Disebutkan
bahwa “A narrative text” is a text which is containing an imaginative story
in which to entertain people (audience).
(teks
narasi adalah sebuah teks yang berisikan cerita imaginatif dimana bertujuan
untuk menghibur orang banyak atau penonton).
Based
on the Oxford (Kamus Besar Bahasa Inggris) secara harfiah narrative bermakna (1)
a spoken or a written account of connected events such as a story. (Sebuah
cerita baik berupa secara terucap maupun secara tertulis)
Jika disimpulkan,
maka arti dari narrative text adalah teks yang berisi sebuah cerita
baik secara verbal (terucap) maupun secara tertulis ataupun yang berisikan
rangkaian peristiwa dalam suatu hal.
Structure dari Narrative Text
Untuk
mengetahui struktur dari Narrative Text itu sangatlah penting. Jadi jika kita
ingin membaca terlebih saat menulis teks narasi yang baru kita memiliki stuktur
teks narasi yang baik. Lihat struktur Narrative Text dibawah ini:
- Orientation
: It is about the opening of the paragraph where
characters, place, and time are introduced in the story.(adalah sebuah
paragraph pembuka yang berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu dalam sebuah
cerita.
Berisi:
who (siapa ), contohnya; Cinderella
Where
(dimana); in small village
When
(kapan); a long time ago, once upon a time
- Complication
: Where the problems of characters of the story
appear and go to climac. (Dimana Permasalahan yang dimiliki oleh tokoh
dalam cerita muncul dan klimaks)
- Resolution
: Where the problems of characters of the story is being
solved. (Masalah selesai. Masalah terselesaikan baik secara ‘happy ending’
maupun tidak.
Contoh
Narrative Text
Queen Of Arabia and
Three Sheiks
Once upon a time there was a queen
of Arabia named Maura. Maura is the most beautiful lady who had many suitors.
Almost of it counts had discarded one by one, until just three sheiks reduced
to the list. Those three were young and handsome. They were strong and also
rich. The queen was hard to decide who would be the only one being the best.
One day in the night, Maura
disguised herself and went to the sheiks’ camps near her castle. Maura had an
idea to made a dinner for them, “Would you like something to eat, sheiks?”
asked her. The first gave her some left in the table over food. And the second
one gave her something strange, some unappetizing camel’s tail. The last one
who named Hakim, offered the most tasty meat and tender.
After the lovely occasion, the
queen left the camp.
Then in tomorrow, the queen invited
those three sheiks to have a dinner at her castle. She ordered as same as the
foods which is given to queen yesterday. The first sheiks who gave all over the
food get the same menu. And he ate all the menu by himself. The second one who
gave the unappetizing camel’s tail get the same and ate by himself. The third
one , hakim, Get the same menu as he gave to the queen, but he didn’t want to
eat it if all the people around him could not get too.
The queen was smiling. “Hakim, you
are the person who I am searching for, now I announce that Hakim the person I
will marry with!”