Lauren

**My story is 'Bawang Putih yang sabar'.** This is an very cool story, it's like Cinderella. There was an Daughter (Bawang Putih) and her father has passed away, she had a step mother and a step sister. Bawang Putih didn't want to disappoint her new family, so she did everything her step mother and step sister asked. One day Bawang Putih was washing her families clothes, and her step mothers golden dress floated away. She rushed back up to her house and she told her step mother everything. So her step mother said "GO AND FIND IT THEN". After a day looking for her her step mother dress, Bawang Putih arrived at the upper course of the river. Then she saw a house, she hoped the owner would let her in. The owner of the house was an old lady, and she let Bawang Putih in. The old lady and Bawang Putih started to introduce them selves. Bawang Putih ask for some shelter and the old lady agreed, and the old lady had found the step mother golden dress. Bawang Putih was very grateful of the old ladies offer. To get her step mother's dress back she had to stay with the old ladies house for a week. Bawang Putih spent the week at the old lady's house and Bawng Putih was a verydiligent girl. The old lady was so grateful for Bawang Putih staying with her, the old lady gave her a choice of the of pumpkin a big or little one. Bawang Putih choose the little pumpkin, her reason was it would be easier to carry. Bawang Putih and the old lady said good bye. When she arrived home to her step mother and sister she gave the gave the pumpkin to her family. To there surprise the pumpkin was fill with jewels and gold. The greedy step mother and sister had a plain to go back to the old ladies house to get another pumpkin, they did a scenario like Bawang Putih. So the old lady, let the step daughter in for a week. During that week the step daughter was very lazy and didn't do her work carefully. At the end of the week the old lady gave the step daughter a choice of a small pumpkin or a big pumpkin. The step daughter thought a bigger pumpkin, more jewels and gold, so the step daughter chose the bigger pumpkin. So when she arrived home her mother opened the pumpkin, but to their surprise the pumpkin was filled with snakes and scorpions and other dangerous creatures. Since then the step mother was more thankful of what Bawang Putih did. Now all the work was done together.
 * This is my summery of the story.**

In my story (Bawang Putih Yang Sabar) it doesn't tell you were the story has taken place, but we know that there is a long river. Because she follows the river to go to find her step mothers dress.
 * In what area/s of Indonesia is the story set (if the story tells you)**

In this story there is four main characters. There is Bawang Putih: She is a very kind, quiet and non-selfish girl, and she doesn't like to disappoint ANYONE! There is also the step mother: You would describe her as a selfish person for taking Bawang Putih for. She is also very sneaky making up plan, but in the end she realised that Bawang Putih was a very important member of there family. There is also the old lady. The old lady is very kind for giving the girls shelter. But she is sneaky but in a good way, she put the gold and jewels in the small pumpkin and the dangerous bugs in the big pumpkin.
 * Describe/list the main characters.**

There is a moral of the story. The moral is that don't be greedy that why she smaller pumpkin was filled with gold and jewels. Also don't take people for granted, in the start Bawang Putih's took her for granted, but in the end they realised how important she is.
 * Is there a moral?**


 * What things about the characters, setting style of the style of the story are different to other stories you know from other countries? What might these things tell us about this region of Indonesia, and/or about Indonesian customs, beliefs, culture or history?**

There is not much about Indonesia in this story, but the story has water in it, and Indonesia is surrounded by water. I don't think there was any beliefs in this story excepted for respect your family.


 * Would you call this story a folk tail, a legend, a myth or a fable? Why?**

I think this story is a folk tail, because there are no talking animals and inanimate objects. People do be mean to children and sisters are sometimes mean to each other.