This narrative text summarizes the story of a man who has an intelligent parrot that refuses to say the name of its birthplace, Catano. Despite the man's increasing anger and threats to kill the parrot, it still will not say the word. Eventually the frustrated man throws the parrot in with some chickens slated to be eaten. The next day, he discovers that the parrot has killed three of the chickens by threatening to kill the last one if it does not say "Catano."

1. Narrative Text
By Group 7:
Annisa Uswatun Hasanah
M. Antri Sulistiyo
M. Faris Rafi Ersa
Siti Nur Zalekha

2. Definition of Narrative
Narrative text is a kind of text to
retell the story that past tense.
The purpose of the text is to
entertain or to amuse the
readers or listeners about the
story.

3. Kind of Narrative text :
1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin
Kundang, etc.
2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile.
3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow
white, Pinocchio, etc.
4. Science fiction

4. Language Features of Narrative
Use active verbs: cut, eat, kill, etc.
Use past tense: felt, kept, etc.
Use conjunction: and, for, etc.
The first person (I or We) or the third
person (He, She, or They)
Use adjective and adverbs: angry, etc.
Use present perfect tense: felt, etc.

5. A narrative text will consists of the following
structure:
Orientation: It sets the scene and introduce to
participant (it answers the question : who, when,
what, and where).
Complication: Tells the problems of the story and
how the main characters solve them.
Resolution: The crisis is revolved, for better or
worse.
Re-Orientation: The ending of the story.
Evaluation: The stepping back to evaluate te story or
the moral message of the story.

6. The Smartest Parrot
Once upon time, a man had a
wonderful parrot. There was no other
Orientation
parrot like it. The parrot could say
every word, except one word. The
parrot would not say the name of the
place where it was born. The name of
the place was Catano.

7. The man felt excited having the smartest
parrot but he could not understand why the
parrot would not say Catano. The man tried to
teach the bird to say Catano however the bird
Complication
kept not saying the word.
At the first, the man was very nice to the
bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid
bird!” pointed the man to the parrot. “Why
can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will
kill you” the man said angrily. Although he
tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say
it. Then the man got so angry and shouted to
the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll kill
you”. The bird kept not to say the word of
Catano.

8. One day, after he had been trying
so many times to make the bird say
Catano, the man really got very angry.
He could not bear it. He picked the
parrot and threw it into the chicken
Resolution
house. There were four old chickens
for next dinner “You are as stupid as
the chickens. Just stay with them” Said
the man angrily. Then he continued to
humble; “You know, I will cut the
chicken for my meal. Next it will be
your turn, I will eat you too, stupid
parrot”. After that he left the chicken
house.

9. The next day, the man came back
to the chicken house. He opened
Re-Orientation
the door and was very surprised. He
could not believe what he saw at
the chicken house. There were three
death chickens on the floor. At the
moment, the parrot was standing
proudly and screaming at the last
old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill
you”.

10. Thanks