Narrative

Text

1.Bernadeta Yosefani A.2.Megaria Febriani P.

3.Reka Biantika P.4.Vira Ratriva P.

Member of Group

Definition of Narrative

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story about the fiction that past tense.

The Purpose of the

narrative

To entertain/amuse the readers, listeners

and the viewer, so they can understand

about the story.

The Generic structure

Orientation :It sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where).

Complication :Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters got them.

Resolution :The crisis is revolved, for better or worse.

Re-orientation :The ending of the story. 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

FableLegend MythRomanceAdventureFairy Tale

Example of Narrative Text

Adventure

In 1960, Arthur lived with his grandmother in a quiet country house. His grandfather Archibald had recently went missed and he saw little of his parents.

His grandmother entertain him by read stories to him of his grandfather's adventures in Africa. One of these stories is about the, Maasai-like tribe

called the Bogo Matassalai with the Minimoys. After Archibald had helped the

Bogo Matassalai.

After returned home, Archibald brought the Minimoys with him and lent them in his garden as their home. According to the story, he gave the Minimoys the rubies to look after them until he needed them. Arthur had became enamoured of a picture of Selenia, the princess of the Minimoys.

It showed that Arthur's grandmother had gave a two-day deadline to paid a large sum of money to a building developer named Davido.

Who had bought her mortgage from the bank and plans to evict the two. Arthur therefore decides to find the rubies in order to pay off the debt. After stumbling across various clues written by his

grandfather, Arthur finds the key to the Minimoys' world.

He accidentally put his grandmother into a deep slept

by drop slept drop into her water and as she began to

snore, he continued. He met in the garden by the "Bogo Matassalai", who showed Arthur how to got into the Minimoys' world by shrink

down to their size and became a Minimoy himself. This is

done by means of a telescope and the power of a shining full

moon.

When Arthur is underground with the Minimoys, he learned of a

danger to the little people's future, posed by the plans of

Maltazard, the leader of an army of mosquito.

Maltazard said to have been a Minimoy. After his corruption, Malthazar became a warlord known as the "Evil M", keeping

Archibald as his prisoner and the rubies as his throne.

Arthur, reflected his legendary British namesake, drew a sacred sword from its recess, which he then used to protect his

new friends from Malthazar's soldiers. The king gave permission for Arthur to

traveled to Necropolis, sent with him the princess Selenia and her younger brother.

En route to Necropolis, they were numerous times put in

danger by Maltazard's soldiers, who were make plans for the

came flood. During their traveled Selenia reveals that at

her age, she must find a husband within two days. Over

the course of the journey, Arthur came to fall in love with

Selenia.

Eventually, they arrived in Necropolis, where the stubbornly independent

Selenia took the sword and leaved the others. Before did so, she kisses Arthur,

marked him as her husband and the future king. Selenia then confronts

Maltazard alone.

Maltazard wished the first kiss of the princess to restore his original

beauty, after learned she had already kissed Arthur and she could no longer gave him her powers, he

decided to kill her. She was captured and incarcerated in a cell where she found her companions.

While in prison, they found Arthur's grandfather, who like Arthur had became

a Minimoy. This transformation had altered the proportions of his body.

He had taught his knowledge to Maltazard in exchange for food.

Selenia felt defeated, but Arthur comforts her.

Maltazard allows them to escape 3 minutes ahead of the flood,

which they did by used a clockwork car.

During the adventure, Arthur's crush on Selenia. When Arthur learned of a Minimoy

custom stating that newlyweds should not kiss for the second time after ten moons, Selenia

decides she didn’t wish to wait and gave Arthur a long, passionate kiss before he

returned to his human form.

He now had an hour wherein to saved the Minimoys from the flood. Archibald

returned with him to the human world.

Arthur, with the helped of a royal advisor's long-lost son, Miro,

redirects the flood to Necropolis by droped a ball into Necropolis,

which smashes drinking straws used to direct the water and blocks the tunnel it was heading through.

The Minimoys were saved from the flood. Maltazard abandons the

plan, his army, and his son, and flees. The force of the water ejects

the rubies and Miro.

Arthur and Archibald paid Davido with one ruby, he tries to took all, but the Bogo

Matassalai capture him and gave him to the authorities

THE STORY CLOSED WITH THE VOWS SPOKED BY ARTHUR IN HIS HUMAN

FORM TO SELENIA, WHO SITS HIGH UP ON A BRANCH IN A TREE, TO WAIT

PATIENTLY UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR THEM TO BE TOGETHER.

The Generic Structureof

Arthur and the Minimoys

In 1960, 10-year-old Arthur lived with his grandmother in a quiet country house. His grandfather Archibald had recently went missed and he saw little of his parents.

Orientation

His grandmother entertained him by read stories to him of his

grandfather's adventures in Africa. One of these stories about the

friendship of the tall, Maasai-like tribe called the Bogo Matassalai

with the Minimoys After Archibald had helped the Bogo Matassalai,

said the story, they and the Minimoys had given him a large amount of rubies in a showed of

thanks for helped them.

Orientation

Complication

It's shown that Arthur's grandmother has been given a two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a building developer named Davido, who has bought her mortgage from the bank and plans to evict the two. Arthur therefore decides to find the rubies in order to pay off the debt. After stumbling across various clues written by his grandfather, Arthur finds the key to the Minimoys' world.

When Arthur is underground with the Minimoys, he learned of a danger to the little people's future, posed by the plans of Maltazard, the leader of an army of mosquito-riding rebels named 'Seides' lived in nearby "Necropolis", who plan to conquer the Minimoys by flooding their city.

Complication

Maltazard is said to have been a Minimoy war hero corrupted by a seductive weevil, by whom he

has a son called Darkos. After his corruption, Malthazar became a warlord known as the "Evil

M", keeping Archibald as his prisoner and the rubies as his throne.

Complication

Arthur, reflected his legendary British namesake, drew a sacred sword from its recess, which he then uses to protect his new friends from Malthazar's soldiers. The king gives permission for Arthur to traveled to Necropolis, sent with him the princess Selenia and her younger brother. Armed with Arthur's new sword – the use of which they share – the trio embark

Complication

Eventually, the questors arrived in Necropolis, where the stubbornly independent Selenia

took the sword and leaved the others. Before did so, she kisses Arthur, marking him as her

husband and the future king. Selenia then confronts Maltazard alone.

Complication

Maltazard wished the first kiss of the princess to restore his original beauty;

after learned she has already kissed Arthur and she could no longer gave

him her powers, he decided to kill her. She was captured and incarcerated in

a cell where she found her companions, who had also been

seized.

Complication

While in prison, they found Arthur's grandfather, who like Arthur had

became a Minimoy. This transformation had altered the proportions of his body.

Complication

He had taught his knowledge to Maltazard in exchange for food. Selenia felt

defeated, but Arthur comforts her.

Resolution

Maltazard allows them to escape 3 minutes ahead of the flood, which they do

by using a clockwork car that Arthur possessed, in his human form, until

Davido kicked it down the drain.

Resolution

Arthur, with the helped of a royal advisor's long-lost son, Miro, redirects the flood to Necropolis by droped a ball into

Necropolis, which smashes drinking straws used to direct the water and blocks

the tunnel it was heading through.

Resolution

The Minimoys were saved from the flood; Necropolis is flooded

instead. Maltazard abandons the plan,

his army, and his son, and flees. The force of the water ejects

the rubies and Miro.

Resolution

Arthur and Archibald paid Davido with one ruby; he tries to took

all, but the Bogo Matassalai capture him and give him to

the authorities

Resolution

Moral MessageWe must never give up. And always believe on our work thatcan make we going to the success.