Narrative Text

Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or a musing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guilding, and teaching the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience.

 Narrative text’s such as : 

fable (mouse dear and crocodile), 

legend folk tales (sangkuriang, Maling kundang),

fair tale (cinderela, snow white, pinochio).

The Characteristics of Narrative text :
1. Past Tense
2. Dialogues
3. Lingking words that are connected with the time
4. The wring / it use the first person (I) and the third person (he, she, they).
5. The purpose is to enternain and to muse the readers.

The generic structure of narrative text :
1. Orientation
Is sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answes the questions – who, when, what, where).
2. Evaluation
a stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about the narrator’s point of view) it is aptional.
3. Complication
A crisis or a problem arises. It usually in volvers the main characters.
4. Resolution
A solution the the problem (for better or worse) main characters find ways to solve the problem.

Some Important points in the story of narrative text are :
It uses temporal conjuction : Ex. Once upon a time, a long time ago, etc.
It uses simple past tense : Ex. There lived one day there etc.

Example : 

Romeo and Juliet 

In the town of Verona there lived two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. They engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded young man with an eye for the ladies. One day, Romeo attended the feast of the Capulets', a costume party where he expected to meet his love, Rosaline, a haughty beauty from a well-to-do family. Once there, however, Romeo's eyes felt upon Juliet, and he thought of Rosaline no more.

The vision of Juliet had been invading his every thought. Unable to sleep, Romeo returned late that night to the Juliet's bedroom window. There, he was surprised to find Juliet on the balcony, professing her love for him and wishing that he were not a "Montague", a name behind his own. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo was ready to deny his name and professed his love. The two agreed to meet at nine o-clock the next morning to be married.

Early the next morning, Romeo came to Friar Lawrence begging the friar to marry him to Juliet. The Friar performed the ceremony, praying that the union might someday put an end to the feud between the two families. He advised Romeo kept the marriage a secret for a time.

On the way home, Romeo chanced upon his friend Mercutio arguing with Tybalt, a member of the Capulet clan. That qurreling last caused Merquito died. Romeo was reluctant no longer. He drew his sword and slew Tybalt died. Romeo realized he had made a terrible mistake. Then Friar Lawrence advised Romeo to travel to Mantua until things cool down. He promised to inform Juliet.

In the other hand, Juliet's father had decided the time for her to marry with Paris. Juliet consulted Friar Lawrence and made a plot to take a sleeping potion for Juliet which would simulate death for three days. The plot proceeded according to the plan. Juliet was sleeping in death.

Unfortunately, The Friar's letter failed to reach Romeo. Under the cover of darkness, he broke into Juliet's tomb. Romeo kissed the lips of his Juliet one last time and drank the poison. Meanwhile, the effects of the sleeping potion wear off. Juliet woke up calling for Romeo. She found her love next to her but was lying dead, with a cup of poison in his hand. She tried to kiss the poison from his lips, but failed. Then Juliet put out his dagger and plunged it into her breast. She died