Narrative Text

Disebutkan bahwa “A narrative text” is a text which is containing an imaginative story in which to entertain people (audience).

(teks narasi adalah sebuah teks yang berisikan cerita imaginatif dimana bertujuan untuk menghibur orang banyak atau penonton).

 

Based on the Oxford (Kamus Besar Bahasa Inggris) secara harfiah narrative bermakna (1) a spoken or a written account of connected events such as a story. (Sebuah cerita baik berupa secara terucap maupun secara tertulis)

Jika disimpulkan, maka arti dari narrative text adalah teks yang berisi sebuah cerita baik secara verbal (terucap) maupun secara tertulis ataupun yang berisikan rangkaian peristiwa dalam suatu hal.

Structure dari Narrative Text

Untuk mengetahui struktur dari Narrative Text itu sangatlah penting. Jadi jika kita ingin membaca terlebih saat menulis teks narasi yang baru kita memiliki stuktur teks narasi yang baik. Lihat struktur Narrative Text dibawah ini:

• Orientation

  : It is about the opening of the paragraph where characters, place, and time are introduced in the story.(adalah sebuah paragraph pembuka yang berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu dalam sebuah cerita.

Berisi: who (siapa ), contohnya; Cinderella

Where (dimana); in small village

When (kapan); a long time ago, once upon a time

• Complication

  : Where the problems of characters of the story appear and go to climac. (Dimana Permasalahan yang dimiliki oleh tokoh dalam cerita muncul dan klimaks)

• Resolution

  : Where the problems of characters of the story is being solved. (Masalah selesai. Masalah terselesaikan baik secara ‘happy ending’ maupun tidak.
  
  
  Contoh Narrative Text :

  Luminesce Firefly
  

  In a small forest, there was a firefly were lived a pair with his mother. His name is Patrick, he is a weak firefly who has no luminescent of him. Mother said to him that he is different to others. He can not fly and has no luminescent since he was born. They were live until Patrick grows to be teenagers. The bad things are he has no friends and can not fly happily in the air like others.
  He was sad to mother and locked his room for a whole day. Mother was worried about what is going on him.
  “Patrick, why you are not going out from your room and take a meal for a while?” “Are you sick?” Mothers knocked his door and try to pursue him out from the room. “I will put the meal out of your door, so you can take it when you want. Patrick was unable to say “Yes I will mom” his mouth was locked and his heart was too ego to kick out the bad things run on his mind.
  He just take the meal when the days gone to be midnight. “I don’t want to come out the room you know mom, till you were die !” “This is my worse life! I am just flawed boy! No one cares me!” He said when mothers try a thousand time to make him out from his room.
  The condition were going bad. It is a year since he locked himself in his room. “Dear, I was sick. I got flu and terrible cough, please go outside. I am sorry for make you born in worse condition. In deformity, and no one want to be your friend. I just want to let you know that I love you as Mom and friends.”
  Patrick still don’t want to talked to. He just covered his face with blanked and seems frustrated.
  Day by day run. In the next week, mom never gave him a meal again. “It is strange, why mom didn’t give me meal for three days?’ I can’t hear her anything!”
  He was so hungry, and this condition makes him want to go out from his room. So unexpectedly and dramatic, he caught his mom dead with a letter on her hand.

  And the letter shows;

  Dear My Lovely Patrick
  I don’t know what going on me..
  I had checked my health to the doctor when you just locked your room.
  Doctor said to me that I got cancer.
  It is final stadium.
  So my life just in a couple of months
  I am so sorry that were got accident when you are in pregnancy
  And your dad were dead
  You got the physical defect after it
  It is not easy to make you understand
  That luminescent is you
  Not what you just think
  That I love you till the day ends
  Forever.
  Best regards,
  Mom
  
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