Have you ever heard the story of Cinderella, Malin Kundang, Snow White, or maybe Sangkuriang? Those stories are interesting. You like to read those stories to entertain yourself. You feel curios and want to know what happen to your favorite character in the end of the story. You like the character, the conflict, and the plot of the story. Besides, you can get moral values from those stories. Although you know that the story does not really happen in our real life, you still like it. Well, all of those stories belong to the narative text.
So, what is Narrative text:
Narrative text is an imaginative story which has a social function to entertain or amuse the reader or listener.
Generic Structure of Narrative Text:
1. Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced. (person, time, and place)
2. Complication: where the problems in the story raised and developed.
3. Resolution: where the problems in the story is solved.
Language Features of Narrative Text:
· Using part action verb. Example: Climbed, Turned, Brought, etc.
· Using specific noun as pronoun of person, animal in the story. Example: The king, the queen, etc.
· Using adjectives which are for noun phrase. Example: Long black, hair, two red apples, etc.
· Using time connectives and conjunctions to arrange the events. Examples: Then, before, after, soon, etc.
· Using adverbs and adverbial phrase to show the location of events. Examples: Here, in the mountain, in the palace, ever after, etc.
· Using dialogue to elicit an emotional response from the reader.
· Using Past Tense
· Using of variety of simple, compound and complex sentences
Examples of Narrative Text
Snow White
Orientation
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named snow white. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were died.
Complication
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go America and they didn’t have enough money to sake Snow White.
Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this, so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.
Resolution
Then she saw this little cottage she knocked but no one answered, so she went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “what is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.” Doc, one of the dwarfs, said, “If you wish, you may live here with us. “Snow White said, “Oh could I? Thank you. “Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and finally Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.
