Tujuan Narrative Text

Narrative text bertujuan untuk menghibur dan menarik minat pembaca. Narrative text menyajikan cerita atau
peristiwa yang memiliki masalah. Masalah tersebut dapat menimbulkan konflik dan pada akhir cerita ada
resolusinya dan memiliki akhir yang menyedihkan maupun bahagia.

Struktur Narrative Text

Setiap jenis teks bahasa Inggris (genre) memiliki struktur teksnya sendiri-sendiri. Struktur narrative text terdiri dari
tiga bagian atau generic structure yaitu sebagai berikut:

1. Orientation: Orientation disebut juga sebagai pengenalan. Pada bagian ini berisi tentang pengenalan tokoh dalam
cerita serta waktu dan tempat kejadiannya.

2. Complication: Complication atau komplikasi merupakan gambaran munculnya krisis atau masalah yang dialami
oleh para tokoh pada cerita. Krisis tersebut harus dipecahkan oleh para tokoh.

3. Resolution: Resolution atau resolusi merupakan bagian yang berisi bagaimana tokoh dari cerita tersebut
memecahkan masalah. Biasanya terdapat lebih dari satu resolution untuk satu complication.

Ciri Narrative Text

1. Berfokus pada satu tokoh atau pelaku dan biasanya individual sehingga biasanya menggunakan kata ganti seperti
I, we, she, and he.

2. Sering menggunakan past tense baik itu simple past tense, past continuous, maupun bentuk past tense lainnya.

3. Terkadang menggunakan dialog untuk mengajak pembaca berimajinasi sehingga ceritanya nampak lebih jelas dan
nyata.

4. Menggunakan kata sambung (conjunction) agar cerita terlihat urut.

The Legend of Mount Batur

A long time ago, there lived on the island of Bali a giant-like creature named Kbo Iwo. The people of Bali used to
say that Kbo Iwo was everything, a destroyer as well as a creator. He was satisfied with the meal, but this meant for
the Balinese people enough food for a thousand men.
Difficulties arose when for the first time the barns were almost empty and the new harvest was still a long way off.
This made Kbo Iwo wild with great anger. In his hunger, he destroyed all of the houses and even the temples. It
made the Balinese turn to rage.
So, they came together to plan steps to oppose this powerful giant by using his stupidity. They asked Kbo Iwo to
build them a very deep well, and rebuild all the houses and temples he had destroyed. After they fed Kbo Iwo, he
began to dig a deep hole.
One day he had eaten too much, he fell asleep in the hole. The oldest man in the village gave a sign, and the
villagers began to throw the limestone they had collected before into the hole. The limestone made the water inside
the hole boiling. Kbo Iwo was buried alive. Then the water in the well rose higher and higher until at last it
overflowed and formed Lake Batur. The mound of earth dug from the well by Kbo Iwo is known as Mount Batur.

Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi

Once upon a time, a happy family lived in a kingdom in Priangan Land. They were a father in the form of a dog, his
name Dayang Sumbi, and a child who was called Sangkuriang. One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to hunt with
his lovely dog, Tumang. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang became desperate and worried because he hunted no
deer. Then he thought of shooting his dog. After that, he took the dog’s liver and carried it home.
Soon, Dayang Sumbi found out that it was not deer lever but Tumang’s dog. So, She was furious and hit
Sangkuriang’s head. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded, and a scar was cast away from their home.
Years passed, and Sangkuriang traveled to many places and finally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman
and fell in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, the woman looked at the wound on
Sangkuriang’s head. It matched her son’s wound, who had left several years earlier. Soon she realized that she had
fallen in love with her son.
She couldn’t marry him, but how to say it? Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat to celebrate their
wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them one night before sunrise. He built a lake. With dawn just a moment
away, the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes
of light. It made the cock crowded for a new day.
Sangkuriang failed to marry her. He was outraged and then kicked the boat. It felt over and became the mountain of
Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.