Narrative Text

Narrative Text: Mengisahkan Cerita Menarik 

Fungsi Sosial (Social Function)

Narrative text atau teks naratif memiliki fungsi utama untuk menghibur pembaca dengan menceritakan sebuah kisah atau cerita. Cerita ini bisa berupa fiksi (karangan) atau non-fiksi (berdasarkan kejadian nyata). Tujuan utamanya adalah membuat pembaca tertarik, penasaran, dan terhibur dengan alur cerita yang menarik.

Struktur Teks (Generic Structure)

Secara umum, sebuah narrative text memiliki struktur sebagai berikut:

1. Orientation: Bagian ini berfungsi untuk memperkenalkan tokoh, waktu, dan tempat terjadinya cerita.
   Contoh: Once upon a time, in a small village, there lived a kind-hearted boy named Andi. (Dahulu kala, di sebuah desa kecil, hiduplah seorang anak laki-laki yang baik hati bernama Andi.)

2. Complication: Bagian ini merupakan inti dari cerita, di mana muncul masalah atau konflik yang harus dihadapi oleh tokoh utama.
   Contoh: One day, Andi found a lost puppy on his way home. (Suatu hari, Andi menemukan seekor anak anjing yang hilang dalam perjalanan pulang.)

3. Resolution: Bagian ini merupakan penyelesaian dari masalah atau konflik yang terjadi.
   Contoh: Andi decided to take care of the puppy and named him Brownie. (Andi memutuskan untuk merawat anak anjing itu dan menamainya Brownie.)

4. Reorientation (Optional): Bagian ini merupakan penutup cerita, bisa berupa komentar atau pesan moral.
   Contoh: Andi and Brownie lived happily ever after. (Andi dan Brownie hidup bahagia selamanya.)

Unsur Kebahasaan (Language Features)

• Past Tense: Sebagian besar narrative text menggunakan past tense (waktu lampau) karena menceritakan peristiwa yang sudah terjadi.

• Time Conjunctions: Kata hubung waktu seperti once upon a time, then, after that, finally digunakan untuk menghubungkan peristiwa dalam cerita.

• Adverbs of Frequency: Kata keterangan frekuensi seperti always, usually, sometimes digunakan untuk menjelaskan seberapa sering suatu peristiwa terjadi.

• Adjectives: Kata sifat digunakan untuk memberikan deskripsi yang lebih menarik tentang tokoh, tempat, atau suasana.

• Action Verbs: Kata kerja tindakan digunakan untuk menggambarkan tindakan yang dilakukan oleh tokoh.

• Direct and Indirect Speech: Dialog langsung (direct speech) dan tidak langsung (indirect speech) digunakan untuk menggambarkan percakapan antara tokoh.

Timun Mas (Modern Version)

Once upon a time, in a village, a couple was working on their farm when they saw a golden cucumber. They opened it and saw a baby girl inside.

“Look how beautiful she is!” said the husband. The couple was so happy because they wanted to have a child for so long.

“Wait! That baby is mine!” there was a voice behind them. It was the green giant.

“Oh, mighty giant, can we keep her please?”

“Well, if you want her so badly, you can keep her but I will take her again when she is seventeen. I am going to make her work in my factory.”

The wife cried happily while carrying the baby to their house. The couple named the girl Timun Mas. They raised her with love and care. Timun Mas grew up to be a very beautiful and smart girl.

A couple of years later, they realized they only had a few days until Timun Mas turned seventeen. They did not want the giant to take Timun Mas away. Timun Mas’s mother asked Timun Mas whether she wanted to work at the giant’s factory or not. Timun Mas said that she wanted to continue her study in a university instead of becoming a worker. Timun Mas’s mother then gave Timun Mas three magical things. They were a pencil, a pen, and an eraser.

The mother said,” These items have special power to help you beat the giant.”

In the morning, the couple quickly prepared the things in a bag.

Suddenly, the giant came to the couple’s house and asked for their promise. The couple did not want to return Timun Mas and told her to run. The giant was so angry and he ran to chase Timun Mas.

“Where are you going?!” shouted the giant loudly. “I’m going to catch you!”

“Not so fast!” said Timun Mas.

She took the pencil out of her bag and threw it behind her. Suddenly, the pencil turned into a giant digital board that blocked the giant from chasing Timun Mas. The giant stopped and looked at the board. It said that the giant must answer the questions on the board if he wanted to continue chasing Timun Mas. He started answering the questions on the board while Timun Mas ran further. After he finished answering the questions correctly, the giant ran to chase Timun Mas again. He was getting closer and closer.

“Where are you going?!” shouted the giant strongly. “I’m going to catch you!”

“Not so fast!” said Timun Mas. She took the pen out of her bag and threw it behind her.

Suddenly, the pen turned the land into a stage that blocked the way. The giant stood on the stage. Rows of audience were in front of him. Then, an announcer said, “Now, we will listen to a speech from the giant.”

The giant was surprised because he must give a speech in English on the stage if he wanted to chase Timun Mas. Unfortunately, the giant’s English was very good. He made it and he ran to chase Timun Mas again. He got so close, he almost got her.

“Where are you going?!” shouted the giant powerfully. “I’m going to catch you!”

“Not so fast!” said Timun Mas.

Finally, she took the eraser out of her bag and threw it in front of her. The eraser turned the land into a labyrinth garden. Timun Mas and the giant were shocked. They would need to escape from the labyrinth. They could see a few obstacles along the labyrinth.

“We must work together if we want to get out of the labyrinth. I have a smartphone in my bag,” said Timun Mas.

“Alright, we should use a digital map. You can read the map for us. I will help you lead the way out,” replied the giant.

Using his strong power, the giant destroyed the obstacles along the way out of the labyrinth. Timun Mas and the giant successfully found their way out of the labyrinth. The giant then said, “Timun Mas, you are very smart. I think you should continue your studies at a university. You don’t have to be a worker in my factory.”

Timun Mas was happy to hear that. She returned home and hugged her parents. Once in a while,

they met the giant for a nice dinner. They all lived happily ever after.

Andre and Princess Suripit

Yesterday, when Andre was playing a mobile game, there was a strange message from the game. It said, “Come with me to my kingdom." The message came over and over. Andre tapped the link from the message. Suddenl, a bright light zapped. He could not see anything. He only felt that the air turned very, very cold, and it smelled really fresh but weird. It took him a solid minute to slowly focus his eyes on blurry objects. Gradually, everything went clearer. He realized that he was no longer at home. But he knew he was at the place he knew so well. It was the place he visited very often. It’s the Mangrovian. There were mangrove trees everywhere. Andre saw some unique houses made of mangrove trees. "Ah, this is Mangrovian!” exclaimed Andre in his thought. The kingdom he visited every weekend in his mobile game.

“Welcome to Mangrovian,” greeted a soft voice he knew so well, the guardian of Mangrovian Kingdom, Princess Suripit. Andre tried to focus on her tall figure. His eyes were still sore from the brightness that brought him to his mobile game. It’s silly but not funny at all! “Am I dreaming?” Andre finally broke the silence. He expected that Princess Suripit would be gone. She just giggled and gave him gestures to follow her. Strangely, Andre’s feet just followed her steps even though he didn’t want to. He then observed that he did not wear his pajamas anymore. He wore a metal breastplate. There were also gauntlets on his hands. He realized that he wore a knight outfit. Princess Suripit said again, “It seems like a dream. But you are not dreaming.”

“I want to go home,” said Andre.

“Unfortunately, you can go home only after you complete your final mission. The mission is to find the endangered black orchid. That plant is the only plant that can bring you back to your world,” answered Princess Suripit.

“But what can I do? I’m just a student,” said Andre. Suripit shook her head. Then she said, “You have the skill. Let me show you. Suddenly, a sword appeared in front of them. “Take the sword,” said Suripit. Andre took the sword and tried to swing it and did some tricky moves using it. “See, you are a sword master. You are not just an ordinary boy here." Suripit said again, “You can use this sword to help you get the black orchid in the dark forest.” Then, they went on a journey through the Mangrovian forest to go into the dark forest.

“Prince Andre, this is an old map that can guide us to the location of the rare orchid.” We must reach the top of Dragon Hill, where there lived a dragon that guards the orchid.” said Princess Suripit to Andre

“And what should we do to take the orchid from it?” Andre asked.

Princess Suripit said again, “It’s simple, you just make the dragon busy, and I will take the orchid.”

Princess Suripit and Andre then walked to the dark forest. They finally arrived at the top of Dragon Hill. They saw a cave there. “I believe the orchid is inside the cave,” said Princess Suripit. “Then, what are we waiting for? ”Let’s go into the cave now,” said Andre. Suddenly there was a roar from the cave.

“ROOOAAAAAARRRRR!!!!!!” It was a dragon. It knew that Andre and Princess Suripit wanted to take the orchid. "Andre, make the dragon busy, I will get the orchid for you. Meet me in the castle,” Princess Suripit commands. "Oke,” said Andre. Now, Andre said to the dragon, “Hey you ugly dragon! Come here! Catch me if you can!” The dragon left the cave to chase Andre.

Princess Suripit then could get the orchid from the cave. “Here is a black orchid, Andre.

Now you can go home.” Suddenly there was a light that brought Andre to the real world.