Let?s look at Narrative Text!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Online English class! Karena banyaknya permintaan agar satu demi
satu jenis teks yang diajarkan dalam Kurikulum Bahasa Inggris di SMP dan SMA dibahas dan diberi
contoh, maka Online English Class mulai saat ini akan memberikan postingan tentang jenis – jenis teks
tersebut. Nah, hari ini kita akan melihat lebih dekat tentang Narrative Text. Kita akan melihat contoh
dari Narrative Text dan nanti akan diikuti oleh penjelasan tentang Generic Structure, Communicative
Purposes dan Lexico grammar features-nya. Tapi inget, sebagai pelajar, dalam mempelajari teks
Narrative ini, maupun teks – teks yang lain, bukan tugas kita untuk menghafalkan semua yang
dijelaskan tentang Narrative teks tersebut. Artinya, kita TIDAK HARUS hafal di luar kepala semua yang
dijelaskan di postingan ini.

Yang diharapkan dalam kurikulum adalah bahwa kita sebagai pelajar, kita mengenal teks – teks
tersebut, sehingga kita akan memahaminya dan akhirnya kita akan dapat ?BERKOMUNIKASI? dalam
teks tersebut. Perlu diingat bahwa tujuan akhir pengajaran Bahasa Inggris adalah memampukan siswa
untuk BERKOMUNIKASI? bukan menghafal pengertian – pengertian teknis. Ok, mari kita
lihat salah satu contoh Narrative text.

STORY GENERIC STRUCTURE

Once upon a time there 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and
treasures in a cave. They went in the cave by saying ?Open Sesame? to the
cave entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were
doing that, so he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the
cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and ORIENTATION
golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he
became a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.
Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really
jealous of him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money.
Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money,
his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next
day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of
money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he COMPLICATION
was busy carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the
thieves asked him how he knew about the cave. He told everything, but
unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Babas house.
After finding Ali Babas house, they made a plan to kill him the following
night. Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a
merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a kind COMPLICATION
man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house,
and found that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and
poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was caught, RESOLUTION
and put into prison.
Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after
with his maid who became his wife shortly after. REORIENTATION

Ok, jadi dari text Narrative diatas, kita tahu bahwa Narrative Text mempunyai sebuah
struktur tertentu. Struktur dan fungsi masing bagian adalah sebagai berikut :
Prambanan Temples – Central Java
Travel Guides
BOROBUDUR BUDDHIST TEMPLE OF CENTRAL JAVA

The temple was damaged during the earthquake in Java in 2006. Early photos suggest
that although the complex appears to be structurally intact, damage is significant. Large
pieces of debris, including carvings, were scattered over the ground. The temple has been
closed to the public until damage can be fully assessed.
The head of Yogyakarta Archaeological  Conservation
Agency stated that: “it will take months to identify the
precise damage”.[2] However, some weeks later in 2006
the site re-opened for visitors. The immediate
surroundings of the Hindu temples remain off-limits for
safety reasons.

The complex
The compound is assembled of eight main shrines or
candis, and more than 250 surrounding individual candis. The three main shrines, called
Trisakti (Ind. “three sacred places”), are dedicated to the three gods: Shiva the Destroyer,
Vishnu the Keeper and Brahma the Creator.

The Shiva shrine at the center contains four chambers, one in every cardinal direction.
While the first contains a three meter high statue of Shiva, the other three contain smaller
statues of Durga, his wife, Agastya, a risi, and Ganesha, his son.

The shrine of Durga is also called the temple of Loro

Jonggrang (slender virgin), after a Javanese princess,
daughter of King Boko. She was forced to marry a man
she did not love, Bandung Bondowoso. After long
negotiations she eventually agreed to the marriage, under
the condition that her prince should build her a temple
ornamented with 1000 statues, between the setting and
the rising of the sun.

Helped by supernatural beings, the prince was about to

succeed. So the princess ordered the women of the village
to set a fire in the east of the temple, attempting to make
the prince believe that the sun was about to rise. As the
cocks began to crow, fooled by the light, the supernatural helpers fled. The prince,
furious about the simple trick, changed Loro Jongrang to stone. She became the last and
the most beautiful of the thousand statues.

The two other main shrines are that of Vishnu, to the north, and the one of Brahma,
facing to the south. In front of each main temple is a smaller candis on the east side,
dedicated to the mounts of the respective god – the bull Nandi for Shiva, the gander
Angsa for Brahma, and Vishnu’s Eagle Garuda, which serves as the national symbol of
Indonesia (cf. also to the airline Garuda Indonesia).

The bas-reliefs along the twenty sides of the temple

depict the Ramayana legend. They illustrate how Sita, the
wife of Rama, is abducted by an evil ogre. The monkey
king Hanuman brings his army to help Rama and rescue
Sita. This story is also shown by the Ramayana Ballet,
regularly performed at full moon in front of the
illuminated Prambanan complex.

The temple complex is surrounded by more than 250

individual temples of different sizes, called Pewara, believed to have been offered to the
king as a sign of submission. The Pewara are arranged in four rows around the central
temples, according to the rank of the people allowed to enter them. While the central row
was accessible to the priests only, the other three were reserved for the nobles, the
knights and the simple people respectively.

Not far to the west are found Candi Kalasan and Candi Sari, and to the south the Ratu
Boko on higher ground. Each provides further clues and details of the