Narrative Text?????

A.    Narrative Text

Narrative is one of the most familiar text in Reading, Writting subjects. That is favorite side for all of people arrangement; children until adult.

Narrative text is text focussing some specific participants that have several features making different from other genres. It has social funcion is to tell stories either in  present which is called present narrative, past events which called past narrative and future which is called future narrative, to entertain or amuse the readers or the listeners. Narrative is used most often in; fables, myths, legends, detective story, adventure story, thrillers, and dramas. Usually that tells about things, people, animal and place that have done in the past.

A.    Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Narrative text consists of some generic structures, those are:

1.      Orientation

It consists of introducing event or informing time events, place, and figures inside. One is always be in the first of text as the beginning of it.

2.      Complication

Complication is to describr the rising problem that be faced by the participants or main figures with their relation, life, him/ themselves, etc., in the process of social interaction. In this part, it is usually the interesting part that can be attracted the listeners or readers because it brings to the facing of crises, and invite them into story situation. It is usually on the middle of text itself.

3.      Resolution

This parts shows the power of the participants (figures) to solve the crises, better or worsely. How the way the participants take a part of solving problems. This part usually take on the last text that be the sign of story ending.

B.     Tenses  Used

Tenses using in this text are

a.       Simple Past Tense

Many narrative texts use simple past tense because it is for signing of the text that the even has been done in the past, for example text tells about Legend, Myth, Fable.

b.      Simple Future Tense

Simple Future Tense sometimes is used in  narrative tex. Why? Many story tell about future things, Example, “Human Robot”

c.       It can use simple present tense, future tense, present perfect, present continuous, and past continuous ( especially in the coversation)

C.     Language Forms of Narrative

a.       It uses process or action verb for example: said, kicked, run, played, ctc.

b.      Using temporal conjunction, chronological order such as when, then, once upon a time.

c.       That uses; (1)  adverb of time: once upon a time, in the moorning, (2) adverb of place, in the river, in the small village, etc.,

Example:

The Ugly Duckling

One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs would break out.

Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep, peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother greeted in return.

However the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.

When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson., the huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. "That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome" the mother said proudly.

However, the other animals didn't agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked.

The little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he thought to himself. One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. "Oh, dear. these beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam" he exclaimed.

He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.