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However, the parents were very sad. They knew they had to keep their promise to Buto Ijo
the giant but they also did not want to lose their beloved daughter. "My daughter, take this
bag. It can save you from the giant," said father. "What do you mean, Father? I don't
understand," said Timun Mas.
One night, while they were praying, Buto Ijo a giant with supranatural powers passed
theirhouse. He heard they pray. "Don't worry farmers. I can give you a child. But you have to
give me that child when she is 17 years old," said Buto Ijo. The farmers were so happy. They
did not think about the risk of losing their child letter and agree to take the offer. Later, Buto
Ijo gave them a bunch of cucumber seeds. The farmers planted them carefully. Then the seeds
changed into plants. No longer after that, a big golden cucumber grew from plants. After it
had ripe, the farmers picked and cut it. They were very surprised to see beautiful girl inside
the cucumber. They named her Timun Mas or Golden Cucumber. Years passed by and Timun
Mas has changed into a beautiful girl. On her 17th birthday, Timun Mas was very happy.
Right after that, Buto Ijo came into their house. "Run Timun Mas. Save your life!" said the
mother. Buto ijo was angry. He knew the farmers wanted to break their promise. He chased
Timun Mas away. Buto Ijo was getting closer and closer. Timun Mas then opened the bag and
threw a handful of salt. It became sea. Buto Ijo had to swim to cross the sea. Later, Timun
Mas threw some chilly. It became a jungle with trees. The trees had sharp thorns so they hurt
Buto Ijo. However, he was still able to chase Timun Mas. Timun Mas took her third magic
stuff. It was cucumber seeds. She threw them and became cucumber field. But Buto Ijo still
could escape from the field. Then it was the last magic stuff she had in the bag. It was a
shrimp paste or terasi. She threw it and became a big swamp. Buto Ijo was still trying to
swim the swamp but he was very tired. Then he was drowning and died.
Timun Mas then immediately went home. The farmers were so happy that they finally
together again.
LUTUNG KASARUNG
PRABU Tapa Agung was an old king. He had two daughters, Purbararang and
Purbasari. Prabu Tapa Agung planned to retire as a king. He wanted Purbasari to
replace him as the leader of the kingdom.
Hearing this, Purbararang was angry. "You cannot ask her to be the queen,
Father. I'm older than she is. It's supposed to be me, not her!" said Purbararang.
But the king still chose Purbasari to be the next queen. Purbararang then set a
bad plan with her fiance, Indrajaya. Together they went to a witch and asked her
to put a spell on Purbasari. Later, Purbasari had bad skin. There were black dots
all over her body. "You are not as beautiful as I am. You cannot be the queen.
Instead, you have to leave this palace and stay in a jungle," said Purbararang.
Purbasari was very sad. Now she had to stay in the jungle. Everyday she spent
her time playing with some animals there.
There was one monkey that always tried to cheer her up. It was not just an
ordinary monkey, he had magical power. And he also could talk with humans.
The monkey's name was Lutung Kasarung. He was actually a god. His name was
Sanghyang Gurumina.
Lutung Kasarung planned to help Purbasari. He made a small lake and asked her
to take a bath there. Amazingly, her bad skin was cured. Now she got her
beautiful skin back. After that, she asked Lutung Kasarung to accompany her to
go back to the palace.
Purbararang was very shocked. She knew she had to come up with another bad
idea. She then said, "Those who have longer hair will be the queen." The king
then measured his daughters' hair. Purbasari had longer hair. But Purbararang
did not give up. "A queen must have a handsome husband. If my fiance is more
handsome than yours, then I will be the queen," said Purbararang.
Purbasari was sad. She knew Purbararang's fiance, Indrajaya, was handsome.
And she did not have a fiance yet. "Here is my fianc, Indrajaya. Where is
yours?" asked Purbararang. Lutung Kasarung came forward. Purbararang was
laughing very hard. "Your fiance is a monkey, ha ha ha." Suddenly, Lutung
Kasarung changed into a very a handsome man. He was even more handsome
than Indrajaya.
Purbasari then became the queen. She forgave Purbararang and her fiance and
let them stay in the palace.
Complication: It is such the crisis of the story. If there is not the crisis, the story
is not a narrative text. The second paragraph, Purbasari got bad treament from
her sister and Indrajaya. It is the bad crisis, which Purbasari has to overcome.
Resolution: It is the final series of the events which happen in the story. The
resolution can be good or bad. The point is that it has been accomplished by the
characters. In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Purbasari lived happely. It
is the happy resolution of the bad treatment.
ROMEO AND JULIET
In the town of Verona there lived two families, the Capulets and the Montagues.
They engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded
young man with an eye for the ladies. One day, Romeo attended the feast of the
Capulets', a costume party where he expected to meet his love, Rosaline, a
haughty beauty from a well-to-do family. Once there, however, Romeo's eyes felt
upon Juliet, and he thought of Rosaline no more.
The vision of Juliet had been invading his every thought. Unable to sleep, Romeo
returned late that night to the Juliet's bedroom window. There, he was surprised
to find Juliet on the balcony, professing her love for him and wishing that he were
not a "Montague", a name behind his own. "What's in a name? That which we
call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo was ready to deny
his name and professed his love. The two agreed to meet at nine o-clock the
next morning to be married.
Early the next morning, Romeo came to Friar Lawrence begging the friar to marry
him to Juliet. The Friar performed the ceremony, praying that the union might
someday put an end to the feud between the two families. He advised Romeo
kept the marriage a secret for a time.
On the way home, Romeo chanced upon his friend Mercutio arguing with Tybalt,
a member of the Capulet clan. That qurreling last caused Merquito died. Romeo
was reluctant no longer. He drew his sword and slew Tybalt died. Romeo realized
he had made a terrible mistake. Then Friar Lawrence advised Romeo to travel to
Mantua until things cool down. He promised to inform Juliet.
In the other hand, Juliet's father had decided the time for her to marry with Paris.
Juliet consulted Friar Lawrence and made a plot to take a sleeping potion for
Juliet which would simulate death for three days. The plot proceeded according
to the plan. Juliet was sleeping in death.
Unfortunately, The Friar's letter failed to reach Romeo. Under the cover of
darkness, he broke into Juliet's tomb. Romeo kissed the lips of his Juliet one last
time and drank the poison. Meanwhile, the effects of the sleeping potion wear
off. Juliet woke up calling for Romeo. She found her love next to her but was lying
dead, with a cup of poison in his hand. She tried to kiss the poison from his lips,
but failed. Then Juliet put out his dagger and plunged it into her breast. She died
MALIN KUNDANG
Many believe that a story can teach a society certain moral value. Most stories are build in
narrative. Because it is a narrative story, it must consists of complication. That complication,
in fact, is the moral value which like to be taught.
Orientation; the first paragraph is set to be the story introduction. Reading the orientation,
reader will know that the story is characterized with Malin Kundang and his mother. Wes
Sumatra is set as the place.
Complication; this is the main element of narrative story. From the Malin Kundang myth, we
know that there are more than one complication. Many stories are composed with multi
complications. They are minor complication and major complication. When Malin Kundang
and her mother did life hard, it can be the minor complication. this hard life in the first time
was solved by his successful trading as new merchant. However this narrative sotry is more
interesting when we see the major complication among the participants- Malin Kundang
denied his mother after being successful merchant. In every story, complication must be
ended; happy ending or sad one
Resolution; this is the end of the story, the sad ending one. Malin Kundang faces his curse of
turning into a stone.
CINDERELLA
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her
step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated
Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in
the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing
the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work
about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the kings son
was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much
time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and
away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
Why are crying, Cinderella? a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy
godmother standing beside her, because I want so much to go to the ball said
Cinderella. Well said the godmother,youve been such a cheerful,
hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the
ball.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice
into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderellas raged
dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a
pair of pretty glass slippers. Now, Cinderella, she said; You must leave before
midnight. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with
the kings son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the
door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left
behind.
A few days later, the king son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose
feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too
small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end,
the kings page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the
page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The kings son was overjoyed to see her
again. They were married and live happily ever after.
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 generic structure of above narrative story is:
Orientation: The cap seller as the participant (main character), once time as
time setting, and in the jungle as place setting. We note from discussion that the
elements of orientation is shortly answering who, when and where of the story.
Complication: The cap seller wants the monkeys to bring back his caps but the
monkeys do not return them. Of course this makes the cap seller face a problem.
Complication in a narrative text is not always in single problem. That is we know
a major conflict and minor conflict.
Resolution: The cap seller gets the monkey to bring back the cap by acting of
throwing his own cap. The monkeys imitate what he has done so the problem is
is solved. This story has happy ending as the cap seller has his caps returned.
Once upon time, a man had a wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot
could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place
where it was born. The name of the place was Catano.
The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot
would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano however the bird kept
not saying the word.
At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very angry. You stupid bird!
pointed the man to the parrot. Why cant you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you
the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the
man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; Say Catano or Ill kill you. The
bird kept not to say the word of Catano.
One day, after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really
got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house.
There were four old chickens for next dinner You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay
with them Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; You know, I will cut the
chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot. After that he
left the chicken house.
The next day, the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and was very
surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death
chickens on the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the
last old chicken; Say Catano or Ill kill you.
Commonly, narrative text is organized by the story of grammar. It will be beginning, middle
and end of the story. To build this story grammar, narrative text need plot. This plot will
determine the quality of the story. Plot is a series of episodes which holds the reader
attention while they are reading the story.
Conflict is the main important element of the plot. This conflict among the characters will
drive the story progress. In this conflict, readers will be shown how the characters face the
problem and how they have ability to handle that problem
Definition of Narrative
Narrative is a text focusing specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past
events and entertain the readers.
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place
2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with
3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse
ISO- Symb
Country / Negara Currency / Mata Uang
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A
Afghanistan Afghan afghani AFN
Congo, Democratic
Congolese franc CDF F
Republic
International Monetary
Special Drawing Rights XDR SDR
Fund
Y
Yemen Yemeni rial YER
Abbesinia : Dollar
Afghanistan : Afgani
Afrika Selatan : Rand
Afrika Tengah : Franc
Albania : Lek
Aliazair : Dinar
Amerika Serikat : Dollar
Angola : Kwanza
Argentina : Peso
Australia : Dollar
Austria : Shilling
Bangladesh : Taka
Belanda : Gulden
Belgia : Franc
Bolivia : Boliviarnus
Brazil : Cruzeiro
Brunei Darussalam : Dollar
Bulgaria : Lev
Canada : Dollar
Cekoslovakia : Koruna
Ceylon : Rupee
Chad : Franc
Chili : Peso
Cina : Yuan
Denmark : Krone
Dominika : Peso
EI Salvador : Kolon
Emirat Arab : Dirham
Equador : Sucrve
Ethiopia : Birr
Filipina : Peso
Finlandia : Markka
Ghana : Cedi
Guatemala : Queizal
Haiti : Courde
Honduras : Lempira
Hongaria : Forint
Hongkong : Dollar
India : Rupee
Indonesia : Rupiah
Inggris : Pound Sterling
Irak : Dinar
Iran : Real
Irlandia : Pound
Islandia : Krona
Italia : Lire
Jamaika : Dollar
Jepang : Yen
Jerman : Deutsche Mark
Kamboja : Riel
Kamerun : Franc
Kenya : Shilling
Kolumbia : Peso
Kongo : Franc
Korea Selatan. : Won
Korea utara : Won
Kuba : Peso
Kuwait : Dinar
Laos : New Kip
Libanon : Pound
Liberia : Dollar
Libia : Dinar
Luxemburg : Franc
Malaysia : Ringgit
Malvinas : Pound
Maroko : Dirham
Meksiko : Peso
Mesir : Pound
Monako : Franc
Mongolia : Tugrik
Mozambik : Escudo
Muangthai : Bath
Myanmar : Kyat
Namibia : Rand
Nepal : Rupee
New Zealand : Dollar
Nicaragua : Kordoba
Nigeria : Naira
Norwegia : Kroon
Oman : Rial
Pakistan : Rupee
Panama : Balboa
Papua Nugini : Kina
Paraguay : Guarani
Perancis : Franc
Peru : Sole
Polandia : Zloty
Portugal : Escudo
Qatar : Riyal
Rumania : Leu
Rusia : Rubel / Ruble / Rouble
Saudia Arabia : Riyal
Senegal : Franc
Singapura : Dollar
Siprus : Pound
Spanyol : Peseta
Srilanka : Rupee
Sudan : Pound
Suriah : Pound
Suriname : Guilder
Swedia : Kroon
Swiss : Franc
Syria : Pound
Taiwan : Dollar
Tanzania : Shilling
Thailand : Baht
Tunisia : Dinar
Turki : Lira
Uganda : Shilling
Uruguay : Peso
Vatikan : Lira
Venezuela : Bolivar
Vietnam : Dong
Yaman : Imani
Yordania : Dinar
Yugoslavia : Dinar
Yunani : Drachma
Zaire : Zaire
Zambia : Kwacha
Zimbabwe : Dollar
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Tambahan :
- Timor Leste yang merupakan negara pecahan Indonesia masih memakai Dollar Amerika /
US $
Perubahan :
Negara-negara di Eropa menggunakan mata Euro mulai tahun 1999 (transaksi uang giral) dan
2002 (transaksi mata uang fisik / kartal). Daftar negara yang menggunakan Euro sebagai mata
uang yaitu :
1. Italia
2. Perancis
3. Belanda
4. Portugal
5. Irlandia
6. Luxemburg
7. Austria
8. Finlandia
9. Belgia
10. Jerman
11. Yunani
12. Spanyol
13. Slovenia
14. Malta
15. Siprus
16. Vatikan
17. Andorra
18. Monako
19. San Marino
Negara Montenegro dan Kosovo diperbolehkan memakai Euro sebagai mata uang di
negaranya.
THE KING OF THE MICE AND THE WOODCUTTER