Storybook Plan
Theme:
The main character just died and we see them meet the accountant, Chitragupta, and talk about their death and where they are. This will probably be mostly dialogue and have similar themes as The Good Place tv show. One of the main themes in the show is how complicated karma is in the real world, so the main goal with my storybook would be to show how complicated karma is through these stories and to show how karma is applied to samsara and rebirth in Hinduism.
The character will probably question how their actions were calculated. One story would look at an instance in the main character's life where their actions were paid off in that lifetime. The next story would look at an instance where actions in the past were not been paid off in the previous life and will apply to their next life. The stories will include actions from the original stories that seem like good ones that end up with bad consequences or vice versa.
I was thinking about formatting the storybook like a screenplay because I liked how easy to follow it was in my week 4 story. Both stories rely heavily on dialogue and I often get bored with third person narratives and confused when they contain too much dialogue. It also could be really interesting if I use twine technology and made this a second person story where Chitragupta is talking to you the reader and the reader gets some choices of what to say and ask certain questions about karma, death, and rebirth that lead to answers that tell the story of the characters and how karma worked out for them.
Characters:
Chitragupta: Playing the role of Michael in The Good Place.
Chitragupta is the karma accountant that keeps track of the karma of humans.
Krishna: Possible main character.
Stories: Krishna's death, Gandhari curses Krishna, Bhagavad-Ghita
Yudhishthira: Possible main character.
Stories: His journey to hell. Maybe this is right after that.
Rishi Mudgala/Nalayani/Draupadi: Possible main character.
Stories: Examples and stories of multiple rebirths.
Stories: Examples and stories of multiple rebirths.
Bibliography:
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita, rendered into English verse by Edwin Arnold (1885)
Nalayani: The Past Life of Draupadi, by Satya Chaitanya
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