NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE

Narrative is to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experienced in different ways.

Social Function

To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways; Narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.

Text Structure

Orientation: sets the scene and introduces the participants

Evaluation: a stepping back evaluate the plight

Compilation: a crisis arises

Resolution: the crises is resolved, for better or for worse

Re-orientation: optional

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

Focus on specific and usually individualized participants

Use of Material Processes, (and in this text, behavioral and verbal Processes

Use of Relational Processes and Mental Processes

Use of temporal conjunctions, and temporal circumstances

Use of past tense

Example :

PINOKIO

            In the past, there was a puppeteer whose name is Geppetto. He eager to have a son very much but his wife passed away several years ago. One day, he got an idea to make a puppet in order not to be lonely again. He made a puppet all day long. Finally, in the morning he had finished his work and he named the puppet Pinocchio. Soon he felt lonely again since Pinocchio couldn't walk or talk by itself. One night, Geppetto prayed to the God to become a real boy. He always thought it on his mind in his dream.

            In the next morning, he was surprised that Pinocchio was alive. He taught Pinocchio how to walk, how to read, how to speak and to do other things as human. He then studied at an elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored and it made him go home late. When Pinocchio finally came home, Geppetto asked him. He said that he was on school but he wasn’t. Instantly, Pinocchio's nose grew longer and longer and it meant that Pinocchio has lied.

            The next morning, Pinocchio was kidnaped by the owner of circus. Pinocchio soon became a slave for the circus. He was so famous because he was a puppet which can talk. Geppetto worried about him because Pinocchio had not been going home for almost two days. He tried to find Pinocchio everywhere but he found nothing. When he searched him on the sea, big wave smashed him. He was then in whale's stomach when he awoke. He couldn't find the way to go out.

            In the other side, Pinocchio finally could escape out from the circus. He came home but nobody was there. Letter on, he searched Geppetto in the sea. He got the same accident like Geppetto and he met Geppetto in whale's stomach. Both of them got out from its stomach by making a fire. In the end of the story, they went home together and lived happily ever after.