Nama: Raisa Az-Zahra

Kelas: IX.2
Absen: 22
Tahun ajaran: 2022/2023

The crying stone

One upon time, live a poor widow in small village. She live with her daughter. Her daughter was
very beautiful but very lazy and arrogant. She never helped her mother. Every day, she put make
up and wore her best clothes. She always wanted to make herself look rich and beautiful.
One day, the mother and her daughter went to the market to by some food. At first, the daughter
refused to accompany her mother, but finally she agreed. “I will go with you, but you must walk
behind me,” said her daughter. She didn’t want to walk bedside her mother. Although her mother
was very sad, she agreed to walked behind her daughter.
One way to the market, everybody admired the girl’s beauty. But they were also curious with the
woman with a simple dress walking behind her. The girl and her mother looked very different.
“Hello beautiful girl. Who is the woman behind you? Is she your mother?” they asked. “ No, she
is not my mother. She is my servant,” the girl answered. Her mother was very sad to hear that,
but she didn’t say anything. She could understand that her daughter was ashamed to her.
The girl and her mother met other people. Again they asked who the woman behind the beautiful
girl. And again the girl answered the mother was her servant. She always repeated her answer
“she is her servant”
At last, the mother could not hold the pain anymore. She pray to God to punish her daughter.
Suddenly, the girl’s leg turned into stone. Slowly, the process continued to the upper part of
body. The girl was panic. “Mother, please forgive me! Mother!” she cried and asked her mother
to forgive her. But it’s already too late. Her body finally became a big stone. Until now, people
can still see the tears falling down from the stone. People the call it batu menangis