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❤ Social Function

❤ Characteristics

After knowing the meaning and types of narrative text, you need to know the characteristics of narrative text, along with its characteristics.

🌝Usually, they are stories that are already known by many people and developed in the community. Examples such as The Rabbit and The Turtle, Malin Kundang and so on.
🌝The elements of narrative text consist of setting time, place, story theme, character, atmosphere, conflict and resolution.
🌝Arranged in a simple sequel or several complex sequels 

❤ Language Features

Narrative text also has linguistic elements or language features which consist of 7 elements as follows:

😊Using the past tense, for example by using verb 3 such as killed, drunk, won, sent and others.
😊Using adverbs of time, for example when, suddenly, before, until, soon.
😊Using time conjunctions or time conjunctions, for example after, as soon as, then.
😊Using specific characters or specific characters, for example Aladdin, Rapunzel, Cinderella.
😊Action verbs or action verbs, for example walked, wrote, bought, talked.
😊Using direct speech or direct sentences that use the present tense, for example Aladdin says, "she is the one"
😊Using saying and thinking verbs or verbs that show speech, for example told, said, thought.

❤ Generic Structure

👉Orientation in the form of an introduction to the essay starting from the introduction of the character, character and place of the event. Orientation is usually indicated by the words: once upon a time, one day, a long time ago, etc.
👉Complication This section begins to appear problems that will become a conflict of essays.
👉Resolution is a way of resolving conflict.
👉Re-orientation is the closing part that shows the end of the essay. This re-orientation is also an option so there is a sad or happy ending. But there are also essays that hang the story and promise to continue in the next essay.
👉Coda is a moral value contained in an essay that we can learn from. And this Coda is an option, there are essays that add it to the writing, there are also essays that provide implied moral values.

❤ Example

The Bear and Rabbit

(Orientation)

    Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.

(Complication)

    One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear’s anger so he could not refuse it. He went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there were lots of meats left after.

    However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day’s work.

(Resolution)

    The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit’s house. When he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit’s house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.

Another example:

The Ugly Duckling

(Orientation)

    A little duckling was terribly unhappy because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They’d not play with him and titillated the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection within the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I’m so ugly.” He decided to go away from home and went far-off into the woods.

(Complication)

    Deep within the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old lady, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for a few times however he was sad there and shortly left. Once the winter set in, the poor duckling nearly froze to death. A peasant took him home to his woman and kids. The poor duckling was afraid of the kids and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a very marshy lake.

(Resolution)

    Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a gorgeous swan swimming within the lake and fell in love with her. Then again he remembered how everybody made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. Once he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonied. He wasn’t an unsightly duckling any longer, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so completely different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I used to be a baby swan!” he said to himself. He married the gorgeous swan and lived happily ever once.

❤ Exercise

Write a Narrative text, minimal 4 paragraph and attach picture in each paragraph and publish it in your blog

Pinocchio

In the past, there was a puppeteer whose name is Geppetto. He eager to have a son very much but his wife passed away several years ago. One day, he got an idea to make a puppet in order not to be lonely again. He made a puppet all day long. Finally, in the morning he had finished his work and he named the puppet Pinocchio. Soon he felt lonely again since Pinocchio couldn’t walk or talk by itself. One night, Geppetto prayed to the God to become a real boy. He always thought it on his mind in his dream.

In the next morning, he was surprised that Pinocchio was alive. He taught Pinocchio how to walk, how to read, how to speak and to do other things as human. He then studied at an elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored and it made him go home late. When Pinocchio finally came home, Geppetto asked him. He said that he was on school but he wasn’t. Instantly, Pinocchio’s nose grew longer and longer and it meant that Pinocchio has lied.

The next morning, Pinocchio was kidnaped by the owner of circus. Pinocchio soon became a slave for the circus. He was so famous because he was a puppet which can talk. Geppetto worried about him because Pinocchio had not been going home for almost two days. He tried to find Pinocchio everywhere but he found nothing. When he searched him on the sea, big wave smashed him. He was then in whale’s stomach when he awoke. He couldn’t find the way to go out.

In the other side, Pinocchio finally could escape out from the circus. He came home but nobody was there. Latter on, he searched Geppetto in the sea. He got the same accident like Geppetto and he met Geppetto in whale’s stomach. Both of them got out from its stomach by making a fire. In the end of the story, they went home together and lived happily ever after.

    Once upon a time in west java, lived a writer 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 tools fell to the ground.  She was very tired, at the same time she was too lazy to take it.  Then she just shouted out loudly. "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 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, especially deer.  He often hunted to the wood usying his arrow.  When he went hunting , Tumang was always with him. One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s  heart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer.  Then Sangkuriang when to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog,  Tumang. but after several days in the wood Sangkuriang could not find any deer.  Then where 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.  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 realize 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 didn't know each other.  So they fall in love and then they decided to marry.  But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on 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 very difficult condition.  She asked 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 spiritis, Sangkuriang tired to build them.  By midnight he had completed the lake by building a dam in Citarum river.  Then he started making the boat.  It was almost dawn when he almost finished it.  Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on him.  She was very worried when she knew this.  So she made lights in the east.  Then the spirits thought that 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 angry.  He kicked the boat.  Then the boat turned upside down.  It, later, became Mount Tangkuban Perahu.  Which means an upside-down boat.  From a distant the mount really looks like an upside down boat.

1. What is the story about?
A.  A wrath son
B.  West java’s tales
C.  Tumang a Dog husband
D.  The legend of Tangkuban Perahu
E.  Dayang Sumbi’s rejection to marry Sangkuriang

2. According to he story, Tumang was….
A.  actually a handsome prince
B.  married to Dayang Sumbii
C.  Sangkuriang pet dog
D.  good at hunting deer
E.  in fact Dayang Sumbi’s father

3. What did Dayang Sumbi look like?
A.  She liked weaving clothes
B.  She looked for the heart of a deer
C.  She was beautiful
D.  She was looking at her fallen tool
E.  She and her son were alike

4. What made Dayang Sumbi stay young?
A.  She set up conditions in doing things
B.  A young man fall in love with her
C.  She married a dog
D.  She knew how to take care her body
E.  God gave her an eternal beauty

5. Who are the main characters in the story?
A.  Dayang Sumbi and Sangkuriang
B.  The king Dayang Sumbi, the dog and Sangkuriang
C.  The king, Dayang Sumbi, the dog, Sangkuriang, the genie, and the spirits
D.  The king, Dayang Sumbi, the dog, Sangkuriang, the mount, the boat, the genie, and the spirits
E.  The king, Dayang Sumbi, sister, daughter, the dog, a young man, Sangkuriang, the mount, the boat, the genie, the spirits and God

6. What moral value can we learn from the story?
A.  People must keep their words all the time
B.  Do not make a promise to easily
C.  Never be reluctant to do good things
D.  We should not hate our descendants
E.  Just do what we have planned

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❤ Conclusion

From the explanation above, we can take the conclusion that a narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people. The generic structure of  Narrative Text consist of:

💛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, either “happy ending” or “bad ending”.

💛Coda / reorientation (optional) which is the lesson that we can take from the story.

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