to restore their lands in no time.
Bibliography: Mackenzie, D. A. (2014). Indian myth and legend. Delhi, India: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
Author's Note: I started with the story from Indian Myth and Legend called "Indra, King of the Gods", located in chapter one of the book. The story is about Indra, who has many functions as a god. He is the caretaker, god of fertility, Hammer god and many other things. He is pressured by other gods to be different for a certain time to the village. I renamed it "Harold, the Invasive King" and used OU references as an example of the people he oppressed with his hammer or axe, but gave a twist that he actually couldn't do it because he was kind for so long and could not change his kindness for them.
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Marla, I didn't know you were in this class! I was happy to stumble along your story! I liked how you framed it like it was a newspaper article, I thought that was a really neat way to draw in your reader. Also, your many Oklahoma references brought a smile to my face. I liked your comparisons between Indra and Harold, and I also really liked the twist that Harold couldn't bring himself to harm the Sooners permanently. Good job!
ReplyDeleteHey Marla! I like how you edited certain things to have emphasis. I think it is cool how you try to make your text be uppercase in certain situations and that this grabs the readers attention. You can tell you personalized this story with passion as you mention things from Oklahoma. Is there any chance there is an image that you could use that is more clear? I like how it fits with the newspaper idea but it is kind of hard to see.Honestly great work!
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