Narrative Text

The Legend of Sangkuriang

Class/Semester      : X/2

Skill                      : Reading

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Narrative Text Title : The Legend of Sangkuriang The Story of Sangkuriang and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain.	Generic Structure :            Orientation :  Long time ago in West Java, lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi. She was also smart and clever. Her beauty and intelligence made a prince from the kingdom in priangan land. She has parent, her parent names raja sungging perbangkara and wahyu yang. Dayang Sumbi had a son named Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang really        2.        liked hunting in the jungle and always asked his dong, Tumang, to accompany him to go hunting. Actually Tumang was an incarnation of god and a father of Sangkuring.       3.      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 4.      Resolution : The problems can be overcome The Story Of Sangkuriang and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain Once There was a kingdom in Priangan Land Lived a happy family they were a Father In form Of Doghis name Is Tumang a Mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi and a child Which was called. This is the end of the story, the sad ending one. Malin Kundang faces his curse of turning into a stone.	Tokoh/characters:       1.      Sangkuriang  is son from situmang and dayangsumbi: he has many characteristics are : lier,  dare-devil, struggle, self confidence, killer,  engrossed, he never give up.       2.      Dayang Sumbi  (rara sati) is daugher from raja sungging and wahyung yang. She has many characteristics, She is Beautiful, patient, faithful, agreeable, docil to her parent, smart and clever.      3.      Situmang ( Doghis) is husband dayangsumbi : he is patient, faithful,care, agreeable, he always keep company dayang sumbi.       4.       Wayung yang is Dayang sumbi Mother’s , she is patient,  hard worker.       5.      Raja sungging perbangkara is Dayangsumbi father’s, he is  care, and kind person. Place : 1.      In the river 2.      In the mountain 3.      In the kraton/ in the palace 4.      In the forest

The Legend of Sangkuriang

This is an example of how nature was converted into a legend, such as Bandung lake and Mt Tangkuban Perahu with the story of Queen Dayang Sumbi and her son Sangkuriang cited from Neuman va Padang (1971). Once Sangkuriang, whilst growing up, he was so naughty and got hurt and the wound formed an ugly scar.

The King, who loved his son above everything was so furious that his son had hurt himself that he rejected his wife. Fifteen years later, being of age, Sangkuriang asked his father permission to take a trip to West Java. After arriving in the plain of Bandung, he met a beautiful lady, fell in love and ask her to marry him and she accepted. But one day when she caressed her lover’s head she saw the wound. The loving woman, turned out to be the disowned queen, discovered that she was in love with her son and marriage was impossible.

The marriage had to be prevented. Not willing to admit that she was his mother she thought of a way out. The day before the wedding was due to take place, she said to her husband to be, tomorrow is our wedding day, and if you are true to your love to me and love me as much you say do then I want to celebrate the wedding on board a ship, a proa. Tomorrow morning at day break, I want to sail with you on a great lake in a nice boat and there must be a banquet feast. Sangkuriang was embarrassed but he was not willing to refuse. He begged the help of the lake’s helpful spirits. By causing a landslide, the lake spirit dammed the river Citarum that flowed through the plain of Bandung. The force of the water felled big tree and a boat was constructed while other lake spirits prepared the wedding banquet.

Early in the morning the Queen saw that the impossible had been realised so she prayed to Brama, the mighty God, to help her to prevent the disgrace of a marriage between a mother and her son. Brama destroyed the dam in turbulence and Sangkuriang was drowned. The queen in her agony threw herself on the capsized boat, breaking through the hull of the ship and was also drowned.

Now, the vast plain of Bandung is flanked on its north side by the volcano Tangkuban Perahu, the capsized boat. The Queen’s jump on the hull of the ship is the Kawah Ratu, the crater of the Queen. The hot fumaroles and tremors in the crater represent the tears of the sad mother still sobbing. East of Mt Tangkuban Perahu rises the Bukit Tunggul, trunk mountain, the trunk of the tree from which the boat was made and to the west we find Mt Burangrang, the “crown of leaves”. At many places along the shore of the lake Neolithic obsidian tools of primitive inhabitants are found and described by von Koeningswald (1935). These Neolithic people noticed that the hold was cut deeper and deeper by erosion caused by the lowering water. Finally only a marshy plain remained.

Centuries later the inhabitants of Bandung plain still know about the legend of the existence of a former lake. Not knowing anything about geology, but living in the taboos of spirit ghosts and Gods, geological facts were put together in a tale that was understandable.

Narrative text is :  kind of the text to retell the story that past tense, and the purpose is entertain or to amuse  the reader. Narrative text is Including fables, legenda, Fairy tale.

Generic structure :

·         Orientation        

·         Evaluation          

·         Complication

·         Resolution

·         Reorientation