Narrative Text

Communicative purpose of Narrative Text

Communicative goals Narrative Text as described above is to entertain the listener or reader about a past story or stories related to the experience of real, imaginary or complex events that led to a crisis, which eventually find a solution.

Narrative Text Generic Structure

Each type of English text (genre) has the structure of the text on their own. Structure of Narrative Text consists of three parts:

A. Orientation
In the Orientation section contains the introduction or the introduction of the characters in the story as well as time and place of occurrence.

2. Complication
Complication section contains an overview of the emergence of crises or problems experienced by the characters in the story that must be solved.

3. Resolution
Resolution on baigan contains characters from a story about how the solve the problems that exist in the Complication.

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT : GOLDEN EGGS

Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation.
Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.”
A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.
Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift.
Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach.
Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.