Narrative Text

Narrative Text

A.           Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is the text which tell the story that happen in the past, the story can the fiction or imagine story.

B.            Purpose of Narrative Text

The purpose of narrative text is to entertain the reader or to retell the story in the past.

C.            Generic Structure of NarrativeText

The narrative text will consists of the following structure:

1.      Orientation              : Introducing the participants and inform about the time and the place of the story.

2.      Complication           : Describing the rising crises which the participant have to do it.

3.      Resolution               : Showing the way how the participant solve the problem.

4.      Coda                                    : Summarizes the point of the story and the moral value that we got.

D.           Language Feature          :

1.      Using past tense.

2.      Using action verb. Ex: tell, run, come

3.      Using temporal conjunction or chronological action.

E.            Example

The Lumberjack and The King of The Mice

The king of the mice lived inside a banyan tree in a jungle. One day, a poor man was cutting down some trees. As he started to cut down the banyan tree, the king of the mice grew frightened “Please, leave the tree standing” he said to the lumberjack, “and I’ll give you a piece of gold every day.”

The lumberjack agreed. So, every evening the king of the mice took out a piece of gold from under the roots of the tree and gave it to the lumberjack. The lumberjack took the pieces of gold home and showed them to his wife.

After a few days, his wife asked him, “Where does the gold come from?”

“Don’t worry about that,” he said, “just keep it,”

A few days later she asked him again, but he did not tell her. “if you don’t tell me,” she said, “I’ll go and tell the government or even the king that you’re a robber.”

The lumberjack was frightened of his wife when she was angry. So he said, “Every evening the king of the mice gives me a piece of gold from under the roots of the tree.”

“Oh, you are stupid!” his wife said. “You’ve been tricked by a mouse. He gives you one piece of gold every evening but the rest of the gold is under the tree all the time! Why don’t you cut down the tree and take it all away?”

The lumberjack did as he was told. He cut down the tree. But when he looked under the roots, the gold was not there. The king of the mice had run away too.

That night, the king of the mice crept up to the lumberjack’s house and took back all the gold. So the lumberjack was as poor as ever.