NARRATIVE TEXT
A. The definition of narrative text
Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events
and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important
part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used
to communicate the narrative through a process narration.
B. The purpose of narrative text
The purpose of narrative text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
C. Generic Structures of Narrative Text
1)Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the
participans of the story: who and what is involved in the story.
2)Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participans.
3)Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending.
4)Re-orientation/coda
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
Example :
PINOCCHIO
In the past, there was a puppeteer whose name is
Geppetto. He eager to have a son very much but his wife passed away several
years ago. One day, he got an idea to make a puppet in order not to be lonely
again. He made a puppet all day long. Finally, in the morning he had finished
his work and he named the puppet Pinocchio. Soon he felt lonely again since
Pinocchio couldn’t walk or talk by itself. One night, Geppetto prayed to the
God to become a real boy. He always thought it on his mind in his dream.
In the next morning, he was surprised that
Pinocchio was alive. He taught Pinocchio how to walk, how to read, how to speak
and to do other things as human. He then studied at an elementary school. One
day, Pinocchio felt bored and it made him go home late. When Pinocchio finally
came home, Geppetto asked him. He said that he was on school but he wasn’t.
Instantly, Pinocchio’s nose grew longer and longer and it meant that Pinocchio
has lied.
The next morning, Pinocchio was kidnaped by the
owner of circus. Pinocchio soon became a slave for the circus. He was so famous
because he was a puppet which can talk. Geppetto worried about him because
Pinocchio had not been going home for almost two days. He tried to find
Pinocchio everywhere but he found nothing. When he searched him on the sea, big
wave smashed him. He was then in whale’s stomach when he awoke. He couldn’t
find the way to go out.
In the other side, Pinocchio finally could escape
out from the circus. He came home but nobody was there. Latter on, he searched
Geppetto in the sea. He got the same accident like Geppetto and he met Geppetto
in whale’s stomach. Both of them got out from its stomach by making a fire. In
the end of the story, they went home together and lived happily ever after.
Pinocchio in
English | Stories for Teenagers | English Fairy Tales
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