Week 5 Reading Diary A: Shurpanakha We Meet Again

This is a Reading Diary that details my thoughts from pages 110-116 of the Ramayana retold by William Buck.  

• I guess if you were going to have your kingdom wrongfully taken away from you, Bharata is the best person to receive it.  
• Aren't these people alive for like 60,000+ years?  14 years of exile seems pretty short..
• Dantes was imprisoned for 14 years in The Count of Monte Cristo.  Ironic.  
• Ooooh.  A warning about the dangerous demon Ravana.  Foreshadowing…
• Is Sita just there to get abducted?  
• A main difference between these two tales are the demons.  There are a lot more demon stories in this version.  
• I can't stand Shurpanakha.  
• I didn't like Shurpanakha in the earlier version, and this part of the epic is basically the same.  So I still don't like her. 

(Rama Spurns The Demon Lover from Wikipedia.)