Narrative
Text
A narrative
text is a text that tells a story.
The Purpose of this text is to amuse, entertain, and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways. Narrative always deal with some problems which leadto the climax and then into a solutation to the problem.
The Purpose of this text is to amuse, entertain, and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways. Narrative always deal with some problems which leadto the climax and then into a solutation to the problem.
The
Generic Structur
In a traditional
Narrative the focus of the text is on a series of action :
v Orientation : ( introdution ) in which the
caracter, setting and time of the story are established.
v Complication or Problem : The complication ussualy involves the
main character(s).
v Resolution : There needs to be a
resolution of the complication. The complication may be resolved for better or
worse/happily or unhappily. Sometimes there are number of complication that
have to be resolved. These add and sustain interest and suspence for the
reader.
Kinds of the narrative text :
- Folktales ( dongeng)
- Fable ( dongengbinatang)
- Fairytales
- Legend
- Myth
Language Features:
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The use of action verbs
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The use of adverbs,
adjective, and noun phrase
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The use of past forms
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The use of conjunctions
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The use of reported speech
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The use of passive
voice
THE
LEGEND OF MOUNT TANGKUBAN PERAHU
Once upon a time in west Java, Indonesia lived a
wise king who had a beautiful daughter. Her name was Dayang
Sumbi. She liked weaving very much. Once she was weaving a cloth
when one of her tool fell to the ground. She was very tired at the time
so she was too lazy to take it. Then she just shouted outloud.
‘Anybody there? Bring me my tool. I will give you special
present. If you are female, I will consider you as my sister.
If you are male, I will marry you’
Suddenly a male dog, its name was Tumang,
came. He brought her the falling tool. Dayang Sumbi was very
surprised. She regretted her words but she could not deny it. So
she had to marry Tumang and leave her father. Then they lived in a small
village. Several months later they had a son. His name was
Sangkuriang. He was a handsome and healthy boy.
Sangkuriang liked hunting very much. He often
went hunting to the wood using his arrow. When he went hunting Tumang
always with him. In the past there were many deer in Java so Sangkuriang
often hunted for deer.
One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s
heart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer. Then Sangkuriang
went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog Tumang. But after
several days in the wood Sangkuriang could not find any deer. They were
all disappeared. Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate. He did
not want to disappoint her mother so he killed Tumang. He did not know
that Tumang was his father. At home he gave Tumang’s heart to her mother.
But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s
heart. She was so angry that she could not control her emotion. She
hit Sangkuriang at his head. Sangkuriang was wounded. There
was a scar in his head. She also repelled her
son. Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.
Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong
young man. He wandered everywhere. One day
he arrived at his own village but he did not realized it. There he met
Dayang Sumbi. At the time Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by God
so she stayed young forever. Both of them did not know each other.
So they fell in love and then they decided to marry.
But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on his
Sangkuriang’s head. She knew that Sangkuriang was his son. It was
impossible for them to marry. She told him but he did not believe
her. He wished that they marry soon. So Dayang Sumbi gave a very
difficult condition. She wanted Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in
one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.
Sangkuriang agreed. With the help of genie
and spirits Sangkuriang tried to build them. By midnight he had
finished the lake by building a dam in Citarum river. Then he
started building the boat. It was almost dawn when he nearly finished
it. Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on them. She was very
worried when she knew this. So she made lights in the east. Then
the spirits thought that it was already dawn. It was time for them to
leave. They left Sangkuriang alone. Without their help he could not
finish the boat.
Sangkuriang was very angry. He kicked the
boat. Then the boat turned out to be Mount Tangkuban Perahu. It
means boat upside down. From a distant it looks like a boat upside down.
