Reading Notes: The Boy Whom Seven Mothers Suckled Part A

For my reading this week, I decided to step out of the Life with Buddha stories and check out the Bengali stories in the unit. After reading all nine of the units, I decided to point my focus on the story, The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled because the story kind of operates like a love triangle but in a twisted and evil way. The story begins with the King being told about this mango tree where if he plucked each of the seven mangoes and gave them to his seven queens then they will all produce children for him. He then meets a lady who captures his attention and deems her worthy to be a queen but little does he know she is what they call a Rakshasi which pretty much means she is not a human but rather some kind of witch who had charmed the king into making his queens blind and left to starve so they resort to eating their babies. One of the queens on the other hand spared her child and so with the help of the other queens they nurtured and suckled the boy to become stronger than ever.
    As the story continues, the boy becomes older and begins to serve the king since the Rakshasi ate the whole royal family and servants. The Rakshasi then realizes that the boy is still around and wants to do everything in her power to get rid of him. In my story, I would perfectly recreate a love triangle involving two people and re-tool the setting to be modern day because it perfectly reflects the things people would do for love. I would have a rakshasi, a king, and the boy become characters of their own in my story and then i would also enlists some of the same traits that were used for the Rakshasi for the main character who would portray my rakshasi along with some of the love smitten traits used for the king. With some other minor adjustments, I think that this story might come out even better than some previous stories that I have written earlier in the class.
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(photo: Love Triangle)
 Bibliography: The Boy Whom Seven Mothers Suckled by Rev. Lal Behari Day Web Source                           

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