WRITTING 3

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:

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.	beginning
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	progress
The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.	End of story

• Details of major events in the event details as supporters story
• Develop character and characterization, setting, and point of view

character	The boy,that a poorv boy but not arrogant and kind old woman
Setting	Place : village, field, Time : a day
Point of view	The first people

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.