Pengertian dan Contoh Teks Narrative

1.      Social function

• To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways, narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution

2.      Generic structure

• Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants
• Complication : a crisis  arises
• Resolution : the crisis is resolved for better or for worse
• Reorientation : optional

3.      Significant

• Focus on specific and usually individualized participants
• Use of material 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

Rat and Elephant

Once upon time there lived a group of mice under a tree in peace. However, a group of elephant’s crossing the jungle unknowingly destroyed the homes of all the rats. Many of them were even crushed to death.

Then the king of rats decided to approach the elephant’s chief and request him to guide his herd through another route. On hearing the sad story, the elephant’s king apologized and agreed to take another route. And so the live of the rats were saved.

One day elephant-hunters came to jungle and trapped a group of elephants in huge nets. Then the elephant king suddenly remembers the king of the rats. He summoned on of the elephants of his herd, which had not been trapped, to go seek help from the king and told him about the trapped elephants.

The rat’s king immediately took his entire group of rats and they cut open the nets which had trapped the elephant’s herd. The elephant herd was totally set free. They danced with joy and thanked the rats.