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Pengertian narrative text sudah berulang kali dibahas di berbagai media, mulai dari blog atau

website hingga dalam buku pelajaran. Oleh karena itu saya sangat yakin bahwa sobat yang

sedang membaca tulisan ini sebenarnya sudah tau seperti apa yang dimaksud dengan narrative

text itu. Tapi mungkin selama ini pemahaman yang kita terima setelah membaca penjelasan

tentang narrative text di berbagai sumber itu belum benar benar membuat kita memahami jenis

teks yang satu ini. Bukan karena penjelasan yang diberikan di berbagai sumber itu salah, hanya

saja mungkin belum menyeluruh. Mari kita buktikan.

Saya ada pertanyaan untuk sobat semua, jika mendengar istilah Narrative Text disebut,

apa yang akan terbayang dibenakmu? Cerita tentang Timun Mas dan Raksasa? Dongeng tentang

Snow White atau Cinderella? Legenda Danau Toba dan Kisah Malin Kundang? Ya, benar sekali

sobat. Tapi sekarang coba jawab pertanyaan saya yang satu ini, apakah buku seperti biografi,

novel, cerita pendek dan puisi termasuk kedalam jenis Narrative Text? Hmm mungkin kita akan

bingung untuk memberikan jawabannya ya. Nah, oleh karena itulah, kali ini saya ingin mencoba

menjelaskan ulang pengertian narrative text yang lengkap dengan jenis-jenisnya, agar setelah

membaca tulisan kali ini, sobat bisa mengenali dan membedakan jika suatu saat menemukan

contoh narrative text dalam suatu teks bacaan. – Bigbanktheories.com

PENGERTIAN NARRATIVE TEXT

Sederhananya, narrative text adalah cerita dalam bentuk tulisan. Baik sesuatu yang real atau

nyata ataupun sesuatu yang bersifat imaginary atau khayalan, keduanya bisa dikemas menjadi

sebuah cerita atau story dan ini berarti keduanya bisa dijadikan sebuah narrative text. Jika

selama ini sebuah narrative text diartikan sebagai bahan bacaan yang berisi cerita yang

merupakan hasil dari imajinasi yang bertujuan untuk menghibur itu tidak salah, hanya saja

ternyata saat kita pelajari lebih jauh, cakupan dari narrative text itu ternyata lebih luas.

Jadi seperti apa narrative text itu sebenarnya? Awalnya saya juga bingung sobat, namun setelah

mencoba memahami nya beberapa saat, akhirnya saya menemukan sebuah kata kunci penting

dari pengertian narrative text itu. Kata kunci tersebut adalah “cerita” atau yang dalam Bahasa

Inggris nya kita sebut dengan “story”.

Begini kira-kira ilustrasi nya: jika kamu mendengar kata “cerita” maka apa yang akan muncul di

benak kamu saat ini? Banyak sekali mungkin ya, tapi izinkan saya untuk menyamakan persepsi

kita akan hal ini. Bayangkan kita saling mengenal satu sama lain, atau anggap saja saya adalah

seseorang yang sedang ingin “bercerita” kepada temen-temen semua.

Kemudian saya bilang “pada jaman dahulu kala” lalu saya berhenti. Apa yang terjadi kira-kira?

Apakah menurut kamu itu adalah sebuah cerita? Apakah kamu akan diam saja dan menerima

bahwa itu adalah sebuah cerita atau kamu akan bertanya kepada saya “ada apa emangnya pada

jaman dahulu kala?”, saya yakin pasti kita akan bertanya ya. Karena secara naluriah, saat kita

mendengar kata “cerita” maka kita mengharapkan sesuatu yang lebih dari sekedar perkataan

“pada jaman dahulu kala” , iya kan?

Lalu saya melanjutkan cerita tersebut dan saya berkata “ada seorang pangeran” lalu saya

berhenti lagi. Apakah dua bagian di atas jika digabungkan sudah bisa kita sebut cerita

menurutmu? Saya rasa belum ya, bayangkan saja seseorang yang bilang bahwa dia ingin

bercerita kepada kita hanya mengatakan “pada jaman dahulu kala, ada seorang pangeran” lalu

kemudian diam dan tidak melanjutkan perkataannya, tentunya kita akan bertanya “teruuuus??”,
intinya secara alami kita tau bahwa cerita itu belum berakhir, atau dengan kata lain saya bisa

mengatakan bahwa, secara alamiah, kita bisa mengenali jika suatu pembicaraan atau tulisan itu

adalah sebuah cerita atau bukan.

Inilah sebenarnya yang dimaksudkan dengan istilah narrative text itu sobat. Jadi sebuah bacaan

bisa dikategorikan kedalam jenis narrative text jika bacaan tersebut mengandung cerita yang

merupakan serangkaian kejadian yang saling berhubungan dan disampaikan secara berurutan

dan rapih dari awal hingga akhir sehingga membentuk sebuah pemahaman yang utuh di benak

pembaca atau pendengarnya. Inilah sebabnya kita tidak bisa menganggap ilustrasi yang saya

berikan tadi sebagai sebuah cerita atau narrative text, karena saat sudah mendengar permulaan

seperti itu, maka kita mengharapkan cerita itu terus berlanjut hingga akhir, barulah kita bisa

menganggapnya sebagai suatu cerita yang utuh.

Dari pernyataan di atas, kita juga perlu memperhatikan bahwa sebuah narrative text haruslah

disampaikan secara “berurutan dan rapih” dari awal hingga akhir agar bisa memiliki makna yang

utuh atau lengkap. Berkaitan dengan hal ini kita juga perlu mempelajari Generic Structure

Narrative Text yang merupakan urutan yang harus dipenuhi oleh sebuah teks bacaan agar bisa

dikategorikan sebagai narrative text. Hal ini sangat penting untuk kamu ketahui, terutama jika

kamu berniat untuk membuat karangan narrative text mu sendiri di rumah.

Sekarang, untuk menjawab pertanyaan di awal tulisan ini tadi, apakah novel, biografi dan cerita

pendek termasuk kedalam narrative text? Maka jawabannya adalah ya, mereka bisa digolongkan

kedalam contoh narrative text. Namun, di sekolah, khususnya di tingkat SMP yang dikenalkan

adalah beberapa jenis berikut ini:

JENIS NARRATIVE TEXT

Beberapa jenis narrative text yang dikenalkan di sekolah adalah sebagai berikut ini:

Folklore / Folktale (Cerita Rakyat)

Merupakan cerita kepercayaan yang telah lama ada di masyarakat. Berasal dari para nenek

moyang dan disampaikan dari mulut ke mulut hingga tetap terus diceritakan hingga kini.
Sebagian orang juga ada yang menyebut nya dengan istilah “Folktale” dalam Bahasa Inggris.

Pelajari lebih jauh tentang Perbedaan Folklore dan Folktale di website ini.

Legend (Legenda)

Merupakan cerita yang sudah lama tersebar luas di masyarakat dan diyakini sebagai sebuah

sejarah atau dipercaya sebagai hal yang benar terjadi di masa lalu, biasanya disebabkan karena

adanya bukti peninggalan yang masih tersisa. Jika kita perhatikan, ternyata ada kemiripan antara

jenis cerita Legend dengan Folklore ya, dan ternyata memang ada yang meyakini bahwa

keduanya merupakan satu jenis cerita dimana folklore merupakan iduk nya.

Myth (Mitos)

Merupakan jenis narrative yang berhubungan dengan hal gaib, menceritakan asal usul suatu

kebudayaan, yang biasanya dihubungkan dengan makhluk gaib seperti dewa dan sebagainya.

Myth atau mitos dianggap sebagai satu jenis narrative text yang memiliki nilai yang

berhubungan dengan agama dan kepercayaan dari suatu masyarakat. Masih sama seperti yang

di atas, cerita yang digolongkan kedalam mitos atau myth ini juga dianggap sebagai bagian dari

folklore, so jangan lupa untuk baca penjelasan yang lebih lengkapnya ya sobat.

Fable (Fabel)

Merupakan jenis cerita yang menggunakan tokoh hewan di dalamnya. Selama ini mungkin kita

mengenalnya sebagai cerita hewan yang bisa berbicara dan berpikir layaknya manusia. Jika kita

perhatikan, biasanya cerita-cerita seperti ini tidak hanya bertujuan untuk menghibur pembaca

atau pendengar saja ya sobat, namun biasanya ada nilai moral yang ingin disampaikan, seperti

misalnya sikap tolong menolong atau nilai kebaikan lainnya. Dengan begini kita juga bisa

menyimpulkan bahwa tujuan sebuah narrative text bukan hanya untuk menghibur saja.

Short Story (Cerita Pendek)

Merupakan cerita yang bersifat fiktif atau hanya merupakan khayalan. Karena berasal dari hasil

imajinasi seseorang, maka siapapun dapat membuat cerita dalam bentuk short story ini sobat,

tidak heran jika ini merupakan bentuk narrative text yang paling banyak dan paling mudah

untuk kita temukan.

Sampai di dini bisa dipahami ya sobat. Sepertinya itu saja yang perlu saya bahas seputar

pengertian narrative text dan jenis-jenisnya, mudah-mudahan nggak ada yang terlewatkan dan

semoga apa yang saya bagikan tidak keliru. Namun jika memang nanti ada yang perlu

ditambahkan atau diperbaiki, saya akan usahakan untuk melakukannya dengan segera.

Mengenali pengertian serta jenis narrative text ini mungkin terlihat sepele bagi sebagian orang.

Tapi menurut saya kita perlu tau bahwa akan sangat menguntungkan bagi kita jika kita

memahami hal ini, mengapa? Karena jenis teks narrative ini sudah banyak mendatangkan

keuntungan dalam bentuk penghasilan yang melimpah bagi orang-orang yang menekuni nya,

misalnya saya para pengarang novel, terbayang kan berapa banyak yang mereka hasilkan

dengan membuat sebuah cerita yang tergolong kedalam narrative text ini. So, pelajarilah

denagan serius, siapa tau rejeki mu ada di sini.

Terimakasih banyak atas kunjungannya, mudah-mudahan artikel tentang pengertian narrative

text lengkap dengan jenis-jenisnya kali ini bermanfaat bagimu. Sampai jumpa lagi dan jangan

lupa baca juga Contoh Descriptive Text Singkat Tentang Lukisan Dan Artinya.

Referensi:

1. Narrative – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative – Diakses tanggal 2 Februari 2018

2. Difference Between Folklore and Folktale –
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-folklore-and-vs-folktale/ –
Diakses tanggal 2 Februari 2018
3. Narrative – FOKUS UN 2016 SMP/MTs – Erlangga

http://www.bigbanktheories.com/pengertian-narrative-text-lengkap-dengan-jenis-jenisnya/
Pengertian Narrative text dalam Bahasa Inggris beserta
contohnya

Dalam Bahasa Inggris kita mengenal beberapa jenis teks yang sering kita temui
pada sesi membaca/ reading.

Nah, untuk mem-flash back ingatan kalian tentang jenis-jenis teks dalam Bahasa
Inggris, yuk dibaca lagi artikel kami sebelumnya yang berjudul “Jenis Text dalam
Bahasa Inggris” yang akan berhubungan dengan topik artikel kali ini yang lebih
spesifik yaitu “Pengertian Narrative text dalam bahasa inggris beserta
contohnya”.

Definisi/fungsi, struktur teks, dan juga unsur kebahasaan dari narrative text akan
dibahas lebih lanjut di artikel ini. Selain itu, kami juga akan memberikan satu
contoh narrative teks yang bisa dibaca nantinya.

Nah bagi yang belum tahu atau masih bingung dengan narrative text, simak baik-
baik ya artikel English Cafe Bali kali ini tentang pengertian narrative text dalam
Bahasa Inggris beserta contohnya.

Siapa tahu nih nantinya kalian menemukan bacaan tentang narrative

text pada reading test.

A. Definisi dan fungsi narrative text.

Narrative text adalah suatu jenis teks yang berupa cerita khayalan, kisah nyata
yang direkayasa, atau dongeng. Narrative text menceritakan suatu cerita yang
memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling terhubung. Tujuan
dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembacanya.

B. Struktur teks (generic structure).

Adapun struktur dari narrative text adalah sebagai berikut:

 Orientation: pendahuluan atau pembuka yang berupa pengenalan tokoh,

waktu, dan tempat.
 Complication: pengembangan konflik atau pemunculan masalah pada cerita.
 Resolution: penyelesaian konflik atau langkah yang diambil untuk merespons
masalah.
 Re-orientation: ungkapan – ungkapan penutup yang menunjukan berakhirnya
suatu cerita. Re-orientation bersifat opsional atau tidak selalu ada pada narrative
text.
 Coda: perubahan yang terjadi pada tokoh dan pelajaran/ nilai moral yang bisa
dipetik dari cerita. Coda juga bersifat opsional.

C. Unsur kebahasaan.

Pada umumnya, narrative text memiliki unsur kebahasaan sebagai berikut:

 Noun: pada umumnya kata benda (noun) digunakan sebagai kata ganti orang
hewan, atau benda dalam cerita, misalnya stepmother, the dwarfs, carriage, dan
lain-lain.
 Past tense: narrative text menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau (verb 2),
misalnya went, ate, met, dan lain-lain.
 Time connective: merupakan kata penghubung waktu untuk mengurutkan
kejadian, misalnya after, before, after that, dan lain sebagainya.
 Action verbs: kata kerja yang menunjukan peristiwa atau kegiatan,
misalnya stayed, climbed, wrote, dan lain-lain.
 Saying and thinking verb: kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau ujaran,
misalnya said, told, thought, dan lain sebagainya.

Nah, itu dia guys penjelasan mengenai definisi, fungsi, struktur teks, dan juga
unsur kebahasaan dari narrative text. Kalian bisa membaca satu contoh narrative
text pada bacaan dibawah ini.

The Monkeys and The Cap Seller

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to
rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree.

He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his
head. The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour.

When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled
when he found all his caps were not there.
When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the
branches of a tree, each of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head.

They had evidently done it to imitate him. He decided to get his caps back by
making a humble request to the monkeys.

In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he begun to make
gesture, the monkeys also imitated him.

At last, he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he

took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground.

And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw the caps
down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back
into his bag and went away.

Okay guys, itu dia salah satu contoh narrative text yang berjudul “The Monkeys
and The Cap Seller”.

Bagaimana ceritanya? Menarik bukan? Seperti yang kalian baca pada penjelasan
diatas tadi, tujuan utama dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur
pembacanya.

Apabila kalian tertarik untuk mempelajari jenis-jenis teks lainnya dalam Bahasa
Inggris, yuk buruan gabung segera dengan English Café Bali.

English Café Bali adalah tempat kursus Bahasa Inggris di Bali yang beralamat di
Jalan Gunung Soputan 1 No.16A Denpasar atau kalian bisa mengubungi kami di
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Narrative Text - FULL MATERI & CONTOH 2018

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Minggu, Januari 7

Narrative
 Narrative text adalah salah satu pelajaran paling sering muncul dalam dunia
pendidikan bahasa Inggris di Indonesia. Oleh karena itu kita setidaknya mampu memahami
contoh narrative text dengan sangat baik agar nanti ketika kita membaca cerita bahasa
Inggris, kita langsung mampu mencerna cerita tersebut.

Belajar bahasa Inggris di tingkat menengah, baik itu SMP ataupun SMA, kini tidak
akan lepas dari pelajaran "wajib" tentang narrative text. Dalam pelajaran ini, siswa biasanya
dituntut untuk bisa menceritakan sebuah kisah, dongeng ataupun cerita dalam bentuk
tulisan.

Meski "storytelling" adalah salah satu komponen spoken English yang sekaligus
meramaikan pelajaran ini, narrative text nyatanya lebih dominan diajarkan dalam bentuk
tulisan, memahami generic structure sebuah cerita, ataupun menganalisa karakter, latar,
ataupun alur cerita narrative.

Perlu diketahui bahwa narrative text, dalam mata kuliah writing and composition biasanya
disebut narration, adalah salah satu jenis teks dalam sebuah bahasa sastra. Biasanya,
narrative text (teks naratif) berisi tentang cerita--baik cerita fiksi, cerita non-fiksi, dongeng,
cerita rakyat, cerita binatang / fabel dll, pokoknya semua hal tentang cerita ya narrative
namanya... :-)

Sekarang sedikit serius, karena akan menjurus pada penjelasan, oke...

Pengertian Narrative Text

Definisi Narrative Text itu seperti apa? Disebutkan bahwa A narrative text is an
imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan
menghibur orang).
Jika melihat pada kamus bahasa Inggris, secara harfiah narrative bermakna (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.

(Narrative bermakna : 1. sebuah cerita baik terucap atau tertulis tentang peristiwa-peristiwa
yang berhubungan. 2. bagian yang diceritakan dalam sebuah karya sastra, berbeda dengan
dialog. 3. Praktik atau seni bercerita)

Jika disimpulkan, maka sebuah narrative text adalah teks yang berisi sebuah cerita baik
tertulis ataupun tidak tertulis dan terdapat rangkaian peristiwa yang saling terhubung.

Generic Structure dari Narrative Text

Generic Structure Narrative Text apa saja sih? Bagi sobat yang masih duduk di
bangku sekolah tingkat menengah, penjelasan mengenai narrative texts tak usah sulit-sulit
ya.. Intinya, narrative text ini mempunyai struktur / susunan seperti di bawah ini :

Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa,
kapan dan dimana)

Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul /

mulai terjadi dan berkembang)

Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, --- secara baik
"happy ending" ataupun buruk "bad ending".

Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa

berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski
“Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa
tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik.
Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.

Jika sudah mahir membuat cerita narrative, susunannya bisa diubah-ubah kok, yang
terpenting bagian-bagian di atas masih tetap ada dalam tulisan narrative sobat.

Grammar Used dalam Narrative Text

Grammar (tata bahasa) yang sering muncul dalam membuat narrative text
adalah:

Menggunakan tenses "Past", baik simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect
continuous, atau bisa saja past future continuous. (aturan ini bukan aturan wajib yang mutlak
harus dipenuhi kok. Tidak percaya, tanyakan pada guru bahasa Inggris sobat)

Untuk lebih jelasnya, lihat contohnya di bawah ini :

Contoh Narrative Text Lengkap

Contoh Narrative Text di bawah ini sangat lengkap lho. Mengacu pada
keterangan di atas, contoh - contoh narrative text sebenarnya sudah banyak diterbitkan
dalam blog ini, seperti :

1. Kumpulan Narrative Text Cerita Rakyat Indonesia dalam Bahasa

Inggris berisi kumpulan kisah / cerita rakyat bahasa Inggris yang melegenda
di bumi nusantara Indonesia.
2. Kumpulan Narrative Text Dongeng Legenda Bahasa Inggris berisi
kumpulan dongeng-dongeng terkenal baik di dunia ataupun di Indonesia.
3. Kumpulan Narrative Text Cerita Binatang / Fabel Bahasa Inggris berisi
kumpulan cerita tentang hewan atau disebut juga "fable" terpopuler.
4. Kumpulan Narrative Text Cerita Nabi berbahasa Inggris Pendek berisi
cerita naratif islami tentang Nabi dan Rasul dalam bahasa Inggris.
Silahkan klik link-link di atas untuk memilih contoh narrative text pilihan anda sendiri.
Sangat tidak sulit kan?

CATATAN : Jika ada link yang rusak pada kumpulan contoh narrative text di atas, mohon
laporkan, agar kami bisa memperbaiki link tersebut. Terima kasih.
Penjelasan Narrative Text (untuk tingkat Mahir)
Untuk mengetahui definisi dan penjelasan tentang narration (narrative text) sobat
mahasiswa dan mahasiswi bisa membaca buku buku tentang writing di perpustakaan
terdekat dan terlengkap, dan disini saya hanya akan mengutipkan pendapat Thomas S.
Kane (2000: 363-364) di bawah ini:

A narrative is a meaningful sequence of events told in words. It is sequential in that the

events are ordered, not merely random. Sequence always involves an arrangement in time (and
usually other arrangements as well). A straightforward movement from the first event to the last
constitutes the simplest chronology. However, chronology is sometimes complicated by
presenting the events in another order: for example, a story may open with the final episode and
then flash back to all that preceded it.
A narrative has meaning in that it conveys an evaluation of some kind. The writer reacts to the
story he or she tells, and states or implies that reaction. This is the "meaning," sometimes called
the "theme," of a story. Meaning must always be rendered. The writer has to do more than tell us
the truth he sees in the story; he must manifest that truth in the characters and the action.
Characters and action are the essential elements of any story. Also important, but not as
essential, is the setting, the place where the action occurs. Characters are usually people—
sometimes actual people, as in history books or newspaper stories, sometimes imaginary ones,
as in novels. Occasionally characters are animals (as in an Aesop fable), and sometimes a
dominant feature of the environment functions almost like a character (the sea, an old house).
The action is what the characters say and do and anything that happens to them, even if it arises
from a nonhuman source—a storm, for instance, or a fire. Action is often presented in the form of
a plot. Action is, so to speak, the raw material; plot, the finished product, the fitting together of the
bits and pieces of action into a coherent pattern. Usually, though not invariably, plot takes the
form of a cause-and effect chain: event A produces event B; B leads to C; C to D; and so on until
the final episode, X. In a well-constructed plot of this kind we can work back from X to A and see
the connections that made the end of the story likely and perhaps inevitable.
Stories can be very long and complicated, with many characters, elaborate plots, and subtle
interpenetration of character, action, and setting. In writing that is primarily expository, however,
narratives are shorter and simpler. Most often they are factual rather than imaginary, as when an
historian describes an event. And often in exposition an illustration may involve a simple
narrative. Being able to tell a story, then, while not the primary concern of the expository writer,
is a skill which he or she will now and again be called upon to use.
Penjelasan dalam blockquote di atas hanya khusus mahasiswa yang sudah mahir dalam
membaca dan memahami isi text berbahasa Inggris sehingga sangat tidak dianjurkan bagi
anda yang masih duduk di bangku SMP atau SMA.

Namun jika anda sudah sangat mahir meskipun baru duduk di tingkat menengah, silahkan
saja membacanya dan semoga mengerti maksud isi materi teks narrative di atas.

Demikianlah penjelasan dan kumpulan contoh narrative text yang bisa dihadirkan dalam
kesempatan ini. Semoga bisa bermanfaat untuk kita semua.

Referensi :

Kane, Thomas. S. 2000.The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing. New York: Barkley Books.

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Narrative Text
4. Narrative Text
What is Narrative?
1. Definition of Narrative
Narrative is a text focusing specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past
events and entertain the readers.
2. Generic Structure of Narrative
A narrative text consists of the following structure:
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place
2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with
3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse
3. Language Features of Narrative
• Using processes verbs
• Using temporal conjunction
• Using Simple Past Tense
4. Examples and structures of the text

Snow White
Orientation Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her
Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.
Complication 1 One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in
the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to
take Snow White.
Resolution 1 Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would
be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle
were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.
Complication 2 Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she
went inside and fell asleep.
Resolution 2 Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside.
There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The
dwarfs said, “what is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”
Doc, one of the dwarfs, said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh
could I? Thank you.” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and
the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.
Example of Narative
A. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks
Maura, who like to be thought of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had
many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks.
The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It
was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.
One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks. As they were
about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some left
over food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who
was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the
disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.
The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her
servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who
received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it
with him.
This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her. “Without
question, Hakim is the most generous of you” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it
is Hakim I will marry”.
Narrative Complication in Generic Structure
As it is said many times that, the heart of narrative text is the existence of the complication. It
will drive the plot of the story to keep amusing. The existence of conflict inside the Queen
Maura is what builds the story keep running. The psychological conflict inside Maura, which
she strikes against herself, is arousing the reader’s attention to continue reading the story.
They want to know what next will happen, who will be chosen by Queen Maura; in what way
she will decide who the best is. Keeping knowing them really entertaining as well increasing
the moral value added.
Orientation: the text introduces the Queen Maura and three sheiks in Arabia once time.
Complication: Queen Maura finds out that it was very difficult to choose one as the best
among them
Resolution: finally Queen Maura has a convincing way to choose one and he is Sheik Hakim
B. The Smartest Parrot
Once upon time, a man had a wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot
could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place
where it was born. The name of the place was Catano.
The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot
would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano however the bird kept
not saying the word.
At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid bird!”
pointed the man to the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you”
the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the
man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”. The
bird kept not to say the word of Catano.
One day after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really
got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house.
There were four old chickens for next dinner “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay
with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I will cut the
chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot”. After that he
left the chicken house.
The next day, the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and was very
surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death
chickens on the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the
last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”.

Analysis the Generic Structure

Orientation: It sets the scene and introduces the participants/characters. In that parrot story,
the first paragraph is the orientation where reader finds time and place set up and also the
participant as the background of the story. A man and his parrot took place once time.
Complication: It explores the conflict in the story. It will show the crisis, rising crisis and
climax of the story. In the parrot story, paragraph 2, 3, 4 are describing the complication.
Readers will find that the man face a problem of why the parrot can not say Catano. To fix
this problem, the man attempted to teach the bird. How hard he tried to teach the bird is the
excitement element of the complication.
Resolution: It shows the situation which the problems have been resolved. It must be our note
that “resolved” means accomplished whether succeed or fail. In the last paragraph of the
smartest parrot story, readers see the problem is finished. The parrot could talk the word
which the man wanted. The parrot said the word with higher degree than the man taught the
word to it. That was the smartest parrot.
C. The Legend of Toba Lake
Once upon time, there was a handsome man. His name was Batara Guru Sahala. He liked
fishing. One day, he caught a fish. He was surprised to find out that the fish could talk. The
fish begged him to set it free.
Batara Guru could not bear it. He made the fish free. As soon as it was free, the fish changed
into a very beautiful woman. She attracted Batara Guru so much. He felt in love with that
fish-woman. The woman wanted to marry with him and said that Batara Guru had to keep the
secret which she had been a fish. Batara Guru aggreed and promised that he would never tell
anybody about it.
They were married happily. They had two daughters. One day Batara Guru got very angry
with his daughter. He could not control his mad. He shouted angrily and got the word of fish
to his daugters. The daughters were crying. They found their mother and talked her about it.
The mother was very annoyed. Batara Guru broke his promise. The mother was shouting
angrily. Then the earth began to shake. Volcanoes started to erupt. The earth formed a very
big hole. People believed that the big hole became a lake. Then this lake is known as Toba
Lake.
D. Cinderella 1
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother
and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very
badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing
the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters,
on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome
dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to
give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses
they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella
could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother
standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said
the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am
going to see that you do go to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a
coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand,
and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now,
Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her
beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s
son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she
could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the
glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how
hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the
slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They
were married and live happily ever after.

Notes on Generic Structure

Orientation: They were Cinderella her self as the main character of the story, her step mother
which treated Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported her mother to make
Cinderella was treated very badly. Cinderella was introduced as a hero in this story. She
struggled against the bad treatment from her step mother and sisters.
Complication: In this Cinderella story, we can see clearly that there are Major Complication
and Minor Complication.
The second paragraph is the major complication of this Cinderella story. Cinderella got bad
treatment from her stepmother. It is the bad crisis which drives into several minor
complications which Cinderella has to overcome.
Resolution: Like complication, there are Major Resolution and Minor Resolution.
In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella lived happily. It is the happy resolution
of the bad treatment.

E. The Smartest Animal.

Once there was a farmer from Laos. Every morning and every evening, he ploughed his field
with his buffalo.
One day, a tiger saw the farmer and his buffalo working in the field. The tiger was very
surprised to see a big animal listening to a small animal. The tiger wanted to know more
about the big animal and the small animal.
After the man went home, the tiger spoke to the buffalo; “you are so big and strong. Why do
you do everything the man tells you?” The buffalo answered; “oh, the man is very
intelligent”.
The tiger asked; “can you tell me how intelligent he is?”. “No, I can’t tell you”, said the
buffalo; “but you can ask him”
So the next day the tiger asked to the man; “Can I see your intelligence?”. But the man
answered; “it at home”. “Can you go and get it?” asked the tiger. “Yes” said the man; “but I
am afraid you will kill my buffalo when I am gone. Can I tie you to a tree?”
After the man tied the tiger to the tree, he didn’t go home to get his intelligence. He took his
plough and hit the tiger. Then he said; “Now you know about my intelligence even you
haven’t seen it.

Generic Structure Analysis

1. Orientation; introducing specific participants; farmer and his buffalo, once in Laos
2. Complication; revealing a series of crisis: the tiger wanted to know more about the farmer
and the buffalo, the tiger wanted to know about the farmer’s intelligence.
3. Resolution; the crisis is resolve: the farmer hit the tiger

Language Feature Analysis

• Using saying verb; answered
• Using thinking verb; saw, was surprised to
• Using action verb; tie, hit
• Using time conjunction; once, one day
• Using connectives; after, the next day
• Using past tense; there was a farmer, the man tied the tiger.

A. Between Recount and Narrative

Something which happened in the past is the main resource to compose both recount and
narrative text. In writer's point of view, the thing is an experience. It can be what the writer
has done, hear, read, and felt. Composing recount and narrative is retelling the experiences of
the past event to be a present event.
What does recount differ from narrative?
The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the generic structure. Recount text
presents the past experiences in order of time or place; what happened on Sunday, then on
Monday, the on Tuesday. In simple way, recount describes series of events in detail. It does
not expose the struggle on how to make them happen. The event happened smoothly. On the
other hand, narrative introduces crises and how to solve them. Narrative text always appear as
a hard potrait of participant's past experience. It reveals the conflict among the participants.
Cinderella's conflicts with her step mother and sister are the example. The conflict is the most
important element in a narrative text. Narrative without comflicts is not narrative any more.
a) NARRATIVE
Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Evaluation
3. Complication
4. Resolution
5. Reorientation
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Chronologically arranged

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NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a text or imaginary story that is used for amuse or entertain
the readers that lead the reader to crisis in the store and ultimately find a
solution.
 Structure of the text :
- The Orientation : it is about the opening paragraph where the characters of
the story are introduced in a setting of place and time.
- The Complication : where the problems in the story developed.
- The Resolution : where the problems in the story is solve and tells the ending
of the text/story.
In Narrative text, it used Past Tense as grammar.

Type of narrative text:

• Fable : is a story with a moral in which the characters are animals that
behaving like humans
Example : The three little pigs,Ugly Duckling,Bambi,Rabbit and Turtle,etc
• Myth : is a story about superhuman beings of an earlier age taken by
preliterature society to be a true account,social customs,etc come into
existence
Example: The Crying Stone
• Legend : is a story that nonhistorical or unverifiable story that handed down by
tradition from earlier times and populary accepted as historical.
Example: Story of Danau Toba,Malin Kundang,or Tangkuban Perahu,etc
• Fiction : is a story about human imagination (not their reality), such as novels
or short stories.
Example: Another Cinderella Story, Harry Potter,Twilight Saga,Romeo
and Juliet , etc
• Fairy tales : the stories of humans and their dealings with magical or unlogic
things such as fairies,dragons,wizards,etc.
Example: Beauty and the Beast,Sleeping
beauty,Thumbelina,Peterpan,Pinocchio,etc

• The Grammatical features of narrative texts are :

Using adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people,animals,or
things in the story,such as : ugly duckling,beautiful swan,etc
Using time connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through the
time,such as : however,then,before,after,soon,etc
Using the adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular
events,such as: once upon a time,long time ago,one day, In the kingdom,...etc
Using action verbs (verb 2) to indicate the actions,such as: exclaimed,
saw, thought, turned, etc

EXAMPLE:

ALI BABA
 Once upon a time there 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and
treasures in a cave. They went in the cave by saying “Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were doing that,
so he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the cave and
opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and golden
treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he became a rich
man and his brother wanted to know how he become rich.
[ ORIENTATION]

•
• Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was
really jealous of him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money.
Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money, his
brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next day
to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of money in
the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he was busy
carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the thieves
asked him how he knew about the cave. He told everything, but unluckily they
killed him and went to Ali Baba’s house.
• After finding Ali Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night.
Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a
merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba.
[COMPLICATION]

Ali Baba who was a kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch
together. After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the
house, and found that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot
oil and poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was
caught, and put into prison. Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally
lived happily ever after with his maid who became his wife shortly after.

[ REORIENTATION]
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NARRATIVE TEXT

KINDS OF NARRATIVE TEXT

— Folktale;
Folktale is a Tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.
— Fable;
Fable is a Short Story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
— Fairytale;
Fairytale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such
as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids or gnomes, and usually magic
or enchantments.
— Legend;
Legend is a Traditional Story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but
unauthenticated.

— Myth;
Myth is a kind of Traditional Story, esp. one concerning the arly history of people or
explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically

THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

· to entertain and amuse the readers

GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT:

1.Orientation;
The Orientation is about the opening paragraph where the characters, times, places of
the story are introduced.

2. Complication;
The Complication is the paragraph that shows the problems in the story developed.

3. Climax;
 The Climax is point of highest tension or story or when the action starts in which the
solution is given.
4. Resolution;
The Resolution is Paragraph where the problems in the story are solved.

5. Reorientation;
The Reorientation is the paragraph for the conclusion of the whole story.

THE LANGUAGE FEATURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Ø The Use of Action Verbs

- Action Verb is the verbs that shows the activity
(Run, Walk, Write, etc)

Ø The Use of Adverbs, Adjective, and Noun Phrase

- Adverb is word that describes or verb and adjective (Carefully, more, so, etc).
- Adjective is a word that used to describe noun. (Black, Tall, Curly, etc)
- Noun Phrase is a noun that has an adverb where the adverb explains nature, position,
and etc. (New Book, Red Book, So Hard, etc).
Ø The Use of Past Forms
- Past Form is as kind as past tense
(Ran, Walked, Wrote, etc)
Ø The Use of Conjunctions
- Conjunction or connector
(First, Then, Next, etc)

Ø The Use of Reported Speech

- Reported Speech is indirectly sentence that used to report on what other people say to put
in a sentence that made on their own. (Siska asked Shanty to give her a piece of paper)

Ø The Use of Passive Voice

- Passive Voice is the sentence where the subject gets worked by the object sentence. (That
Book has been translated into many language)
Example of narrative text: cinderella, timun mas, snow white, etc.
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1. Definition of narative text
Narrative text is a text that have meaningful sequence of events told in words. There are
many kinds of narrative text such as fiction, tales, folktale, fable, and legenda. The function of
narrative text is to entertain the reader/ listener.
2. Social function : to entertain the reader
3. The Generic Structure
a. Orientation (beginning or introduction)
This part is consisted of introduce main characters, setting, and time.
b. Complication (middle)
The problem in the story developed
c. Resolution
The problem is solved
d. Reorientation (ending)
This part is the ending of the story. (happy ending or sad ending).
4. Language Features
a. Using of simple past tense
b. The first person (I, we) or the third person (he, she, they).
c. Using time conjuction : once upon a time, one day, in far far away.

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NARRATIVE

A Narrative text is a text that tells a story. (Sebuah Narative Teks adalah sebuah teks yang
menceritakan sebuah cerita)
The purpose of this text is to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in
different ways. (Tujuan dari teks ini adalah untuk menghibur))
Narrative always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and then turn into a
solution to the problem. (Narasi selalu berurusan dengan beberapa masalah yang
menyebabkan klimaks dan kemudian berubah menjadi solusi untuk masalah ini.)

Narrative Text tersusun atas :

 Orientation. (pada bagian ini adalah pengenalan tokoh, tempat atau waktu cerita
terjadi.)
 Complication. (pada tahap ini masalah mulai muncul.)
 Resolution. (pada tahap resolution, adalah tahap akhir dimana cerita akan selesai.)
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NARRATIVE TEXT : DEFINITION,

PURPOSES, GENERIC STRUCTURES,
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Narrative adalah cerita khayal yang bertujuan menghibur
pembaca. Tentu yang namanya cerita khayal itu ya belum tentu
keberannya karena bisa jadi itu hanyalah imaginasi atau cerita
fiktif yang dibuat oleh seseorang atau cerita buatan sekelompok
masyarakat yang tida terbukti kebenarannya. Contoh narrative
yaitu, Cinderella, Sangkurian, Snow White, Rabbit and Crocodile,
dsb. Untuk penjelasan lebih rinci silahkan baca penjelasan
berikut
Definition of Narrative Text
A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks
narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).
Generic Structure of Narrative Text
# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the
characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh,
tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan
dimana)
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed.
(Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah
selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story
Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa
berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan
Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan
optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi
penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik.
Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Narrative Text:

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not
general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked,
etc)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White
said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present
tense.
Read text carefully and see the translation
The Rabbit and the Turtle
One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He
was laughing at the turtle for being so slow.
Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race.
The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the
challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race
began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone
thought.
The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle
anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a
short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by
step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept
going.
However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke
up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to
the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.
Terjemahan Cerita Narrative Bahasa Inggris The Rabbit and the
Turtle
Suatu hari seekor kelinci membual tentang kecepatannya dalam
berlari. Diamenertawakan kura-kura karena begitu lambat.

Kelinci itu begitu terkejut karena ternyata kura-kura berani

menantangnya untuk berlari. Kelinci pikir ini lelucon dan akhirnya
menerima tantangan itu. Dalam lomba lari itu, seekor rubah
adalah wasitnya. Seperti yang sudah dibayangkan banyak pihak.
saat balapan dimulai, kelinci berlari jauh di depan kura-kura.

Kelinci sudah sampai setengah perlombaan dan tidak bisa

melihatkura-kura bisa menyusulnya. Saat itu cuaca panas dan
melelahkan, kelinci itu memutuskan untuk berhenti dan tidur
sejenak. Saat itu kura-kura terus berjalan selangkah demi
slangkah demi selangkah lagi. Dia tidak pernah berhenti tidak
peduli seberapa panas atau betapah melelahkannya. Dia terus
berjalan.
Namun, kelinci tidur kelamaan dari perkiraanya. Ketika
terbangun, dia tidak melihat kura-kura dimana pun. Dia lari
dengan kecepatan penuh menuju garis finish tetapi mendapati
kura-kura sudah menunggunya disana.
Pesan Moral Value dari Cerita Fable The Rabbit and the Turtle
Lawan yang lemah kalau diremehan bisa berubah menjadi lawan
yang tak bisa terkalahkan. Jangan pernah underestimate kepada
siapapun. Orang yang tampangnya biasa saja, mungkin ternyta
menyimpan potensi yang lebih besar dari pada kita.
Never underestimate the weakest opponent.
Cinderella
Orientation
Once upon time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She
lived with her stepsisters and stepmother. They were very bossy.
She had to do all the housework.
Complication
One day an invitation to the ball came to the family. Her
stepsisters did not let her go, so Cinderella was very sad. The
stepsisters went to the ball without her.
Resolution
Fortunately, the good fairly came and helped her to get to the
ball. At the ball, Cinderella danced with the prince. The prince felt
in love with her then he married her. They live happily ever after.
(Dahulu kala, ada seorang gadis cantik bernama Cinderella. Dia
tinggal bersama saudara tiri dan ibu tiri nya. Mereka sangat suka
memerintah. Dia harus melakukan semua pekerjaan rumah
tangga.
Suatu hari sebuah undangan untuk sebuah pesta datang ke
keluarga itu. Saudara tiri nya tidak membiarkan dia pergi,
sehingga Cinderella sangat sedih. Saudara tiri pergi ke pesta itu
tanpa dia.
Untungnya, peri yang baik datang dan membantunya untuk
sampai ke pesta itu. Pada pesta itu, Cinderella berdansa dengan
pangeran. Pangeran jatuh cinta padanya kemudian ia
menikahinya. Mereka hidup bahagia selamanya.)
Catatan :
Ball : diartikan pesta bukan bola.
Tugas :
1. Analisa generic structure dari text yang berjudul Cinderella
diatas !
2. Apa moral value (nilai moral) yang dapat diambil dari text
diatas?
Contoh Text Narative lagi
Snow White
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She
lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.
(Orientation)
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow
White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America
and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White. (Major
Complication)
Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she
decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she
ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having
breakfast. She ran away into the woods. (Resolution)
She was very tired and hungry. (Complication)
Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one
answered so she went inside and fell asleep. (Resolution)
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They
went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow
White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, what is your
name? Snow White said, ‘My name is Snow White’. (Complication)
Doc said, ‘If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White
said, ‘Oh could I? Thank you.’ Then Snow White told the dwarfs
the whole story and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily
ever after. (Major Resolution)
Task :
Translate the text above into Indonesian !
Origin of the Snail House
In ancient times, the snails did not bring their home anywhere. In
the beginning, snails lived in an abandoned bird’s nest in the
trees. The night was warm and the day was cool because the
leaves shaded the nest where the snails lived. But when the rains
came, the leaves could no longer block the rain that fell. Snails
caught cold and wet when the rainy season arrived.
Then the snails moved into the holes in the trunks of trees. When
the day was hot, the snails were well protected, even if it rained.
It looked like that I had found a suitable home for me, the snail
said in his heart.
But on a sunny day, there came a woodpecker. Tok..tok … tok …
woodpecker kept pecking the trunks where the snails lived.
Snails became very distracted and could not sleep. With annoyed
heart, snails went out of the hole in the trunk and looked for a
place to stay next. Snails found a hole in the ground, which
seemed to be warm when the night came, thought snails. Snails
cleaned up those holes and decided to stay in it. But it turned out
when the night came. The rats came from all directions to
damage the hole. Again and again, the snails had to leave the
hole to find a new home.
Snails then moved on to the edge of the beach filled with coral
reefs. He thought that the sidelines of the corals might be his
home. Snails could take a rest peacefully in this place. But when
the tide rose up to the top of the rock, snail was swept away
along with the surge of the waves. As usual, the snails had to go
away to find a new home. When he was walking away from the
beach, the snail found an empty shell. This shape was beautiful
and very light. Being tired and cold, snails went into the shell.
Snails felt warm and comfortable then he slept in it.
When the morning came, snails realized that he had found the
best home for himself. He did not need to go home in hurry if it
rained. He also would not get heat anymore, and no one would
bother him. He then brought it home with him wherever he went.
Asal Mula Rumah Siput
Pada zaman dahulu, siput tidak membawa rumahnya kemana-
mana. Awalnya siput tinggal di sarang burung yang sudah
ditinggalkan induk burung di atas pohon. Malam terasa hangat
dan siang terasa sejuk karena daun-daun menaungi sarang
tempat siput tinggal. Tetapi ketika musim hujan datang, daun-
daun itu tidak bisa lagi menghalangi air hujan yang jatuh. Siput
menjadi basah dan kedinginan saat musim hujan tiba.

Kemudian siput pindah ke dalam lubang yang ada di batang-

batang pohon. Jika hari panas, siput terlindung dengan baik,
bahkan jika hujan turun. Sepertinya aku menemukan rumah yang
cocok untukku, kata si siput dalam hati.
Tetapi pada suatu hari yang cerah, datanglah burung pelatuk.
Tok..tok…tok…burung pelatuk terus mematuk batang pohon
tempat siput tinggal. Siput menjadi terganggu dan tidak bisa
tidur. Dengan hati jengkel, siput keluar dari lubang yang ada di
batang pohon tersebut dan mencari tempat tinggal selanjutnya.
Siput menemukan sebuah lubang di tanah, yang nampaknya
hangat jika malam datang, pikir siput. Siput membersihkan
lubang tersebut dan memutuskan untuk tinggal di dalamnya.
Tetapi ternyata ketika malam datang, tikus-tikus datang dari
segala arah merusak rumah siput. Lagi dan lagi, siput harus pergi
meninggalkan lubang itu untuk mencari rumah baru.
Siput kemudian berjalan terus sampai di tepi pantai yang penuh
dengan batu karang. Ia berfikir sela-sela batu karang mungkin
dapat menjadi rumahnya. Siput pun dapat beristirahat dengan
tenang di tempat tersebut. Tetapi ketika air laut pasang dan naik
sampai ke atas batu karang, siput ikut tersapu bersama dengan
derasnya ombak tersebut. Seperti biasa, siput harus kembali
pergi mencari rumah baru. Ketika ia sedang berjalan
meninggalkan pantai, si siput menemukan sebuah cangkang
kosong, bentuknya cantik dan sangat ringan. Karena lelah dan
kedinginan, siput masuk ke dalam cangkang tersebut. Siput
merasa hangat dan nyaman lalu tertidur di dalamnya.

Ketika pagi tiba, siput menyadari telah menemukan rumah

terbaik untuknya. Ia tidak perlu lagi cepat-cepat pulang jika hujan
turun. Ia juga tidak akan kepanasan lagi, dan tidak ada yang akan
mengganggunya. Ia kemudian membawa rumah ini bersamanya
kemanapun ia pergi.

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Narrative Text: Pengertian, Tujuan,

Jenis, Generic Structure dan
Contoh Terlengkap
Oleh KBIDiposting pada 12/09/2018

Narrative Text: Pengertian, Tujuan, Jenis, Generic Structure dan Contoh – Narrative
text adalah salah satu English text yang yang termasuk dalam Reading skill. Maka tidak
heran jika menjadi salah materi yang sering dibahas di kelas bahasa inggris. Materi narrative
text juga selalu ada dalam ujian baik itu ujian nasional, ujian masuk perguruan tinggi,
maupun TOEFL. Untuk itu pada kesempatan ini KBI akan memberikan materi tentang
narrative text. Yak, berikut ini simaklah penjelasannya.
Definisi
Narrative text adalah salah satu jenis teks bahasa inggris yang bertujuan untuk
menceritakan suatu cerita yang memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling
terhubung.

Tujuan
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a
story. Narrative text bertujuan untuk menghibur pembaca tentang suatu kisah atau
cerita.

Jenis
Ada banyak jenis narrative text. Narrative text bisa berupa teks imajiner, faktual, atau
kombinasi keduanya. Berikut ini jenis-jenis narrative text: fairy stories, mysteries,
science fiction, romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and
legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.

Generic Structure
Struktur generik narrative text berfokus pada serangkaian tahapan yang diusulkan
untuk membangun sebuah cerita. Dalam narrative text tahap itu meliput:

1. Orientation
( Pendahuluan ) di mana karakter , setting , dan waktu cerita ditetapkan . Biasanya
menjawab pertanyaan siapa? kapan? dimana ? Misalnya: Once upon a time, there
was a wolf lived in the forest.

2. Complication or problem
Menceritakan awal masalah yang menyebabkan krisis ( klimaks ). Complication
biasanya melibatkan karakter utama.

3. Resolution

Akhir dari cerita yang berupa solusi dari masalah. Perlu adanya resolusi dari
masalah. Masalah dapat diselesaikan dapat menjadi lebih baik atau malah lebih
buruk, bahagia atau sedih . Kadang-kadang ada beberapa komplikasi yang harus
dipecahkan. Hal ini menambah dan mempertahankan minat dan ketegangan bagi
pembaca nya.

4. Reorientation/Coda

merupakan pernyataan penutup cerita dan bersifat opsional . Bisa berisi tentang
pelajaran moral, saran atau pengajaran dari penulis.

Contoh
Berikut ini contoh Narrative text:

Timun Emas
 Long time ago in the island of Java, Indonesia, lived a couple of farmer. They had
married for some years but they had no children. So they prayed to a monster called Buta Ijo
to give them children. Buta Ijo was a ferocious and powerful monster. He granted their wish
on one condition. When their children had grown up, they had to sacrifice them to Buta Ijo.
He liked eating fresh meat of human being. The farmers agreed to his condition. Several
months later the wife was pregnant.
She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. They named her Timun Emas. The farmers
were happy. Timun Emas was very healthy and a very smart girl. She was also very
diligent. When she was a teenager Buta Ijo came to their house. Timun Emas was
frightened so she ran away to hide. The farmers then told Buta Ijo that Timun Emas
was still a child. They asked him to postpone. Buta Ijo agreed. He promised to come
again. The following year Buta Ijo came again. But again and again their parents
said that Timun Emas was still a child.

When the third time Buta Ijo came their parents had prepared something for him.
They gave Timun Emas several bamboo needles, seeds of cucumber, dressing and salt.
‘Timun, take these things’
‘What are these things?’
‘These are your weapons. Buta Ijo will chase you. He will eat you alive. So run as fast
as you can. And if he will catch you spread this to the ground. Now go!’
Timun Emas was scared so she ran as quickly as she could. When Buta Ijo arrived
she was far from home. He was very angry when he realized that his prey had left.
So he ran to chase her. He had a sharp nose so he knew what direction his prey ran.

Timun Emas was just a girl while Buta Ijo was a monster so he could easily catch her
up. When he was just several steps behind Timun Emas quickly spread the seeds of
cucumber. In seconds they turned into many vines of cucumber. The exhausted Buta
Ijo was very thirsty so he grabbed and ate them. When Buta Ijo was busy eating
cucumber Timun Emas could run away.

But soon Buta Ijo realized and started running again. When he was just several
steps behind Timun Emas threw her bamboo needles. Soon they turned into dense
bamboo trees. Buta Ijo found it hard to pass. It took him some time to break the
dense bamboo forest. Meanwhile Timun Emas could run farther.

Buta Ijo chased her again. When he almost catch her again and again Timun Emas
threw her dressing. This time it turned into a lake. Buta Ijo was busy to save himself
so Timun Emas ran way. But Buta Ijo could overcome it and continued chasing her.

Finally when Timun Emas was almost caught she threw her salt. Soon the land
where Buta Ijo stood turned into ocean. Buta Ijo was drowned and died instantly.
Timun Emas was thankful to god and came back to her home.

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EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT:

The Ugly Duckling

Once upon a time down on an old farm, lived a duck family, and Mother Duck had
been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. One nice morning, the eggs hatched and out popped
six chirpy ducklings. But one egg was bigger than the rest, and it didn’t hatch. Mother Duck
couldn’t recall laying that seventh egg. How did it get there? TOCK! TOCK! The little prisoner
was pecking inside his shell.

“Did I count the eggs wrongly?” Mother Duck wondered. But before she had time to
think about it, the last egg finally hatched. A strange looking duckling with gray
feathers that should have been yellow gazed at a worried mother. The ducklings
grew quickly, but Mother Duck had a secret worry.

“I can’t understand how this ugly duckling can be one of mine!” she said to herself,
shaking her head as she looked at her last born. Well, the gray duckling certainly
wasn’t pretty, and since he ate far more than his brothers, he was outgrowing them.
As the days went by, the poor ugly duckling became more and more unhappy. His
brothers didn’t want to play with him, he was so
clumsy, and all the farmyard folks simply laughed at him. He felt sad and lonely,
while Mother Duck did her best to console him.

“Poor little ugly duckling!” she would say. “Why are you so different from the others?”
And the ugly duckling felt worse than ever. He secretly wept at night. He felt nobody
wanted him.

“Nobody loves me, they all tease me! Why am I different from my brothers?”

Then one day, at sunrise, he ran away from the farmyard. He stopped at a pond and
began to question all the other birds. “Do you know of any ducklings with gray
feathers like mine?” But everyone shook their heads in scorn.

“We don’t know anyone as ugly as you.” The ugly duckling did not lose heart,
however, and kept on making inquiries. He went to another pond, where a pair of
large geese gave him the same answer to his question. What’s more, they warned
him: “Don’t stay here! Go away! It’s dangerous. There are men with guns around
here!” The duckling was sorry he had ever left the farmyard.

Then one day, his travels took him near an old countrywoman’s cottage. Thinking he
was a stray goose, she caught him.

“I’ll put this in a hutch. I hope it’s a female and lays plenty of eggs!” said the old
woman, whose eyesight was poor. But the ugly duckling laid not a single egg. The
hen kept frightening him.
“Just wait! If you don’t lay eggs, the old woman will wring your neck and pop you into
the pot!” And the cat chipped in: “Hee! Hee! I hope the woman cooks you, then I can
gnaw at your bones!” The poor ugly duckling was so scared that he lost his appetite,
though the old woman kept stuffing him with food and grumbling: “If you won’t lay
eggs, at least hurry up and get plump!”

“Oh, dear me!” moaned the now terrified duckling. “I’ll die of fright first! And I did so
hope someone would love me!”

Then one night, finding the hutch door ajar, he escaped. Once again he was all
alone. He fled as far away as he could, and at dawn, he found himself in a thick bed
of reeds. “If nobody wants me, I’ll hid here forever.” There was plenty a food, and the
duckling began to feel a little happier, though he was lonely. One day at sunrise, he
saw a flight of beautiful birds wing overhead. White, with long slender necks, yellow
beaks and large wings, they were migrating south.

“If only I could look like them, just for a day!” said the duckling, admiringly. Winter
came and the water in the reed bed froze. The poor duckling left home to seek food
in the snow. He dropped exhausted to the ground, but a farmer found him and put
him in his big jacket pocket.

“I’ll take him home to my children. They’ll look after him. Poor thing, he’s frozen!” The
duckling was showered with kindly care at the farmer’s house. In this way, the ugly
duckling was able to survive the bitterly cold winter.

However, by springtime, he had grown so big that the farmer decided: “I’ll set him
free by the pond!” That was when the duckling saw himself mirrored in the water.

“Goodness! How I’ve changed! I hardly recognize myself!” The flight of swans
winged north again and glided on to the pond. When the duckling saw them, he
realized he was one of their kind, and soon made friends.

“We’re swans like you!” they said, warmly. “Where have you been hiding?”

“It’s a long story,” replied the young swan, still astounded. Now, he swam majestically
with his fellow swans. One day, he heard children on the river bank exclaim: “Look at
that young swan! He’s the finest of them all!”

And he almost burst with happiness.

Arti
Pada suatu hari di atas sebuah pertanian lama, tinggal sebuah keluarga bebek, dan
Ibu bebek telah duduk di sarang telur baru. Suatu pagi, telur menetas dan keluar
muncul enam ekor bebek yang riang gembira. Tapi ada satu telur yang lebih besar
daripada yang lain, dan telur itu tidak menetas. Ibu Bebek tidak bisa mengingat
meletakan telur yang ketujuh. Bagaimana bisa ada? TOCK! TOCK! Tahanan kecil itu
mematuk dalam cangkangnya.

“Apakah aku salah menghitung telurnya?” Ibu Bebek bertanya-tanya. Tapi sebelum
dia punya waktu untuk berpikir tentang hal itu, telur terakhir pun menetas. Tampak
aneh melihat bebek dengan bulu abu-abu yang seharusnya kuning menatap
seorang ibu khawatir. Anak-anak itik tumbuh dengan cepat, tapi Ibu Bebek memiliki
kekhawatiran rahasia.

“Aku tidak mengerti bagaimana itik buruk rupa ini dapat menjadi salah satu
milikku!” ia berkata pada dirinya sendiri, menggelengkan kepala sambil memandang
anak terakhirnya. Nah, bebek abu-abu pastinya tidak cukup cantik, dan karena ia
makan jauh lebih banyak daripada saudara-saudaranya, ia tumbuh melampaui
mereka. Seperti hari-hari berlalu, itik buruk rupa malang menjadi lebih dan lebih
sedih. Saudara-saudaranya tidak ingin bermain dengan dia, dia begitu
canggung, dan semua orang-orang di peternakan hanya menertawakannya. Dia
merasa sedih dan kesepian, sementara Ibu bebek melakukan yang terbaik untuk
menghiburnya.

“Kasihan itik kecil buruk rupa!” ia akan mengatakan. “Mengapa kau begitu berbeda
dari yang lain?” Dan itik buruk rupa merasa lebih buruk dari sebelumnya. Dia diam-
diam menangis di malam hari. Dia merasa tidak ada yang menginginkan dia.

“Tidak ada yang mencintaiku, mereka semua mengejekku! Mengapa saya berbeda
dari saudara-saudaraku?”

Lalu suatu hari, saat matahari terbit, ia lari dari peternakan. Dia berhenti di sebuah
kolam dan mulai mempertanyakan semua burung lainnya. “Apakah kalian tahu ada
bebek dengan bulu abu-abu sepertiku?” Tapi semua orang menggelengkan kepala
mereka dan mencemooh.

“Kami tidak tahu siapa saja seburuk kamu.” Itik buruk rupa tidak berkecil hati,
namun, dan terus bertanya. Dia pergi ke kolam lain, di mana sepasang angsa besar
memberinya jawaban yang sama atas pertanyaannya. Terlebih lagi, mereka
memperingatkannya: “Jangan di sini! Pergilah! Ini berbahaya! Ada pria dengan
senjata di sini!!” Si itik menyesal karena meninggalkan peternakan.

Kemudian suatu hari, perjalanannya membawanya ke dekat sebuah pondok milik

nenek tua. Berpikir dia adalah angsa liar, ia menangkapnya.

“Saya akan menempatkan itik ini dalam kandang. Saya berharap ini itik perempuan
dan mengasilkan banyak telur!” kata wanita tua, yang tampak miskin. Tapi itik buruk
rupa tidak smenghasilkan satu telur pun. Ayam terus menakutkan baginya.

“Tunggu saja! Jika kamu tidak bertelur, wanita tua itu akan mencekik lehermu dan
memasukanmu ke dalam panci!” Dan kucing menyambung: “Hee Hee Saya
berharap wanita itu memasakmu, maka aku bisa menggerogoti tulangmu!” Itik buruk
rupa yang buruk begitu takut dan ia kehilangan nafsu makan, meskipun wanita tua
itu terus menjejali dirinya dengan makanan dan menggerutu: “! Jika Kamu tidak akan
bertelur, setidaknya bergegaslah dan menjadi gemuk”

“Oh, kasihan aku!” mengerang itik ketakutan. “Aku akan mati ketakutan pertama!
Dan aku sangat berharap seseorang akan mencintaiku!”

Kemudian satu malam, itik kecil menemukan pintu kandang terbuka, ia melarikan
diri. Sekali lagi dia sendirian. Dia melarikan diri sejauh yang dia bisa, dan saat fajar,
ia menemukan dirinya di tempat tidur alang-alang yang tebal. “Jika tidak ada yang
menginginkan saya, saya akan bersembunyi di sini selamanya.” Ada banyak
makanan, dan itik mulai merasa sedikit lebih bahagia, meskipun ia kesepian. Suatu
hari saat matahari terbit, ia melihat burung dengan sayap indah terbang
diatasnya. Putih, dengan leher panjang dan ramping, paruh kuning dan sayap besar,
mereka bermigrasi ke selatan.

“Kalau saja aku bisa terlihat seperti mereka, hanya untuk satu hari!” kata itik
tersebut, kagum. Musim dingin datang dan air di tempat tidur membeku. Itik buruk
meninggalkan rumah untuk mencari makanan di salju. Dia jatuh kelelahan tanah,
tapi seorang petani menemukannya dan menempatkannya di saku jaket yang besar.

“Aku akan membawanya pulang ke anak-anakku. Mereka akan menjaganya.

Kasihan, dia beku!” Itik itu mandi dengan perawatan yang baik di rumah
petani. Dengan cara ini, itik buruk rupa itu mampu bertahan di musim dingin.

Bagaimanapun, di musim semi, ia telah tumbuh begitu besar sehingga petani

memutuskan: “Aku akan membebaskannya ke kolam” Saat itik yang melihat dirinya
tercermin dalam air.

“Menajubkan! Bagaimana saya sudah berubah! Aku hampir tidak mengenali diriku
sendiri!” Angsa bersayap terbang ke utara lagi dan meluncur ke kolam. Ketika itik
yang melihat mereka, dia menyadari bahwa dia adalah salah satu dari jenis mereka,
dan segera berteman.

“Kami angsa seperti Anda!” kata mereka dengan hangat. “Di mana kau
bersembunyi?”

“Ini cerita panjang,” jawab angsa muda, masih terkejut. Sekarang, ia berenang
anggun dengan sesama angsa lainnya. Suatu hari, ia mendengar anak-anak di
berseru tepi sungai: “! Lihat angsa muda itu! Dia yang terbaik dari mereka semua!”
Dan dia hampir meluap dalam kebahagiaan.

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The Story of Toba Lake

Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived
in a simple hut in a farming field. The did some gardening and fishing for his daily
life.

One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap.
It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned
into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She
said; “Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was
once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster”. The man made the deal and
they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.
 Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields.
One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found
out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home
and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his
promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to
come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by
non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a
fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.

Arti
Pada suatu ketika, ada seorang pria yang tinggal di Sumatera utara. Dia
tinggal di sebuah gubuk sederhana di lahan persawahan. Dia berkebun dan
memancing untuk kehidupan sehari-harinya.

Suatu hari, ketika pria itu memancing ikan, ia menangkap ikan emas besar di
perangkapnya. Itu hasil tangkapan terbesar yang pernah didapatkan dalam
hidupnya. Anehnya, ikan ini berubah menjadi seorang putri cantik. Dia jatuh cinta
dengannya dan melamarnyya untuk menjadi istrinya. Dia berkata; “Ya, tapi kau
harus berjanji untuk tidak memberitahu siapa pun tentang rahasia bahwa saya
adalah seekor ikan, jika tidak akan ada bencana besar”. Pria itu membuat
kesepakatan dan mereka menikah, hidup bahagia dan memiliki seorang putri.

Beberapa tahun kemudian, putri ini akan membawakan makan siang untuk
ayahnya di ladang. Suatu hari, putrinya begitu lapar dan ia pun memakan makan
siang ayahnya. Sayangnya, ia mengetahuinya dan marah, dan berteriak; “Dasar
anak ikan terkutuk!”. Anaknya berlari pulang dan bertanya pada ibunya. Sang ibu
mulai menangis, merasa sedih karena suaminya telah melanggar janjinya.

Kemudian dia mengatakan kepada putrinya untuk berlari ke atas bukit karena
bencana besar itu akan datang. Ketika putrinya pergi, dia berdoa. Segera terjadilah
gempa besar diikuti hujan deras yang tidak berhenti. Seluruh daerah banjir dan
jadilah Danau Toba. Dia berubah menjadi ikan lagi dan sang suami menjadi Pulau
Samosir.

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 Lazy Jack

Once upon a time, in a small village, a lazy boy called Jack lived with his mother. He
was so lazy that he found it very difficult to move even his fingers. His mother
worked as a servant maid in town homes and earned for herself and her son. People
started to call him Lazy Jack and Jack’s mother was totally irritated and worried
about her son.

One day, she fell sick and was feeling fever severely. She was bed-ridden for two
days and could not go to work. She asked her son to earn something for them;
otherwise there won’t be anything to eat.

Lazy Jack finally understood her mother’s health and their poverty. He promised her
mother to bring something and went on to search for a work.

A farmer offered him work in his land and paid two pennies for Jack’s work.
Jack thanked him and rushed to home with the pennies in hand. As he was running
to home, he did not notice the pennies rolled down from his hand. He could not find
the coins and reached home with unhappy face.

He told the incident to his mom. Jack’s mom told him, ‘dear Jack, next time, you put
them in your pocket, so that they won’t fall!’

The next day, a milkman offered Jack a job. Jack was offered a jar of milk as wages
for his work. As told by his mother, he poured the milk into his pocket and ran
towards his mom.

His mom recognized what would have happened after seeing Jack’s dress. She told
him,’ Jack, you should have carried the milk jar on your head. Don’t worry. But be
careful next time!’

Next time also Jack worked for the milkman and he went to the milkman’s farm early
in the morning. The work got completed before the noon and Jack was paid a bar of
cheese for his work. Jack was happy and as told by his mother, he carried the
cheese bar on his head. Since it was a sunny day and very hot in the noon, all the
cheese melted away.

Jack told his mom that all cheese melted. His mother told, he should have carried
the cheese in his hands and asked him to do correctly next time.

The next day, he went to work in cattle. The owner of the cattle farm offered him a
little kitten for him towards wages as Jack liked the kitten very much. He carried the
kitten on his hands. The little kitten jumped from his hands and ran away. Jack was
sad and told his mother he lost the kitten too. His mom told, he should have tied a
rope and dragged the kitten on the road.

For the next two days, he went to work in a farm again and returned home with a
huge piece of meat. He tied the meat with a rope and dragged it on the road. The
meat was spoiled and his mom shouted at him as he could not do anything properly.
Later sometime, she consoled him and told him that he should have carried the meat
on his shoulders. Jack went to nearby town for work and returned home after a
week. For his hard work, he was rewarded with a donkey and he carried the donkey
on his shoulders.
A young girl around 8 years of age who saw Jack carrying the donkey on shoulders
started to laugh and she laughed continuously for long time. Her dad, who was the
richest person in the town, was so happy and was in tears. He thanked Jack as he
made her daughter laugh after 5 years. Jack realized his mistakes and foolishness
he done then and before. But at the same time his foolishness made that rich man’s
daughter laugh. He took the rich man and his daughter to his home. The rich man
offered them work and shelter in his bungalow. From that incident, he tried to do
everything properly without any mistakes and foolishness and they lived happily ever
after!

Artinya
Pada suatu seketika, di sebuah desa kecil, seorang anak laki-laki malas bernama
Jack tinggal dengan ibunya. Dia begitu malas bahwa ia merasa sangat sulit untuk
bergerak bahkan jari-jarinya. Ibunya bekerja sebagai pembantu di rumah kota dan
mendapat bayaran untuk dirinya dan anaknya. Orang-orang mulai memanggilnya
Jack Si Pemalas dan ibu Jack benar-benar kesal dan khawatir terhadap anaknya.

Suatu hari, dia jatuh sakit dan merasa demam parah. Dia terbaring di tempat tidur
selama dua hari dan tidak bisa pergi bekerja. Dia meminta anaknya untuk
mendapatkan sesuatu untuk mereka; jika tidak , maka tidak akan ada apa-apa untuk
makan.

Jack si pemalas akhirnya mengerti kesehatan ibunya dan kemiskinan mereka. Dia
berjanji kepada ibunya untuk membawa sesuatu dan pergi untuk mencari pekerjaan.

Seorang petani menawarinya bekerja di tanahnya dan dibayar dua sen untuk
pekerjaan Jack. Jack mengucapkan terima kasih dan bergegas ke rumah dengan
uang di tangan. Saat ia berlari ke rumah, ia tidak melihat uang berada dari
tangannya. Dia tidak bisa menemukan koin dan sampai di rumah dengan wajah
tidak bahagia.

Dia mengatakan kejadian itu ke ibunya. Ibu Jack mengatakan kepadanya, ‘Jack
sayang, lain waktu, kamu letakan uangnya di sakumu, sehingga uangnya tidak akan
jatuh! “

Keesokan harinya, pengantar susu menawarkan Jack pekerjaan. Jack ditawari botol
susu sebagai upah atas pekerjaannya. Seperti diceritakan oleh ibunya, ia
menuangkan susu ke dalam saku dan berlari menuju ibunya.

Ibunya mengenal apa yang akan terjadi setelah melihat baju Jack. Dia mengatakan
kepadanya, “Jack, Kamu harus membawa botol susu di kepala Anda. Jangan
khawatir. Tapi hati-hati waktu berikutnya! “

Kali ini juga Jack bekerja untuk tukang susu dan dia pergi ke peternakan pengantar
susu pagi-pagi. Pekerjaan selesai sebelum tengah hari dan Jack dibayar bar keju
untuk kerjanya. Jack senang dan seperti yang dikatakan oleh ibunya, ia membawa
potongan keju di kepalanya. Karena hari itu adalah hari yang cerah dan sangat
panas di siang hari, semua keju mencair.

Jack mengatakan ibunya bahwa semua keju meleleh. Ibunya mengatakan,

seharusnya dia membawa keju di tangannya dan memintanya untuk melakukan
dengan benar waktu berikutnya.

Keesokan harinya, ia pergi untuk bekerja di peternakan. Pemilik peternakan sapi

menawarinya anak kucing sebagai upah karena Jack sangat menyukai kucing. Ia
membawa anak kucing di tangannya. Anak kucing kecil melompat dari tangannya
dan lari. Jack sedih dan mengatakan ibunya ia kehilangan anak kucing juga.

Ibunya mengatakan, ia seharusnya mengikatikatkan tali dan menyeret anak

kucingnya di jalan.

Selama dua hari berikutnya, ia pergi untuk bekerja di sebuah peternakan lagi dan
kembali ke rumah dengan sepotong besar daging. Dia mengikat daging dengan tali
dan menyeretnya di jalan. Dagingnya rusak dan ibunya berteriak padanya karena ia
tidak bisa berbuat apa-apa dengan benar.

Kemudian suatu ketika, Ibu menghiburnya dan mengatakan kepadanya bahwa ia

harus membawa daging di pundaknya. Jack pergi ke kota terdekat untuk bekerja
dan kembali ke rumah setelah seminggu. Untuk kerja kerasnya, ia dihargai dengan
keledai dan ia membawa keledai itu di pundaknya.

Seorang gadis muda sekitar 8 tahun yang melihat Jack membawa keledai di bahu
mulai tertawa dan dia tertawa terus menerus untuk waktu yang lama. Ayahnya, yang
adalah orang terkaya di kota, sangat bahagia hingga menangis. Dia mengucapkan
terima kasih Jack sambil membuat putrinya tertawa setelah 5 tahun. Jack menyadari
kesalahannya dan kebodohan dia lakukan saat itu dan sebelumnya. Tetapi pada
saat yang sama kebodohannya membuat putri orang kaya tertawa. Dia mengambil
orang kaya dan putrinya ke rumahnya. Orang kaya menawarkan mereka pekerjaan
dan tempat tinggal di bungalo nya. Dari kejadian itu, ia mencoba untuk melakukan
segala sesuatu dengan benar tanpa kesalahan dan kebodohan dan mereka hidup
bahagia selamanya!

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NARRATIVE TEXT : FAIRY TALES, DEFINITION,

STRUCTURE, AND LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE
TEXT
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When you were a child, did your parents like telling stories before you slept? What kinds of
stories have you heard? There are many kinds of stories, such as fairy tales, fables, folktales,
and legends. Can you differentiate them? In this chapter, you are going to discuss about
narrative text, expecialy faory tales.

NARRATIVE TEXT : FAIRY TALES

A narrrative text is a text that tells a story. Stories belong to narratives. They can be
imaginary, factual, or combination of both.
In this chapter, we are going to analyze fairy tales. A fairy tale is a simple story about magical
creatures. A fairy tale is a kind of folktale or fable. In these stories, there are witches and
queens, giants and elves, prince and princess, dragons, talking animal, and fairies. In other
words, marvelous and magical things happen to characters in fairy tales. Fairy tales were told
and retold for generation.

STRUCTURE OF FAIRY TALES

Narratives are conveyed in three steps. First, you have to introduce the characters and the
setting. This part is called orientation. Then, you present the problem or the conflict in the
story. It is called complication. The last part is the solution of the problem or the ending of
the story. It is called resolution. Those three steps are usually called the general structure of a
narrative text.

In conclusion, orientation contains about who were involved in the story, when, and where
introduces specific participants and setting. Complication contains a problem which arises
followed by other problems. Complication explores the conflict in the story. It shows the
crisis, rising crisis, and climax of the story. Resolution shows the situation which the problem
have been resolved. The social function of fairy tales is to entertain the readers, but they also
tell important truths about state the lesson or the moral at the end of the story.

LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE TEXT

The following are the language features of narrative text.

a. Focus on specific or individualized participant.

b. Use simple past tense.
c. Use temporal conjunction.
d. Use direct and indirect speech.
e. Use saying verbs, thinking verbs, and action verbs.
There are many kinds of verbs that you should know. Pay attention to the following kinds of
verbs!
1. Linking verbs. They connect a noun with words that identify or describe the noun.
Examples : belong, get, look, appear, be (is, are).
2. Relating Verbs. They link the subject and the rest of the sentences.
Examples : classify, divide, consist, and group.
3. Behavioral Verbs. Tehy are verbs of physiological and psychological behavior of living
things.
Examples : breathe, feed, snore, smile, dream.
4. Saying Verbs. They are verbs of talking in direct speech.
Examples : say, speak, tell, ask, explain, reply, answer, whisper, shout, scream.
5. Action Verbs/Material Verbs,/Doing Verbs. Tehey are verbs of doing.
Example : go, write, build, make, create, etc.
6. Mental Verbs/Thinking Verbs. They are verbs of sensing : feeling, thinking, and perceiving.
Example : like, love, hate, enjoy, understand, believe, see, watch, hear, listen, etc.

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Pengertian, Jenis, Struktur, Ciri Kebahasaan dan

Contoh Narrative Text
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4. Contoh Narrative Text

Kancil and Crocodile Story

(Favorite Story from Indonesia)
Kancil, the small but clever mouse deer, had many enemies in the forest. Fortunately, he
was quick-witted, so that every time his life was threatened, he managed to escape.
One of his greatest enemies was Crocodile, who lived in the river that bordered the forest.
Many times Crocodile had tried to capture the small mouse deer. Crocodile was big, but he was
not very clever. Kancil was able to trick him every time.
One day it was very hot. There was no wind at all to refresh the thirsty plants and trees of
the forest. It was in the middle of the dry season. For many weeks no rain had fallen so that the
little creeks where the small animals used to drink had dried up. Kancil was walking alone in the
forest; he was very thirsty. He had walked a long way; looking for a brook where he could quench
his thirst, but he had found only dry mud in the once gay rippling brooks. It was very quiet in the
forest. All the animals seemed to sleep. Even the birds did not sing in the trees. Kancil finally
decided to go to the river that bordered the forest. Usually he avoided going there as he knew
that Crocodile was always on the look-out for him, waiting for an opportunity to catch him.
When he arrived at the river. Kancil looked cautiously around him. There was no body to
be seen. The clear river water mirrored blindly the rays of the sun. step by step Kancil
approached the water. His sharp eyes looked right and left; his pointed ears strained to catch the
slightest sound. But no danger seemed to threaten him this time. Relieved, he bent his head to
enjoy the cool water. Suddenly, his glance fell upon an object that was floating not far away from
where he stood. It was a blackish thing. It looked like a fallen branch ………. Or, like the back of
crocodile! Kancil jumped back, surprised and thoughtful. But he was also very thirsty. How could
he possibly know whether the thing there in the river was really a log or a crocodile? Then he
smiled a little as he hit upon an idea. In a clear voice he shouted, “ Hey! There, you who are in
the river. If you are crocodile, don’t answer me, but if you are only a long of wood, tell me your
name!”
Now it was really Crocodile who was floating in the river. He had seen Kancil approaching
and he was waiting for him to bend his head to drink. At the very moment when Kancil did not
look. Crocodile would catch him. Without thinking any further, Crocodile answered Kancil in his
gruff voice, “Don’t be afraid, I’m only a harmless log!”
Immediately, Kancil ran away as fast as his leg could carry him, while shouting over his
shoulder, “O, stupid Crocodile, have you ever heard a log of wood talk?”
A fortnight later, however, Kancil forgot this incident. The dry season was not over yet and
it seemed to be hotter than ever. Kancil remembered the cool, fresh river water. How wonderful it
would be take a bath in it! He decided to try his luck once again. This time there was nothing
suspicious to be seen, so Kancil went to the water and drank to his heart’s content. It was very
quite, and also very hot. Without thinking any further Kancil went down into the river and began
to splash himself. In his delight he forgot all about danger. He pick up a dry twig that was floating
by and began to beat the water with it. He made so much noise that he woke up….who else, but
old crocodile who was sleeping in the neighborhood.
“Well, well, this seem to be my lucky day,” thought Crocodile. In a flash he shot out of his
hiding place and all of a sudden. Kancil felt sharp teeth biting into one of his legs. It hurt him very
much, but though he was shocked and frightened Kancil did not lose his wits. Without hesitation
he dipped the dry twig into the water and in a mocking tone he said, “stupid old log of wood, do
you really think you have got me? It is only a twig you have in your mouth, not my leg. Here is my
leg’ catch it if you can!”
Kancil moved the twig rapidly to and in front of Crocodile’s eyes. Crocodile could not see
very well in the water and above all, he really was blockhead! He believed the clever tal of the
little mouse deer, released kancil’s leg and snapped his jaw on the twig. Of course, kancil did not
wait one second to jump out of the water and run to the safety of the woods. Though his leg was
very sore, he laughed heartily. Once more he had tricked Crocodile.

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