narrative text

Narrative text is a text which contains about story (fiction/ non fiction/ tales/ folktales/ fables/ myths/ epic) and in its plot consists of climax of the story (complication) then followed by the resolution.

Generic Structure
- Orientation
- Complication
- Evaluation (Optional)
- Resolution

- Orientation : It is about WHO, WHEN, and WHERE the story happened
- Evaluation : Is optional; it is usually used to make the story. Complication is the part of the story in which there is a conflict among the characters of the story (it is possible to make more than one conflict in a complication), and it is the climax of the story (the big problem in the story). A story can here more than one complication.
- Resolution : It is the solution of the problem. It can be a happy or sad ending. In resolution, the solution or the way out of the conflict/ the big problem must be written
- Coda : It is the change of one of the character or two, or the meaning of the story that can be caught as a moral value of life

Example : The story of Cinderella, Snow White, Snow Maiden, The Little Pear Girl, The Ugly Duckling, etc.


Example of narrative text :
Why do hawks hunt chicks?

Once upon a time, a hawk fell in love with a hen.The hawk flew down
From the sky and asked the hen,”Will you marry me?”
The hen loved the brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him.
But she said,” I cannot fly as high as you can. If you give me time, I may
learn to fly as high as you. Then we can fly together.”
The hawk agreed. Before he went away, he gave the hen a ring.
“This is to show that you have promised to marry me”, said the hawk.
It so happened that the hen had already promised to marry
A rooster. So, when the rooster saw the ring, he became very angry.
“Throw that ring away at once!” shouted the rooster. The hen was so
Frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away the ring immediately.
When the hawk came a few months later the hen told him the truth.
The hawk whild was so furious that he cursed the hen,”Why you don’t
Tell me earlier? Now, you’ll always be stratching the earth, and I’ll always
Be flaying above to catch your children,” said the hawk.

The paragraph 1 : orientation
The paragraph 2 and 4 : complication
The paragraph 3 and 5 : resolution