The Pirates of Gili Montong

The story needs to be treated in a particular way since it does not meet any plot types proposed by Booker 2004. However, the closest type of plot that might be appropriate to analyse the story is Overcoming The Monster. The elements of this plot type in the story need also to be adjusted. The monsters can take human, animal, and the combination of both 2004: 23. For sure, the monsters should be antagonistic. Yet, in this story, the monster is not really antagonistic. She is the sister of the male character. She does not posses the characteristics of monsters meant by Booker in Overcoming The Monster. She is physically a monster, a dragon. She just follows her instincts. The anticipation stage of the story sets the settings of the story and introduces the main character and the monster. The setting of the story tells about the society’s living. In the very beginning, the society migrates to a mountain to avoid the attack from Bajo people. This makes them learning the ways of living i.e.: hunting, gardening and cultivating the land. Previously they live from the sea. This background also explains the birth of the main characters. They are born by using a traditional knife since the one who usually helps somebody giving birth, the dukung, has been taken by Bajo people. The main characters are male human character and female komodo dragon. The male human character is called Gerong and the female dragon is Orah. Adjusted to this type of plot, the human character seems to be the protagonist while the female komodo dragon is the antagonist. The call as a part of this stage should contain the urge to confront the monster. However, in this story, the call is adjusted to the different condition and the nature of the monster which make her casted away from the society. The dream stage of this story presents the remaining main character in the society, the human character. If the common dream stage tells about he preparation of the hero or the heroine to confront the monster, the human character in this story just improves the skills of hunting as what a man in the society does. In other words, there is no intention to confront the monster in improving the hunting skills. Gerong is characterized as a prominent gardener and an expert hunter. He is also confident with his abilities. Because of those characteristics and identities, he often hunts into the forest. The main human character gets into his frustration when he meets his sister, Orah in his hunting. Gerong does not recognize Orah since they have been separated for so long and Orah has become a big dragon. Orah distractsGerong ’s concentration in hunting a deer. Because of being distracted, Gerong levels the spear and aims to the dragon. He seems to be upset because of the dragon’s appearance. Being threatened, Orah also takes a defensive position. The major adjustment of this type of plot applied in analysing this story in the nightmare stage. This story does not present any nightmare stage. A nightmare stage is indicated by the exhaustion of the protagonist character in combating the monster. Any efforts are also seem useless. However, this type of plot is the most suitable to apply because the other elements of the plot might suit to the development of the events. The last stage of the plot should be the thrilling escape from the death or the death of the monsters. However, once again, the story needs adjustments. The escape isnot from the death but from the combat or the confrontation between the human main character and the dragon. They do not confront since the supernatural being tells that they are actually sebai, or sibling. Further, no party dies but they live in their own homes separately.

4.1.1.6. The Sad Tale of Ina Materia

The last story in the book, The Sad Tale of Ina Materia, presents the preservation of an ideology about being faithful. Being faithful as an ideology becomes significant seen from the serious consequence resulting from being accused of disobeying it. However, the main tragedy comes from the careless main character. The main character in the story receive a curse because of her prayer. The presence of supernatural being in the story is not prominent but the supernatural power exists. It highlights the idea about human being’s powerless state before the supernatural power. Table 4.7. The Plot Development in The Sad Tale of Ina Materia No Stages Highlighting Events 1. Anticipation Stage The settings and the main characters and their characteristics are introduced. For instance, Ina Materia and the young man get married. 2. Dream Stage The characters daily life is introduced. Everything seems alright. 3. Frustation Stage The main characters have a conflict because Ina Materia gets the sarong dirty. She is accused of being unfaithful. 4. Nightmare Stage Ina Materia leaves the house and heads into a mountain. 5. Destruction or death wish stage Ina Materia is cursed on the mountain. She becomes a stone. The anticipation stage of the story introduces the main characters and their characteristics. The main characters are a young man and Ina Materia. The young man takes Ina Materia because she is beautiful for him. Being married, the young man’s father gives Ina Materia a sarong, a piece of cloth as a symbol of devotion for the couple to one another. The sarong is particular that none is perfectly similar to it. The couple live in a distance from the main village. The young man has two reasons for living not too close to the village. First, the young man likes to live solitarily for the peace. Second, he feels jealous whenever other men staring or flirting with her. 11 “But secretly he was jealous, too – he did not like the idea of the other men of the village staring at his beautiful wife, or worse, flirting with her.” A12518 The last reason seems to be the feeling that becomes the central motive in the story. Instead of a plain desire, the plot is developed based on this feeling. Further, this feeling is the one that moves them away from the village. However, later the young man actually still keeps this feeling inside his heart. In the next stages of the story, this feeling might be a cause of the problem. The dream stage presents the harmonious life of the couple. They shared roles in their daily life. The husband as the bread winner goes hunting for deer and wild pigs in the forest. Ina Materia does the works in the kitchen. She prepares for the meals, collects woods, and cleans their households. They carry out those routines for another year with no problem even until Ina Materia gives birth to their son. Their life seems to be ideal accordingly to the custom.