English- Penjelasan Mengenai Narrative Text dan Contohnya

           Narrative merupakan salah satu text bahasa inggris yang tujuannya menghibur serta memberikan informasi kepada pembaca maupun pendengar. Jenis text ini layaknya cerita, dongeng, dan legenda yang sifatnya mengajak pembaca untuk berimajinasi. Oleh karena itu, narrative biasanya berisi kejadian tidak nyata, penuh imajinasi, dan khayalan. 

A.   Narrative - A narrative is a piece of text that tells about story and entertains or informs the readers or listeners.

B.   Social function - Narrative deal with problematic events which leads a crisis or turning point of some kinds (climax), which in turn kinds a resolution.

C.   Purpose:

*  To entertain or amuse and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways.

* The purpose of a narrative is to amuse the readers.

D.   Generic structure:

*  Orientation : It introduces or identify the characters of the story, the time and place where

the story occurred (who, when, where).

*  Complication : It shows the problems that happen in the storry.

*  Resolution : This is the end of the story where the problems are solved.

*  Re-orientation (optional) : It shows the comment of the writer or it presents the moral value

of the the story. 

E.    Language features:

*  Focus on specific and individualized participants (Jack, Snow White, Cinderella, Bear, Rabbit, Tiger, Farmer).

*  Use of material process (action verbs).

*  Use of relational process and mental process (went, lived, slept).

*  Use of past tense (went, lived, stayed, was, were).

*  Use of temporal conjunctions (finally, after that, then, when).

* Temporal of circumstance of time (one day, once upon a time, long-long ago, thousands years ago).

*  Use of circumstance of places (in the castle, in the wood, in the forest, at palace, in the garden).

F.    Types of narrative:

*  Fable

*  Fairy tales

*  Historical story

*  Folklore

*  Folktale

G.   Examples:

The Man Who was a Liar

                There was a lonely man who lived in a small town. Most of the people who were living in that town knew him because he was a liar. Before he became a loner, he had once had a family and a good job, but he sometimes told small lies to his customers. Then, he started to tell big lies to both his customers and his family.

                Because of this, he and his family faced a lot of problems. He promised to be honest about his job, but he didn’t keep his promise, so he lost his job. After that, his wife and children left him. He continued living in the same house alone. Almost all the people who were living in the town didn’t trust and believe him.

                One day, a fire started in his house. He ran out his house and hurriedly went to the center of the town and shouted to the other people to get help. “My neighbor, please help me. My house is burning.”

                No body believe him, so they didn’t go to his house to help him. His house burned down completely, and he was left homeless.

A Greedy Young Man

                Long, long ago, some children were playing at a seaside when they found a turtle. They began to bully the turtle. After a while, a young man came and said to them, “Stop it!” the children went away then. “I really appreciate your kindness. I really would like to invite you to a wonderful palace now.” The turtle said. As soon as the young man got on the back of the turtle, he was taken to a secret palace in the sea. When he arrived at the palace, he was very surprised and said to the turtle, “What a nice place!”

                The palace was very beautiful. The king of the turtles gave a feast for him and he met many people. He had never seen such a good feast. He received a warm welcome there, and he was very satisfied with everything. He thought there was no other place better tthan one. He said to the turtle, “Thank you, I am glad to have met you.” When he was going to leave the palace, the turtle said, “I am going to give you two boxes, but you can only open one of the boxes. You must not open both. Don’t forget!”

                “All right. I will open only one,” he promised. A large crowd of people said goodbye to him, and he went back to his land. After he got home, he opened the bigger of the two boxes. To his amazement, there was a great deal of gold in the box. “Heavens!” he said loudly. He was roch now. He thought, “The other one must also be full of money.” He could not stand not opening the box, so he broke his promise and opened it.

                                As soon as he opened the box , he became an old man. His hair turned white and his face was full of wrinkles. He looked like an old man over eighty years old. It all hapened in a moment. After that he regretted what the did. “Just because I broke the promise..,” he said, but it was too late.

*  All the world is a stage.

      Isi dunia ini adalah panggung sandiwara. :)

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