Narative Text

 Hallo Everyone !!!today I will explain material about narrative text and its structure

Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or story.

Types of Narrative Text

Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. Here is an example of a genre from Narrative text:

1. Fairy tale

2. Mystery

3. Science fiction

4. Romance

5. Horror

6. Fable, and many more

Characteristics of Narrative Text

-Using action verbs in the form of past tenses.

-Using a specific noun as a pronoun.

-Using the Adjective to form Noun Phrase.

-Use the Conjunction to sort events

Narrative Text Structure

The structure of the narrative text focuses on a series of stages that are proposed to build a text on its own. In general, there are four stages in Narrative text, namely:

Orientation

Orientation or so-called introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.

Complication

Complication tells the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly known as the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.

Resolution

This section is the end of the story or in the form of a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved can be for better or even worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa.

The following is an example of narrative text about Cinderella and its structure

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.

Below is the structure of the cinderella story

1. Orientation: introducing participants or story characters with a set time and place. In this story, the first paragraph is clearly visible to introduce the participants of the Cinderella Story. They are Cinderella herself as the main character of the story, her stepmother who treats Cinderella badly, and her stepbrother who supports her mother who makes Cinderella treated very badly. Cinderella is introduced as a hero in this story. She struggled against mistreatment from her mother and stepbrother.

2. Complications: In a long story, complications arise in several situations. This means that at any one time there is more than one complication. In this Cinderella story, we can clearly see that there are Big Complications and Minor Complications.

second paragraph is the main complication of this Cinderella story. Cinderella got bad treatment from her stepmother. It was this bad crisis that caused some minor complications that Cinderella had to deal with.

3. Resolution: In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella lived happily. This is a happy resolution of mistreatment.