Story Planning: A Trusted Friend

Kanni the Unlucky
This story is about Kanni who is very unlucky until he finds his childhood friend who is a king. The king brings him into his home and give him a job. He begins to regard Kanni as family and he trusts him immensely. The kings business partners told the king he should not trust Kanni. The king did not listen to his advisors and continued to trust Kanni. One day the king had to take a trip and he gave Kanni the keys to his house so he could look after it. Kanni overheard some burglars talking about robbing the house and he began to come up with a plan to defend the house. He gave the workers instruments and they were all very loud. The burglars heard this and feared that the king had returned home already so they fled. The next morning the kings advisors found the weapons and footprints of the burglars and were amazed that Kanni could be trusted.

Source: Book is available in the reserves of the Bizzell Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Margie Sastry, V.B. Halbe, and Anant Pai

This story was very interesting to me because the king had full faith in his friend even though his advisors were telling him not to trust the guy. I think this is an amazing testament to how a good friend can be trusted over anything. I think that a good friend is one of the most valuable things a person could have. Therefore, I would like to write a story about a friend that is reliable and can always be counted on. I think my main goal of this story is to be detailed. In my past stories I have struggled to be very detail oriented. This has been a comment on many of my posts so I would like to use this last story to correct my bad habits. I just want to write one fairly entertaining story that is grammatically correct and jammed full of details.

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Storytelling: Never Trust A Longhorn

This is the story of the University of Oklahoma football team.

The year was 2014 and the Sooners started their season off strong. They were led by this new guy named Baker and a trustworthy receiver named Sterling. They were the strongest and smartest football team around. They were so good that they did not fit in with the other teams in the Big 12 and they thought that they were destined for a championship.

Until one weekend they took a trip to a sketchy place called the Cotton Bowl. This is where they ran into the ever so deceitful Longhorns. The Longhorns were not good people and they were known for their greedy and selfish acts, such as the Longhorn Network. The Longhorns had a history of being bad at football and they were especially down when they met the Sooners in the Cotton Bowl. When they ran into each other the Longhorns found out that the Sooners' power was stored in the bill of Bob Stoops’ trusty visor. With this knowledge they realized how valuable that visor was.

In the first half the Longhorns ripped off a small portion of Bob’s visor and began playing well. They took this part of the visor and were able to get an advantage over the Sooners. As the game progressed the Sooners' began noticing changes in their capabilities as players. The offensive line could not block as well, the corners could not defend as well, and the fans could not cheer as loud. The Longhorns' got a substantial lead on the Sooners' but that was not near enough for their greedy coach, Charlie Strong. He wanted more of Bob’s visor and he knew just how he could get it. Strong waited until Bob got pissed at the obviously terrible officiating crew and threw his visor to the ground. This was the perfect opportunity needed for the Longhorns to steal the rest of the Sooners' power. After the Sooners' lost their power they were unable to do anything to stop the Longhorns that day. The defense could not tackle the Longhorns' sneaky quarterback. The Sooners' offense suffered injuries and could not even piece together a first down. The Longhorns greedily ran the ball up and down the field under the hot Texas sun until eventually the game was over.

However, the Longhorns forgot to take into account that the Football Gods were watching this Red River Shootout. The Football Gods decided to punish the dirty Longhorns for their rude actions against the Sooners. The Longhorns were punished with a terrible rest of the season. The Football Gods were going to punish the Longhorns more but they decided not to because they already had to wear that ugly burnt orange. The Football Gods decided to give the Sooners their football powers back along with Bob’s visor. However, this was no ordinary visor, this was a magic gold visor that would give the Sooners the skill they needed to win the Big 12. This visor would also help the Sooners make it to the College Football Playoffs. Boomer!

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Author's Note: I wrote this story with the inspiration from A Jataka Tale comic book titled Elephant Stories. This story is about an elephant that is a little different than all the other elephants in his group so he decided to go away on his own. He goes out of the forest (Cotton Bowl) where he is met by a stranger who finds out how valuable the elephants ivory (Bob’s Visor) is. The man asks the elephant for some of his tusk because he is in financial trouble and the elephant lets him take it. He then goes and sells it and blows all the money. He then comes back and tricks the elephant by saying he paid his debts but now has no money to live. The elephant believes him and gives him the rest of his tusk. The elephant lets this happen and then realizes that the tusk is where he gets his wisdom. As the man leaves he is killed by God for being greedy (Texas Sucking) and then God gives the elephant extraordinary gold tusks (Bob's gold visor). I kept the general concept from the original story but I changed many of the details by making this story more about football.

Source:Jataka tales of Nobility: Elephant Stories found in the reserves in the Bizzell Memorial Library on the campus of     the University of Oklahoma. By: Lakshmi Lal, Ashok Dongre, and Anant Pai