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Lake Toba

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A young farmer named Toba lived alone in a fertile valley. Even so, he was able to support his lonely, humble life with the crops he grew.
One day, he went fishing to a nearby river. After he fished and prepared to leave the river, his rod suddenly caught something. Much to his delight, he had caught a large goldfish. However it began to cry and begged him for its release. He let go of the fish and it suddenly transformed into a beautiful young woman. The goldfish fish claimed to be a princess cursed to be a fish.
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Grateful for breaking her curse, she was willing to be his wife under one condition. Her curse was to be kept secret and no one must know that she was a fish, or else a terrible disaster may occur.
The farmer and the woman got happily married and within a year, they were blessed a baby boy. At last, he grew up with a fierce appetite and would eat all the food without leaving anything left for the rest of his family. He continued his behaviour, until he was once asked to bring rice to his father who was working in the field. On the way, he became hungry and ate his father’s lunch.
Hungry and tired after working in the fields, the farmer hit his son and called him the son of the fish.
Crying, the boy ran home and asked his mother for the truth. Shocked and saddened by her husband’s behaviour, the princess told her son to run to the hill near their house and to climb the top of the tallest tree. She herself hurried to the river where she met the farmer for the first time and disappeared.
It was told not long after that the sky darkened while thunder and lightning struck above the valley. Long and intense rain began to fall into the valley, causing it to flood. The water levels overflowed the valley which turned it into a lake.
In the second version of the story, they got married and she bore him a daughter. Their daughter also turned out to be greedy, and would afterwards eat her father’s lunch on an errand. After hearing what her husband has said to their daughter, the princess told her daughter to run for the hills as there will be a catastrophe, while she stayed behind and prayed.
An earthquake occurred afterwards, as rain began to fall and springs appeared all over. The area began to flood and became known as Lake Toba in Sumatra. The princess was told to return once more into a fish and her husband turned into the island of Samosir.

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Question :
1.What can we learn from story?
2.Why the farmer hit his son?
3.What is the farmer son character?
4.The goldfish claimed to be?

    

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