Narrative Text

The Crying Stone

In a small village, a girl lives with her mother. The girl is very beautiful. Everyday she puts make-up and wears her best clothes. She doesn’t like to help her mother work in a field. The girl is very lazy.

One day, the mother asks the girl to accompany her to go to the market to buy some food. At first the girl refuses, but the mother persuades her by saying they are going to buy new clothes. The girl finally agrees. But she asks her mother to walk behind her. She doesn’t want to walk side by side with her mother. Although her mother is very sad, she agrees to walk behind her daughter.

On the way to the market, everybody admires the girl’s beauty. They are also curious. Behind thebeautiful girl, there is an old woman with a simple dress. The girl and her mother look very different!

“Hello, pretty lady. Who is the woman behind you?” asks them.

“She is my servant,” answers the girl.

The mother is very sad, but she doesn’t say anything.

The girl and the mother meet other people. Again they ask who the woman behind the beautiful girl. Again the girl answers that her mother is her servant. She always says that her mother is her servant every time they meet people.

At last, the mother cannot hold the pain anymore. She prays to God to punish her daughter. God answers her prayer. Slowly, the girl’s leg turns into stone. The process continues to the upper part of the girl’s body. The girl is very panicky.

“Mother, please forgive me!” she cries and ask her mother to forgive her.

But it’s too late. Her whole body finally becomes a big stone. Until now people still can see tears falling down the stone. People then call it the crying stone or batu menangis.

Story Map

1. Title   :  The Crying Stone

2. Type  :  Legends

3. Theme  :  Girl who rebel against mother

4. Characters  :  
    ~Mayor   =    A girl    ->  Fainthearted, arrogant, cavalier, and lazy

               Mother  ->  Lovely and patient

    ~Minor    =   All human  ->  Praised and wanted to know

5. Setting  :  Time   ->  One day

           Place   ->  In a small village, the traditional market

6. Point of view   :  The third point of view

7. Languange style  :  Daily languange style

8. Summary  : 

- Reorientation 

   -> In a small village, a girl lives with her mother. The girl is very beautiful.                  Everyday she puts make-up and wears her best clothes. She doesn’t                        like to help her mother work in a field. The girl is very lazy.
-  Complication
   -> The girl and the mother meet other people. They ask who the woman                      behind the beautiful girl. The girl answers that her mother is her                            servant. She always says that her mother is her servant every time                          they meet people.
-  Resolution    
   -> At last, the mother cannot hold the pain anymore. She prays to God to                  punish her daughter. God answers her prayer. Slowly, the girl’s leg                        turns into stone. The process continues to the upper part of the girl’s                      body. The girl is very panicky. “Mother, please forgive me!” she cries and                ask her mother to forgive her. But it’s too late. Her whole body finally                      becomes a big stone. Until now people still can see tears falling down the                stone. People then call it the crying stone.

9. Morraly lesson  :  We should not be disobedient to parents (mom), because of
                           how the state of the mother (poor or bad) it is our mothers
                           who give birth, nurture, medidik us. We have to respect,
                           appreciate, and acknowledge our own mothers as our
                           parents.

Batu Menangis

Di sebuah desa kecil, seorang gadis tinggal dengan ibunya. Gadis itu sangat indah. Setiap hari ia menempatkan make-up dan mengenakan pakaiannya yang terbaik. Dia tidak ingin membantu ibunya bekerja di lapangan. Gadis itu sangat malas.

Suatu hari, ibu meminta gadis itu untuk menemaninya pergi ke pasar untuk membeli makanan. Awalnya gadis itu menolak, namun sang ibu membujuk dengan mengatakan mereka akan membeli pakaian baru. Gadis itu akhirnya setuju. Tapi dia meminta ibunya untuk berjalan di belakangnya. Dia tidak ingin berjalan berdampingan dengan ibunya. Meskipun ibunya sangat sedih, ia setuju untuk berjalan di belakang putrinya.

Dalam perjalanan ke pasar, semua orang mengagumi kecantikan gadis itu. Mereka juga penasaran. Di balik gadis cantik, ada seorang wanita tua dengan gaun sederhana. Gadis dan ibunya terlihat sangat berbeda!

“Halo, wanita cantik. Siapa wanita di belakang Anda?” meminta mereka.
“Dia adalah hamba-Ku,” jawab gadis itu.

Ibu ini sangat sedih, tetapi dia tidak mengatakan apa-apa.

Gadis itu dan ibu bertemu dengan orang lain. Sekali lagi mereka meminta siapa wanita di belakang gadis cantik. Sekali lagi gadis itu menjawab bahwa ibunya adalah pelayannya. Dia selalu mengatakan bahwa ibunya adalah hamba setiap kali mereka bertemu orang.

Akhirnya, ibu tidak bisa menahan rasa sakit lagi. Dia berdoa kepada Tuhan untuk menghukum putrinya. Tuhan menjawab doanya. Perlahan-lahan, kaki gadis itu berubah menjadi batu. Proses berlanjut ke bagian atas tubuh gadis itu. Gadis itu sangat panik.

“Ibu, maafkan aku!” dia menangis dan meminta ibunya untuk memaafkannya.

Tapi itu sudah terlambat. Seluruh tubuhnya akhirnya menjadi batu besar. Sampai sekarang orang masih bisa melihat air mata jatuh batu. Orang-orang kemudian menyebutnya batu menangis atau batu Menangis.

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