There was a poor fisherman lived nearby the river in
North Kalimantan. He went fishing early every morning and always returned to
his home at night time. One day, he set up his net and caught a big golden
fish. He fell in love with the beauty of the fish that he decided not to kill
the fish, and made it as a pet instead. So, he took the fish home, cleaned a
fish tank and put it in his humble kitchen.
Starting that day, things changed slowly. Every
morning the fisherman went out for fishing, no matter how he left his home in a
mess, when he returned home, the house would be tidy again. Furthermore, there
was always delicious food served on his dining table. The fisherman never knew
how it happened, and where the food came from, and who prepared them for him.
It brought enormous curiosity to him that he decided to search for the truth.
That morning, he went out as usual, but right when he
set out his feet outside, quickly and quietly, he made a turn back to his
house. Hiding behind his own window, he took a peep of what happen in the house
soon after he left it. Suddenly from inside the kitchen, he could see a bright
light shining, and soon after the light disappeared, he could see the fish tank
was empty, and a beautiful lady was standing inside his kitchen. The lady
quickly got some vegetables and did some cooking. She even cleaned the whole
house, sweeping and washing the fisherman's clothes. The fisherman fell in love
at the first sight. Before the lady could runaway, the fisherman grabbed her hand
and proposed to marry her.
At first, the lady refused for she was just a fish
rescued by him. Her deed was a grateful act to repay the fisherman's kindness
for not killing her. But since the fisherman time and again persuaded her to
marry him, the lady could not refuse him. She agreed to become the fisherman's
wife with one condition, that the fisherman promised not to tell anyone - not
even his own family - that she was just a fish. The fisherman promised her.
Years went by, the fisherman lived happily with his
wife, and changed his work and became a farmer. His wife soon became pregnant
and delivered a baby girl that they named "Samosir". Samosir grew up
into a pretty girl and obedient as well. She loved to help her parents working
in the house or in the farm. One morning, her mother asked her to send lunch to
her father in the farm. Samosir was glad to help her mother that she
immediately got the basket and headed to the farm.
It was such a long way to got to the farm, that
Samosir who had not had any breakfast before, grew tired and hungry. So she
stopped to eat a little food from her father's lunch to ease her hunger.
Afterward, she continued her journey, however, she became hungry again and had
to eat a little food again. This happened again and again till finally her
father's lunch was finished. When Samosir gave the basket to her father, how
angry her father was to get an empty basket.
"I'm tired working the whole day and expect you
to bring some food from your mother, but you finish them all without even
thinking of me. How could you? You! A daughter of a fish!" shouted her
father in anger.
Samosir ran home crying and telling her mother what
had happened. She even asked her mother why her father told her that she was a
daughter of a fish. When the mother knew that her husband had eventually broken
his promise, she was terribly sad. In tears, she packed all her daughter's
clothes and asked her to runaway to the mountain, never look back, and stay
there. Samosir did not understand, but she promised to obey her mother.
When the mother was sure that her daughter was safe,
she whispered something and slowly she turned herself into a giant fish. The
water from river was flooding her house and it came more and more and more that
the whole village was flooded and finally disappeared from the earth.
From the top of the mountain, Samosir could only cry
to see her village was drowned and the flood surrounded her hiding place. Since
then, the place turned into a lake and we called it Lake Toba, and the island
in the middle was named after the girl's name, 'Samosir Island'. We can still
visit the lake now, and one of the most beautiful lakes in Sumatra island,
Indonesia.
QUESTIONS:
1.
What the fishermen
found while fishing in the sea?
2.
What is the agreement between the fishermen and
the princess?
3.
What happens when the agreement is violated?
4.
What is the name of the lake and islands formed
from the event?
5.
What is the moral value of
the story above?
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