The Handsome King of the Apes
I like this section as a set-up for the rest of the stories that are to come, especially in retrospect as I have read some of the following stories. This one might be fun for a rewrite because there are a lot of opportunities that a small change might make interesting. I was thinking it would be fun, too, to possibly look at adding an adventure filled aspect that talks about someone finding the egg and giving it more of a background.
The great and handsome king of the apes. Source: Pixabay
The Great Sea
This story was interesting, but I didn't feel like it really had an ending that summed anything up. I know that it is technically a part of a collection that is better than it standing alone, but I thought that it might be fun to rewrite it in a way that allows it to be more independent. For that reason, for a rewrite, I would probably want to change it to where we know if the Monkey King got what he was looking for and there would also be more details about how he came to find this key to a long life.
Sun Wu Kung Gets His Name
I like the way that this story explains how the Monkey King came into contact with the woodchopper. It might be fun for a rewrite to add an aspect of trickery in this where the woodchopper were to act as if he were in fact the saint that the King was looking for. I also like the idea of adding a letter aspect where the Monkey King could write to the saint and make his request in that format. I am not sure which direction I will go with this one, but both seem promising.
The Master
I wonder if, for a rewrite, I could incorporate something into this to where the Monkey King did in fact find a way to gain eternal life. It also would be fun to rewrite it in such a way that the Monkey King received some kind of punishment or some reason to regret not being willing to take all of the things that the master offered to him.
Learning the Art
I think a fun rewrite for this one would be to modernize it a little bit and make it to where it is very obviously a training camp for him to learn these skills. I would use a boot camp type style and write in a way that showed how difficult and strenuous it was for him to achieve what he wanted.
Sun Wu King Departs
After having finished his training and seeing his hard work pay off, I would want to use this option to have the Monkey King write a letter to someone back home from his journey. This would be a good opportunity to have him show what he has gone through to complete his task and how tough the journey is in a very personal way.
The Devil-King
For my rewrite on this, I would want to write it in such a way that it is from the Devil-King. It would be written from the perspective of the demon so that he could follow the Monkey King and express why he dislikes him and wants to fight him so much from his own perspective.
The Dragon-King
This story had the same effect for me as the Devil-King one did. I'm not sure what to do with this one for a rewrite because it was not my favorite so I probably would not use it as a retelling option.
The Dragon-Queen
This piece was also interesting and I like the way that it fit in and continued to show the great monkey king's power over everyone. I think it would be fun to rewrite this in a way that changed what the rod could do. Instead of growing and shrinking, I would write about it so that it could make people do things they didn't necessarily want to do.
The Nether World
This is another one that I'm not really sure how I would incorporate into a retelling of. I could do something with the dream that he had and change that in some way or even somehow change how the realization came to him of what he had to do to prevent his people from dying.
Bibliography
R. Wilhelm's Monkey King Unit
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