Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating ,stimulating emotions,motivating,guiding and teaching the readrs or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience .Narrative text such as : fable ( Mouse Deer and Crocodile ),legend/folk tables ( Sangkuriang ,Malin Kundang ),Fairy Tale ( Cinderella,Snow White ,Pinochio )
The generic of Narrative text :
- Orientation : It sets the scene and introduces the participants ( it answer the questions = who,when,what,where )
- Evaluation : A stepping back to evaluate the plight ( the information about the narrator’s point of view ) .It’s optional.
- Complication : A crisis or a problem arises.It usually involves the main characters
- .Resulation : A solution to the problem ( for better or worse ) main characters find ways to solve the problem.
- 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
For the example of Narrative text :
“ Island Rote “
Rote is small but a fertile island.Rote is located at the province of east Nusa Tenggara .There wasn’t any big town on the island ,but a small village.Not very far from that village ,there was a small hut.A woman and her grand daughter lived in that hut.Every day the grand daughter was away,then she got busy in the kitchen cooking rice.In the afternoon both of them cooked the fish .When the meals were ready ,both are ravenously.One day,the old woman told her grand daughter ,” My grand daughter from now on please cook one grain of rice only a day .Please don’t forget about it,” said the grand daughter earnestly then the girl got busy with the cooking.After a short time ,she time ,she went to see whether the rice was well cooked .When she opened the lid of the cooking pot ,the content overflowed.
The girl time franticallt to catch the flowing rice with a bowl .But the rice continuosly overflowed.The girl got more franticly seeing the rice flood ,the entire floor of the hut.The rice even flooded the garden outside .Crying,the girl ran out of the hut to look for her grand mother.On her way to beach ,the girl ran into her grand mother.She told everthing about the incident.Her grand mother got very mad at the because she didn’t obey her .The girl cried out for mecy.Her grand mother ,unfortunately ,kept on beating her.Suddenly the girl disappreared in a thin cloud .Not long after wards ,the could deared a away and thereb appeared a monkey .The girl has changed into a monkey.
“ Now .Grand mother,you are all by yourself.Nobody else is going to cook the rice ,prepare the coffee ,and tall with you,”said the monkey.The grand mother got lost in receive .She deeply regretted what she did
