Narrative Text

Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story Generic Structure: 1. Orientation 2. Complication 3. Resolution 4. Reorientation Dominant Language Features: 1. Using Past Tense 2. Using action verb 3. Chronologically arranged
Example of Narrative Text

The Story of Sangkuriang
and Tangkuban Perahu
Mountain

Once, there was a kingdom in
Priangan Land. Lived a happy
family. They were a father in
form of dog,his name is Tumang,
a mother which was called is
Dayang Sumbi, and a child which
was called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked
her son to go hunting with his
lovely dog, Tumang. After
hunting all day, Sangkuriang
began desperate and worried
because he hunted no deer.
The Story of Sangkuriang
and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain Once, there was a kingdom in
Once, there was a kingdom in
Priangan Land. Lived a happy
family. They were a father in
form of dog,his name is Tumang,
a mother which was called is
Dayang Sumbi, and a child which
was called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked
her son to go hunting with his
lovely dog, Tumang. After
hunting all day, Sangkuriang
began desperate and worried
because he hunted no deer.
Then he thought to shot his own
dog. Then he took the dog liver
and carried home.
Soon Dayang Sumbi found out
that it was not deer lever but
Tumang's, his own dog. So, She
was very angry and hit
Sangkuriang's head. In that
incident, Sangkuriang got
wounded and scar then cast
away from their home.
Years go bye, Sangkuriang had
travel many places and finally
arrived at a village. He met a
beautiful woman and felt in love
with her. When they were
discussing their wedding plans,
The woman looked at the wound
in Sangkuriang's head. It matched
to her son's wound who had left
severall years earlier. Soon she
realized that she felt in love with
her own son.
She couldn't marry him but how
to say it. Then, she found the
way. She needed a lake and a
boat for celebrating their
wedding day. Sangkuriang had to
make them in one night. He built
a lake. With a dawn just moment
away and the boat was almost
complete. Dayang Sumbi had to
stop it. Then, she lit up the
eastern horizon with flashes of
light. It made the cock crowed
for a new day.
Sangkuriang failed to marry her.
She was very angry and kicked
the boat. It felt over and
became the mountain of
Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.