Narrative

Purpose

Entertain readers or audiences with the real or unreal story that happened in the past.

Generic stucture

1. Orientation : introducing actors, time and place.
2. Complication : something happened to the actors told
3. Resolution : ways used to escape from the problems
4. Re-orientation : How did the actor feel at the end of the story

Language Features

1. Most of the the sentence in narrative used simple past tense
2. The story begin with the past time : once upon, ago, last, etc.
3. Used correlative conjunction in the story sequences

Example

The Legend of Karimun Java Island

Once upon a time in Muria mountain, there lived the family of Sunan Muria Amir Hasan or called as Sunan Nyamplungan is the son of Sunan Muria. He was very spoiled by his mother. because of that, he became a naughty boy. Then his father, sunan muria asked him to study in kudus. He studied islamic religion to his uncle, sunan kudus. after some time, he became an obedient young man. Sunan Muria was very proud of him.

One day, Sunan Muria asked Amir Hasan to go to somewhere to spread Islamic religion. his father asked him to go to an island that could be seen from Muria mountain. it was on the west - north of Jepara. this island seemed to be fade (Kremun-Kremun in Javanese). and from that time, people called the island as Karimun Java’s island.

Amir Hasan followed by his mate went to karimun Java island. They sailed to the island day and night and finally they reached the island. Then they did what his father said. Amir Hasan and his people lived in the island ever after.

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