Literary Critism
Long time ago, lived a farmer and his wife in
a village by the side of a forest. They lived simply and they like to help
other people, especially one who in afflictions. One night, the farmer and his
wife were resting in their house. The farmer was sitting beside his sleeping
wife. Suddenly, a white centipede came out from the wife’s head. The farmer was
amazed. He then followed the centipede until they reach a small pond not far
from their house. Then the centipede suddenly disappeared. The farmer went home
and found his wife still soundly asleep.
In the morning, the wife told his
husband about the dream she had last night. “I was walking through a vast
field, and I came to a lake. I saw a giant hedgehog in the lake. It was glaring
at me, so I ran away.” After he heard his wife’s dream, the farmer went back to
the small pond. In the pond, he saw something very shiny. He came to the shiny
object and took it. It was a golden hedgehog statue. It was very beautiful. Its
eyes were made of diamond. The farmer then brought the statue home.
At
night, the farmer had a dream. A giant hedgehog came to him, “Please let me
stay in your home. As return, I will give you everything you want. Just caress
the statue’s head and say the prayer. There are two kinds of prayers, one is to
start your wish and the second is to stop your wish. Now memorize the prayers.”
The farmer
and his wife then asked for other things, jewelry and other stuff they needed.
They became very rich. But they still like to help other people. A lot of poor
came to them for help. Unfortunately, a thief found out about the secret of the
golden hedgehog statue. Pretending to be a poor asking for help, he stole the
statue from the farmer’s house.
The thief blurred to the district
area of Ngabang. There was a drought in the area. The thief wanted sympathy
from the people, so he said to them that he would provide them with water. The
thief then caressed the hedgehog statue and said the prayer. Water came out of
the statue’s mouth. All the people were so happy. But the water kept on coming
out. The thief didn’t know the prayer to stop the wish. People who saw the
incident were really scared. They ran away to avoid the water as it was started
to flood the area. The thief also wanted to run away, but he cannot move his
legs. In his vision, there was a giant hedgehog holding both his legs. Water
kept coming from the statue and slowly it became a river. The thief was drowned
in the river. People then named the river as Sungai Landak (Hedgehog river).
Characters
- The farmer : kind, love to help other people, not tightfisted
- The farmer’s wife : kind, love to help other people, not tightfisted
- The hedgehog giant
- The thief : careless, greedy
Criticism
• The ending of the story is not clear, the
readers do not know the destiny of farmer and his wife.
• The story is fiction (oral literature), there
is no statue that can play role as God who manage a world and granted a pray.
Moral Value
• Something we own that misused because we do
not know how to use it in order will create disaster for others and ourselves.
In other words, we should use all the things we have in a right way and for a
good purposes
• As humans, we must not be greedy. We should
not be doing something just for the reward because in the end it will bring us
to the suffering.
• When the position of being above we should be
humble, or look at the people around us.
• We should not believe in other except our God.
• Wealth does not come by themselves. We should
work hardly to reach it.
• Thieving is striving against law.
- we should do something thoroughly and do not be hurry
- As human we should help each other and do not be tightfisted.
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