Our efforts at Dornix park hold the familiar flavor as the efforts in our book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", by the Guppees and Chupwalas as they worked around the Sea of Stories. Each have different reasons for their attentions, and each reason is reflected back into what we ourselves are experiencing and feeling. We just have to relies it and embrace it.
The Guppees see the Sea of Stories as a mark with there past. The old zone holds all of the old, ancient, original stories. They revive the sea of stories to make it knew, fresh, and usable. They take pride in taking care of the Sea of Stories and all that is associated with it. People have been drawn to the Dornix site for various reasons, though among them is the reason that that is where Big Timber was originally developed though they had to move the site due to an inconvenience with the rail road. It is a link with our past and the things that we crave to know. By working and restoring Dornix to a usable, enjoyable place, we bring ourselves closer to the past, the same as the Guppees bring themselves closer to those of their past through the Sea of Stories.
The Chupwalas, after their evil leader is overthrown, would probably feel a priority towards the Sea of Stories after their leader did, in fact, nearly destroy it. Because, in their minds, they would be mildly responsible for the destruction and would feel a need to correct it. Some people feel a guilt that Dornix went so long unattended that they want to restore it to a glory that people are mildly responsible for letting it slip into. Even if they are not able to make it back into the town it was, they feel that they can change it into something where everyone in town can enjoy.
Personally, I don't feel any guilt that Dornix deteriorated into something that is some one's back pasture. However, we do have a need for the kinds of things that Dornix can offer to us. I find it fulfilling to go to Dornix and help out, even if it is just raking up wood chips. There is a sense of good that fills you when you help with something so important, something that could carry on past any of the people that live in Big Timber. Sometimes I wonder if some of the people who worked on creating places like Yellowstone National Park had the same feeling as this.
All in all, our work at Dornix park relates to the feelings that are bouncing around our book. To them and to me, it is worth wild to preserve what we have, restore what we had, and appreciate all that comes with it. We are so lucky to have a community that does pitch in and create places where we can enjoy ourselves and be closer to our past.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Guppees and the Chupwalas
On the earth's second moon, Kahani, the two groups of people show their differences. there are the Guppees who live in Gup City and are bright people who enjoy peace, sunshine, and chatter. The Chupwalas live on the other side of the moon where there is complete darkness. These people are gloomy, grim, and silent with a few violent members.
What, as a work of literature, do these two factions represent? There are many answers, good and evil, dark and light, happy and sad, or is it anything but the appearance of subjects on the surface verses the deeper "personality".
While the Guppees have am energetic prince that they won't even let rule anything important, the Chupwalas have Khattam-Shud, a cruel dictator, bent of destroying the story streams and other acts of violence. A Hitler-like dictatorship is the last thing that the moon,Kahani, wants. With him as leader, the whole world would suffer from poisoned stories.
To save the ocean and all who "subscribe" to the story water, the old zone has to be secured because it is the life-blood of the ocean of stories. The oldest and most original of stories flow from the old zone and is in fact the heart of the ocean of stories. It represents the original, the pure, and all that is pure and good.
What, as a work of literature, do these two factions represent? There are many answers, good and evil, dark and light, happy and sad, or is it anything but the appearance of subjects on the surface verses the deeper "personality".
While the Guppees have am energetic prince that they won't even let rule anything important, the Chupwalas have Khattam-Shud, a cruel dictator, bent of destroying the story streams and other acts of violence. A Hitler-like dictatorship is the last thing that the moon,Kahani, wants. With him as leader, the whole world would suffer from poisoned stories.
To save the ocean and all who "subscribe" to the story water, the old zone has to be secured because it is the life-blood of the ocean of stories. The oldest and most original of stories flow from the old zone and is in fact the heart of the ocean of stories. It represents the original, the pure, and all that is pure and good.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Slide show.
The slide show depics several events out of indian liturature, expecialy the book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie. Also, there is refrences to different Indian traditions. First Haroun Al-Rashid is the main character out of "Haround and The Sea of Stories". The Hoopee is the bird that takes Haroun and the watter Genie (also depicted) to the second moon where the Sea of Stories is. The Assyrian Lion and winged Monkeys were passed over as mounts to the moon. In the story, Haroun and his father are staying on the Dal lake, spelled
D U L L. In the stories that Haroun's father tells of African gold mines, Mount Fuji, North Pole, and Bagdad which are all settings for his wonderful stories.
Other traditional stories are the Arabian Nights. In those are Aladin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad which feautures the mythical creature Roc.
The Mudra is one of the traditional hand gestures used in meditations.
Also depicted is the song, "I am the Walrus"
, Abhinaya, Satyajit Ray, and Goopy.
D U L L. In the stories that Haroun's father tells of African gold mines, Mount Fuji, North Pole, and Bagdad which are all settings for his wonderful stories.
Other traditional stories are the Arabian Nights. In those are Aladin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad which feautures the mythical creature Roc.
The Mudra is one of the traditional hand gestures used in meditations.
Also depicted is the song, "I am the Walrus"
, Abhinaya, Satyajit Ray, and Goopy.Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What's the use?
"What's the use of stories that aren't even true?" This quote comes from Salman Rushdie's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. It does make us wonder though, why do we continually create and tell stories that are not even true? The books of fiction give us incite into another world and into anther's life. Stories are often used as teaching aids by adults to send a message on to the younger generations. Also, because people have become so far advanced in technology and our lives have become so much easier, we have time to make-believe and have time to enjoy the stories that originate from there.
In a story, we are given incite and anything is possible. The good guy always gets the reward and the bad guy always ends up being punished. I don't know anyone who does not look into a book and wonders, "What would happen if I was in her place?" Things we can never imagine happening become real and valid and we see how it happens. For instance, when our class read The Power Of One I was able to see what the life of an English boy living among the mixed races in South Africa would have felt during his life. I have never been to South Africa, I have never done research on South Africa, and I probably will never go to South Africa, but I know now the heart and mind of one such boy.
Throughout time, adults have told teaching stories to educate and warn the young. The "Boogie Man" is one such story used to teach young children to behave. But stories are not only told to frighten children into behaving. Aesop told a multitude of stories that mealy taught a lesson such as, "Be kind to your elders", "Don't treat someone in a way you wouldn't want to be treated", and "Don't tell lies because when you are telling the truth, no one will believe you." Stories hold the attentions of the young and delivers a lesson in a way that they understand better than just having the lesson told to them.
Just looking at the hundreds of books that exist in our world, we must surmise that all of them are not for teaching. As history has gone by, it has become obvious that our lives are getting easier due to the fact that we no longer have to worry about surviving from one day to the next. The invention of and the wide use of the TV give evidence to the fact that we now have leisure. On average, people spend over five hours a day watching TV, and most of that comprises of sitcoms. As humans we find pleasure and humor in the telling and hearing of stories.
All in all, we have many uses for telling stories. I for one would be lost without a good book at hand to take me into a foreign land and lets me ride a dragon. Sometimes I find the characters in a book, just as real as those people around me.
In a story, we are given incite and anything is possible. The good guy always gets the reward and the bad guy always ends up being punished. I don't know anyone who does not look into a book and wonders, "What would happen if I was in her place?" Things we can never imagine happening become real and valid and we see how it happens. For instance, when our class read The Power Of One I was able to see what the life of an English boy living among the mixed races in South Africa would have felt during his life. I have never been to South Africa, I have never done research on South Africa, and I probably will never go to South Africa, but I know now the heart and mind of one such boy.
Throughout time, adults have told teaching stories to educate and warn the young. The "Boogie Man" is one such story used to teach young children to behave. But stories are not only told to frighten children into behaving. Aesop told a multitude of stories that mealy taught a lesson such as, "Be kind to your elders", "Don't treat someone in a way you wouldn't want to be treated", and "Don't tell lies because when you are telling the truth, no one will believe you." Stories hold the attentions of the young and delivers a lesson in a way that they understand better than just having the lesson told to them.
Just looking at the hundreds of books that exist in our world, we must surmise that all of them are not for teaching. As history has gone by, it has become obvious that our lives are getting easier due to the fact that we no longer have to worry about surviving from one day to the next. The invention of and the wide use of the TV give evidence to the fact that we now have leisure. On average, people spend over five hours a day watching TV, and most of that comprises of sitcoms. As humans we find pleasure and humor in the telling and hearing of stories.
All in all, we have many uses for telling stories. I for one would be lost without a good book at hand to take me into a foreign land and lets me ride a dragon. Sometimes I find the characters in a book, just as real as those people around me.
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