NARRATIVE TEXT

A. Definisi dan fungsi narrative text.

Narrative text adalah suatu jenis teks yang berupa cerita khayalan, kisah nyata yang direkayasa, atau dongeng. Narrative text menceritakan suatu cerita yang memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling terhubung. 

The purpose of narrative text is to retell past stories/experience and to Tujuan dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembacanya.

B. Struktur teks (generic structure).

Adapun struktur dari narrative text adalah sebagai berikut: 

# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) –moral lesson from the story

C. Unsur kebahasaan.

Pada umumnya, narrative text memiliki unsur kebahasaan sebagai berikut:

• Noun: pada umumnya kata benda (noun) digunakan sebagai kata ganti orang hewan, atau benda dalam cerita, misalnya stepmother, the dwarfs, carriage, dan lain-lain.
• Past tense: narrative text menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau (verb 2), misalnya went, ate, met,dan lain-lain.
• Time connective: merupakan kata penghubung waktu untuk mengurutkan kejadian, misalnya after, before, after that, dan lain sebagainya.
• Action verbs: kata kerja yang menunjukan peristiwa atau kegiatan, misalnya stayed, climbed, wrote,dan lain-lain.
• Saying and thinking verb: kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau ujaran, misalnya said, told, thought, dan lain sebagainya.

 Setelah kalian memahami penjelasan mengenai definisi, fungsi, struktur teks, dan juga unsur kebahasaan dari narrative text, kalian bisa membaca satu contoh narrative text pada bacaan dibawah ini.

Task 1
Read the following text and answer the questions!

The Magic Candle

One day a young wanderer got lost in a wood. Suddenly he was a light from an old hut. He knocked on the door, and old woman opened it. She was crying. She said that the devil had stolen her magic candle. The candle could grant anything she asked. The wanderer asked where the devil lived. “In a castle not far from here,” said the old woman.
The wanderer went to the castle. There she found the devil, but he was old and weak. Therefore when the wanderer grabbed the magic candle from the devil’s table and ran away, he couldn’t chase him.
But the wanderer was not a kind man. He didn’t return the candle to the old woman, but kept it for himself. He lit the candle and made a wish, “I want to go far away from here.” Suddenly the genies appeared and took him to a beautiful palace. There was a party in the palace. The wanderer wanted to make some money. So he lit the candle again and wished for some jewellery. He sold them to the guests and was soon making a lot of money. Then the Princess came to buy the jewellery, but there was nothing left.
The wanderer fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. The kind Princess said yes, and they got married the next day. In this happiness, the wanderer told the Princess about his adventure and the magic candle. Hearing that, the Princess got very angry. At night she lit the candle and wished that the wanderer disappeared.
In the morning, the wanderer awoke and found himself back in his ugly house in a village.

(Adapted from Fun Plus 05

Answer the following questions based on the text above!

1.      What does a wanderer mean? What does he do?

2.      Does a wanderer do good activity? Why or why not?

3.      Do you think this text has only one complication, or does it have more than one? Please explain your answer.

4.      What do you think the old woman said to the wanderer say in response?

5.      What is the resolution in this text? Do you think it has happy ending or a sad one?

6.      What is the moral value of this story?

Task 2
Read the following text and answer the questions.

One day, a lion was having a nap under a shady tree when he felt something running over his face. He was awakened and picked up a little mouse. “How dare you are!” he roared and threatened to eat the mouse.

 “Please, spare my life oh, king of the jungle. Let me go and one day I may do something for you in return.”

“What did you say? You! Help me?! Ha…ha…this is really funny” the lion laughed but let the mouse go. He thought that the little creature didn’t even taste good.

Several days later when the lion was walking in the jungle, he was caught into a hunter’s trap. He struggled hard, but he couldn’t free himself. When he was about to give up, the little mouse came and gnawed at the ropes of the net and then said, “there you can go…if you had not let me go, I would not have saved your life today.”

Adapted from Bahasa Inggris, Materi PTBK buku 2

1.      1. What is the purpose of the text above?

A.       To explain about the mouse

B.        To disturb the lion

C.       To describe the jungle life

D.       To entertain the reader

2.      2.  The lion was having a nap.” The underlined word can be replaced by …….

A.       A snack

B.        A meal

C.       A sleep

D.       A treat

3.      3. ....but he could not free himself. The underlined word means …..

A.     run

B.     Walk

C.     Enter

D.    Escape

4.      4. From the text we can learn that…..

A.    It is useless to help others

B.     We shouldn’t judge the book by its cover

C.     Helping weak creature is not important

D.    A mouse is stronger than a lion

Task 3
Read the following text and answer the questions

The Monkeys and The Cap Seller

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree.

He placed his bag full of caps near him and laid down with his cap on his head. The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour.

When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there.

When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head.

They had evidently done it to imitate him. He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys.

In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gesture, the monkeys also imitated him.

At last, he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground.

And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw the caps down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

1. Why did the cap seller threw his cap on the ground?

     A. because he was upset 

     B. because he wanted to hurt the monkeys 

     C. because he wanted the monkeys imitate his action

     D. to make the monkeys angry

2. Why did the cap seller get startled when he woke up from his sleep?

    A. because he saw the monkeys

    B. he found that  his bag was empty

    C. because he lost his bag 

    D. because he hate the monkeys

3. What is the moral message of the story?

    A. to face every problem we need to think smart

    B. to solve the problem we must pretend to be monkey

    C. monkey is so annoying 

    D. all monkeys are inventor

4. "So he took off his own cap and ........" The underlined word has the same meaning with ......

       A. grab 

       B. catch 

       C. remove 

       D. bring