Narrative

 Narrative 

A narrative text is a text that tells a story.

The Purpose of this text is to amuse, entertain, and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways. Narrative always deal with some problems which leadto the climax and then into a solutation to the problem.

The Generic Structur

In a traditional Narrative the focus of the text is on a series of action       :

v  Orientation : ( introdution ) in which the caracter, setting and time of the story are established.

v  Complication or Problem : The complication ussualy involves the main character(s).

v  Resolution  : There needs to be a resolution of the complication. The complication may be resolved for better or worse/happily or unhappily. Sometimes there are number of complication that have to be resolved. These add and sustain interest and suspence for the reader.

Kinds of the narrative text :

1. Folktales ( dongeng)
2. Fable ( dongeng binatang)
3. Fairytales
4. Legend
5. Myth

Language Features:

•     The language:

  Normally past tense but it may change immediately when dialogues appear (into Present

      Tense or Future Tense)
-Use of material, verbal, mental process, relational process
-Use of descriptive language ( a big empty house, the room is very large)
-Use of time connectors (then, finally, first, next, once upon time, etc.)
-Dialogue (direct sentence may be included)
-The story may be sad ending or happy ending
-The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of senses (She felt hungry, she thought she

      was clever, she smelt something burning)
-The use of saying verbs (say, tell, ask)

Babu and the Lion

One day, there was a slave whose name was Babu. His master was very, very bad. You know, he often punched Babu and did not offer him food for days. Poor Babu! So he escaped into a forest and slept in a cave.(ORIENTATION)

Next morning, he heard a loud roar. In front of him...., at the mouth of the cave..., was a very big lion. You see, Babu was scared to death! Kind of scary, isn’t it? But he could not escape. But the lion didn’t attack him. It was tame.(COMPLICATION)

There was a large thorn in its right front foot. The lion lookedat Babu. It seemed to say something like:”Please help me. It’s very painful.” Babu walked bravely to the lion and pulled out the thorn.(CLIMAX)

Babu and the lion turned out to be friends.        (RESOLUTION)