The Monkeys and The Cap Seller

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped
and spread a cloth under a tree.

He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head. The cap seller had a sound
sleep for one hour.

When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps
were not there.

When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each
of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head.

They had evidently done it to imitate him. He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to
the monkeys.

In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he begun to make gesture, the monkeys also
imitated him.

At last, he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap
and threw it down on the ground.

And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw the caps down on the ground.
Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.
  Pengertian Narrative Text

Narrative text adalah suatu jenis teks yang berupa cerita khayalan, kisah nyata yang direkayasa, atau
dongeng.

 Tujuan Narrative Text

Tujuan dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur dan menarik minat pembaca dengan menyajikan cerita
atau peristiwa yang memiliki masalah yang menimbulkan konflik dan pada akhir cerita ada resolusinya
atau akhir yang bahagia atau bahkan menyedihkan.

 Struktur teks (generic structure)

Adapun struktur dari narrative text adalah sebagai berikut:

Orientation: Pendahuluan atau pembuka yang berupa pengenalan tokoh, waktu, dan tempat.

Complication: Pengembangan konflik atau pemunculan masalah pada cerita.

Resolution: Penyelesaian konflik atau langkah yang diambil untuk merespons masalah.

Re-orientation: Ungkapan – ungkapan penutup yang menunjukan berakhirnya suatu cerita. Re-
orientation bersifat opsional atau tidak selalu ada pada narrative text.

 Ciri - ciri Narrative Text

Adapun ciri- ciri dari sebuah Narrative Text antara lain :

1. Narrative Text menceritakan masa lampau.

2. Narrative Text haruslah urut atau kronologis.
3. Narrative Text biasanya menggunakan kata hubung agar cerita dapat urut.
4. Fokus pada satu tokoh yaitu tokoh utama.
5. Biasanya menggunakan dialog.

 Tenses yang digunakan:

Menggunakan tenses "Past", baik simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous,
atau bisa saja past future continuous.
Ayu: We are standing here, we want to explain about narrative text.

Fatia: Do you know about narrative text?

Narrative text is a type of text in the form of imaginary stories, engineered real stories, or fables.

Ayu: Purpose of narrative text

The purpose of narrative text is to entertain and attract readers by presenting stories or events that have
problems that cause conflict and at the end of the story there is a resolution or a happy or even sad ending.

Fatia: Generic structure of narrative text

Orientation: Introduction or opening in the form of recognition of characters, time and place.

Complication: Development of conflicts or the appearance of problems in the story.

Resolution: Conflict resolution or steps taken to respond to a problem.

Re-orientation: a closing expression that shows the end of a story. Re-orientation is optional or not always
in narrative text.

Ayu: The characteristics of narrative text is:

1. Narrative Text tells the past.

2. Narrative Text must be sequential or chronological.
3. Narrative Text usually uses conjunctions to make the story order.
4. Focus on one character, the main character.
5. Usually use dialogue.

Fatia: Tensis
Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people.

Usually, the narrative text contains good stories of fiction, non-fiction stories, animal stories (fable),
folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends etc.

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed.
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story

Purpose of Narrative text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

The characteristics of narrative

1. Narrative Text tells the past.

2. Narrative Text must be sequential or chronological.
3. Narrative Text usually uses conjunctions to make the story order.
4. Focus on one character, the main character.
5. Usually use dialogue.

Kinds of Narrative Text

fable
folktales
fairy tales
myth
legend
Teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang.

Generic Struktur

Orientasi: berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana

Komplikasi: Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang

Resolusi: Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.

Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.

 Cinderella

Orientation
Once upon time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepsisters and
stepmother. They were very bossy. She had to do all the housework.
Complication
One day an invitation to the ball came to the family. Her stepsisters did not let her go, so Cinderella was
very sad. The stepsisters went to the ball without her.
Resolution
Fortunately, the good fairly came and helped her to get to the ball. At the ball, Cinderella danced with the
prince. The prince felt in love with her then he married her. They live happily ever after.
(Dahulu kala, ada seorang gadis cantik bernama Cinderella. Dia tinggal bersama saudara tiri dan ibu tiri
nya. Mereka sangat suka memerintah. Dia harus melakukan semua pekerjaan rumah tangga.
Suatu hari sebuah undangan untuk sebuah pesta datang ke keluarga itu. Saudara tiri nya tidak membiarkan
dia pergi, sehingga Cinderella sangat sedih. Saudara tiri pergi ke pesta itu tanpa dia.
Untungnya, peri yang baik datang dan membantunya untuk sampai ke pesta itu. Pada pesta itu, Cinderella
berdansa dengan pangeran. Pangeran jatuh cinta padanya kemudian ia menikahinya. Mereka hidup
bahagia selamanya.)

Rabbit and the Turtle

One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so
slow.

Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke
and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced
way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought.

The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and
decided to stop and take a short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never
quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere!
He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.

Terjemahan Cerita Narrative Bahasa Inggris The Rabbit and the Turtle

Suatu hari seekor kelinci membual tentang kecepatannya dalam berlari. Diamenertawakan kura-kura
karena begitu lambat.

Kelinci itu begitu terkejut karena ternyata kura-kura berani menantangnya untuk berlari. Kelinci pikir ini
lelucon dan akhirnya menerima tantangan itu. Dalam lomba lari itu, seekor rubah adalah wasitnya. Seperti
yang sudah dibayangkan banyak pihak. saat balapan dimulai, kelinci berlari jauh di depan kura-kura.

Kelinci sudah sampai setengah perlombaan dan tidak bisa melihatkura-kura bisa menyusulnya. Saat itu
cuaca panas dan melelahkan, kelinci itu memutuskan untuk berhenti dan tidur sejenak. Saat itu kura-kura
terus berjalan selangkah demi slangkah demi selangkah lagi. Dia tidak pernah berhenti tidak peduli
seberapa panas atau betapah melelahkannya. Dia terus berjalan.
Namun, kelinci tidur kelamaan dari perkiraanya. Ketika terbangun, dia tidak melihat kura-kura dimana
pun. Dia lari dengan kecepatan penuh menuju garis finish tetapi mendapati kura-kura sudah
menunggunya disana.

Pesan Moral Value dari Cerita Fable The Rabbit and the Turtle
Lawan yang lemah kalau diremehan bisa berubah menjadi lawan yang tak bisa terkalahkan. Jangan
pernah underestimate kepada siapapun. Orang yang tampangnya biasa saja, mungkin ternyta menyimpan
potensi yang lebih besar dari pada kita.

Never underestimate the weakest opponent.