NARRATIVE TEXT SINGKAT

NARRATIVE TEXT SINGKAT

The Legend of Rawa Pening

Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village. He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.

Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The “lesung” was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy continued his journey. While he was passing through the village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He 

could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.

The Monkeys and The Cap Seller

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there.
When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head. They had evidently done it to imitate him

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he begun to make gesture, the monkeys also imitated him.

At last he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw the caps down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

The Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile

One day there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he saw a crocodile so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side of the river. The crocodile agree and told the monkey to jump on its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river with the monkey on his top.

Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stopped in the middle of the river and said to the monkey, “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the monkey. So he will be healthy again.”

At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard. Then he had a good idea. He told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank. “What’s for?” asked the crocodile. “Because I don’t bring my heart,” said the monkey. “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.”

The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back. Then he climbed up to the top of a tree.
“Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” said the monkey to the crocodile. “Now I am free and I have my heart.”

THE CURSE OF MINTIN ISLAND`S KING

Long time ago, there was a kingdom in the Mintin Island at the Khayan downstream. The kingdom was famous of it`s king`s wisdom. So, the kingdom became safety and prosperous.

One day, the king`s queen passed away. Since that time the king looked gloomy and so sad. This condition made him ran the government unwell. At the same time, king`s health was getting worst. To solve this, the king wanted to sail overseas to entertain his heart. To continue the government, the king gave his power to his twin son named dragon and crocodile. They accepted their king desire. Since the king was gone, his two son were governing the kingdom. But unfortunately newly problem was arising.

Both of king`s sons had different character. Dragon had negative character like to revel, drink and gamble. But crocodile had positive character like to help, friendly and humble. Watching what the dragon had done to waste the kingdom, crocodile was getting angry. Because it was so difficult ro advise dragon, so the crocodile got angry with dragon. But he didn`t listen to crocodile. That fight now became a war. Kingdom`s armies was divided into two groups. Some of them belong to the dragon, and other crocodile. The war more awful and ate so many victims.

In his sail, the king had a bad feeling. So he changed his ship direction to return the kingdom. What a surprise when he saw his twin sons was fighting. He said, “You have wasted my trust to you. With this war, you have suffered citizens, so you have to punished. Crocodile, become a real crocodile and live in the water. Because your few mistake, so you can stay in this territory. Your job is to keep Mintin Island safe. And you, dragon, became a real dragon. Because of your big mistake you will stay at kapuas river. Your job is take care kapuas river is growed by Bantilung mushroom.