Muhammad Hilmy Fadlurahman
9-D
Narrative Text
The Ugly Duckling And New Friend (Fable)
One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just
wished the eggs would break out. Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and
some cute little ducklings appeared. “Peep, peep” the little ducklings cried. “Quack, quack”
their mother greeted in [Link] the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat
on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother
duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn’t look like the others at
all. He was like a turkey.
When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson. The
huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did.
“That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome” the mother said
proudly. However, the other animals didn’t agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by
day. Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. “You are very ugly” they quacked.
The little poor duckling was very unhappy. “I wish I looked like them” he thought to himself.
One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone
through the cold and snow winter.
Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three
large white swans swimming toward him. “Oh, dear. these beautiful birds will laugh and peck
me too” he said to himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him
and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw
his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. “I am not an ugly duckling but a
beautiful swam” he exclaimed.
He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was
happier than he had never been.
Pinokio (Myth)
In the past, there was a puppeteer whose name is Geppetto. He eager to have a son very much
but his wife passed away several years ago. One day, he got an idea to make a puppet in order
not to be lonely again. He made a puppet all day long. Finally, in the morning he had finished
his work and he named the puppet Pinocchio. Soon he felt lonely again since Pinocchio
couldn't walk or talk by itself. One night, Geppetto prayed to the God to become a real boy.
He always thought it on his mind in his dream.
In the next morning, he was surprised that Pinocchio was alive. He taught Pinocchio how to
walk, how to read, how to speak and to do other things as human. He then studied at an
elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored and it made him go home late. When
Pinocchio finally came home, Geppetto asked him. He said that he was on school but he
wasn’t. Instantly, Pinocchio's nose grew longer and longer and it meant that Pinocchio has
lied.
The next morning, Pinocchio was kidnaped by the owner of circus. Pinocchio soon became a
slave for the circus. He was so famous because he was a puppet which can talk. Geppetto
worried about him because Pinocchio had not been going home for almost two days. He tried
to find Pinocchio everywhere but he found nothing. When he searched him on the sea, big
wave smashed him. He was then in whale's stomach when he awoke. He couldn't find the
way to go out.
In the other side, Pinocchio finally could escape out from the circus. He came home but
nobody was there. Latter on, he searched Geppetto in the sea. He got the same accident like
Geppetto and he met Geppetto in whale's stomach. Both of them got out from its stomach by
making a fire. In the end of the story, they went home together and lived happily ever after.
Tangkuban Parahu (Legend)
On a land of Parahyangan, there lived a beautiful princess named Dayang Sumbi. Because of
her oath, she had to marry a dog named Tumang. Dayang Sumbi with her dog lived happily
and blessed with a boy, Sangkuriang. The boy didn’t know that their dog was his father.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang with his dog to hunt a deer. Sangkuriang got
nothing. He did not want to disappoint his mother. He decided to kill his dog. Dayang Sumbi
thought it was venison. After knowing the truth, Sangkuriang was hit and expelled by his
mother.
Sangkuriang grew overseas into a powerful handsome man. Then, he met Dayang Sumbi then
fell in love with her. One day before wedding, Dayang Sumbi realized that Sangkuriang was
her son. Dayang Sumbi wanted to thwart their marriage. She gave a condition to make a dam
that covered the entire hill and to make a boat during one night.
Sangkuriang agreed then worked with help of many genies. The dam and boat were almost
finished. Dayang Sumbi prayed to God. The roosters crowed so all genies left that job.
Sangkuriang realized that he had been tricked. He was angry; he kicked that boat into the
middle of a forest. Then, that boat shaped like a mountain. That is the legend of Tangkuban
Parahu.