Generic Structure :
- · Orientation: To introducing characters, time, and place.
- · Complication: the problem or conflict in the story.
- · Re- orientation: problem solving in the story.
Language Features :
- · Use adverb of time
- · Using specific participant
- · Using adjective
- · Using simple past tense
- · Time conjunction
- · Action verb
The example of narrative text :
The Magic Box
Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who dug up a box in his field. He took it home and showed it to his wife. His wife cleaned it and kept it in their house. One day, she dropped an apple into it. Immediately the box began fill up with apples. No matter how many were taken out, others took their place. So the farmer and his wife sold the apples and were able to live quite comfortably.
Then the farmer dropped a coin into the box and the apples disappear to become full of coins. Every day, the farmer and his wife collected hundreds of dollars from the box. They become very rich.
Now the farmer’s grandfather lived with them. He was not very strong and could not go out to work, but his son asked him to take the money out of the box. When father is became tired and wanted to rest, his son shouted at him, “why are you so lazy? Why can’t you work harder?”
The old man did not say anything but he continued working until he fell inside the box and died. At once, the money disappeared and the box began to fill up with dead grandfathers.
