NARATIVE TEXT

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Narative Text

        Something which happened in the past is the main resource to compose both recount and narrative text. In writer's point of view, the thing is an experience. It can be what the writer has done, hear, read, and felt. Composing recount and narrative is retelling the experiences of the past event to be a present event.

         What does recount differ from narrative?

The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the generic structure. Recount text presents the past experiences in order of time or place; what happened on Sunday, then on Monday, the on Tuesday. In simple way, recount describes series of events in detail. It does not expose the struggle on how to make them happen. The event happened smoothly. On the other hand, narrative introduces crises and how to solve them. Narrative text always appear as a hard potrait of participant's past experience. It reveals the conflict among the participants. Cinderella's conflicts with her step mother and sister are the example. The conflict is the most important element in a narrative text. Narrative without comflicts is not narrative any more.

Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating ,stimulating emotions,motivating,guiding and teaching the readrs or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience.

Narrative text such as fable ( Mouse Deer and Crocodile ), legend/folk tables (Sangkuriang , Malin Kundang ), Fairy Tale ( Cinderella, Snow White , Pinochio ).

The generic of Narrative text :

Orientation    : It sets the scene and introduces the participants ( it answer

      the questions = who,when,what,where )

Evaluation      : A stepping back to evaluate the plight ( the information

     about the narrator’s point of view ) .It’s optional.

Complication : A crisis or a problem arises.It usually involves the main        

characters.

.Resulation    : A solution to the problem ( for better or worse ) main

                       characters find ways to solve the problem.

Some important point in the story of narrative text are :

It uses temporal conjunction  : ex. once upon a time ,before,after,etc.

It uses simple past tense        : ex.  there lived a……….one day…there was…etc

For the example of Narrative text :

SNOW WHITE

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

Then she saw a little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “What’s your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

Doc, one of the dwarfs said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh could I? Thank you.” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.