FreeEnglishCourse.info – Contoh Narrative Text bahasa Inggris.

Belajar bahasa Inggris melalui

text based approach mulai diminati oleh sekolah dan lembaga lembaga pelatihan ESL. Salah satu
text yang punya porsi besar untuk dipelajari adalah narrative. What is a narrative text?
Bagaimana contoh teks narrative itu?

Cerita narrative fairy tale Cinderella – commons.wikimedia.org

Contoh narrative text ini bisa dijadikan acuan dalam membuat tugas bahasa Inggris, hususnya
text narrative. Kumpulan contoh text narrative terbaik ini sebagian telah dilengkapi dengan
generic structure. Contoh text narrative ini terdiri dari beberapa macam teks narrative baik
legenda, fable, cerita rakya, dan lainya. Contoh text narative- complete collection example of
narrative text will help us to get a better understanding on what a narrative text is and how a
narrative text is structured.

Cerita narrative Cinderella dalam film Pretty Woman

Narrative text is organized through the generic structure of ORIENTATION, COMPLICATION,

and RESOLUTION. Narrative text selalu berisi complication atau pertentangan atau conflik
diantara participant atau tokoh cerita. Narrative text ditulis dengan tujuan utama untuk
“entertain” menghibur pembaca dengan cara memberikan cerita. Banyak orang yang suka
mendengarkan cerita.

Narrative text fable – the smart parrot

Disamping menghibur cerita narrative selalu mengandung sebuah moral value. Nilai moral yang
selalu hidup ditengah masarakat penutur, penulis, dan juga pendengar sebuah cerita.cerita
narrative yang paling sering kita dengar dengan muatan nilai moral yang bagus adalah fable.
Tahukan apa itu fable? Ya, fable adalah cerita yang mengangkat toko dan setting binatang.
Namun dipersonifikasikan sebagai manusia. Para binatang dalam cerita itu bertingkah laku
seperti masyarakt kita. Disanalah kemudian pengarang cerita memasukkan pesan-pesan
moralnya agar bisa menjadi pelajaran hidup bagi banyak orang.

Narrative fable – Mouse deer and Crocodiles: www.earlychildhoodworksheets.com

Berikut beberapa contoh kumpulan cerita narrative terbaik versi FreeEnglishCourse.info:Contoh
Narrative Text Fable
1. The smart parrot
2. Rabbit and bear story
3. The Story of Buffalo and Tiger

Contoh narrative text legend

4. The legend of Toba Lake

Contoh Narrative Text Fairy tales

5. The story of Cinderella
6. The Story of Snow White
7. The story of Bawang putih and Bawang merah

Contoh Narrative Text Folk Tale

8. The story of Malin Kundang
9. Queen of Arabia and three sheiks
10. The story of Lutung Kasarung
11. The story of Timun Emas
12. The story of kite
13. The story of Jonah

Contoh Narrative text Love Story

14. Let me love you
15. Romeo and Juliet Tragic Story

Myths

Narrative text can be story, fable, legend, folklore, myth, etc. Narrative text has the largest
portion of time to be studied in high schools. From first semester, it goes through to the end of
the academic years, students are given the lesson of narrative text. The above collection of
narrative text links hopefully help you get better understanding on the question of what is and
how is a narrative text.
Itulah contoh narrative text terbaik dalam blog ini. Semoga bisa membantu bagi yang sedang
mencari contoh text yang juga sering disebut sebagai teks cerita pendek dalam bahasa Inggris ini.
Selamat belajar!

Example of Narrative Text;

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”.

Notes on Narrative Text

It is important to know that the social function of the narrative text is to inform and entertain.
Narrative text will tell the story with amusing way. It provides an esthetic literary experience to
the reader. Narrative text is written based on life experience. In literary term, experience is what
we do, feel, hear, read, even what we dream.
Narrative text is organized focusing at character oriented. It is build using descriptive familiar
language and dialogue. There are some genres of literary text which fit to be classified as the
narrative text. Some of them are:

* Folktales, it includes fables, legend, myth, or realistic tales

* Mysteries, fantasy, science or realistic fiction

Commonly, narrative text is organized by the story of grammar. It will be beginning, middle and
end of the story. To build this story grammar, narrative text need plot. This plot will determine
the quality of the story. Plot is a series of episodes which holds the reader’ attention while they
are reading the story.
Conflict is the main important element of the plot. This conflict among the characters will drive
the story progress. In this conflict, readers will be shown how the characters face the problem
and how they have ability to handle that problem

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.

Hello!!! You are here!! How are you?

Well I think you are in a great condition…

What’s our lesson now? Yes, you’ll learn about narrative text. By the way, do you know what
narrative text is??

Before I tell you the definition of narrative text, I want to ask you first.

Have you ever heard the story of Cinderella, Malin Kundang, Snow White, or maybe Kancil
Nyolong Timun??
Perhaps your father told you those stories when you were child. You also read those stories in a
story book.

Those stories are interesting. You like to read those stories to entertain yourself. You feel curios
and want to know what happen to your favorite character in the end of the story. You like the
character, the conflict, and the plot of the story. Besides, you can get moral values from those
stories. Although you know that the story does not really happen in our real life, you still like it.

Well, those stories belong to NARRATIVE TEXT. I think you know what narrative text is.
Narrative text has a social function. The social function is to entertain or amuse the reader or
listener.

Below is the example of narrative text.

Have you read the story? It tells about Snow White. However, the story is different with the story
you have known. The conflict is very simple, but you are still entertained, right?

Now, we’ll discuss about the generic structure of narrative text. Commonly, there are three parts
of text in narrative. Those are ORIENTATION, COMPLICATION, and RESOLUTION.
However some narrative stories have a COD

THE GENERIC STRUCTURE

 ORIENTATION

It tells the audience about who is in the story, when the story is taking place and where
the action is happening.

 COMPLICATION

It sets off a chain of events that influence what will happen in the story.
  RESOLUTION

The characters finally sort out the complication.

 CODA

It contains moral values.

Here the generic structure of Snow White

REORIENTATION

Snow white and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.
We should help the people who needs our helping.
The Generic Structure of a Snow white story

Snow White
Orientation Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She
lived with her Aunt and Uncle in the castle, because her parents
were dead. The seven dwarfs lived at the cottage in the wood.
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.”
REORIENTATION 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.
Evaluation We should help the people who needs our helping.

Example of Narative

1. 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

1. 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”.