Narrative Text

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people.

According to the English dictionary, narrative can meant as:

-a spoken or written account of connected events (a story).

-the narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue.

-the practice or art of narration.

Tense that usual uses in narrative:
- simple past

- past continuous

- past perfect

- past perfect continuous

 

The generic structure of Narrative text:

- Orientation

- Complication

- Resolution

Kinds of Narrative text:

Fable

-Monkey and Crocodile

-Three Little Pig

Fairy tale

-Beauty and The Beast

-Barbie and 12 Dancing Princess

-Rapunzel

Fiction

-Harry Potter

-Twilight

-Narnia

Myth

-The Red Dragon

-White Crocodile

Legend

-Lake Toba

-Malin Kundang

example of narrative that include in legend:

The Story of Sangkuriang and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain

Once, there was a kingdom in Priangan Land. Lived a happy family. They were a father in form of dog,his name is Tumang, a mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi, and a child which was called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried because he hunted no deer. Then he thought to shot his own dog. Then he took the dog liver and carried home.

Soon Dayang Sumbi found out that it was not deer lever but Tumang's, his own dog. So, She was very angry and hit Sangkuriang's head. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar then cast away from their home.

Years go bye, Sangkuriang had travel many places and finally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman and felt in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The woman looked at the wound in Sangkuriang's head. It matched to her son's wound who had left severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.

She couldn't marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat for celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake. With a dawn just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new day.

Sangkuriang failed to marry her. She was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.