Narrative Text

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NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative is a story or description of a series of events. These events generally occur in the past. contains imaginary stories, fairy tales, or true stories that have been exaggerated.

Narrative text type

There are many types of narrative text. The following are the types of narrative text: 
fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.

The Purpose of Narrative Text

To entertain, amuse or instruct the reader

Generic Structure Narrative text :

1. Orientation

(Introduction) in which the characters, setting, and story time are set. Who usually answers the question? when? where ? For example: Once upon a time, there was a wolf lived in the forest.

2. Complication or problem

Tells the beginning of the problem that caused the crisis (climax).

3. Resolution

The end of the story in the form of a solution to the problem.

4. Reorientation/Coda

is a closing statement and is optional. Can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.



EXAMPLE :


Sleeping Beauty

In a faraway kingdom, there was an empire led by a king and queen. The king led his region with a very wise and prudent. Despite being a king, their life was less happy because they did not have a child. It made the king and queen became sad.

Then one day the queen gave birth to a beautiful little daughter named Princess Aurora. The birth of the little princess made the king and the entire kingdom happy. The king was making a big celebration to welcome his daughter. He invited all the people in the kingdom, including all the fairies that live in the kingdom. The king invited them to ask for their blessing. But the king forgot to invite all the fairies in the kingdom. The facts that there were 13 fairies in kingdom but the king only invited 12 fairies.

When the celebration party was running on, all of the fairies invited by king surrounded the little princess to give a blessing. One by one fairy was utter blessings. One fairy gave blessing of goodness, another fairy gave blessing of health, and the next fairy gave blessing of beautiful voice and so on. When the 12th fairy was about to give her blessing, the 13th fairy who were not invited by the king come. She was very angry and could not accept this humiliation.

The 13th fairy was not giving a blessing to the little princess, she even cursed her. The 13th fairy said, “When the baby is 16 years old, she will be pricked by a needle and fall asleep for a long time”. After saying that curse the 13th fairy left the palace using her broomstick. Everyone in the palace was shocked and saddened as well as the king and queen. The queen begged to the fairies, “Please withdraw this curse”. “What have been spoken irrevocable my queen” said the fairy. The others fairy tried to calm king and queen, “You do not worry. The princess will not die, she just fall asleep for a long time “” And this curse will be lost if there is prince who awakened her “another fairy added. Hearing the explanation, the king and queen relieved. However, they were still afraid of the incident occurred. The king ordered to get rid of all the needles in the palace.

Days passed, Princes aurora grown into a beautiful princess. She was very good and had very beautiful voice. Everyone in the palace loved her. At the age of 16, the princess entered a small room in her palace. She saw a woman who was sewing. The princess was surprised and asked, “What are you doing?”, “I’m sewing, come here I will teach you to sew” the woman replied. Princess Aurora did not know that the old woman is evil fairy in disguise. She took needle in the hands of women. Then suddenly she was pricked and fell asleep. When Princess Aurora asleep, all people in the kingdom were fell asleep too. Then the fairy put her on a mattress.

Years passed, Princess Aurora had been asleep for hundreds of years. Until the day came, a prince from a distant land approached the kingdom. He saw a beautiful princess asleep there. Then the prince kissed princess aurora. Then the cursed was destroyed. The princess woke up from her sleep, as well as those that exist in the palace. Eventually they become lovers and lived happily ever after.




Conclusion about Narrative Text

So it can be concluded that narrative text is a text that contains stories (fiction / non fiction / fairy tales / folklore / fairy tales / myths / epics) and plots consisting of the climax of the story (complications) then followed by a resolution.


Exercise 

Long, long ago, when the gods and goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of mortals, there was a small kingdom on the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java.  The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise man.  He had an only daughter, called Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous for her beauty but she was not married.  One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to settle the matter by a show of strength.

After that, Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan had won the competition.  Unfortunately, the wicked fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with Raden Begawan and used magic power to render him unconscious and he forgot his wedding.  When Sang Prabu was searching, Raden Begawan saw him and soon realized that he had been enchanted by the wicked fairy.  The fairy could not accept this, so she killed Raden Begawan.  When Princess Teja Nirmala heard this, she was very sad.  So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

1.  Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?
A.  Sang Prabu was a father of his only daughter
B.  Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java
C.  Sang Prabu was  taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy---
D.  Sang Prabu was a wise man
E.  Sang Prabu didn’t have a son

2.  Why the wicked fairy did used her magic to make Raden Begawan unconscious?
A.  She didn’t like Raden Begawan
B.  She didn’t want Raden Prabu marry the princess
C.  She wanted Teja Nirmala to forget about her wedding
D.  She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan marry the princess----
E.  She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan feel love with her

3.  What do you think will happen if gods or goddesses cannot mingle in the affairs of people in the earth at that time?
A.  Princess Segara will have married with Raden Begawan
B.  Sang Prabu will not hold strength competition
C.  Raden Begawan will not die
D.  Teja Nirmala will stay in the Kahyangan
E.  Wicked Fairy will not take Raden Begawan’s life----

4.  So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.  (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence refers to…
A.  The wicked fairy
B.  The nice fairy
C.  Princess Nirmala---
D.  Prince Teja
E.  The prince of Blambangan

5.  The similarity between fairy and human according to the text.
A.  The place they live
B.  The jealousy that they posses---
C.  The way they don’t feel a love
D.  The strength they have
E.  Their life that is immortal

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