Group 2

Arif Rachman Hakim (01)

Septiana Dwi Lestari (24)
 Verlinda.P.P (26)
NARRATIVE TEXT
 Definition of narrative text
Narrative text is a text which contains about
story (fiction/non
fiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/) and its
plot consists of climax of the story
(complication) then followed by the
resolution.
 Communicative purpose
A Narrative text is to entertain or to amuse the
reader.
 Generic structures
 Orientation :where and when the story happened and
introduces the participants of the story: who and what
is involved in the story.
 Complication :Tells the beginning of the problems
which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main
participants.
 Resolution :The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either
in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending
 Reorientation : closing the story. It also contains the
writer’s comment.
 Language Features

 using simple past tense

Adverb of time ( ex: once a upon a time, a
long time ago)
Using noun or noun phrases
Conjunction of time relation (ex: when, while,
before, after, etc)
 Genres of Narrative text

• Legend
• Fable
• Fairy Tale
• Myth
• Romance
 Example of Narrative text
ALADDIN
once upon a time, there was a lazy son of a poor Iraqi tailor,
known as Aladdin. ORIENTATION
One day after his father’s death,he met a magician who
posed as his uncle and persuaded aladdin to retrieve a wonderful
COMPLICATION
lamp of a hidden cave. When aladdin failed to give the lamp the
magician before emerging from the cave, leaving aladdin to die.
In his misery aladdin wept and wrung his hands, releasing
genie from a ring the magician had given him. The genie freed
aladdin, who son dicovered that the lamp also produced powerful
RESOLUTION
genie when rubbid. They granted aladdin his every wish, and
genies eventually became immensely wealthy and married the
daughter of a sulton. The magician returned to steal the lamp, but
he was defeated, as was his evil brother who also tried to gain the
lamp.
Free from these enemies, aladdin lived a long, happy life and
REORIENTATION
succeeded the sultan to throne.
UN 2007

A fox fell into a well and couldn’t get out. By and by a thirsty
goat came along. Seeing the foxin the well it asked if the water was
good. “Good”, said the fox ”It’s the best water I’ve tasted in all my
life. Come down and try it your self.”
The goat was thirsty so he got into well. When he had drunk
enough, he look around there was no way to get out. Then the fox
said, “I have good idea. You stand on your hind legs and put your
forelegs againts the side of the well. Then I’ll climb on your back,
from there. I’ll step on your horns, and I can get out. And when I’m
out, I’ll help you out of the well.”
The goat did as he was asked and the fox got on his back and
climbed out of the well. Then he cooly walked away. The goat called
out loudly after him and reminded him of his promis to help him
out. The fox merely turned to him and said; “ If you only had
thought carefully about getting out, you wouldn’t have jumped into
the well.”
The goat fetl very sad. He called out loudly. An old man
walking nearby heard him and put a plank into the well. The goat
got out and thanked the old man.
UN 2008
The Three Sheiks and Queen of Arabia

Maura, who liked to be thought of 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 a 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 sheik, who was called Hakim, offered
her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised
queen left the sheik’s camp.
The following day the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her
palace. She ordered her servants to give each one 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 I will marry.”
UN 2010

One day , when Sangkuriang was hunting , he accidentally killed his

beautiful black dog Si Tumang. This dog is acctually Sangkuring’s father who had been
condemned to live the life of a dog by his GURU. However ,Sangkuring never knew it.
Sangkuring had been separated from his mother since chilhood. On his way home , he
stopped at a small village and fell in love with a beautiful girl. He didn’t realized that
the village was his homeland nor that the beautiful girl was his own sacred mother who
remained young and pretty.

Their love grew naturally and one day, when they were discussing their
wedding plans, dayangSumbi suddenly realized that the profile of Sangkuring’s head
matched that of her son’s who had left twenty years earlier. How could she marry her
own son? But she did not wish to disappoint him. So she agreed to marry sangkuriang
only on the condition that how would provide her with a lake and a boat with which
they could sail on their wedding day the next day at dawn.
 Sangkuriang accepted his condition. He dammed up up the
Citarum river to make a lake. DayangSumbi realized that sangkuring
would fulfill the condition she had set. With a wave of her
supranatural shawl , she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of
lught.Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and farmers rose for
the new day.
Sangkuriang realized that he failed to finish the boat. With all
his anger , he kicked the unfinished boat upside – down. The boat is
now known as the mount TANGKUBAN PARAHU. In sundanese
TANGKUBAN means upturned or upside own, and PARAHU
means boat. With the dam torn asunder , the water drained off the
lake and made the lake a wide plain . it is now called bandung from
the word BENDUNG which means dam.