Name :Fadel Ibrahim

Class : X Mia 2

SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 12
 Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the
resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the
set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
 Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants
of the story: who and what is involved in the story.
 Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main
participants.
 Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic)
ending
 Re – Orientation / Coda
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral
lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
 Fables
 Fairy stories
 Mysteries
 Science fiction
 Romances
 Horror stories
 Legends
 Historical narratives
 Personal experience
 Ballads
Use of adjectives to build noun groups to describe people, animals
or things in the story
Use time connectives and conjunctions to sequence through time
Use of past tense action verb to indicate the actions in a narrative
text
Using the simple past tense, past perfect, past continous, past
perfect continous & past future continous.
Orientation:
Long time ago, there were a camel and a mousedeer. The camel said, “Nothing like being
tall! Look how tall I am!” the mousedeer, who heard these words, said, “Nothing like being
short! Look how short I am!”.

Complication:
The camel said, “Well, if fail to prove the truth of what I said, I shall give you my hump.”
The mousedeer said, “if I fail to prove the truth of what I said, I shall give up my snout.”
“Agreed!” said the camel. “Just so!” said the mousedeer.
They came to garden, enclosed by a low wall without any opening. The camel stood on
this side of the wall, and reaching the plants within by means of his long neck, made a
breakfast on them. Then, he turned jeeringly to the mousedeer, who had been standing at
the bottom of the wall, without even having a look at the good things in the garden, and
said, “Now, would you be tall or short?”
Next they came to a garden, enclosed by a high wall, with a wicket gate at one end.
The mousedeer entered by the gate, and, after having eaten his fill of the vegetables within,
came out, laughing at the poor camel who had had to stay outside because he was too tall
to enter the garden by the gate, and said, “Now, would you be tall or short?”

Re orientation:
Then, they thought the matter over and came to the conclusion that the camel should keep
his hump and the mousedeer his snout, observing, “Tall is good, where tall would do; of short,
again, this is also true!”