In this section, there is a game of dice. Shakuni decides to
play. Yudhishthira loses everything he own in this dice game. Vidura says that the game needs to stop, but
it is not stopped. Yudhishthira keeps losing and gambles away his brothers,
himself, and Draupadi.
I think
this little excerpt provides the grounds for a fascinating story. I am from
Miami, Oklahoma, and we have many tribal headquarters in our town. Many of
these tribes have one, if not multiple, casinos under their ownership.
Therefore, Miami has more casinos than just about anything else. It is not
uncommon for people to spend their weekends by going to the casinos. Self admittedly,
going to the casinos is a fairly big deal when you turn eighteen in Miami as
there is not much else to do. As a result of this high casino population, it is
also not uncommon to see many people lose their savings by spending more than
what they have available. There have been multiple business that were forced to
close down as a result of the owner gambling away the rental payment or
operating funds. This story really finds familiarity for me and the town I am
from. I think it would be interesting to write a story based on this excerpt in
which a man gambles away all that he owns. Perhaps he could be someone of
fairly large stature in the community, and he losing everything as a result of
his competitive nature and this bad habit. It would also be interesting to include
a moral of some sort in which it is clear that you should only spend what you
have available and that it is not worth it to lose everything. IF length
permits, I could even add in how he rebounds from hitting the bottom and losing
it all.
Bibliography: Narayan's Mahabharata
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