narative text :tangkuban perahu

Turn story that has sad ending  into a happy ending 

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          Once in West Java, Indonesia lived as a wise king who had a beautiful daughter.  His name is Dayang Sumbi.  He really likes weaving.  Once he wove cloth when one of his tools fell to the ground.  He was so tired at the time that he was too lazy to accept it.  Then he shouted loudly.

  'Is anyone there?  Bring me my tool.  I'll give you a special gift.  If you are a woman, I will think of you as my sister.  If you are a man, I will marry you

  Suddenly a male dog, named Tumang, came.  He brought him a falling tool.  Dayang Sumbi was very surprised.  He regretted his words but he could not deny them.  So he must marry Tumang and leave his father.  Then they lived in a small village.  A few months later they had a son.  His name is Sangkuriang.  He is a handsome and healthy boy.

  Sangkuriang really likes hunting.  He often went hunting in the forest using his arrows.  When he goes hunting Tumang is always with him.  In the past there were many deer in Java so Sangkuriang often hunted deer.

  One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have a deer's heart so he asked Sangkuriang to hunt deer.  Then Sangkuriang went to the forest with an arrow and his faithful dog Tumang.  But after a few days in the forest, Sangkuriang could not find a deer.  They all disappeared.  Sangkuriang is tired and hopeless.  He did not want to disappoint his mother so he killed Tumang.  He did not know that Tumang was his father.  At home he gave Tumang's heart to his mother.

  But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was the heart of Tumang.  He was so angry that he could not control his emotions.  He hit Sangkuriang on the head.  Sangkuriang got hurt.  There is a scar on his head.  He also kicked out his son.  Sangkuriang left his mother sadly.

  Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong young man.  He roamed everywhere.  One day he arrived in his own village but he did not realize it.  There he met Dayang Sumbi.  At that time Dayang Sumbi was given eternal beauty by God so that she remained young forever.  The two don't know each other.  So they fell in love and then they decided to get married.

  But then Dayang Sumbi recognized the scar on Sangkuriang's head.  He knew that Sangkuriang was his son.  It is impossible for them to get married.  But court lady Sumbi did not say to Sangkuriang.  Sangkuriang hopes they will get married soon.  But Dayang Sumbi provided very difficult conditions.  He wants Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in one night!  He said he needed it for honeymoon.

  Sangkuriang agreed.  With the help of jinn and spirits, Sangkuriang tried to build them.  By midnight he had completed the lake by building a dam on the Citarum river.  Then he began to build ships.  It was almost dawn when he was almost done.  Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi continued to watch them.  He was very worried when he knew this.  So he made lights in the east.  Then the spirits thought that it was dawn.  It's time for them to leave.  They left Sangkuriang alone.  Without their help he could not finish his boat.

  Sangkuriang is very angry.  He kicked the boat.  Then the ship turned out to be Tangkuban Perahu Mountain.  That means the boat is upside down.  From a distance it looks like an upside down boat.

 Then Sangkuriang left Sumbi ladies, seeing that Sumbi ladies shouted to Sangkuriang that she was his son, Sangkuriang turned away and looked at his mother softly "is that true?"  "You are my child and therefore I do not want to marry you, do not leave the mother," answered lady Sumbi firmly.

 After waiting for so long Sangkuriang approached his mother and embraced him, they finally returned home together and lived happily as mothers and children.8