The Old Woman and The Devil tells the story of a contest between an arrogant devil and a clever old woman to determine who is greater at sowing discord. The devil incites a butcher to kill a customer by accusing him of short-weighting, but the old woman later proves she can both cause and repair trouble by hiding a cloth at a merchant's house, causing him to wrongly accuse his wife but then explaining the truth. The devil realizes the old woman is craftier than him at sowing and resolving discord.

1. The Old Woman and The Devil
Nia Budiharti,S.Pd
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2. One day in one place, there are an arrogant devil and an
old woman who known-well as trouble maker. Since
one of them feels better than the other. They decide to
do a contest to prove which one of them is greater.
Then in a bazaar, the devil proves to old women by
incite the butcher to kill his costumer who have
accused him do cheat by short-weight the meat. But
the old woman responds slowly, she proves by bring
the devil to merchant shop by a cloth and then place
that cloth in merchant’s house yet, she plans to make
merchant will accused his wife dishonest. The
merchant chase his wife away from his house. Yet,
the merchant realized hat he make a mistake after the
old man tell the truth.

3. PLOT
• ORIENTATION/EXPOSITION
One day an old woman and the devil met near a well.
They professed to be skilled at sowing sorrow and
discontent.
• RISING ACTION
When one of them is feels greater than another.
• CLIMAX
The old woman and the devil decided to have a contest.
• FALLING ACTION
When the devil brought the old woman to the bazaar
and stood in front of the buyer’s stall as a costumer
ordered his meat.

4. RISING ACTION
The butcher had weighed a meat, the devil pour oil the flames to
the costumer that the butcher was cheat, he had short-weighted.
So the butcher gets angry with the customer statement. Finally, the
butcher was getting angry to the costumer.
CLIMAX
The devil added fuel to the flame until the butcher got hysterics,
and the butcher grabbed a knife from of his block, stabbed and
killed the costumer.
FALLING ACTION
A short time later the authorities came and took the butcher away.
RISING ACTION
The devil with a high hand that he as a better one at sowing
sorrow, and the old woman invited the devil to following her to do
something. They were arrived at a cloth merchant shop to bought
Aleppo cloth for her son. Then the old came to the young woman’s
house (shop merchant wife) for afternoon prayer, and she
deliberated took the Aleppo and hide it in a basket where clothes
were kept.

5. CLIMAX
When her husband came and put his jacket into the basket, he saw a
piece of Aleppo clothes, suddenly he was furious and he accused her wife
that she was adultery with someone else. He ran to his wife and accused
her of adultery and screamed at her to leave his house and never come
back and forced her to return to her parent’s house in shame and tears.
FALLING ACTION
The old woman returned to the shop of the cloth merchant for bought the
same cloth that she purchased yesterday.
She explained to the merchant that her cloth misplaced it in young
woman’s house when she was going to take prayer time there. She want
took it again, but she cannot remember the name of the street.
RESOLUTION
The man realized that he was wrong, he did big mistake, and get her wife
back from her parent’s house. Then begged apologize for his accusation.
The old woman prove that she not only be able make troubles or discords
but also repair those.
And the devil agrees that the old woman is craftier than him.

6. CHARACTERS
Main Character: - The old woman (protagonist)
-The devil (antagonist)
Minor Characters - The Merchant (protagonist)
- The Merchant’s wife (protagonist)
- The customer (antagonist)
- The Butcher (antagonist)

7. SETTING
SETTING OF TIME : General (no specify
time told)
SETTING OF PLACE : Specific (At a well, in a
bazaar, in merchant
shop, in merchant’s
house)
POINT OF VIEW
Third Person

8. TONE AND DICTION:
Diction : “See my power, old man….”
Tone : Arrogant (the devil)
Diction : “You have short-weight me?”
Tone : uncertain
Diction : “Are you calling me a cheat and
unbeliever?”
Tone : Angry
Diction : “before we rush to conclusion, just follow
me.”
“Let’s see what follow now”.
Tone : Confident.
Diction : “…., shout louder and louder, get angrier
and angrier, insult each other more and more until
finally…”

9. THEME (CENTRAL IDEA) : Always positive
thinking to every
story we had.
MESSAGE : The best way to avoid conflict
is to maintain communication and
believe.
BENEFICIAL DIALOUGE
:” you see, not only can I bring discord but I can
repair what I have done. I bought peace back to
these two, but once your seed there is no going
back”.