Narrative Text

The definition of narrative text :

Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guiding  and teaching the readers or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience. Narrative texts such as : Fable (mouse deer and crocodile), Legend / folk tales (Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang), Fairy Tale (Cinderella, snow white, pinochio)

The generic structures of narrative text :

       1.      Orientation           :       It sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answers the     questions = who, when, what, where).

      2.      Evaluation            :       A stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about the narrator’s point of view); it is optional.

     3.      Complication       :       A crisis or a problem arises. It usually involves the main Characters.

    4.      Resolution            :       a solution to the problem (for better or worse). Main characters find ways to solve the problem.

Some important points in the story of narrative text are:

It uses temporal conjunction :ex. once upon a time, before, after, etc.

It uses simple past tense :ex. there lived a …..,one day there was….etc

The example of narrative text :

A.      Jack and the Beanstalk

There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack. They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown too old, his mother sent Jack to sell it. On the way to the market, Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of great value and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.

Jack brought them happily. When he told his mother about this, his mother became so angry that she threw the beans out of the window.

When Jack woke up in the morning, he felt the sun shining into a part of his room, but all the rest was quite dark and shady.

So he jumped to the window. What did he see? The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack’s window. He opened the window and jumped onto the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder.

He climbed…and climbed till at last he reach the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.