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=__**How the Queen of the sea punished Greed:**__=

The story is set on a beach and the village.
 * 1. In what area/areas of indonesiais the story set (if the story tells you)**

The main characters are: .**Karta:** He was a peasent and very poor but he then became very powerful for a year. he became rich by asking for wealth from the queen of the sea. .**The Queen of the Sea:** She is the Queen of the Sea who is very beautiful but half of her body is in the form of a fish and lives at a palace at the bottom of the sea. She gives money to pepole in need if they sit on the beach calling her name and fasting for 7 days and 7 nights. .**Karta's Wife**: She is very kind and when they became rich she still was nice to her neighbours unlike her husband. .**Karta's Son**
 * 2. Describe/list the main characters.**
 * .****Karta's other Son**

Karta was a poor peasant who wanted to be rich so he asked the Queen of the Sea to be wealthy. She made him Wealthy but only for 10 years and then he would have to go with her and live as a pillow for her to rest on. The 10 years had passed and he exchanged his promise for his son to go with the Queen of the Sea. He had 5 more years and then he would become a pillar for the Queens palace. Those years passed and he gave up his other son to be a guard for the Queen of the Sea. He then had 1 more year and then he would become a stove. That year passed and he tried to reason with the Queen of the Sea but she just swept him away with a big wave to become a stove.
 * 3. Write a brief sumary.**

Yeah there is, you should always keep your word and go with it until the end or much worse things could happen.
 * 4. Is there a moral?**

Normally at the end of the story there is at least one 'goodie' left but in this story the Queen of the Sea took most of them so there was no one left. In other countries the main character would come and save the day and the evil character would pay for what they have done. Well i am actually a bit confused of what to think because some of the indonesian people are really respectful and hard working but this story says that they are very greedy and need to be punished. So, this is only one story of one man and not everyone in Indonesia is that greedy and selfish. It really depends on your way of looking at it.
 * 5. What things about the characters, setting or style of the story are different to other stories you know from other countries? What might these things tell us about region of Indonesia, and/or about Indonesia customs, beliefs, culture or history?**

I think that i would call it a legend because at the end of the story it says //'Even now people say that on cold nights, one can hear a voice crying near a cave at the beach. They say that the voice is Karta, who is being burnt to warm the Queen of the Sea.'// This suggests that some people actually do believe this story.
 * 6. Would you call this story a folk tale, a legend, a myth or a fable? Why?**