Narrative text

Ini teks udah lumayan bagus.. cuma bodohnya q salah masang generic structurenya,, yah cuma dpt nilai 82. harusnya bs 90 tu.. laen kali kudu lebih hati2 lagi..

ini dia, narrative text ceritanya sangkuriang ala wilda.. diubah dikit ceritanya,,

THE LEGEND OF TANGKUBAN PERAHU

Orientation:

A long time ago, the ancient land of Sunda was ruled by a king and queen who had but a single daughter. Her name was Dayang Sumbi. She was beautiful but also pampered and spoiled.

COMPLICATION:

One day as she was weaving in her pavilion, she became moody and distracted, which caused her to keep dropping her shuttle on the floor. Once when it fell she exclaimed she would marry the one who gave it back to her. At that  moment her dog Tumang, a demigod possessing magic powers, came up to her with the shuttle in his mouth. Dayang Sumbi had to marry him.

RESOLUTION:

They lived happily together and Dayang Sumbi gave birth to twin baby, boy and girl. The boy was human in appearance but endowed with his father magic powers. She named him Sangkuriang. And the girl was an ordinary human like her mother. She named her Mahesa. As the children grew up, they were always guarded by the faithful dog Tumang, whom they knew only as a companion and not as their father, Sangkuriang became handsome and brave, and Mahesa become smart and beautiful.

MAJOR COMPLICATION:

One day his mother asked Sangkuriang to go hunting with the dog and bring her venison for a feast. After hunting all day without success, Sangkuriang worried about facing his mother empty-handed. Desperate, he took an arrow and shot the dog. He returned home and handed over the meat to his pleased mother.

 COMPLICATION:

Soon after the feast, however, Dayang Sumbi questioned her son about the absence of Tumang. At first, he evaded her queries but finally told her what had happened. In anger Dayang Sumbi told him that Tumang was his father. Sangkuriang got surprise and ask for apology. Dayang Sumbi was too angry and struck her son so hard on the temple that he collapsed.

RESOLUTION:

Sangkuriang ran away to save himself from his mother anger. He ran to the forest and never came back. Dayang Sumbi kept crying in angry, until she fell in unconsciousness. Mahesa who was watching and listening from her room, keep standing in silent, too surprise to do anything.

COMPLICATION:

Years later, Sangkuriang who had recovered with a large scar on his temple, met a beautiful woman and instantly fell in love with her. She was his own sister, Mahesa—they did not recognize each other because they had changed their name. Sangkuriang became Jaka, and Mahesa became Ayu. Sangkuriang, now Jaka, proposed to her and she agreed to marry him.

COMPICATION:

On the day before the wedding, as Ayu was caressing her fiancée’s hair, she detected the scar on the temple. She asked about the scar, and got surprised when Jaka told her about his past. Horror struck her, for she was about to marry her own brother, Sangkuriang.

RESOLUTION:

Without revealing the whole truth to him, she tried unsuccessfully to dissuade him. Desperate to avoid the marriage, she set conditions she tought impossible to meet: Jaka had to make a lake that filled the whole valley and build a boat for the couple to sail in, all before dawn. Jaka started to work. His love gave him extraordinary strength, and he uses his magic powers to summon the spirits to help him. With boulders and mud they dammed the river in the valley and the water rose and began to form a lake. In the early morning hours he chopped down a huge tree in the forest and began hollowing it out to make a boat.

MAJOR COMPLICATION:

When Ayu saw that he was about to accomplish what she had thought impossible, she called on the gods to bring the sun up early and thwart Jaka.

COMPLICATION:

The cock crowed, the sun rose much earlier than usual, and Jaka realized he had been deceived. In a fit of fury he cursed Ayu and kicked the half-finished boat back into the forest.

RESOLUTION:

 There it lies upside down today, forming the mountain Tangkuban Perahu (Upturned Boat). Not far away is the stump of the tree Sangkuriang or Jaka had felled, now called Bukit Tunggul. The dam Sangkuriang had built caused the valley to become a lake, where both Sangkuriang and Mahesa drowned themselves. They were never heard of again.

REORIENTAION:

Dayang sumbi was the cause of the tragedy in her life and her children life. The carelessness of Dayang Sumbi to say her silly promise to marry the one who gave her shuttle back to her, made her have to marry Tumang, her dog. Her dishonesty caused the little Sangkuriang who didn’t know anything, killed her father to please his mother. If he knew Tumang was his father, he would never do that. Mahesa who didn’t know anything also got the effect. She almost married her own brother. Finally, both of them killed themselves in the lake.

CODA:

From that story we can learn that we have to be careful of our word because our word is our wish and our word is our promise. We also learn never to make decision in anger, because when we are angry, our mind doesn’t work well.