Narrative Text adalah teks yang berisi tentang kisah (fiksi / non fiksi / dongeng / cerita rakyat / dongeng / mitos / epik) dan plot yang terdiri dari klimaks cerita (komplikasi) kemudian diikuti oleh resolusi. Sebuah teks narrative berfungsi untuk menghibur pembacanya Contoh narrative text: cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita binatang (fable), Legenda (legend), cerita pendek (short story) dll.
1. Generic Structure:
- Orientation: berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
- Complication: Berisi puncak konflik/masalah dalam cerita. Sebuah cerita boleh memiliki complication lebih dari satu.
- Resolution: Pemecahan masalah. Bisa berakhir dengan kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula berakhir dengan kesedihan (sad ending)
2. Grammatical features menggunakan tenses “past”
3. Sering menggunakan kata penghubung waktu (temporal conjunction), misalnya: once upon a time, one day, long time ago, …
Contoh contoh Narrative text :
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs
Once upon a time in a great castle,
there was a beautiful princess. She was very pretty, with blue eyes and
long black hair. Her skin was delicate and white, and so she was called
Snow White. Snow White had a step mother who was always jealous of Snow
White's beauty. Her step mother too was very beautiful, and the magic
mirror told her this every day, whenever she asked it.
One
day, the step mother asked the magic mirror who the loveliest lady in
the land was and the magic mirror answered Snow White was the loveliest
in the land. The step mother was very mad. Then he asked her trusty
servants to take Snow White into the forest, far away from the Castle
and killed her. But the servant didn't kill Snow White, He led the
innocent little girl away.
In the forest, little Snow White
was alone and scared. She didn't know where she should go. But suddenly
she saw a small strange cottage. She wondered who lived there, then she
entered the cottage.
Inside the cottage, there was 7 beds and a
kitchen. Snow White was to tired to explore the cottage, and suddenly
fallen a sleep. In the afternoon, the seven dwarfs who lived in the
cottage, came home. They surprised to see there was a young lady there.
One dwarf woke her up and asked who was she. Snow White told them her
sad story. The seven dwarfs understood the feeling of Snow White and
asked her to live with them in the cottage.
Meanwhile in the
castle, the servant came back and told to the step mother that Snow
White was killed. Then the step mother asked the magic mirror once again
who the loveliest in the land was and still the magic mirror answered
the Snow White who lived in the small cottage with seven dwarfs was the
loveliest one in the land. So the step mother was angry and she planed
something bad to Snow White.
Then the step mother disguising
herself as an old women who sold a basket of poisoned apples and went to
the cottage. In the cottage, the seven dwarfs warned Snow White to not
open the door to the stranger.
The step mother finally arrived
to the cottage and began to offer Snow White an apple. Snow White
refused to open the door but the step mother kept persuade and finally
Snow White opened the door and brought an apple then he ate it. So Snow
White fallen down with the poisoned apple beside her.
In the
afternoon, when the seven dwarfs came home, they were surprised with
Snow White who laid down on the floor with pale face and a poisoned
apple beside her. The seven dwarfs were sad seeing the Snow White was
dying but not die yet. Then the seven dwarfs decided to make a beautiful
bed made from a crystal coffin to make Snow White keep alive.
Day by day, the seven dwarfs waited for the miracle came when Snow
White suddenly woke up. Then one day, there was a wanderer who actually a
prince from far away kingdom saw a beautiful lady was laid down on
crystal bed. The wanderer asked the dwarfs what was happened and the
dwarfs told him the story.
Heard the Snow White's story, the
princes decided to carry her to his Castle and asked the doctor to help
her. Then the prince kissed her to show his intention. But suddenly Snow
White was back to life. The fact was that the prince's kiss broke the
spell. Then the prince asked Snow White to marry him.
From
that day on, Snow White lived happily in a great castle. But from time
to time, she was drawn back to visit the little cottage down in the
forest.
The Lion and The Mouse
One day a Lion slept in the jungle. A tiny mouse ran over the Lion’s
head and down his nose. The Lion awoke with a loud roar. He was very
angry. His paw caught the little mouse.
The Lion opened his huge jaws to swallow the mouse “Pardon me. O King, I beg of you. “Cried the frightened mouse.“If you forgive me this time, i will never forget your kindness. I meant
no harm and I certainly didn’t want to disturb your majesty. If you let
me stay a live, I can do you a good turn, too”.
The Lion began to laugh. He laughed and laughed. “How could a tiny
creature like you ever do anything to help me ? “And he shook with
laughter. “Oh well, “he shrugged, looking down at the frightened mouse,”
you’re not so much of a meal anyway.
Then, he released his paw from the mouse and the mouse quickly ran away.
Some time after this, some hunters, tried to capture the Lion alive.
They set up rope nets in the jungle. The Lion fell in to the trap. He
roared and thras hed.His thunderous bellows sent through the jungle.The tiny mouse heard the Lion’s roars.“That may be the Lion who once freed me” he said remembering his promise. And he ran to see whether he could help.
Discovering the sad Lion, the mouse said to him “Stop, stop ! you must
not roar. If you make so much noise, the hunters will come and capture
you. I’ll get you out of this trap”
With his shalp little teeth, the mouse gnawed at the ropes until they
broke. The Lion stepped out of the het and was free. The mouse said.
Now, wa i not right ?” “Thank you, good mouse,” Said Lion gently. “You did help me. I see now that kindness is always worth while,’.
The Legend of Rawa Pening
Once
upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village.
He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for
some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little
boy.
Finally,
a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the
boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden
mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if there
is a flood you must save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The
“lesung” was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy continued
his journey. While he was passing through the village, he saw many
people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick
stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that
stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the
little boy. The crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck
so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could do it very
easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.
Suddenly,
from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until
it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the
little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As
she told him, he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the old
woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa
Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.
The Greedy Mouse
A mouse was having a very bad time. She
could not find food at all. She looked
here and there, but there was no food, and she grew very thin.At last the mouse
found a basket, full of corn. There was a small hole in the basket, and she
crept in. She could just get through the hole.Then she began to eat the corn.
Being very hungry, she ate a great deal, and went on eating and eating. She had
grown very fat before she felt that she had had enough. When the mouse tried to climb out of the basket, she could not. She was
too fat to pass through the hole.”How shall I climb out?” said the mouse.“Oh,
how shall I climb out?”Just then a squirrel came along, and he heard the mouse.”Mouse,”
said the squirrel, “if you want to climb out of the basket, you must wait till
you have grown as thin as you were when you went in.”
