Narrative Text

 C H A P T E R  1

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

Types of Narrative Text

• Fairy tale
• Mystery
• Science fiction
• Romance
• Horror
• Fable
• Myths and legends
• History
• Slice of life
• Personal experience

Narrative Text Structure

The structure of narrative text focuses on a series of steps proposed to construct a text itself. In general, there are four stages in narrative text, namely:

Orientation

Orientation or commonly referred to as the introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.

Complications

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

Resolution

This part is the end of the story or a solution to the problem that occurs. Problems can be solved for better or worse which will make the story have a happy ending or vice versa.

Re-orientation

Section is the closing of a story that is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author

P a r t i c e 

The Ant and the Dove

One hot day, an ant was seeking for some water. After walking around for a moment, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell unintentionally into the water.

She could have sunk if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly put off a leaf from a tree and dropped it immediately into the water near the struggling ant. Then the ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground.

Not long after at that, there was a hunter nearby who was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it in this way.

Guessing what he should do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net and the dove flew away quickly from this net.

P A R T I C E 

Long, long ago, when the gods and goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of mortals, there was a small kingdom on the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java. The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise man. He had an only daughter, called Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous for her beauty but she was not married. One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to settle the matter by a show of strength.

After that, Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan had won the competition. Unfortunately, the wicked fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with Raden Begawan and used magic power to render him unconscious and he forgot his wedding. When Sang Prabu was searching, Raden Begawan saw him and soon realized that he had been enchanted by the wicked fairy. The fairy could not accept this, so she killed Raden Begawan. When Princess Teja Nirmala heard this, she was very sad. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

1. Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?

A. Sang Prabu was a father of his only daughter

B. Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java

C. Sang Prabu was taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy

D. Sang Prabu was a wise man

E. Sang Prabu didn’t have a son

Ans : C

2. Why the wicked fairy did used her magic to make Raden Begawan unconscious?

A. She didn’t like Raden Begawan

B. She didn’t want Raden Prabu marry the princess

C. She wanted Teja Nirmala to forget about her wedding

D. She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan marry the princess

E. She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan feel love with her

Ans : D

3. What do you think will happen if gods or goddesses cannot mingle in the affairs of people in the earth at that time?

A. Princess Segara will have married with Raden Begawan

B. Sang Prabu will not hold strength competition

C. Raden Begawan will not die

D. Teja Nirmala will stay in the Kahyangan

E. Wicked Fairy will not take Raden Begawan’s life

Ans : E

4. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan. (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence refers to…

A. The wicked fairy

B. The nice fairy

C. Princess Nirmala

D. Prince Teja

E. The prince of Blambangan

Ans : C 

5. The similarity between fairy and human according to the text.

A. The place they live

B. The jealousy that they posses

C. The way they don’t feel a love

D. The strength they have

E. Their life that is immortal

Ans : B