WRITING

 Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative Text is a text or writing that shows chronologically. Surely some of you often read, either from online or offline such as short stories, novels or storybooks. Usually, narrative text has characteristics for its readers, such as: If the target audience is elementary school children, the storyline is positive messages, while for the target audience is adult readers, the storyline will be complex and long. 

The genre of Narrative Text storyline also has various kinds such as:

History : a story that contains a summary of phenomenal events.

Myth: stories that contain a series of myths.

Romance: stories that contain romance

Fables: stories that show animals that behave like humans.

Horror : Stories that show horror (fear)

Fairytable : stories about fiction (fairy tales).

The purpose of narrative text 

to entertain and interest the reader by presenting a story or event and having some conflict in it. The end of the story ends with harmony or sadness.

Narrative text is not only limited to mystical stories, legends, fairy tales, fables but also adventurous stories, mysteries and various stories. The point is that narrative texts are about stories. Usually narrative given in school narrative text in the form of fictional stories (fairy tales or legends.

So when it means, the narrative text material given by the teachers at school is Sugestive Narrative, meaning that the readers can learn lessons from the story. 

Narrative Text Characteristics

Narrative text also has its own form as well as the characteristics of other texts. Here are the characteristics of narrative text that we summarize in this article.

Narrative text types 

Usually use past verbs (active verbs) or use simple past tenses.

Use nouns to replace personal pronouns.

Use adjectives to form noun phrases.

Use conjunctions to form sequences of events in narrative text.

Narrative Text Structure

The structure of narrative text has its own focus for assembling the building blocks of narrative text, as we explain below:

Orientation 

Orientation is an opener/opening of the narrative text story. In this first step, it can contain who, when, and where this storyline is loaded / translated. 

Complication 

Complications are a series of paragraphs that introduce the beginning of the beginning. In this section, it is the beginning of the story which will then continue to the conflict, climax, and anti-climax in the storyline. Usually, complications are the interactions between the actors in the taxt narrative story.

Resolution 

Resolution is the end of the story alu, in this section provides a storyline to end the story to end. All problems that exist in the complication section must be resolved in this material. This text narrative storyline can end with a happy ending or sad ending.

Re-orientation 

Re-orientation is the closing of the storyline which is optional, meaning that it depends on the author, whether he wants to add it or not. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons or positive messages from the author.

Example Narative texr

Mermaid

Orientation

Once upon a time there was a princess who suffered from a witch's magic.

Actually the princess was a very beautiful and kind person. Everyone liked her except her sister who was very jealous of her.

If the princess still had her beauty, then any prince would prefer to marry her rather than her sister.

Complications

One day, the sister ordered a witch to change the princess' beauty into an ugly face.

The witch gave her poison to add to the princess's food. The poison would change the princess' appearance into an ugly one.

At night when dinner started, the sister added the poison to the food for the princess. No one knew about it. The princess ate her food without realizing that there was danger in her food.

After the meal, at night, the skin sang the princess blistered. The princess felt hurt and she cried for help.

No one could help her even the healers in the kingdom. The princess looked very scary like a monster. She was very sad and shy that anyone was afraid of her. Then she ran away and got away from the kingdom.

She walked alone through the deep forest day and night. She was such a monster that no animal or predator dared to approach her. That made her even sadder.

She walked until she reached the shore and then she felt very tired because she never took a break from walking.

Resolution

On that beach he started to sleep. She didn't realize that she had been sleeping for three months and she woke up because there was a very handsome man came and woke her up.

"Wake up poor prince." The man said.

"Oh, who are you? Why aren't you afraid of me?" the princess asked.

"I am the king of the sea. You have been sleeping here for three months in agony. So, it is time for me to help you. I will restore your beauty but after that you will never get your previous life." the man said. " The man said.

"Oh, my lord, you are very kind. I have lost my previous life, so I want to have a new life. What should I do my lord?" the princess asked.

"Follow me to get closer to the sea."

The princess followed the man into the sea. After touching the sea, the beauty sang back the princess to him. She was also surprised that part of her body was the body of a fish.

"Now you can't live on land, princess, you will forever live in the sea like a fish. But don't be sad. I will marry you and you will be the queen in my kingdom." The man said.

Since then, the princess never returned to the homeland. The sea king married her and she became the queen of the sea.

Sometimes she appears in the cage to see the sun. Some tailors or fishermen who have seen call her a mermaid.