BLINDNESS OF HEART

In
the beginning, the conflict was come from people around kakek (the old man).
Kakek gathered money from his Sharpening service, but sometimes people gave him
cigarettes, sambal, or a stingy smile with thanks tone. “Orang-orang
perempuan yang minta tolong mengasahkan pisau atau gunting, memberinya sambal
sebagai imbalan. Orang laki-laki yang minta tolong, memberinya imbalan rokok,
kadang-kadang uang. Tapi yang paling sering diterimanya ialah ucapan terima
kasih dan sedikit senyum”. (Navis 1) People just exploited Kakek as the
Sharpener, pretending like they were doing nothing. The Selfishness of people
also explained when kakek died, the mosque was ownerless and perished. They
were forgot, they also have an obligation to take care of the mosque and not to
perish it. “anak-anak menggunakannya sebagai tempat bermain, memainkan segala
apa yang disukai mereka. Perempuan yang kehabisan kayu bakar, sering suka
mencopoti papan dinding atau lantai di malam hari.” (Navis 1) How people could
be like that? Child played around the mosque, and the lady took woods from
every edge of the mosque. They just think about themselves, think about they
own will. Thus, People thought was a small conflict that has an influence to
the story.
Before
kakek died, He had a fight with his own faith because of Ajo sidi`s story. His
faith became loose, not tighten anymore. Related to Mahatma Gandhi quote that
Selfishness is blind, Kakek selfishness wobbly the entire faithful thing that
he did before and made a thousand of doubt impaled in his mind. Before that, how
selfish he was? “Tak kuingat punya isteri, punya anak, punya keluarga seperti
orang lain, tahu? Tak kupikirkan hidupku sendiri. Aku tak ingin cari kaya,
bikin rumah. Segala kehidupanku, lahir batin, kuserahkan kepada Allah Subhanahu
wataala”. (Navis 3) The answer is Very bad. Kakek didn`t want to have a wife,
child, or a house. He gave his life and heart to God. He forgot he lived with
many people around him, because he just stayed in the mosque pray and pray. Those
selfishness successfully created a huge conflict, a huge impact to Kakek`s
faith. “Tadi subuh Kakek kedapatan mati di suraunya dalam keadaan yang
mengerikan sekali. Ia menggoroh lehernya dengan pisau cukur” (Navis 7) Kakek`s
mind was blind because of his selfishness, he had no clue to solve the
conflict. He died just because he imagined that he were Haji Saleh, if his
heart wasn`t blind he will just think it`s just a story or It won`t happen to
me because I will seek a job now.
Navis
successfully carved the conflict inside the story and made his message about
selfishness was sent to the readers. This is the role of selfishness,
Selfishness creates conflict, and conflict will be solved in different way
depending on your heart. Kakek`s heart was blind so he choose the bad way to
solve his conflict, and his devotion thing to God was useless because he did
one of the most ten biggest sin in life. Back to the Mahatma Gandhi`s quote,
Selfishness is blind. It darken our heart, makes them tintless unless we color
it back with the colorful benevolent.
Another content that make me speechless...
BalasHapusI feel sorry about Kakek. I agree with Navis and "mimin" opinion about the cconflict.
But... I think "Child played around the mosque" is not a problem at all, because if there is no child, it would be so quiet.
Yeah... another nice again.
"Robohnya surau kami" Another tragic indonesian short story.
HapusThank you for read my literary response by the way. :D