Narrative Text Part-2

 Hello everyone, Today im gonna explain about Narrative Text.

• What is Narrative Text?

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a series of connected chronological events.

• What is Purpose of the Narrative Text ?

The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or stories.

• What is General Structure of the Narrative Text ?

• Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

• Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. 
• Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.
• Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.

• Language Feature of Narrative Text

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense.

EXAMPLE of Narrative Text

Mystery Story

One time I went camping with my classmates in the mountains. The mountains are located on the outskirts of villages far from residential areas. However, this place is often used as a camping point so it is believed to be very safe especially from wild animals.

Finally we left on a sunday using 2 cars. The car was left in a nearby village. Then, we proceeded on foot to the desired mountains. It took us approximately 8 hours to reach the camp point.

During the climb, we stopped at three break points. Nothing out of the way during the hike. However, at the second break point one of my friends felt unwell but was still able to climb as usual. 

Just before we reached camp, my friend felt that his body was weakening. We soon reached camp just before sundown. We immediately put up a tent to rest. At that time there were six tents that had been installed before.

My friend immediately rested while me and two others went outside looking for clean water. Earlier, I had asked the owner of another camp where the nearest spring was located. They said about 1.5 km from the current location. They then told us to be careful because it was  getting dark.

Then we rushed to find the spring. When we took the water, the atmosphere was dark and the mountainous area was quiet. Slowly we felt cold all over the body. Wewent right back to the tent. Before we got to the tent we saw a group of firefly-like animals on top of our tent.

The phenomenon was beautiful enough that me and two friends immediately took photos for a memento.  We immediately cooked water for dinner. Oddly enough, my friend who wasn’t feeling well had a high fever all night. He was shivering and sweating a lot. So, we took turns guarding him that night.

The next day, my friend’s condition began to recover a little. So we came down and went back to the village. When I arrived at the village, my friend looked fresh, healthy like nothing had happened. This certainly made us confused.

Shortly before returning to the city, the villagers asked “Have you seen a bunch of fireflies?”. I said yes. “Go back to the city and do not come back to the mountains,” shouted the villagers. I was confused, but still decided to leave the village immediately.

While on the road I checked my cell phone out of curiosity about what the villagers were saying. When I saw the photo of the firefly, I was surprised because what I saw was a strange creature that was very bright. I told this to another friend and they were all shocked. After seeing this we promised not to return to that mountain.

Exercise

Once upon a time there was a wife of a rich man fell sick, and soon she closed her eyes and departed. Everyday, Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good .When winter came, the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by the time the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought with her into the house two daughters, who were beautiful and fairy of face but vile and black of heart. Since then a bad time for the poor step-child began.
One day the King gave orders for a festival and all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride.When the two step-sisters heard that they were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and made to help them grooming, Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to dance, and begged her step-mother said” you cannot go with us, you have no clothes and cannot dance.
When the step-mother and her daughters had gone away, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave and cried, Shiver and Quiver, My little tree, silver and gold throw down over me.” Suddenly a bird threw down a magnificent gold and silver dress to her,and were golden too. At the party her step-sister and the step-mother however did not recognize her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress.

1. The story above tells about
a. Snow White
b. Sleeping Beauty
c. Dwarfs
d. Cinderella
e. Princess

2. The first paragraph is the………… of the story
a. complication
b. reorientation
c. orientation
d. resolution
e. coda

3. Why does Cinderella’s mother dead ? Because she………
a. fell sick
b. fell injured
c. fell disappointed
d. fell ill
e. fell wounded

4. The genre of the text is…….
a. recount
b. procedure
c. narrative
d. legend
e. news item

5. When the winter came, the snow……
a. spread a white sheet
b. spread a white shout
c. spread a shout
b. spread a white sheets
e. spreading white sheet