Narrative Text

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is text that tell about stories that happen in the past, with complication and tries to find the resolution to solve the problem.

It has purpose to entertain the reader.

GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

• Orientation

 Introducing the participant and to inform who, where, and what is involved in the story.

•  Complication

Describing the begining of problem which leads to the crises which the participants have to do with

• Resolution

Showing the way to solve the problem

LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE

1.    Using processes verbs

2.     Using temporal conjunction

3.    Using Simple Past Tense

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

“GOLDEN EGGS”

Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters.

One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation. Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.” A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy. Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift. Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.

Note:

Red: orientation

Orange: complication

Green: orientation