My Article to Narative text

 My Home Town

I live in a small city in East Java. I have lived here since I was born and for that, I have been living here for 20 years. My hometown is Lumajang where is well-known as Banana Town. There is a specific reason why Lumajang is called Banana Town. That name is related with the uniqueness of Lumajang and what Lumajang has. Below is the more detailed information about my beloved town.

 Lumajang is well-known for its fertile land and unique agricultural that can explain why Lumajang is called Banana Town. Lumajang has fertile soil because it is surrounded by three volcanoes, they are Mount Mahameru, Mount Bromo and Mount Lamongan which make it has many harvest areas. Those harvest areas produce a lot of agricultural produce, such as crops, fruit, and vegetable. However, the main produce is banana. Here are available various types of banana, such as Pisang Emas, Pisang Kirana, and Pisang Agung. The most famous banana is Pisang Agung which is not only used as the icon of Lumajang but also as the symbol in Lumajang’s batik design. That is the reason why my hometown is well-known as Banana Town.

Besides having the uniqueness, Lumajang also has special dishes and attractive tourism objects. The special dishes are still made by banana as the main ingredient, such as banana chips, kolak, banana-sale, banana bread, steamed banana, and traditional cake named nagasari. Lumajang also distributes banana to other towns, including banana chips. Lumajang has a number of outstanding tourism objects as well. The tourism objects in Lumajang are Lumajang Town Square that is always crowded every day especially on Saturday night and Sunday morning, Tumpak Sewu Waterfall, Bambang beach which has black sand, Manda Giri Temple which is used for historical object, Gucialit Tea Garden, Mount Semeru, B29, Ranu Kumbolo Lake, Selokambang Natural Pool, and still many more. Each tourism object is always full of people on weekdays, especially on holidays.

Lumajang is one of the beautiful towns in East Java. It has its own uniqueness that shows the identity of Lumajang. It also has many special dishes and tourism objects that make it becomes a famous town.

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My Msytic to Narative text

The Mysterious Room

Hello. My name is Angel Paramitha. This is my horror story in the past 10 years ago when I was a freshman in one of the big colleges in Bandung. I was a student of Management major. At that time, I was still a new student who looked for a comfortable boarding house. I found a big one. It looked luxurious with fully equipped facilities and the cost was quite expensive, but that was not a big deal for me. The facilities over there were a quite big room, kitchen, and a gathering room complete with a TV. I thought it would make me felt comfortable, so I took it. I was placed on one of the rooms on the second floor by the owner of that house because all the rooms on the first floor were full. I accepted it with my pleasure because my roommate was a nice girl. She was my senior, she was 1 year older than me, and we became friends since the first time we met. Her name is Rani.

On the first day, I stayed there, everything was fine and I did not feel something strange. As a new member in my boarding house, day by day I felt really curious about the whole house. Therefore, I started walking around inside. The atmosphere on the second floor was fine, but when I walked down into the first floor, it felt different. I felt a bit frightened when I stood alone at the gathered room. The gathered room was wide. It was bigger and wider than my room but over there was deserted. I looked around, there were a short wooden table in the middle of the room, a quite old long sofa, the old TV, and the kitchen next to this room. Not only that, but I also found the mysterious room. It was located at the corner of the gathered room. That room was locked and the door was dusty. It looked like an empty room for years. Afterwards, I went up again and asked my roommate. I asked, "Miss Rani, do you know about the empty room on the first floor? It is locked and looks so dusty." She replied, "Girl, actually there is someone hired that room but recently she is not here.” I was still curious, then I asked her again, “Are you sure? But that room looks like unorganized and nobody stays there for years.” Miss Rani warned me, ”Angel, listen to what I said before, and don’t try to go inside!” At that time, I was a stubborn girl, so I did not listen to her.

At the next day, Miss Rani went out for a day, so I plucked up my courage to go inside. At first, I tried to open the locked door by pushing it hard but it did not work. I decided to call my close friend to ask for a help. His name is Andy. After a few minutes I was waiting for him, finally, he came while bringing sort of a hook. He tried to open the door using that hook, and unbelievable, it opened. I asked him to come inside first because I was really scared. He opened the door slowly, then we found a lot of unexpected things. First, we found lots of fresh jasmine flower are spread out on the floor. Second, there was a new red waist bag on the table next to the door. I was surprised and I thought how could there was this bag inside the empty room. Third, Andy checked the wardrobe at the left side of the table. He also found lots of mysterious things. He found a graduation certificate, a photo of a child which is written “I love you” behind it, finger piece wears ring then he put it in his pocket, and a big brown envelope which there were a shroud full of blood and wide batik cloth inside. Fourth, we found a bed that is covered by a wide white coverlet. Because of the wide size, the coverlet could touch the floor. We walked there slowly, then Andy lift up the coverlet and we saw a small mausoleum. After that, I asked Andy to get out because I was really scared. Andy locked the door again and he went home. At the next day, I was still frightened and my condition became worse when I heard Andy passed away mysteriously. I got depressed for months due to that factor until I could not continue my study. That was why I graduated from college 6 years later.

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My Dream to Narative text

The Magnificent Dreamland

Dream is something familiar in our life. We define dream is not only about our wish or target in the future, but it is also something that usually happens when we sleep. It always happens to me almost every night. My dream is always different. Sometimes, I have a nightmare, but one day I had a magnificent dream. It felt real until I thought that I died and I have been in the heaven. Now, let me tell you about my extraordinary dream.

 

It happened when I was in 20 years old, more precisely 10 years ago. Now I am 30 years old. At that time, I was still a college student in 5th semester. One day, I was exhausted after having so many activities at my campus until I went home late. Home here means boarding house because I considered my boarding house was like my own home, I felt very comfortable when I stayed there. After I arrived at home, I directly changed my clothes, washed my face, brushed my teeth, and prepared for going to bed. At that time, the clock showed at 10 p.m. After I prepared for sleeping, I directly laid my body down on the soft spring bed. It felt very comfortable until I forgot to pray, and my eyes just fell asleep.

Suddenly, I didn’t know why, I opened my eyes and saw many things incredible. I found myself laid down on the ground and I was alone. No one was there. My feelings were mixed up. I felt afraid because I was alone, at once I was also impressed by the amazing view. What I saw at that time, I was inside the forest. However, it was different with the common forest in my country. I could say that I felt like a small creature. There were thousands of giant plants around me, such as the pretty giant colorful flowers, many of shady huge green trees, and some unique large colorful mushrooms. Something which made me surprised was the mushrooms, I just wondered why the mushrooms there had unusual size. As I knew that usually mushroom is small, it is not bigger than my palm. Yet those mushrooms over there were huge, perhaps about 3 meters tall and also colorful. One mushroom there was like a shelter. It really covered me up and perhaps, no one could see me there. Thus, I walked around slowly while hoping I would get any help.

 A few moments later, there was someone called me and I directly stopped walking. It sounds like a girl, but I was not sure. I was a little bit scared, so I didn’t face her. She called me again. That time, I finally turned back and saw a different creature. I didn’t know who she was, but she looked so pretty. Our physical looked different obviously. She had two big eyes with long white hair and red cheeks. She also had big wings like a butterfly, but it was transparent. She could speak in English too. Then, she told me that I was in The Magnificent Dreamland. I was very curious, what The Magnificent Dreamland was actually. I didn’t understand what she meant. I thought I died and I have been in the heaven because I stayed in a beautiful place. She invited me to go around the forest while telling me that she was a powerful girl. I didn’t believe it easily. I asked her to proof it. She agreed with me, but before she showed me her power, she told me something. She said that she was actually a fairy, her name is El Maricon. Every fairy had a different power, but all of them had the same wings. For the size of the wings, it depended on how tall a fairy. The taller fairies, the bigger wings they had.

After a few hours we walked around the forest, we finally took a rest together. We sat under a big sunflower. Then, she asked me, “Are you hungry? If so, I can bring you a food and beverage you request, and it all is free.” I directly answered enthusiastically, “Are you kidding me? I am starving by the way. Now, I just want to eat Lasagna and drink Pisco Sour. But, how do you bring me that?” She stated, “Let’s see what I can do for you.” Then, she swung her hands like a magician, and abracadabra… what I requested was on the ground. It was amazing and I ate it immediately. It tasted so yummy. Then, I realized that it was her power. I asked her about it, and she said that she could do everything with her hands. She could take something far away from her home easily, she could make a protector wall around her when she felt threatened, she could change someone’s outfit as requested, and she could heal someone’s illness. She did all by swinging her hands like a magician. I was so impressed by that.

After I ate that special dish, I was speechless and pensive. I was thinking that I didn’t know how long I was there, but I was falling in love with that place. I felt like I didn’t want to get out of there. I wanted to be there forever with her, although I still thought that I was in the heaven. El Maricon suddenly patted my shoulder and asked me, “Hey, are you okay? How do you feel now?” I answered weakly, “Hmm… I am confused El. I don’t know where I am right now. Am I in the heaven right now?” She replied me, “Hey, what are you talking about? This is a dream world, this is not real” I replied her, “What?! So, it means I am still alive!” She just replied me with smiling. Then, I felt something weird happened to myself. I felt like there was something pulled me extremely strong. I tried to hold on El Maricon’s hands, but it was useless. She couldn’t hold me back. Finally, I was pulled without saying anything to her.

I suddenly woke up from my sleep and looked at the clock. It showed at 8.30 a.m. I woke up late, then I realized that I stayed in dream world for a long time. I kept staying on my bed while thinking about how wonderful that dream world. I wanted to go back there, although I knew it was impossible. At last, I was just able to hope that my real world could become wonderful, exactly like in my dream.

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Legend Story to Narative text

 The Legend of Angel Lake

This is the legend from one of big islands in Indonesia, that is South Kalimantan. This legend comes from Pematang Gadung village, Sungai Raya Sub-district, Hulu Sungai Selatan District, South Kalimantan province. Once upon a time, there was muscular and handsome man was going through inside the jungle. His name was Awang Sukma. He went to the jungle to explore the life inside. When he was in the middle of the jungle, he felt fascinated with various kinds of the beauty inside the jungle. After that, Awang Sukma directly built a home over there. He felt that the life in the jungle was harmonious and peaceful. He also had a good relationship with the whole dwellers in the jungle. Because of this factor, all the dwellers recognized him as the master of the jungle and he got a new titled, that was Datu. Since that moment, he was called by Datu Awang Sukma.

After he became a master of the jungle, he walked around in his territory once in a month. One day, when he did his habit, he stopped in a lake. The location of the lake was under the shady trees. That lake was not too deep but the water was very clear and it looked like a mirror. Datu Awang Sukma was impressed by the uniqueness of the lake. He thought, “What a wonderful lake! It has a magnificent miracle inside.” He did not understand why some trees around the lake could be fertile and produced a lot of fruits. Not only that, but there were also various birds lived safely around the lake and flies sucked at the nectar happily. He did love the lake, so he decided to stay around the lake for a few days. Along the day he stayed there, he always played a flute and then he got a new titled, that was Datu Suling. When he played a flute, he performed melodious and touching songs which can entertain the listener.

After a few days Datu Awang Sukma stayed around the lake, finally he left it. He walked slowly but suddenly he heard something from the lake. He was really curious. He thought, “What happened to this lake?” He decided to figure it out. After that he found something incredible. He found 7 beautiful girls were taking a bath in that lake. He mumbled, “Oh My God! I found 7 beautiful girls here. Are they angels from the sky? What should I do then?” Afterwards, he looked around and found their shawls. The angles enjoyed taking a bath in the lake without caring about their shawls. There were 7 shawls. Those shawls were used by those angles to fly back to the sky. They put their shawls in different places, one of them was put on the branch of the tree. Datu Awang Sukma took that shawl then. He mumbled, “This is the perfect time to know what happened if I take one of their shawl.”

After Datu Awang Sukma got that shawl, those angles heard a call and they had to fly back to the sky. They directly took their own shawl, except one angle. They other angles had worn their shawl and flight to the sky. The angle who did not find her shawl was the youngest of the seven children. She was confused because her six sisters had flight to the sky and over there she was alone. After that, Datu Awang Sukma came closer to her and said, “Don’t be afraid my angle, I will help you if you agree to live with me.” At the beginning, that angle was hesitant to accept his requirement but finally she accepted because she knew that she did not have another option.

After a few months they live together, that angle was pregnant. Finally, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. One day, there was a black chicken stood up on the rice barn. The angle tried to chase it away. After that, she opened the rice barn and found his shawl. Her feeling was uncertain among happy and angry to his husband. At last, she decided to leave her baby to his husband and fly back to the sky. Datu Awang Sukma totally knew if that was his mistake and he also felt guilty. He apologized to his wife but it did not change the angle’s decision to fly back to the sky. Day by day, his daughter grown up to be a beautiful woman and he could forget the angle slowly. Because of this incident, Datu Awang Sukma swore and prohibited his offspring to raise black chickens. It was considered to bring great disasters. Dwellers of Pematang Gadung village obeyed that prohibition until present days.

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My love to Narative text

I Lost You in The World

My big family was complete 5 years ago. There are seven people in my big family, they are my grandpa, my grandma, my mother, my father, my aunt, my elder brother, me, and my cousin. My big family live separated at two houses which are located in different address. My grandpa, my grandma, my aunt, and my cousin live together at the first house. My father, my mother, my elder brother, and I live together at the second house. We had good relationship along the day and I used to always visit my family at the first house. My main purpose was to meet my grandpa.

 

I have a specific reason why I loved to meet him. It is because he was the one who had a good knowledge of Islam. He was a diligent man. He used to always read the holy Qur’an everyday and learn the translation afterwards. Not only that, but he also loved to read Islamic fiqih book, hadith book, and the story of 25 prophets. Therefore whenever I visited him, he always gave me important information about fiqih and sometimes he told me the life story of our prophet Muhammad SAW. Every time I went there, I directly looked for him, shook his right hand, then he kissed my forehead with full of love. Thereafter, he asked me to follow him to his room, then he started reading the Islamic book loudly and I listened to him seriously. He could read the book for hours until I felt sleepy and tired. That was the best moment I miss the most.

That unforgettable moment was over when I was 14 years old. At that time, my grandpa has already 74 years old and he has been suffering from complications of disease for years. As I know, it happened because he was an active smoker. His disease became worse day by day for the past few years until his final day in this world. He passed away on March 26^th, 2013. Five days before he passed away, he was hospitalized at 3 a.m. I did not know when my parents accompanied him there. When I woke up in the morning, I was alone at home. I had already known about it when I called my mother. I was shocked directly. After my grandpa was hospitalized, my parents were very busy in the hospital and I stayed at home only with my cousin because my brother was in Surabaya. I had to take care of her every day. At that time, I really wanted to visit my grandpa but my mother prohibited me to do that without any reason. On the fifth night my grandpa was hospitalized, I could not sleep until at 10.20 p.m, then I cried. I felt my grandpa has passed away but I was not sure. I did not call my mother because I did not want to wake my cousin up. Thus, I decided to sleep. In the morning, I heard my brother cried then I started to think that my grandpa was actually passed away. I woke my cousin up and we cried together. After an hour, we went out from our room and my mother told us the truth. We both directly cried loudly. After that, we all went to my grandpa’s home together and finally I could see him again for the last time. That was the worst day ever in my life.

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