The
description of narrative text
What is narrative?
Narrative text
is text which tells about something, and usually the story is fiction. The purpose
of narrative text is for entertain the reader and get a sympathy and empathy.
In the narrative,
we can know about the story, characteristic of the player of the story.
Why write
narrative?
Narrative text
is very important in our life, because we can know about the story which happen
in the past, we can know about the characteristic, and the information about
the
How to differ from
other writing genres?
First, the main purpose of this genre is to entertain through
storytelling and to engage the reader in an imaginative experience. Typical examples of narratives that children
will encounter take the form of fairy tales, myths and legends.
Second, see the characteristics:
• The form of
a story about an event or experience of the author.
• Incident or
event that is delivered in the form of events that actually occurred can be
sheer imagination or a combination of both.
• Based
conflict, because without conflict usually uninteresting narrative.
• It has
aesthetic value.
• Emphasize
the chronological arrangement.
The steps How to
make paragraph writing?
Determine the
first theme and the message to be delivered
Example: The Legend of Rawa Pening
• Set the target
reader
• Design of
the main events are shown in schematic form the groove.
Example: Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little
village. He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for
some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.
• For the main
event in the beginning, progress, and end of story.
Example:
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Once upon a time, there
was a little poor boy came into a little village. He was very hungry and
weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared
about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.
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beginning
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Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and
a meal. When the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a
big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if
there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The
“lesung” was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy continued his
journey. While he was passing through the village, he saw many people
gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the
ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick. Everybody tried,
but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd laughed
mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled
out the stick. He could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.
Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It
did not stop until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the
water except the little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter
and meal. As she told him, he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the
old woman
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progress
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The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa
Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.
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End of story
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• Details of major events in the event details as
supporters story
• Develop character and characterization, setting, and point of view
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character
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The boy,that a poorv boy but not arrogant and kind old woman
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Setting
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Place : village, field,
Time : a day
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Point of view
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The first people
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Example of
narrative text
Ali Baba
Once upon a time there were 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and
treasures in a cave. They went in the cave by saying”Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were doing that, so
he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the cave and opened
it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and golden treasures. He took
some of it and went back home. After that he became a rich man and his brother
wanted to know how he became rich.
Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was
really jealous of him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money.
Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money, his
brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next day to
take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of money in the cave,
and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he was busy carrying the
money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the thieves asked him how he
knew about the cave. He told everything, but unluckily they killed him and went
to Ali
Baba’shouse.
After finding Ali Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following
night. Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was
a merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a kind man
invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house,
and found that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil
and poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was
caught, and put into prison.
Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after
with his maid who became his wife shortly after.
Why my sentence is called as
the topic sentence?
It called the
topic sentence because the sentence is in the beginning of paragraphs and
sentences are used as developer.
