Narrative Text And Its Generic Structures

NARRATIVE

 

Narrative in Indonesian is Narasi or Naratif.

What does it mean?

BY BENNY

January 15, 2021 On Friday

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Narrative is a kind of story which tells us about unreal story, it can be a Myth, Legend, Fabel, E- Cinema (Sinetron) and others.

In this case, I want to inform you that Narrative isn’t only written but also spoken. When we were a little child, our parents or grandparents told a story for us before we slept and that was a spoken narrative.

There are some criteria/ Elements/ Generic Structures in Narrative text:

1.    Title :

The name of the story

2.    Orientation :

Telling about setting person/ characters, and place time of the story

It’s in the first paragraph

3.    Complication :

Starting problems in the story until the peak of the story.

This part is in paragraph two and next, but not including the last paragraph

4.   Resolution

Solving problem, or exactly it’s the part of cooling down or solving the problem of a story

The Purpose/ Aim/ Goal of this text:

Is to entertain/ amuse the readers (story text type) Is to entertain/ amuse the listeners (story radio type) Is to entertain/ amuse the viewers (story E-Cinema type, in television)

The Tenses we use in this part is also “Simple Past Tense”

To know better about Simple Past Tense again,

Please click “Simple Past Tense”

Have you ever read Narrative text story?

Below are some of the Narrative text stories in written text.

Click this link to see:

1.    The Legend of Lake Toba

2.    The Real Love And Friendship

 

3.    Malin Kundang Story

YOU MAY ALSO LOOK AT THIS STORY "A KIND YOUNG MAN" 

besides narrative texts above, you may also know this beautiful story: 

THE LEGEND OF RAWA PENING

 

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THE LEGEND OF LAKE TOBA

THE STORY OF LAKE TOBA

Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. He did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.

One day, while the man was doing fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She said; “Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster”. The man made the deal and they got married, lived happily and had a son.

Few years later, this son would help bringing lunch to his father out in the fields. One day, his son was so hungry and he ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, the father found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned son of a fish”. The son ran home and asked his mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broken his promise.

Then she told her son to run up the hills because a huge disaster would come. When her son left, she prayed. Soon, there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop heavy rain. The whole area got flooded and became a lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir. People believed that this lake was from the water flood because of the woman fish prayed, so peple called it “Lake Toba” and the island of Samosir was from the son’s fish “Samosir/ someone who had been sent by his father away”

Note on Generic Structures of The Legend of  Toba Lake

Although narrative texts are written in several kinds such as legend, myth, folk tail, love story and other stories, basically they have the same thing in common. That is about how the different forms of narrative are arranged into the whole of story.

They way the writer or story-teller arranged his paragraphs into interesting and meaningful story is what we call generic structures. So these elements are very important which determine whether it is a narrative or not. Just to make it clear, let’s see the generic structures of the above story in the legend of Toba Lake.

Generic Structure	Contents
Orientation	What we call “orientation” is actually an introduction of the story. It inform the readers who, when and where the story happened. It tells readers the specific participants in the specific place and time. In the legend of Toba lake, the first paragraph is clearly seen as an orientation. It introduces the participants involved in the story. In short, they are a man with his wife (formerly a fish), and his daughter. They live in North Sumatra once time. Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. He did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.
Complication	Complication can be build based on three kinds of conflict. 1.      They are natural or physical conflict, 2.      Social conflict, and 3.      Inner or psychological conflict. A text of narrative can be organized through this one or more kinds of conflict. Without the existence of those conflicts, the text is NOT a narrative any more. The complication in the legend of Toba Lake is seen when the man failed to keep his promise to his wife which he would NEVER AND NEVER talk to any body that she (his wife) had been a fish. Due to his failure of keeping the promise, the complication rises into the climax. His wife is very angry to him
Resolution	As many traditional stories, every crisis should find its way to go down. The turning points will lead into the solution, and that is what we call “resolution”. Remember that a resolution can be a happy ending or the sad one. In this way, the legend of Toba Lake ends his story plot with the sad ending. The participants, the man with his wife and his daughter broke his very happy family into pieces of object. The wife turned into his original life, fish. The worst thing happened to the man, he became a small island. Poor them but happy for the people behind them. Adopted from: http://freeenglishcourse.info/story-of-narrative-text/ Edited by Author Benny

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PPT

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DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

 

What is Descriptive text?

According to its name “Descriptive Text” so it’s a kind of text which explains something in detail or specific. We usually use it to describe something, a particular person, or animals of course in detail.

Usually in descriptive text,

There will be three generic structures:

1.       Title

Title is the name of the object we want to describe completely.

2.       Identification

It’s a brief explanation about what we want to tell and it usually exists in paragraph one.

3.       Description

The description is a text explanation in very detail or specific or we can say that in this part we can find the complete description of the thing.

The purpose of this text is to describe something in specific or in detail.

As you know that in Descriptive text we use:

A.      Simple Present Tense

You can see the tenses in previous topic of The sixteen tenses

B.      Action or Active verb

Here are Example of Descriptive Text:

 1. Cat Bugel

We know, most cats look so cute and clean, so is my cat. My cat's name is Bugel. My cat's named Bugel because she lookes so cute, especially with its tail and makes me always want to hug him and hug him every day. Do you want to know about my cat? 

 Bugel has gray fur and white, it is so soft. Bugel has beautiful eyes, he also has sharp teeth and of course makes me scared. The whiskers in his mouth makes funny. However, although he looks very cute and funny, when he's angry or want to catch prey such as mice, it is very scary for me. Claws are sharp and seem so long. His voice sounded like a tiger. I never approached him when he was angry. That is about my cat, Bugel. Do you have cats like me? Show me your beautiful cats to me next time.

       2.  National Monument

Monas,  National Monument is a 132-meters tower in the center of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia.

 It symbolizes the struggle for Indonesian independence of our country. 

                The monument consists of a 117.7 m obelisk on a 45m square platform at a height of 17 m. Towering monument symbolizes the philosophy of Lingga and Yoni. Resembles a phallus, or pestle mortar pestle and Yoni resembles rice or mortar, two important things in the tradition of Indonesian agriculture. The Monument Construction was began in 1961 under the direction of President Sukarno, the first president of Indonesian Republic and the monument was opened to public in 1975. It is topped by a flame covered with gold foil, and now the monument is very familiar called Monumen Nasional or National Monument.  

Another Example of A Descriptive Text,
You can Click "MY DAILY ACTIVITIES"