Week 4 - Reading Diary A

This story starts off in a much different tone then the first story. Sita is about to kill herself because Rama has exiled her for things people have said about her. Its interesting to get to read a kind of prologue to the first story. We are given more details about life before Rama was born. And more details about his early life. The story also speaks of how Ravana was born and some of the early battles he encountered while trying to enslave the gods before Rama was born. The story switches between the past and the present. The present being when the twins recite the story of the past and then retelling it al the way until Rama and Sita's courtship and marriage.