The Old Woman and The Devil

Nia Budiharti,S.Pdniabe25@gmail.com

One day in one place, there are an arrogant devil and an old woman who known-well as trouble maker. Since one of them feels better than the other. They decide to do a contest to prove which one of them is greater.

Then in a bazaar, the devil proves to old women by incite the butcher to kill his costumer who have accused him do cheat by short-weight the meat. But the old woman responds slowly, she proves by bring the devil to merchant shop by a cloth and then place that cloth in merchant’s house yet, she plans to make merchant will accused his wife dishonest. The merchant chase his wife away from his house. Yet, the merchant realized hat he make a mistake after the old man tell the truth.

PLOT• ORIENTATION/EXPOSITIONOne day an old woman and the devil met near a well.

They professed to be skilled at sowing sorrow and discontent.

• RISING ACTION When one of them is feels greater than another. • CLIMAXThe old woman and the devil decided to have a contest. • FALLING ACTION When the devil brought the old woman to the bazaar

and stood in front of the buyer’s stall as a costumer ordered his meat.

RISING ACTION The butcher had weighed a meat, the devil pour oil the flames to the costumer that the butcher was cheat, he had short-weighted. So the butcher gets angry with the customer statement. Finally, the butcher was getting angry to the costumer. CLIMAX The devil added fuel to the flame until the butcher got hysterics, and the butcher grabbed a knife from of his block, stabbed and killed the costumer.

FALLING ACTIONA short time later the authorities came and took the butcher away.

RISING ACTIONThe devil with a high hand that he as a better one at sowing sorrow, and the old woman invited the devil to following her to do something. They were arrived at a cloth merchant shop to bought Aleppo cloth for her son. Then the old came to the young woman’s house (shop merchant wife) for afternoon prayer, and she deliberated took the Aleppo and hide it in a basket where clothes were kept.

CLIMAX When her husband came and put his jacket into the basket, he saw a piece of Aleppo clothes, suddenly he was furious and he accused her wife that she was adultery with someone else. He ran to his wife and accused her of adultery and screamed at her to leave his house and never come back and forced her to return to her parent’s house in shame and tears.

FALLING ACTIONThe old woman returned to the shop of the cloth merchant for bought the same cloth that she purchased yesterday. She explained to the merchant that her cloth misplaced it in young woman’s house when she was going to take prayer time there. She want took it again, but she cannot remember the name of the street. RESOLUTION The man realized that he was wrong, he did big mistake, and get her wife back from her parent’s house. Then begged apologize for his accusation.The old woman prove that she not only be able make troubles or discords but also repair those.And the devil agrees that the old woman is craftier than him.  

CHARACTERSMain Character: - The old woman (protagonist)

-The devil (antagonist) Minor Characters - The Merchant (protagonist)

- The Merchant’s wife (protagonist)- The customer (antagonist) - The Butcher (antagonist)

SETTINGSETTING OF TIME : General (no specify 

   time told)SETTING OF PLACE : Specific (At a well, in a 

  bazaar, in merchant   shop, in merchant’s   house)

POINT OF VIEWThird Person

TONE AND DICTION:Diction : “See my power, old man….”Tone : Arrogant (the devil)Diction : “You have short-weight me?”Tone : uncertainDiction : “Are you calling me a cheat and unbeliever?”Tone : AngryDiction : “before we rush to conclusion, just follow me.” “Let’s see what follow now”.Tone : Confident.Diction : “…., shout louder and louder, get angrier and angrier, insult each other more and more until finally…”

THEME (CENTRAL IDEA) : Always positive thinking to every

story we had.MESSAGE : The best way to avoid conflict is to maintain communication and believe.BENEFICIAL DIALOUGE:” you see, not only can I bring discord but I can repair what I have done. I bought peace back to these two, but once your seed there is no going back”.