The kind Of The Text "NARRATIVE"

NARRATIVE

Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story

Generic Structure:

• Orientation; the introduction of what is inside the text. What text is talk in general. Who involves in the text. When and where it happen.
• Complication; what happens with the participants. It explores the conflict among the participants. Complication is the main element of narrative. Without complication, the text is not narrative. The conflict can be shown as natural, social or psychological conflict.
• Resolution; this is the phase where the participants solve the problem aroused by the conflict. It is not matter whether the participants succeed or fail. The point is the conflict becomes ended.

Dominant Language Features:

• Using Past Tense
• Using action verb
• Chronologically arranged

 Menurut wikipedia.org, Narrative atau story itu didefinisikan sebagai:

any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words, or in a sequence of (moving) pictures

Jadi narrative itu adalah setiap penggambaran terhadap peristiwa-peristiwa yang saling berkaitan dan disajikan kepada pembaca atau pendengar melalui penulisan atau perkataan atau media gambar bergerak yang berurutan. Jenis teks narrative yang baik harus mampu membawa pembaca atau pendengar ke tingkat "mengalami sendiri" terhadap peristiwa-peristiwa yang di ceritakan. narrative text itu kaya akan pendetilan peristiwa sehingga

the reader is seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching. The reader should experience the story, not simply hear it. 

Dengan penyampaian yang sangat detil, pembaca atau pendengar mampu melihat, mendengar, merasakan aroma, dan menyentuh hal- hal yang terjadi dalam peristiwa tersebut. Pembaca atau pendengar harus mampu sampai tingakat self experiencing bukan hanya sekedar mendengar cerita tersebut.

Namun pembelajaran bahasa Inggris text types hususnya narrative di tingkat sekolah menengah lebih fokus pada 3 hal, yaitu:

1. Tujuan narrative text
2. Susunan narrative text
3. Ciri-ciri bahasa Narrative text

Hal yang melekat pada kata narrative adalah retelling story. Sehingga secara sederhana teks narrative itu berfungsi untuk menceritakan kembali peristiwa yang telah terjadi;factual atau imaginative. Retlling story ini bertujuan untuk menghibur pembacanya. Ketika pembaca sudah mengetahui cerita tersebut, sang penulis mengharapkan akan terjadinya transfer nilai, moral, atau theme. Inilah tujuan pengajaran sebuah narrative text. Now let's see the answer of question "What is narrative text?"

Definition of Narrative
Secara singkat definisi dan tujuan teks narative adalah 

Narrative is a account of interesting connected events experienced by specific participants. Its social function is to tell a story and entertain or amuse as well as well as give a certain moral lesson to the readers.

Generic Structure of Narrative

Setelah definisi, hal lain yang perlu diketahui adalah schematic structure. A narrative text should consist of the following generic structure:

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place
2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with
3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse

Language Features of Narrative

Tak lupa pula ciri ciri bahasa yang dipakai oleh narrative text, meskipun sifatnya tidak absolut, namun kecenderunganya, jenis teks ini akan memakai model language featureseperti dibawah ini:

Using processes verbs
Using temporal conjunction
Using Simple Past Tense
Using relative clause

Example : 

Romeo and Juliet

There lived two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. They engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded young man with an eye for the ladies. One day, Romeo attended the feast of the Capulets', a costume party where he expected to meet his love, Rosaline, a haughty beauty from a well-to-do family. Once there, however, Romeo's eyes felt upon Juliet, and he thought of Rosaline no more.

The vision of Juliet had been invading his every thought. Unable to sleep, Romeo returned late that night to the Juliet's bedroom window. There, he was surprised to find Juliet on the balcony, professing her love for him and wishing that he were not a "Montague", a name behind his own. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo was ready to deny his name and professed his love. The two agreed to meet at nine o-clock the next morning to be married.

Early the next morning, Romeo came to Friar Lawrence begging the friar to marry him to Juliet. The Friar performed the ceremony, praying that the union might someday put an end to the feud between the two families. He advised Romeo kept the marriage a secret for a time.

On the way home, Romeo chanced upon his friend Mercutio arguing with Tybalt, a member of the Capulet clan. That qurreling last caused Merquito died. Romeo was reluctant no longer. He drew his sword and slew Tybalt died. Romeo realized he had made a terrible mistake. Then Friar Lawrence advised Romeo to travel to Mantua until things cool down. He promised to inform Juliet.

In the other hand, Juliet's father had decided the time for her to marry with Paris. Juliet consulted Friar Lawrence and made a plot to take a sleeping potion for Juliet which would simulate death for three days. The plot proceeded according to the plan. Juliet was sleeping in death.

Unfortunately, The Friar's letter failed to reach Romeo. Under the cover of darkness, he broke into Juliet's tomb. Romeo kissed the lips of his Juliet one last time and drank the poison. Meanwhile, the effects of the sleeping potion wear off. Juliet woke up calling for Romeo. She found her love next to her but was lying dead, with a cup of poison in his hand. She tried to kiss the poison from his lips, but failed. Then Juliet put out his dagger and plunged it into her breast. She died

Story of Rabbit and Bear - Narrative Text

Once upon a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good advantage.

One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.

The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. Th e rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.

The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa