Tat

=__**The disobedient girl**__ = This story is placed in the tiny island of Roti which is located near Timor and is so small there are only Kampungs which are villages.

The main characters in The disobedient girl are an old woman and her granddaughter (monkey).

Once there was a girl who lived with her Grandmother, they lived in Roti in a village in a small house about the size of a small room and grew a small amount of vegetables out the back of the house. Because the food they grew was not enough the old women would go out and catch fish where the girl would stay home and cook.When the old women would return they would grill the fish and eat it, they had lunch and dinner together everyday. One day the old women went out as usual to catch fish but before she left she told the girl that there was only enough rice to cook one grain for the both of them. After she left the girl started to think to herself this will not be enough what is the point of only cooking grain, so the girl grabbed two handfuls of the rice. She put the rice on the boil but to her surprise the rice starting overflowing out of the pot and would not stop. As the rice kept flowing starting to fill the room the girl was very distressed and had not a clue what to do, so she ran down to her grandmother. The grandmother was furious and hit the girl with a piece of wood. The girl screamed it pain and fell to the ground where she then vanished and turned into a monkey. They monkey then disappeared and never came back no matter how many times the women apologized.

The moral of this story is to never hit children, even if they disobey. The people in Roti still will not hit any child in fear they will turn into a monkey.

The difference about this story to stories we read today in Australia are different because in the setting in stories in Australia most people live in quite large houses with a big backyard and do not grow crops or catch fish for food, but in this Indonesian story they live in a house the size of a small room and grow and catch their own food. This tells us that money can be a problem for families in Indonesia more than in Australia.

I think the Disobedient girl is a folktale because a folktale can be a legend or tale that is traditionally well known and is most likely just a belief, false or superstition

By Tat Griggs