NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people. Or Narrative text have meaning (1) a spoken or written account of connected events a story. (2) the narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. (3) the practice or art of narration. 

To conclude, a Narrative text isi a text which contains a story either written or onwritten, and there is a series of interconnected  event.

    GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEX

• Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

• Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.

• Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.

Sometimes, generic structure of narrative text can contain Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution, and Reorientation. “Evaluation” and “Reorientation” can be added or not. Evaluation contains assessment or evaluation of the course of the story or conflict. While Reorientation is the end of the story contains content inference.

   

     GRAMMAR

Use the past tenses, well simple past, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, or past future continuous.

EXAMPLE:

The Legend of Rawa Pening

Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village. He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.

Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The “lesung” was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy continued his journey. While he was passing through the village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.