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An Alone Old Woman (Short Story)
An Alone Old Woman (Short Story)
A Short Story
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He was an old woman alone in a place in the street around the
intersection near the town square. Carrying baskets containing goods hawker,
he offered his wares to everyone that passes through the streets, and already
more than ten days is not a single person just to say hello, smile or ask how
the price of the cake which he sold. More than one week none of the people
who buy his wares. Decade’s fate impartial in every step. Five years ago her
beloved husband left her forever. There is no any property bequeathed to him
except, a small shack on the outskirts of a quiet forest, the river is now
beginning to dry because the roots of teak trees which dries with thatched
roofs that leak when the rains arrive. One child even she did not have and
Every home run out hawking his wares with his unsteady steps back
into his cabin and just friends deserted. Sometimes he was just amused by the
sound of a groan or even ferret monkey voice wailing because their habitat
looted greedy people who denude the forests where the animals live, and
"Where your heart and feelings of the greedy! What you guys have the
heart to ruin the place we live and sell on the foreign capitalists and even you
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into the forest robbers by illegal logging! "Growled one of them.
The old woman stared at the ceiling. The sound of animals often
becomes an entertainer who once deserted now he rarely heard. The leaves
are used to extend green teak in front of her house now looks dry. At the top
of the hill that used to be heard the faint sound of the wind is blowing the
green leaves now that sounds like a lost world. Only a few remaining animals
"Grandma, why do they ruin our lives?" Asked one of the animal
"They are people greedy brother! Not only you who feel the effect of
this deforestation, but also me. Even the water there began to appear dry due
to the roots of trees killed by the water storage greedy people! In fact, I heard
yesterday forest robbers have to kill the forest over there! Of course your
From the distant sound of a howling monkey looking twigs are starting
to wither. The old woman moved to tears. His eyes look far above the hills
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visible from barren.
"Muttered the old woman. With legs that start frail old woman walked past a
few trees around his house that the leaves begin to dry.
"Grandma, did I hear a voice crying wolf," said a monkey on the old
woman. The monkey has long been a friend repellent quiet for his
grandmother and often cheer when he does not peddle his wares.
on the old woman about what is going on around the forest. Each is a group of
thief’s forest wood, old woman with all his strength to do the rescue effort of
nature that currently many are bald. Grandma was making holes in the
ground covered with leaves and when the gangs that they are mired in a hole
through it and then the gang-moaned moan even they then ran headlong into
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Most make the old woman was furious when gangs of thieves’ forest
organized by groups of rich people with very neat organization that they have
troops that can kill in an instant forest. They already do not have a conscience
companions, a few days ago a forest robber has been smuggled timber looting
"Grandma I have a way!" Said one of the monkeys with the skilled
"What strategies do you have, we are little people who always become
victims of the great men are greedy!" Said the grandmother was told putting
The monkey's hands were moving and then he coiled like to form an army.
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"Legion of hell?" Asked the old woman.
"Forces monkey!"
Monkey man smiled to see the old woman who seems to have no hope for the
future environment.
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"Granny, for this many people who ignore our existence. We considered
the wind. We are regarded as people who do not have the strength, we must
rise up! Today many people who feel the most sane, so what are they
logging on a large scale! They are the people who claim they are actually sane
but mad people! "Said the monkey as he clenched his hands as if there is
From the distance was suddenly there are rows of monkeys with a
uniform motion, such as the famous Russian troop movement’s neat was fine.
"Grandma, our troops have come!" Said the monkey who became
friends of the old woman, pointing his finger towards the tip far.
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"They are the troops who are mourning Granny!" Answered the
monkey.
"We were doing the mourning that the looters forest must suffer the
the monkey. The woman looked sharply toward the monkey without his
understanding.
ice-ice at the poles are melting so that sea water is also increasing! What
very harmful to our earth's existence. This is a result of the greenhouse effect!
and deforestation of natural forests beyond common sense!" Said the monkey
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"You're great my brother! Apparently you're more sane than the
changed happy and will do anything with his companions, to do the rescue
woods. From morning till evening in the company of monkeys, they do teak
tree planting movements around the house until at the top of the hill which
looks barren.
monkey.
Those with extraordinary spirit announced to the entire city and the
officers who still have the sanity to make arrests for the destruction of forests
and drag them to court. The old woman and the monkey who became his
friend were even sent a letter to the members of the House, the Minister of
Forestry and even to the president. But every time they send a letter to the
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"What is corruption, collusion, it has penetrated into all areas of our
lives?" Asked the monkeys. Old woman with streaks of his face began to
"We must be patient my brother! One of our officials must still exist
that have a conscience. Still have common sense! One of them would still be
international conference held for the safety of our tropical forests and save the
earth movement that we avoid global warming catastrophe that is stalking our
lives today. We must open all of human consciousness and brainwash them to
have common sense! Should we save our Earth! Justice and the law must be
Four years later, the old woman and the monkey companions, broke in
Even an Italian sculptor depicts the old woman who was surrounded by
monkeys and put his statue in front of the headquarters of the UN building,
right in the middle of pages with big writing: "The old woman and the ape
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Warming! Let's learn from them!"
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