"CINDERELLA STORY" the Clearest

Example of Narrative Text

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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.

Notes on Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Orientation: it means to introduce the participants or the characters of the story with the time
and place set. Orientation actually exists in every text type though it has different term. In this
story, the first paragraph is clearly seen to introduce the participants of the Cinderella Story. They
were Cinderella her self as the main character of the story, her step mother which treated
Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported her mother to make Cinderella was treated
very badly. Cinderella was introduced as a hero in this story. She struggled against the bad
treatment from her step mother and sisters.
Complication: it is such the crisis of the story. If there is not the crisis, the story is not a
narrative text. In a long story, the complication appears in several situations. It means that some
time there is more then one complication. In this Cinderella story, we can see clearly that there
are Major Complication and Minor Complication.
The second paragraph is the major complication of this Cinderella story. Cinderella got bad
treatment from her stepmother. It is the bad crisis which drives into several minor complications
which Cinderella has to overcome.
Resolution: it is the final series of the events which happen in the story. The resolution can be
good or bad. The point is that it has been accomplished by the characters. Like complication,
there are Major Resolution and Minor Resolution.
In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella lived happily. It is the happy resolution of
the bad treatment.

"Snow White" a narrative text

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Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle
because her parents were died.
One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because
they wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White with
them.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she decided to run away. The next
morning she run away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast, she run away
into the wood.
In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked but no one
answered so she went inside and felt asleep
Meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There, they found
Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said; “What is your name?”. Snow White
said; “My name is Snow White”. One of the dwarfs said; “If you wish, you may live here with
us”. Snow White told the whole story about her. Then Snow white ad the seven dwarfs lived
happily ever after.

Generic Structure Analysis

1. Orientation; introducing specific participants; Snow White
2. Complication; revealing a series of crisis: Snow White’s aunt and uncle would leave her in a
castle, Snow White run away, Snow White felt hungry in the wood.
3. Resolution; the crisis is resolve: the dwarfs permitted Snow White lived in their cottage lived
happily
Language Feature Analysis
o Using saying verb; answered
o Using thinking verb; decided
o Using action verb; run away
o Using time conjunction; once upon a time, one day
o Using connectives; then, meanwhile
o Using past tense; she heard her uncle

Materi Bahasa Inggris: Narrative Texts

March 28, 2010 — har

READING, GENRE: NARRATIVE TEXT

Materi, Soal dan Pembahasan Bahasa Inggris Ujian Nasional SMP

Narrative Text, adalah teks yang isinya merupakan cerita atau kisah tentang sesuatu. Contoh
narrative text: cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita binatang (fable), Legenda (legend), cerita pendek
(short story), dan sejenisnya. Di dalamnya terdapat konflik/puncak masalah yang diikuti dengan
penyelesaian. Fungsi utama teks ini adalah untuk berkisah atau menghibur pembaca.

Ciri-ciri narrative text:

1. Generic Structure:

 Orientation: berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan
dan dimana)
 Complication: Berisi puncak konflik/masalah dalam cerita. Sebuah cerita boleh memiliki
complication lebih dari satu.

 Resolution: Pemecahan masalah. Bisa berakhir dengan kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula
berakhir dengan kesedihan (sad ending).

Catatan:
Terkadang juga susunannya (generic structure): Orientation, Complication, Evaluation,
Resolution dan Reorientation. Untuk “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional;
bisa ada bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik.
Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.

2. Grammatical features menggunakan tenses “past”

3. Sering menggunakan kata penghubung waktu (temporal conjunction), misalnya: once
upon a time, one day, long time ago, …

Contoh Narrative Text:

Ali Baba

Once upon a time there were 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and treasures in a cave.
They went in the cave by saying ”Open Sesame” to the cave entrance. A poor person, named Ali
Baba saw them while they were doing that, so he heard the opening word. After they left, he
went toward the cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and
golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he became a rich man and
his brother wanted to know how he became rich.

Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really jealous of him, and
wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money. Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the
cave again to take some more money, his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided
to go back the next day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of
money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he was busy carrying
the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the thieves asked him how he knew about
the cave. He told everything, but unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Baba’s house.

After finding Ali Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night. Some of the
thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a merchant who wanted to sell the jars
to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.

After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house, and found that there
were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and poured it into the jars to kill all of
them. The boss of the thieves was caught, and put into prison.

Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after with his maid who
became his wife shortly after.