1.
Give significant
background information about the author or the literary piece
Answer:
Oka Rusmini (Ida Ayu Oka Rusmini), the poet and
novelist, was born on 11 July 1967 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Presently,
she lives in Denpasar, Bali. Her writing is characteristic of the
condition of women in the patriarchal culture in traditional society.[1]
Oka has to her credit collections of short
stories, poems and novels. Oka's poem has also been included along with twelve
other Balinese contributors in a book entitled Bali Living in Two Worlds,
edited by Urs Ramseyer from the Museum
der Kulturen Basel in Switzerland.[2]
She has also served as the fashion editor in
the Bali Post, the
largest local newspaper in Bali. She has been speaking at various national and
international literary forums, such as "Ubud Writers and Readers
Festival" in Bali; the "Pulpit Poet 21st Century" at Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta in 1996; ASEAN Writers Writing Program, 1997;
"International Poetry Festival", Surakarta, 2002 and
that in Denpasar, Bali in 2003. She represented Indonesia at the
"Winternachten Literature Festival" in The Hague and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2003,
she was invited as a guest author at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
2.
Write the
synopsis or summary of the literary text
Answer:
This short story told us about the blind carver named Ida Bagus Made Kopag, called Kopag,
who really wanted to know how the woman look like. Kopag was the second son of the richest family in his compound and
belonged to high level Kasta named Brahmana in a beautiful island Bali. His
mother was died since she born Kopag
and his father leaved his family because of the debt and a bad behavior. His
father was a highly respected man who held important government position and
also owned dozen of painting and sculpture galleries. However, his father was
well known as the Don Juan who had many girls and moved from one girls to
others for the sake of his desire and happiness. Therefore, his behavior made
the family’s business bankrupt and owned a lot of debt until he leaved his
family. It was then his grandfather who
raised Kopag since he was kid helped
by the loyal servant named Gubreg.
His grandfather was the one who touch Kopag
to be a professional and well known carver before he died. His grandfather also
taught that Kopag’s blind was due to
pay the sins of his father. Furthermore, Kopag
is the one who recovered his family business from the debt what’ more his
curving were interested both local and overseas collector until the gallery
received funding support from Germany and France.
Kopags’ objects
as the sculpture for his curving mostly were a man because he always interacted
only with a man in his daily life and he rarely met women. The only woman that
the met in his family was Ni Luh Putu
Sari, a girl who married his brother and come from the lowest Kasta (Sudra)
in Bali. Because she became a member of Brahmana’s family she change her name
into Jero
Melati. Jero Melati was
very beautiful, tall with a white skin and soft voice, she also became the
flower of in the compound and the adorable woman for all man because of her
beauty and people though that his brother was the luckiest one in the compound
since he can marry her. However, Kopag
view about Jero Melati was different
with common people who always saw a woman physically. For him, Jero Melati was the rotting corpse, she
was the real playactor in their family with elegant speak from the foul mouth.
Before Kopag could produce money Jero Melati always did a bad thing to
him and when Kopag become famous she
stop nagging at him cause she was at a liberty to spend Kopag’s money. That’s make him curious about the criteria of a
beautiful woman and always asked Gubreg,
the old man who raised him since he was a child, about how the beautiful woman
look like.
Gubreg had a
different view of a beautiful woman as an ordinary people think. For him Jero Melati is the perfect example of
beautiful woman and he convinced it to Kopag.
However, Kopag insisted in his
opinion that she didn’t belong to his criteria as a beautiful woman. In spite
of this, Kopag saw the beauty from
his servant called Srengi who always
served him patiently with her sincerity. That made Gubreg shock, because physically Srengy is the worst person in their compound. Her skin is dark and
barks and her smell was not good. However, this bark skin and her smell are
successfully bring him in making the woman sculpture in which some French like
it and saw it as the perfect natural sculpture of woman. For him Srengi’s voice seemed to be full of
honesty, compassion and sincerity.
Gubreg thought
that Kopag’s curiosity of beautiful
woman was because he wanted to have a wife as his companion of his life and he
asked Jero Melati to find it for him.
Surprisingly, Jero Melati proposed
her sister who was a wild and wicked woman and also rumors said that she sold
her own body because of poverty. Her chosen made him aware that Kopag’s view about Jero Melati was right. A view of beautiful body was enveloped by an
evil force. More surprisingly for him, when he asked Kopag whether he had chosen a wife and Kopag’s answer was Srengi.
3.
List down three
questions that come to mind while reading the text, then choose one explore it
more fully
Answer:
What the meaning
of Century Carver in this story
What is the
Character of Kopag?
How Kopag
describe about beautiful woman?
I would like to answer the 3rd
question. Kopag saw the beauty from his servant called Srengi who
always served him patiently with her sincerity. Srengy is the worst
person in their compound. Her skin is dark and barks and her smell was not
good. However, this bark skin and her smell are successfully bring him in
making the woman sculpture in which some French like it and saw it as the
perfect natural sculpture of woman. For him Srengi’s voice seemed to be
full of honesty, compassion and sincerity
4.
Explain the
emotion that literary text awoke in you or which you felt while or after
reading the piece.
Answer:
The emotion
that I found from this story is the emotion of sincerity. It is about the blind
man view about the meaning of beauty from what he feels and touch. This
sincerity can be seen also from what Kopag did to cover their family problem.
He didn’t expect the material from what he carved; he just did it for what he
can did as a blind man. Besides that, Sincerity also found from Kopag’s maid,
Gubreg who raise him with his hearth like his own son. Gubreg also always serve
himself for Kopag’s family both when Kopag’s family was still prosperous until
they were in misery.
5.
Copy a part of
literary text (sentence, paragraph, dialogue) which is striking, puzzling most
beautiful, enlightening and discuss why?
Answer:
But are people born
complete with all their senses capable of capturing all the secrets of this
life—secrets that are held onto and kept hidden by nature? Would it be wrong if
Kopag were suddenly to encounter extraordinary beauty in Srenggi? A beauty that
he could see with his thoughts and feelings? Would that be wrong? Kopag had
reinvented the idea of artistic endeavor. He didn't just carve wood; he carved
his thoughts, his brain, and his dreams as well.
6.
Identify the
theme of literary piece.
Answer:
The theme of
literary piece is about beauty
7.
Write the
critique of the works using an appropriate literary approach or theory
(Example: Feminism, Marxism, formalism, behaviorism, etc)
Answer:
Oka Rusmini
is the origin citizen from Bali, she creates many literary masterpiece of
interesting story which is commonly rich of Local culture of Bali. In this
story, century carver, she wrote the story of blind carver man with some
complete background knowledge of Balinese culture and society. Her story was
influenced by her background who still place the traditional faith. On the
other hand Oka
Rusmini ultimately argues for a new view of womanhood that is beyond
conventional ‘respectable’ and patriarchal Balinese ideas of womanhood,
providing a woman’s perspective of what it means to be a woman through this
story. The origin view of how beauty woman is.
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