The generic structure of Narrative text : 1.

Orientation : It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where). 1. Complication : Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them. 1. Resolution : The crisis is revolved, for better or worse. 1. Re-orientation : The ending of the story. 1. Evaluation : The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story Linguistic features : 1. Use active verbs. 2. Use past tense. 3. Use conjunction. 4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They). 5. Use specific nouns. 6. Use adjective and adverbs Kind of Narrative text : 1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang, etc. 2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile. 3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow white, Pinocchio, etc. 4. Science fiction

CONTOH NARRATIVE TEXT : GOLDEN EGGS Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation. Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said I dont have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship. A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.

Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift. Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, its already too late.

The Purse of Gold A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in a market place. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shouted, "A reward! A reaward to the one who find my leather purse!" Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying, "Here is your purse. Will you keep your word to give a reward now?"\ "Reward?" scoffed the merchant greedily counting the amount of gold. "The purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward I'll give to you.! Go away or I'll tell you to the police." "I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let's take this matter to the court!" In the court, the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both. Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold. Well, that's a considerable cost. But the purse the beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold. Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost." And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the golds to the beggar.