Narrative Text

·         Definition:

Narrative Text is imaginary story but sometime narrative can be factual too. Narrative includes fairy stories, fables, mystery, science, fiction, any romance and horror.

·         Purpose Of The Text:

The purpose of the text is to amuse or entertain the readers. Narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn find a resolution.

·         Generic Structure :

-          Orientation

About who, when, and where the story happened.

-          Complication

About the conflict or the big problem of the story. Complication is the part of the story in which there is a conflict among the characters of the story (it is possible to make more than one conflict in a complication), and it is the climax of the story (the big problem in the story). A story can have more than one complication.

-          Resolution

About the solution of the problem. It can be a happy or sad ending. In resolution, the solution or the way out of the conflict/ the big problem must be written.

·         Other Generic Structure:

-          Evaluation

It optional, it is usually used to make the story more interesting.

-          Coda

It is the change of one of the character or two, or the meaning of the story that can be caught as a moral value of live.

·         Kinds Of Narrative Text:

-          Myth

-          Legend

-          Fable

-          Folklore

·         Characteristics Of Narrative Text:

-          Entertain the reader.

-          Have orientation, complication, resolution, evaluation, and coda.

-          Language Features.

Noun, adjective, time conjunction, and conjunction, adverb and adverbial phrases, action verb, saying verb. 

 

“ The Mousedeer Stole The Cucumbers “

                Long ago in Java island, live a famous animal, the mousedeer.

The mousedeer was famous of his cleverness, that he could always

escape from troubles with his bright minds. The mousedeer’s favorite

food was the cucumber. He loved to eat juicy cucumber a lot, but the

 bad thing was he did not want to grow it himself, he liked to steal

them from the farmers.  

                The farmers disliked the mousedeer very much, since every

time he wanted to harvest his cucumbers, the mousedeer had eaten

them that the farmer could not get as many as he wanted.

So that morning, before the farmer set out to his farm, he made

a plan to catch the mousedeer with his wife. That night, the farmer

and his wife made a scarecrow. When they had completed the

 scarecrow, the farmer put a lot of glue on the scarecrow’s shirt

and took it to the middle of the farm and put him there. This time,

the farmer was sure, he was able to catch the naughty mousedeer.

               

Very early in the next morning, the mousedeer had already

arrived in the farm. He was very surprised to see the farmer was

already there. He did not know that it was only a scarecrow.

So he was hiding behind the trees, and waited for the farmer to go

away first from the farm before he came and took all the cucumbers

he wanted. He waited for along time, until he grew impatient. It was

like the juicy cucumbers in the farm were calling his name to take the

 away with him. So he decided to come closer to the farm.

                The more he looked at the farmer, the more he realized

that it was not the farmer who stood there all along. It was just

a scarecrow and did not move at all. The mousedeer was very

angry for he was cheated. He approached the scarecrow and

kicked the scarecrow. Remember, the farmer had already added

some glue on the scarecrow’s body that made it very sticky.

                When the mousedeer kicked the scarecrow, he could not

let his feet of the scarecrow’s body. The mousedeer was panic.

The harder he kicked, the stickier it got to his leg.

Finally, the mousedeer was strapped to the scarecrow’s body.

He couldn’t free himself. He cried and cried for help, but no one

was there to help. When the farmervheard his cry, he quickly

 went to his farm and caught the mousedeer. No matter how the

mousedeer begged for mercy and to let him go, the farmer refused

to set him free.

                So, that was how the farmer caught the mousedeer who

was famous for his brain.