Cerita Malin Kundang
dalam bahasa Inggris
Once
upon a time, lived a very poor family in West Sumatra and this was a family of
Malin Kundang. To provide a living for his family, his father went to sea but
never returned home. People talked about his father’s death and made his mother
so anxious in each day. Furthermore, he was still very young and had not been
able to help his mother.
However, life must go on. His mother did not want continuing
to grieve and doing nothing. His mother chose to work hard and did a lot of
jobs every day. However, his family financial had not improved since the money
was only to meet their daily needs without being able to be saved.
Seeing his mother continued to work in each time, he did not
have the heart and intended to help his mother. He asked his mother to sail and
made money as much as possible. At first, his mother was not banned because of
fear that Malin did not come back like his father. Nevertheless, he kept
pressing until his mother allowed him to go.
He immediately set to sail because it has been allowed by
his mother, and his departure was accompanied by his mother’s sobs. On board,
he continued to learn and began to know the ins and outs of the ships and
commerce.
Many years after the initial voyage, he had not had the
opportunity to visit his mother in the hometown. Indeed, he was eager to go
home but there were so many jobs to be done. In one time, he asked for
permission to skipper of the vessel and allowed to go home. Malin was very
excited and with the whole of crew, he returned to his hometown.
But, fate has not given him permission to go home. In the
ocean, his ship was intercepted by pirates and all crew were massacred. He was
very lucky because could hide and survived from the massacre. He ended up
stranded on an island and worked hard to be a wealthy merchant. Fortunately, he
was success. His wealth is so abundant because of hard working to build a
wealth. He also married a girl who was very pretty and rich so that they could
live happily.
With wealth and a prosperous life, he forgot to return home
in order to meet his mother. However, inadvertently Malin had to go to his
hometown for commercial affairs. He set off with his wife and children to come
back home.
Arrived at his hometown, Malin Kundang met his mother and
his mother hugged him very close. However, he even scolded his mother and
pushed up a heap. He actually recognized his mother’s face, but there is a huge
shame because there are crews as well as his wife. In front of them, he did not
acknowledge that a woman who fell down was his mother. He even told her that
her mother was so despicable and he did not recognize it.
After completing his business, he got out of his hometown.
His heart had hardened into stone. With his wife and his children, he went
sailing back. His mother was her sad and inwardly, he prayed that Malin changed
into stone.
Instantly, the sky became overcast,
lightning, and rain was falling. His ship hit rocks and was crashing. Malin
bodies swayed to the opposite shore and the magic happened. He slowly turned to
stone and it was known as Malin Kundang stone.