Narrative Text

Narrative Text

Definition:

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

The Purpose of Narrative Text:

§  To amuse or to entertain the readers or listener about story.

The Generic Structure of Narrative Text:

·         Orientation : It sets the scene and introduces the participants( it answers the questions=who,when,where,what).

·         Complication: It shows when the crisis arises.

·         Resulotion : It shows when the crisis is resolved,for a better or worse condition.

Language features of Narrative :

§  Focus on specific and usually individualized participants

§  Use of materials processes(and in this text,behavioral and verbal processes)

§  Use of relational processes and mental processes

§  Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumstances

§  Use of past tense

The example of Narrative Text:

Jack and the Beanstalk

There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack. They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown too old, his mother sent Jack to sell it. On the way to the market, Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of great value and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.

Jack brought them happily. When he told his mother about this, his mother became so angry that she threw the beans out of the window.

When Jack woke up in the morning, he felt the sun shining into a part of his room, but all the rest was quite dark and shady.

So he jumped to the window. What did he see? The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack’s window. He opened the window and jumped onto the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder.

He climbed…and climbed till at last he reach the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.