Narrative text

 Narrative text is a non-fiction story that can be in the form of fairy tales, myths, folk tales, animal stories, and so on. If narrative text is a fairy tale, legend, folklore. While recount text is usually in the form of a biography, or to tell a personal experience. The purpose of narrative text is to entertain the reader with a story that is made in such a way that it is interesting.

GENERAL STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

1. Orientation 

Orientation is the initial paragraph that contains an introduction to the characters involved in the incident. It also contains the place and time of the incident. So that in orientation contains : 

    - Siapa ( who )

    - Waktu ( when )

    - Tempat ( when )

2. Complication 

Complications consist of paragraphs that explain the beginning of the event or occurrence. The beginning of this event became a series of storylines that continued to conflict, climax, and anti-climax. Complication usually contains the interaction of actors or characters in the story. Interactions that then lead to conflict. There are three conflicts that can be used, namely : 

    - Natural conflict, conflict between the universe or nature. 

    - Social conflict, conflict between actors or characters. 

    - Psychological conflict, conflict that occurs in the mind or self. 

3. Resolution

In this section there is a settlement that makes the storyline end. Every problem that arises must have a solution, it can end happily or sadly.

LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF NARRATIVE TEXT

1. Using the past tense (except for conversation) 

2. Adverbs of time (one day, once upon a time, a long time ago, etc.) 

3. Time conjunctions (when, then, suddenly) 

4. Specific characteristics 

5. Action verbs 

6. Direct sentences

Malin Kundang

A long time ago, in a small village near the beach in West Sumatra, a woman and her son lived. They were Malin Kundang and her mother. Her mother was a single parent because Malin Kundang’s father had passed away when he was a baby. Malin Kundang had to live hard with his mother.

Malin Kundang was a healthy, dilligent, and strong boy. He usually went to sea to catch fish. After getting fish he would bring it to his mother, or sold the caught fish in the town.

One day, when Malin Kundang was sailing, he saw a merchant’s ship which was being raided by a small band of pirates. He helped the merchant. With his brave and power, Malin Kundang defeated the pirates. The merchant was so happy and thanked to him. In return the merchant asked Malin Kundang to sail with him. To get a better life, Malin Kundang agreed. He left his mother alone.

Many years later, Malin Kundang became wealthy. He had a huge ship and was helped by many ship crews loading trading goods. Perfectly he had a beautiful wife too. When he was sailing his trading journey, his ship landed on a beach near a small village. The villagers recognized him. The news ran fast in the town; “Malin Kundang has become rich and now he is here”.

An old woman ran to the beach to meet the new rich merchant. She was Malin Kundang’s mother. She wanted to hug him, released her sadness of being lonely after so long time. Unfortunately, when the mother came, Malin Kundang who was in front of his well-dressed wife and his ship crews denied meeting that old lonely woman. For three times her mother begged Malin Kundang and for three times he yelled at her. At last Malin Kundang said to her “Enough, old woman! I have never had a mother like you, a dirty and ugly woman!” After that he ordered his crews to set sail. He would leave the old mother again, but in that time, she was full of both sadness and angriness.

Finally, enraged, she cursed Malin Kundang that he would turn into a stone if he didn’t apologize. Malin Kundang just laughed and really set sail.

Question

Once upon a time in west java, lived a writer king who had a beautiful daughter. Her name was Dayang Sumbi. She liked weaving very much. Once she was weaving a cloth when one of her tools fell to the ground. She was very tired, at the same time she was too lazy to take it. Then she just shouted out loudly.

Anybody there! Bring me my tool. I will give you special present. If you are female. I will consider you as my sister if you are male, I will marry you sunddenly a male dog, its name was Tumang came. He brought her the falling tool. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised. She regretted her words but she could not deny it. So she had marry Tumang and leave her father. Then they lived in a small village. Several months later they had a son. His name was Sangkuriang. He was a handsome and healthy boy.

Sangkuriang liked hunting very much, especially deer. He often hunted to the wood usying his arrow. When he went hunting , Tumang was always with him.

One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s heart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer. Then Sangkuriang when to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog. Tumang, but afher several days in the wood Sangkuriang could not find any deer. Then where all disappeared. Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate. He did not want to disappoint her mother so he killed Tumang. He did not know that Tumang was his father. Tumang’s heart to her mother. But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s heart. She was so angry that she could not control her emotion. She hit Sangkuriang at his head Sangkuriang was wounded. There was a scar in his head. She also repelled her son. Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.

Many years passed and Sangkuriang became a strong young man. He wandered everywhere. One day he arrived. at his own village but he did not realize it. There he met Dayang Sumbi. At the time Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by God so she stayed young forever. Both of them did know each other. So they fall in love and then they decided to marry. But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on Sangkuriang’s head. She knew that Sangkuriang was his son. It was impossible for them to marry. She told him but he did not beliave her. He wished that they marry soon. So Dayang Sumbi gave very difficult condition. She asked Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.

Sangkuriang agreed. With the help of genie and spiritis, Sangkuriang tired to build them. By midnight he had completed the lake by building a dam in Citarum river. Then he started making the boat. It was almost dawn when he almost finished it. Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on him. She was very worried when she knew this. So she made lights in the east. Then the spiritis thought that was already dawn. It was time for them to leave. They left Sangkuriang alone. Without their help he could not finish the boat.

Sangkuriang was angry. He kicked the boat. Then the boat turned upside down. It, leter, became Mounth Tangkuban Perahu. Which means an upside-down boat. From a distant the mount really looks like an upside down boat.

1. What is the story about?

A. A wrath son

B. West java’s tales

C. Tumang a Dog husband

D. The legend of Tangkuban Perahu

E. Dayang Sumbi’s rejection to marry Sangkuriang

Answer : D

2. What did Dayang Sumbi look like?

A. She liked weaving clothers

B. She looked for the heart of a deer

C. She was beautiful

D. She was looking at her fallen tool

E. She and her son were alike

Answer : C

3. What made Dayang Sumbi stay young?

A. She set up conditions in doing things

B. A young man fall in love with her

C. She married a dog

D. She knew how to take care her body

E. God gave her an eternal beauty

Answer : D

4. What moral value can we learn from the story?

A. People must keep their words all the time

B. Do not make a promise to easily

C. Never be reluctant to do good things

D. We should not hate our decendants

E. Just do what we have planned

Answer : A

5. “He brought her the falling tool”. The underline word “He” refers to……

A. Samgkuriang

B. Tumang

C. Dayang Sumbi

D. The king

E. Father

Answer : B