Reading Notes: More Jataka Tales A


Figure 1: Depiction of a Battle Wikimedia

I think I would like to write a story about how the monkey saves his troop. Specifically, I want to reuse the lion boy from my first story. I think that casting him in the role of a leader would be a nice form of progression for his character.  I also want an opportunity to use his unique claw sword again. I'll mention that he has been killing dragons during the time that he has been growing up, and open with that before an enemy kingdom comes to conqueror his small village for its mangoes. Obviously, I'll make the king a cannibal and a fruit obsessed madman. Lion boy (Jaka Singh) will then evacuate his village, before doing battle with the enemy army and defeating much of them. He will then tell them to run, lest they suffer the fate of a penny-wise monkey. He will tell them not to try to get so little, causing them to back off.

More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbit

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