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“Second of Junior High

School”

“NARRATIVE TEXT”
By: TIRA NUR FITRIA
 Media
Pembelajaran
“Bahasa
Inggris”
Kelas 2 SMP
By: TIRA NUR FITRIA
The Assignment of EIT
Lecturer: Mrs. Fitriyah NH

Created by:
Tira Nur Fitria
Titik Suraningsih
Yolanda Eka Prasetya
Yonnas Antaliga Saddam
Narrative Text Materials:

A. Definition
B. Purpose
C. Generic Structure
D. Linguistic Features
E. Example Questions
F. Forms of Narrative Text
G. Example Narrative Text
H. Exercise
NARRATIVE
TEXT
A. Definition of Narrative Text
Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the
story that past tense. It is an account of a
sequence of events, usually in
chronological order, and deal with actual
or vicanous experience in different ways to
the reader or listener.
 B. Purpose of Narrative Story

The purpose of the text is to

ententertain or amuse readers or
listeners about the story.
 According to L. Spencer, in A Step-by-
Step Guide to Narrative Writing. Rosen,
2005, In writing a narrative, an author
has a chance to make his or her mark on
the world by relating a story that only he
or she can tell. Whether it comes from a
personal experience or is one that the
writer has imagined, the point of a
narrative is to bring one's subject to life.
By using sensory details, the five Ws and
H (who, what, where, when, why, and
how), and basic story structure, any
subject can be made exciting.
C. Generic Structure

Ω Orientation
Sets the scene and introduces the participans
((it answers the question : who, when, what,
and where).
Ω Complication
The problem happened in the story/ revealing
a series of crisis (Tells the problems of the
story and how the main characters solve
them.
Ω Re-orientation
the crisis is resolve, and the ending of the
story
D. Linguistic features :

1. Use active verbs.

2. Use past tense.
3. Use time conjunction.
4. The first person (I or We)
or the third person (He, She,
or They).
5. Use specific nouns.
6. Use adjective and adverbs
7. Using connectives
D. Example of Question
A. Character & Characteristic
1. What are the name of the character?
2. What does the character look like?
3. What would you do if you were the character?
4. What things the character do?
5. Do you like the character? Why or why not?
6. What is the characteristic of the character?
7. Who are the important characters in the
story?
8. Who is your favorite character and why?
9. Who are the characters?
B. Plot
1. What happened first?
2. What happened next?
3. What happened then?
4. What happened last?
5. What happens in the story (beginning,
middle, end) ?
6. What is the problem of the story?
7. What is the plot of the story?
8.What is the solution to the problem?
9. What is another way that the problem could
have been solved?
10. How was the problem solved?
C. Setting (when or where?
1. Where is the story take place?
2. Where is the story happened?
3. What is the setting of the story?
4. Where does the story take place?
5. When does the story take place?
6. Where and when does the story take
place?
11. Why did the problem happen?
12. What happens in the beginning?
13. What happens in the middle?
14. What happens in the end?
15. What does the main character do?
16. How does the story end?
D. Title and Theme

1. What is the title of the story?

2. What is the title could be replaced
for the story?
3. What is the other title which
suitable for the story?
4. What is the theme of the story?
E. Purpose

1.What kind of text is in the story above?

2. What is the communicative purpose of
this text?
3. What is the goal of the story?
4. What is the purpose of the story?
F. Forms of Narrative Text

1. Legend
A legend is a narrative of human actions that
are perceived both by teller and listeners to
take place within human history. Typically, a
legend is a short, traditional and historicized
narrative performed in a conversational mode.
Some define legend as folktale. The example of
legend in narrative text are
Sangkuriang
Malin Kundang
Tangkuban Perahu
Roro Jonggrang (Prambanan Temple
2. Fable

A fabel is a short allegorical narrative making

a moral point, traditionally by means of
animal characters who speak and act like
human beings. The example of fable in
narrative text are:

•Mousedeer and crocodile.

•The Ants and the Grasshopper
•The Smartest Parrot
3. Fairy tale

What is fairy tale? According to Wikipedia, fairy tale

is an English language term for a type of short
narrative corresponding to the French phrase "conte
de fée". A fairy tale typically features such folkloric
characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves,
giants or gnomes, and usually magic or
enchantments. The example of fairy tale in narrative
text are:
Cinderella
Snow White
Pinocchio
Beauty and the beast
The story of Rapunzel
1. Snow white
 Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She
lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were died.
One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow
White in the castle because they wanted to go to America and they
didn’t have enough money to take Snow White with them.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she
decided to run away. The next morning she run away from home
when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast, she run away
into the wood.

In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this
cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and
felt asleep, meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work.
They went inside. There, they found Snow White woke up. She saw
the dwarfs. The dwarfs said; “What is your name?”. Snow White
said; “My name is Snow White”. One of the dwarfs said; “If you
wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White told the whole story
about her. Then Snow white ad the seven dwarfs lived happily ever
after.
* Generic Structure Analysis

1. Orientation; introducing specific

participants; Snow White
2. Complication; Snow White’s aunt and
uncle would leave her in a castle, Snow
White run away, Snow White felt
hungry in the wood.
3. Resolution; the crisis is resolve: the
dwarfs permitted Snow White lived in
their cottage lived happily
D. Malin Kundang
A long time ago, in a small village near the beach in West
Sumatra, a woman and her son lived. They were Malin Kundang
and her mother. Her mother was a single parent because Malin
Kundang's father had passed away when he was a baby. Malin
Kundang had to live hard with his mother.
Malin Kundang was a healthy, dilligent, and strong boy. He
usually went to sea to catch fish. After getting fish he would
bring it to his mother, or sold the caught fish in the town.
One day, when Malin Kundang was sailing, he saw a merchant's
ship which was being raided by a small band of pirates. He
helped the merchant. With his brave and power, Malin Kundang
defeated the pirates. The merchant was so happy and thanked
to him. In return the merchant asked Malin Kundang to sail
with him. To get a better life, Malin Kundang agreed. He left his
mother alone.
Many years later, Malin Kundang became wealthy. He had a
huge ship and was helped by many ship crews loading trading
goods. Perfectly he had a beautiful wife too. When he was sailing
his trading journey, his ship landed on a beach near a small
village. The villagers recognized him. The news ran fast in the
town; “Malin Kundang has become rich and now he is here”.
An old woman ran to the beach to meet the new rich merchant.
She was Malin Kundang’s mother. She wanted to hug him,
released her sadness of being lonely after so long time.
Unfortunately, when the mother came, Malin Kundang who was
in front of his well dressed wife and his ship crews denied
meeting that old lonely woman. For three times her mother
begged Malin Kundang and for three times he yelled at her. At
last Malin Kundang said to her "Enough, old woman! I have
never had a mother like you, a dirty and ugly woman!" After that
he ordered his crews to set sail. He would leave the old mother
again but in that time she was full of both sadness and
angriness.
Finally, enraged, she cursed Malin Kundang that he would turn
into a stone if he didn't apologize. Malin Kundang just laughed
and really set sail.
In the quiet sea, suddenly a thunderstorm came. His huge ship
was wrecked and it was too late for Malin Kundang to apologize.
He was thrown by the wave out of his ship. He fell on a small
island. It was really too late for him to avoid his curse.
Suddenly, he turned into a stone.
Narrative Analysis on Generic Structure

Orientation; the first paragraph is set to be the story introduction.

Reading the orientation, reader will know that the story is
characterized with Malin Kundang and his mother. Wes Sumatra is
set as the place.
Complication; this is the main element of narrative story. From the
Malin Kundang myth, we know that there are more than one
complication. Many stories are composed with multi complications.
They are minor complication and major complication. When Malin
Kundang and her mother did life hard, it can be the minor
complication. this hard life in the first time was solved by his
successful trading as new merchant. However this narrative sotry is
more interesting when we see the major complication among the
participants- Malin Kundang denied his mother after being
successful merchant. In every story, complication must be ended;
happy ending or sad one
Resolution; this is the end of the story, the sad ending one. Malin
Kundang faces his curse of turning into a stone.
C. Cinderella
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She
lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered.
They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made
Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing
the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the
family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work
about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome
dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that
the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited
about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they
would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the
sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and
saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so
much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the
godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking,
uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the
ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine
coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her
godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it
became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty
glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave
before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again
and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike
twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her
hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry
the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried
on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard
they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let
Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page
slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was
overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily
ever after.
Introduction: They were Cinderella her self as the main
character of the story, her step mother which treated
Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported
her mother to make Cinderella was treated very badly.
Complication: Cinderella got bad treatment from her
stepmother. It is the bad crisis which drives into several
minor complications which Cinderella has to overcome.
Resolution:
In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella
lived happily. It is the happy resolution of the bad
treatment.
D. The Grasshopper and the Ant
 One summer day, a grasshopper and an ant were in the
woods. The grasshopper played all day long. The ant worked
very hard all day.
The ant said, “Grasshopper, all you do is play. You need to
work. You should put away food for the winter.” The
grasshopper looked at the ant and smiled. He said, “Work is no
fun. I like to play. I can work another day.”
All summer, the ant worked very hard. He put food away for the
winter. The grasshopper played everyday and didn’t put away
any food.
In a very short time, it was winter. The snow fell in the woods,
and it was very cold. The grasshopper knocked on the ant’s
door. He said, “I’m hungry. It’s cold. What should I do? Do you
have enough food for two?” The ant answered, “There’s time for
work and time for fun. I saved food for only one. “The ant closed
his door. The grasshopper said, “I didn’t work. What did I play?
Where can I find food on this winter day?” He walked away and
started to look for food in the woods.
E. The Beauty and the Beast
 Once upon a time, there was a girl named Beauty. She lived
with her father and her sisters in a small village.
Beauty was a beautiful girl. She was also hard-working. She
always helped her father on the farm.
One day, her father set out for the city. He saw an old castle and
went in. No-one was in but there was food on the table. Then he
walked around the castle. He picked a rose from garden for
Beauty. Suddenly an angry Beast appeared. He wanted to kill
Beauty’s father unless Beauty was brought to him.
Beauty’s father told her daughters what had happened. Beauty’s
sisters ordered her to see the Beast.
Beauty went to see the Beast and had to stay at the castle. She
felt scared, lonely and sad. She tried to run away but was
stopped by the Beast. The Beast treated Beauty well. Soon,
Beauty began to like the Beast.
One day, through the Beast’s magic
mirror, Beauty saw that her father
was sick. The Beast allowed her to
go home. Her father was happy to
see her.
One night, Beauty had a dream. A
fairly told her that the Beast was
sick.
Beauty hurried back and saw the
Beast dying. She began to cry.
Tears fell onto the Beast. Suddenly,
the Beast changed into handsome
prince.
Beauty and the Beast got married
and lived happily ever after.
E. Exercise
One day while a mousedeer was walking in the forest, he saw a
big black snake sleeping under the tree. When he saw the
snake, the mousedeer was frightened. When he wanted to run
away from the snake, he suddenly fell on top of a tiger which
was sleeping not far from the snake. The tiger woke up and took
of the mousedeer. He told the mousedeer that he was going to
eat him for lunch. “Please don’t eat me now,” said the
mousedeer. “I have something important to do.”
“Look,” said the mousedeer. “That is the king’s belt. He
asked me to stay here and watch it while he was away in the
forest.” The tiger looked at the snake and said, “That is a
beautiful belt. I need a belt like that. Can I wear it?” He asked
the mousedeer.
“Oh all right,” said the mousedeer. So he picked up the
snake and winded it around the tiger. Then the snake woke up
and saw the tiger. The snake twisted itself tighter until the tiger
couldn’t breathe. The tiger asked the mousedeer to help him.
But the mousedeer turned and ran away into the forest.
1.    What kind of text is in the story above?
A.    Narrative Text
B.    Recount Text
 C. Report Text.
D. Descriptive Text

2.  Where was the tiger sleeping?

A.      In the middle of the forest.
B.      Next to the mousedeer’s house.
C.     Next the black snake sleeping under the tree.
D.     Far away from the place where the mousedeer fell.

3.       Why did the mousedeer trick the tiger by saying that the
snake was a king’s belt.
A.      The mousedeer liked to trick other animals.
B.      The mousedeer was a clever animal.
C.     The tiger wanted to eat him.
D.     The tiger wanted to wear it.
4.     After reading this story, we can learn that …
A.    We have to behave like the mousedeer.
B.    We have to find a way to save ourselves from danger.
C.    Sleeping black snake was a dangerous animal.
D.    We have to be careful with the mousedeers.
 
5.    What is the communicative purpose of this text?
A.    To inform the readers about activities happened in the
past.
B.   To describe something in general.
C.   To give information about the mousedeer.
D.  To entertain the readers.
Thank you…