Narrative Text

Narrative Text: Golden Cucumber

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Definition

    Narrative text is a type of text to retell stories from the past. The purpose of the text is to entertain the reader or listener about the story.

Generic Structure

1. Orientation: Setting the scene and introducing participants (answering questions: who, when, what, and where). 

2. Complication: Tells the story problem and how the main character resolves it.
3. Resolution: End of story. Maybe, happy ending or sad ending 

4.  Coda/Reorientation (optional): lesson from the story

Language Features 

1. Use active verbs. 

2. Use past tense.

3.Use conjunction (and, then, after that, next, etc)

  Also Temporal conjunction, like: once upon a time, one day, long time ago,… 

4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They). 

5. Use specific nouns. 

6. Use adjectives and

Kind of Narrative Text

Legend

A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by tellers and listeners to take place within human history. Typically, a legend is a short, traditional and historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode. Some define legend as folktale.

Myth

It is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

Science fiction

Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society. Science fiction is that class of process narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know. 

Fairy tale

A fairy tale typically features such folkloric characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.

Fable

A fabel is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act like human beings.

Example

The Golden Cucumber

    Long time ago in the island of Java, Indonesia, there lived a couple of farmer. They had married for some years but they had no children. So they prayed to a monster called Buto Ijoto to give them children. Buto Ijo was a ferocious and powerful monster. He granted their wish on one condition. When their children had grown up, they had to sacrifice them to Buto Ijo. He liked eating fresh meat of human being. The farmers agreed to his condition. Several months later the wife was pregnant.

           She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. They named her Timun Emas. The farmers were happy. Timun Emas was very healthy and a very smart girl. She was also very diligent. When she was a teenager Buto Ijo came to their house. Timun Emas was frightened so she ran away to hide. The farmers then told Buto Ijo Timun Emas was still a child. They asked him to postpone. Buto Ijo agreed. He promised to come again. The following year Buto Ijo came again. But again again their parents said that Timun Emas was still a child.

When the third time Buto Ijo came, her parents had prepared something for him. They gave Timun Emas several bamboo needles, seeds of cucumber, dressing and salt as weapons if Buto Ijo chased her.

    Timun Emas was scared so she ran as quickly as she could. When Buto Ijo arrived she was far from home. He was very angry when he realized that his prey had left. So he ran to chase her.

         When Buto Ijo was just several steps behind, Timun Emas quickly spread the seeds of cucumber. In seconds they turned into many vines of cucumber. Buto Ijo was very thirsty so he grabbed and ate them. When Buto Ijo was busy eating cucumber Timun Emas could run away. But soon Buto realized and started running again.

    When he was just several steps behind, Timun Emas threw her bamboo needles. Soon they turned into dense bamboo tress. It was very hard for Buto Ijo to pass the dense bamboo forest. Meanwhile Timun Emas could run farther. Buto Ijo chased her again, Timun Emas threw her dressing. This time it turned into a lake. Buto Ijo was busy to save himself so Timun Emas ran away. But Buto Ijo overcame it and continued chasing her.

           Finally when Timun Emas was almost caught she threw her salt. Soon the land where Buto Ijo stood turned into ocean. Buto Ijo was drowned and died instantly. Timun Emas was thankful to god and came back to her home.

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