Narrative Text

• NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guilding and teaching the readers or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience.



The generic structure :

1. Orientation : It sets the scene and introduces the participants.
2. Evaluation : A stepping back to evaluate the plight (about point of view). It optional.
3. Complication : A crisis of a problem. It usually involves the main characters.
4. Resolution : A solution to the problem (for better or worse). Main characters find a way to solve the problem.
5. Coda : Value of the story. It optional.
6. Re-orientation : It optional.

Narrative text such as :

• Fable (ex, mouse deer, crocodile, etc)
• Legend (ex, sangkuriang)
• Fairy tale  (ex, snow white, pinochio)
• Myth (ex, about ghost)

Example :

The Three Sheiks and Queen of Arabia

       Maura, who liked to be thought as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them until her list was reduced to just three sheiks, all equally young and handsome rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

       One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks as they were about to have dinner and asked them for something to eat.

The first gave her some leftover food; the second gave her some unappetizing camel's tail; the third sheiks, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the tender and tasty meat. After dinnar, the disguised queen left the sheiks camp's.

The following day the queen invited the three sheiks to have dinner at her palace. She ordered her servants to give each one the exactly what they had given her the evening before.

        Hakim who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two could not share it with him, and this act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her.

        "Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you, " she announced her choice to the sheiks. "So it is Hakim it will mary".