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Si Kebayan catches a deer This story does not tell you where it is situated in Indonesia. The main characters are, Si Kebayan, a young boy who is used in many stories as the main character. In this story he is a boy who lives in a village with his father-in-law. The other main character is Si Kebayan's father-in-law, who is a deceitful man who lies to his son-in-law. In the story Si Kebayan says to his father they should dig a big hole to catch a deer but his father tells Si Kebayan he would rather make a small trap to catch a bird. Si Kebayan agrees and says that if he catches a deer his father can have a share of the meat but his father says that if he catches a bird he won't give Si Kebayan any. In the morning Si Kebayan's father wakes up early to check the traps. He found nothing in his trap but n Si Kebayan's hole there is a large deer. He then takes Si Kebayan's deer out of the hole and puts it into his own trap. He wakes up up Si Kebayan and takes him out to check the traps. Because his father would not share any meat Si Kebayan does not come to breakfast. His father went looking for him after his breakfast, he found him at the edge of a river. Si Kebayan told his father that the water was flowing up the river bed. His father told him it was impossible but Si Kebayan said it is not possible if a deer can get caught in a bird trap. His father was ashamed so he told Si Kebayan what he did. To punish him Si Kebayan did not give his father any of the deer meat, all he gave him were the bones. The moral of the story is to share and and then you will get your share from others. Things that are different about this story than others is that the people in it eat deer and bird which people in other stories don't always eat. This tells us that Indonesians like to eat different things or the people there are poor so they have to eat what they can get. I would call this story a fable because some of the characters are animals and more importantly it is a story used to teach a moral.

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