Recount Text

Recount Text

·       Definition:

Recount Text is story that entertaining that happened in the past event or experiences from the writer or the other people’s experiences.

·       Element:

Recount Text have three elements, they are:

-          Orientation :

Tells readers who was involved in the story, what happened, where the story took place and when it happened.

-          Events (Series Of Events):

Tell what happened in the story. When telling the events, we may use connective words, such as a few minutes later, next, then, finally, after that, the next day, meanwhile, and after wards.

-          Re – Orientation:

Summaries the events or tells the conclusion of the story. A recount text may not have this part.

·       Purpose:

It purposes is either to inform or to entertain the audience.

·       Different Form For Narrative:

There is no complication among the participants.

·       Language Feature Of Recount Text :

-          Introducing Personal Participant.

Example : I, my group, etc.

-          Using Chronological Connection.

Example : Then, First, etc.

-          Using Linking Verb.

Example : Was, were, saw, heard, etc.

-          Using Action Verb.

Example : Look, go, change, etc. 

 

“ Grandpa’s Funeral Ceremony In Toraja “

                Last month, my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s

funeral. It was my f irst time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered

there with our kin in the ceremony. 

                Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week.

Several days before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept

in a series of houses arranged in a circular row around an open field

called  tongkonan.  His corpse was dressed in a fine wearing.

                The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered

pigs and buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face north. In this

ceremony we wore black clothes. After that, the corpse was placed in

a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placed

on an open platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile, my uncle,

my brother, and I prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower

called lakian. During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They

were great matches. In the night, we were feasting, chanting, and

dancing. 

 

On the last day, the grandpa’s coffin was lowered from the funeral

 tower and brought up to the mountain side family grave yard. It was

followed by great shouting and excitement from the relatives and the

guests. Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony where

other puppets representing the members of a whole family were already

there. 

The funeral ceremonies  made my family and me tired. However,

we were grateful because it ran smoothly.