CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
This paper presents about the story of Ali Baba: Ali
Baba and Forty Thieves, based on Wikipedia.com, is one of the stories which is
contained in the One Thousand and One Nights book by one of its European
translators, Antonie Galland. He wrote the story in
the 18th Century, and
remains one of the most popular of the tales. Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves is part of a collection of Middle-Eastern (Arabic)
folk tales. This story undoubtedly a
classic tale.
In
this paper, the writers explain about the Synopsis of Ali Baba, the Islamic values of Ali Baba supported with
relevant verse of the holy Qur’an or Hadist and “How would you use the work
(the Story of Ali Baba and Forty Thieves) in a language classroom?”.
The writers hope that this paper gives many
advantages not only for students, but also teachers. These advantages are: for
teaching English in the classroom, giving knowledge about Islamic values and
entertain to readers.
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
A. Synopsis the story of : Ali Baba and Forty Thieves
This
is story about Ali Baba and Forty
Thieves. The
story was one of tale taken from ‘Thousand and One Nights’. The setting of this
story was in Baghdad
during the Abbasid era. The
actor in this story is Ali Baba, Cassim,
Morgiana and Forty Thief
ALI BABA and FORTY THIEVES
Ali Baba and his elder
brother Kasim are the sons of a merchant. After the death of their father, the
greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, building on their
father's business but Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade
of a woodcutter. Ali Baba, the poor woodcutter was in the forest when
he saw forty thieves stop in front of a cave. The leader said
"Open Sim Sim!" and before Ali Baba's amazed eyes the sealed mouth of
the cave magically opened and the men disappeared inside.
To come out and close
the entrance, the said "Close Sim Sim" and the cave sealed itself
once more. Ali Baba waited till the thieves had left and then entered the cave
after saying the magic words.
To his delight he found
lots of treasure. Ali Baba told his brother Kasim about the wondrous cave.
Kasim set off to get some treasure for himself too.
Sadly, he forgot the
words to leave the cave and the thieves killed him. Ali Baba discovered his
brother's body in the cave. With the help of a slave girl called Morgiana, he
was able to take Kasim's body back home and bury it. Realising that someone
else knew about their cave the thieves tracked Ali Baba down.
The leader, disguised as
an oil seller stayed with Ali Baba. He had brought along mules loaded with
forty oil jars containing the other thieves.
Clever Morgiana knew who
the oil seller really was and poured boiling oil into the jars killing the
other thieves. While dancing in front of the leader of the thieves Morgiana
stabbed him. Ali Baba was saved and lived happily because he continue his brother
bussiness.
B. The Islamic values of Ali Baba
and Forty Thieves
The
Islamic values in this story are:
The story of Ali
Baba and Forty Thieves offers a great example of the common Arabian Nights motif, whereby a poor
man rises to riches by means of a lucky break. Allah
said in holy Qur’an surah At- Takatsur verse: 1 above:
Competition in [worldly] increase diverts you.
And then holy Qur’an surah Al-Humazah
verse: 1
Woe to every scorner and mocker
finally forty
thieves also died with their crimes. And we know that his brother is very
greedy person, when he taken a treasure he was dead with his foolishness and
killed by the thieves. Moral of the story, the story suggests he will suffer
because of greed . So, do not be greedy, to be a thief, and also crime to the
other people.
Ali Baba is simply
in the right place at the right time to learn the thieves' secret; he discovers
the riches because of fate, not because of anyone else's actions. This supports
the idea that even the poorest of men can come across good fortune. Of course,
the story then suggests that one must capitalize on that good fortune through
cleverness.
C. The answer of the question “How would you
use the work in a language classroom?”
The correlation between the story of Ali Baba and Forty
Thieves and English language clasroom are:
1.
For Speaking subject: the way to teach the students in speaking
course, we will ask each of the students to retell the
story of Ali Baba and forty thieves
in front of the class. With
retell of the story the students can improve their vocabulary, prononctiation
and also knowledge about islamic story.
2.
For Reading subject: the way to teach the students in reading
course, we will ask student to read the story of Ali Baba and Forty Thieves, after that let them
comprehend the story. Give them the task to find the moral value in it and the student can apply the moral value of the story in the
real live.
3.
For Writing subject: the way to teach students in writing
course, we will ask them to make the writing. First, we will give the papers about story of Ali Baba and Forty Thieves. Then,
we ask them to write down the
main ideas and also the conclusion in the
story. The aim from that activities is to
improve their skill in the writting subject.
