Week 7: Reading Diary B

Points of interest:

• "You are my Rama. Whatever you do is right." -Sita... I wonder what her thoughts were when she was banished (p.306)
• Hanuman playfully tells Bharata that Rama is back (p. 309)
• Sita's response to Manthara is grace (p. 315)
• Sita gives Hanuman her pearls (p. 316)
• If only the book stopped here! (p. 317)
• Sita tells Rama she is pregnant (p. 319)
• Rama was pushing his advisers to tell him the bad things people were saying... Perhaps he wanted an excuse to send Sita away? (p. 320)
• Lakshmana was caught between being Rama's subject and Rama's brother (p. 321)
• Kaikeyi was 9 years old when she saved the king! (p. 323)
• Valmiki may have orchestrated things: "First bow to the King as to a father, for he is the father of all living people in this land>" Also, their actual biological dad (p. 334)
• Rama thought the boys were just like him-- they must have looked just like him! (p. 337)
• Rama cries (p. 338) when Sita is coming back
• Sita returning to the earth was a happy occasion (p. 341)
• "Janaka said, "There's no other person as brave as Rama." Viswamitra answered, "There's Sita." (p. 342)