NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guiding and teaching the readers or listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience. Narrative text such as: Fable, Legend, folk tales, Fairy tale.
The generic structure of narrative text:
1. Orientation : it sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answer the questions = who, when, what, where).
2. Evolution : a stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about the narator’s point of view); it is optional.
3. Complication : a crisis or a problem a rises. It usually invalves the main characters.
4. Resolution : a solution to the problem (for better or worse). Main characters find ways to solve the problem.
Some important points in the story of narrative text are:
 It uses temporal conjunction: ex. Once upon a time. Before, after, etc.
 It uses simple past tense: ex. There lived a …., one day there was…. Etc.
EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT:
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
There was once a man who wanted to live forever. He lived in fear of dying. One day he was walking along and saw a Chinese dragon.
“Oh, dragon,” he said. “I live in fear of dying, I hear that you live forever. I wish I was you.”
Then, the dragon spoke, “Kind man, you shall not like living forever. I will show what it feels like.”
The dragon carried him to an island where nobody died. The man lived there and was amazed at how the people would buy poison. Then after a while understood, the people did not enjoy living forever.
He called the dragon. “Take me back,” he commanded.
The dragon said, “ I see you have learned your lesson.”
And now in China when people see dragons they say, “we are happy as we are, oh, Dragon.”