Week 6: Reading Diary A (The Rescue of Sita Continues)

Buck's Ramayana
Pages 219-270

• News of Jatayu's death by Ravana is told to his brother Sampati. How does he feel at this time? What could be going on in his mind?
• Hanuman's thought process about being the one chosen to make the leap.
• Hanuman's journey inside the rakshasha and at the same time, what about the rakshasha?
• Hanuman's journey as a cat.
• This curse that Lanka speaks of, explain it. What Lanka is doing prior to Hanuman's entrance in the city?
• What does Ravana's wife think of all this that is going on?
• Vayu leads Hanuman towards where Ashoka is but prior to that how is Hanuman doing? What is going on with him?
• Sita's dream with Rama in it - possible story.
• Sita and Ravana's interaction when Ravana comes to seduce her but she doesn't encourage anything and Ravana gets annoyed and leaves. When the guards start scaring Sita, she is starting to despair. What is this time like?
• Hanuman bringing chaos in Lanka, how does this look to everyone else? How did he feel when he was captured? - Possible story
• What about his escape and when he returns with good news that he has found Sita?

Hanuman jumping across the ocean

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