Task 3
Fill in the story
elements of “THE ORIGIN OF A COUNTRY
CALLED MINANGKABAU (Minangkabau, West Sumatera) “
in the
following table.
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Setting
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Character
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Events
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Resolution
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Conclusion
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- A hill Bull
Gombak
- A river called
Sungai
Emas
- Along the foot
of a
hill called
Bukit
Batu
Patah
- the center
of
the
field
- the sea
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- A buffalo
- The skipper
- Datuk
Ketumanggungan
- Datuk Perpatinnan Sabatang
- The dignitaries
- The intellectual person
- The
people of the country
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- There was a ship anchored at a hill Bull
Gombak. In the ship, they had a big strong buffalo. The buffalo bathed in a
river called Sungai Emas.
- After that, the ship passed along Bukit Batu
Patah. The buffalo was taken outside.
- The skipper challenged Datuk Ketumanggungan,
Datuk Perpatin nan Sabatang and all the people to have buffaloes fighting.
- The skipper made a bet that
ifhis buffalo was defeated, all of his ship would be given to them.
- Datuk Perpatin nan Sabatang
and Datuk Ketumanggungan as well as dignitaries, intellectual person and
all people in the country accepted his challenge. They agreed to prepare
their buffalo for seven days before the fights.
- They prepared a young buffalo
which was still sucking milk from his mother. The night before the fighting, the young calf was not
given the opportunity to be suckled by its mother. They made an iron support having nine branches with six apexes in its
mouth.
- All men and women went out of
their houses to watch the fight.
- The big buffalo was driven to
the large field, while the young buffalo was released and also driven to the
centre of the field. At once the young buffalo hurried up toward the big
buffalo to suck milk to quench its thirst, but in so doing, it attacked with
its iron support the belly of the big buffalo.
- The young buffalo won the
game.
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The skipper felt
ashamed. He abandoned all his ships and he went back to the sea.
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The place of the
buffaloes fighting is now called Minangkabau. It is thought to be conjunction
of two words, minang (victorious) and kabau (buffalo). They named their tribe
“Minangkabau” after the victorious buffalo to mark their wisdom and strategy
in that important event.
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