Narrative text is a genre that aims to entertain readers by telling a story about past events involving real or imaginary characters and their experiences. It typically includes an orientation to introduce characters and setting, a complication where a problem arises, and a resolution where the problem is solved. Additional structures sometimes included are coda to describe lessons learned. Linguistic characteristics include use of past tense verbs, nouns as pronouns, adjectives, connectives, and adverbs or adverbial phrases about location. Two examples of narratives are provided, about a bear and rabbit where the rabbit helps the bear hunt and shares his meal through an act of kindness, and a monkey outwitting a crocodile trying to eat him by

1. NARRATIVE TEXT

2. A. Definition of Narrative Text
Narrative Text is one of 13 kinds of English texts
(genre) that was born from the Narration (see Types
Of Text) as ever Recount Text, Text Anecdote, News
Items Spoof Text and Text which serves to tell the
story of the past and for entertainment.
B. Purpose Communicative Narrative Text
Communicative goals Narrative Text as described
above is to entertain listeners or readers of a story or
the story of the past relating to experience the real,
imaginary or complicated events that led to the crisis,
which eventually came to a solution.

3. C. Generic Structure Narrative Text
Each type of English text (genre) has the structure of
his text alone. Structure of Narrative Text consists of
three parts:
1. Orientation
On the Orientation or introduction contains the
introduction of a character in the story and the
time and place it happened.
2. Complication
On the Complication contains a description of the
emergence of a crisis or problem experienced by
characters in the story to be solved.

4. 3. Resolution
In the Resolution contains about how the
characters of the story to solve the problems that
exist in the Complication. Usually there are more
than a Resolution for the Complications.
In some references about Narrative Text, there is an
additional generic structure in the Narrative Text,
namely the addition of Coda after resoultion. So
the composition of Narrative text is Orientiation,
Complication, Resolution and Coda.
Coda is the last part of the structure Narrative Text that
contain changes in the character and lessons to be
learned from the story.

5. D. Characteristics of Linguistic Narrative Text
On the Narrative Text, there are several characteristics
are as follows:
• Using Action Verbs in Past Tense form. For example:
Climbed, Turned, Brought, etc.
• Using certain nouns as a personal pronoun, certain
animals and objects in the story. For example: the
king, the queen, and so on.
• Using adjectives which form the noun phrase. For
example: long black hair, two red apples, etc.
• Using connectives and Conjunctions Time to sort
events. For example: then, before, after, soon, etc.
• Using Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase to show the
location of the incident or event. For example: here, in
the mountain, happily ever after, and so on.

6. The Bear and Rabbit
Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In
contrary, the bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow
and arrows.
The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He
went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family.
Indeed he shot and killed so many that there were lots of meats left after.
However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit
could not even taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry
after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was
very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave
him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He
would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He
kicked toward the rabbit's house.When he got close to the door he would give
the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In
this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.

7. The Monkey and The Crocodile
One day there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he saw a
crocodile so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side of the
river. The crocodile agree and told the monkey to jump on its back. Then the
crocodile swam down the river with the monkey on his top.
Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stopped in the middle of the river
and said to the monkey, “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the
monkey. So he will be healthy again.”
At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard.
Then he had a good idea. He told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank.
“What’s for?” asked the crocodile. “Because I don’t bring my heart,” said the
monkey. “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.”
The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the
river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the
crocodile’s back. Then he climbed up to the top of a tree.
“Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” said the monkey
to the crocodile. “Now I am free and I have my heart.