The purpose of Narrative Text:
- To entertain the readers
Generic Structures of Narrative
Text:
- Orientation (Memperkenalkan tokoh cerita, tempat dan waktu kejadian)
- Complication (terdapatnya masalah dalam cerita)
- Resolution (terdapatnya penyelesaian masalah)
The example of Narrative Text:
Jaka Tarub was one of the ordinary people who got married with beautiful Goddess, Dewi Nawangwulan. It was told in the story that young Jaka Tarub was a villager who liked to study reading Al Qur’an. He also liked to help his parents cultivating their rice fields. When he grew up, he was very handsome. Everybody admired him.
One day he got very seroius ill. All of the villagers were very sorry about it especially Jaka Tarub’s mother who was very anxious with his illness. Only is a few days Jaka Tarub’s whole skin itched and got abscess and this made his face ugly.
All of the efforts had been done to cure him from his illness but they couldn’t help him until there was a priest who told him to bath in the lake during the full moon for several times. Jaka tarub did what the priest ordered, and finally he recovered from his illness.
One day, when he was still in the lake, he met a beautiful Goddess, Dewi Nawangwulan, they fell in love each other. Finally they got married.
1. What was Jaka tarub’s occupation?
a. Fisherman
b. Farmer
c. Priest
d. Medicine man
2. The last paragraph talks about how Jaka tarub …
a. found a wife
b. got sick
c. worked in the field
d. met the priest
3. jaka Tarub became ugly because of …
a. The Goddess
b. His adolescence
c. His carelessness
d. His illness
4. “…and finally he recovered from his illness…”
a. worse
b. angry
c. upset
d, well
5. ‘They’ in the last paragraph refers to …
a. Jaka Tarub
b. Vilagers
c. Jaka Tarub and Nawang Wulan
d. Jaka Tarub and his mother
