Narative Text

Definition
Narrative is a text focusing specific participants.
Purpose
To amuse or entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experiencess in differences ways. Naratives allways deal with some problems which lead to the climax and then turn into the solution to the problems.
Text Organitation
1. Orientation
(Who were involved in the story, when, and where).
2. Complication
(a problem arises followed by other problems)
3. Resolution
(Solution to the problem).
Language Features
1. The uses of noun prhase
(e.g.: a beatiful princess, a huge temple, etc)
2. The uses of connective
(e.g.: first, before, then, that, etc)
3. The uses of adverbial prhases of time and place
(e.g.: in the garden, two days ago, by the end of month, etc)
4. The uses of action verb
(e.g.: walk, sleep, wake up, etc)
5. The use of saying verb
(e.g.: say, tell, ask, etc)
6. The use of thinking verb, feling verb, verb of sense
(e.g.: she felt hungry, she thoght she was clever, etc)
7. The use of mostly Simple Past

Example:

Read the following text carefully and answer the question!

The Chipmunk that Run Away

There once lived nervous little chipmunk. She was always afraid that something terrible would happen to her.

One day, she said over and over again. Suppose the sky fell in, “what happen to me?”. She heard a slight noise, it was really only an apple that fell to ground. But the little Chipmunk was so nervous that she was ready to believe anything and said in a frightened voice, “The sky falling in.” Then she ran away as fast as she could go.

Soon she met an old brother Chipmunk, who asked, “Where are you running to, little Chipmunk?” And the nervous little Chipmunk answered, “I have no time to stop and tell you anything. The sky is falling in, and I am running away.”

“The sky is falling in, isn’t?” said the old brother Chipmunk, very much surprised. And he told the story to his brother Chipmunk, until at last there were a hundred brother Chipmunk shouting, “The sky is falling in.”

Soon the larger animals heard what the Chipmunk were saying. The deer, the sheep, the pig, the camel, the tiger, and the elephant began to say, “The sky is falling in.”

Now the wise lion heard all the noise and wondered what was happening. Then he stopped all the animals and asked, “ What are you saying?” And the brother chipmunk said, ”Oh we heard it from the little Chipmunk!” And the little Chipmunk said, “ I saw is over by the tree.”

“ Well”, said lion, “Come with me and I will show you how something.” “Now get on my back.” The Lion took her on his back, and asked the animal, to stay where they were until they returned. Then he showed the little Chipmunk how the apple had fallen upon the ground, making the noise that had frightened her. The little Chipmunk said, “Yes, I see. The sky isn’t falling in.”

The lion said, “Let’s go back and tell the other animals.”

So they went back. At last all the animals knew that the sky was not falling in, and there was peace once again in the land.

Question!

1. What’s the text about?

2. Why was the little Chipmunk always afraid?

3. What did the little Chipmunk hear one day?

4. Did the old brother Chipmunk believe her? How do you know?

5. What did the Lion do to show the little Chipmunk that the sky was not falling in?

6. What did the Lion ask the other animals to do?

7. How did the wise lion show the truth to little Chipmunk?

8. What does “it” in paragraph 6 refers to?

9. What does the main idea from the text above?

10. What do you learn by reading the text above?

11. Is true story or just fiction? How you know?