The Tale of : The Tortoise and The Monkey

The Tortoise and The Monkey

Once upon a time, there lived a tortoise  and a monkey. Both of them lived happily in the dense forest. The dense forest supplied all of their necessary. Tons of foods and millions liters of pure water. They hauted together, ate together and shared food together. They were closed friends.

One day, dryness and famine attacked the forest. The monkey came to tortois and said, “Oh my friend tortois, how can we survive in this situation? I’m so tired looking for a food the whole day long”. “I know, monkey. But we have no choise. If we just stay here and waiting. The food never come to us. Let’s pick them all.” Answered the tortoise.

Day after day they in this condition, until one day, the monkey found a fertile small island. “Tortoise! Come here! Look at that! What a big banana they are. Let’s go to the island and eat as much as we can!” said the monkey. The tortois agreed. Then, the monkey jumped to tortoise’s eggshell and went to the island. They ate a lot of food in the island. They were not famished anymore. But, the cunning of the monkey raised up. He just gave small part of the food and kept the bigger one and ate that. The tortoise didn’t know anything about this and that was happen again and again.

One day, when the monkey stole some friuts in a garden in the island. He was got caught by the owner of the garden, named Pak Tani. And the monkey was put into a cage. The next day, when the tortoise walked around the cage. The monkey called him loudly. “Tortoise! Come here!”. “Wow! What happen to you, monkey? Why are you in this cage?” asked the tortoise. “You know buddy? I’m put in this cage by Pak Tani because I will be married with his beautiful daughter.” Said the monkey. “Oh! How lucky you are! If I can be like you.....” “Of course you can! We can change our posisition. You get in to this cage and I go to outside. Deal?”

Then, the Tortoise agreed. He opened the cage and went inside. The monkey immediately went outside and locked the cage. “Poor you! What a foolish tortoise. Look, I will not marry with Pak Tani’s daughter. Honestly, I will be killed by him. But now, I’m saved cz of you. Thank you verry much~” said the monkey. When Pak Tani came to the cage. He was shocked. Because there is no monkey in his cage. But a tortoise! Then, the tortoise is got free by Pak Tani. But, this is happen again and again.

At last, when the monkey was put into the cage by Pak Tani. The tortoise didn’t want to help him again.

“my friend tortoise, will you help me once again buddy?”

“no! You have lied to me! How could you do that? We were friends, right?”

“I’m sorry my friend, I didn’t meant to.”

The tortoise didn’t gave his help again to the monkey. But the monkey still begged. Finally, the monkey swore, “Fine. Tortoise, look. I swear in the name of God. I will not lie to you anymore, I will not trick you. I will be your friend forever and I will respect to you. Until your eggshell just left. I will respect with you generations. I promise.” When the monkey said his promise the thunder and lightning blew up. After that, tortoise belived that the monkey was telling the truth. Then the tortoise agreed to help monkey. because of this incident, tortoise and monkey became friends again and monkey had no brave to trick or lie to tortoise.