Definition
is a text which contains about story (fiction/non fiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/epic) and its plot consists of climax of the story (complication) then followed by the resolution.
A narrative text is a text amuse, entertain and deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. Narrative deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
The generic sctucture of a narrative text:
1. Orientation: Sets the scene and introduces the participants.
2. Sequence of Events
a. Complication: A crisis arises
b. Resolution: showing the way of participant to solve the crises, for the
better or for worse.
3. Re-orientation: Optinal
Including Moral Value and a stepping back to evaluate the plight
Narrative Text is used to entertain the listeners or the readers with a true experience or an imaginary one.
Examples :
The Wolf and the Lamb
Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just
beginning to drink a little lower down. ‘There’s my supper,’
thought he, ‘if only I can find some excuse to seize it.’ Then
he called out to the Lamb, ‘How dare you muddle the water
from which I am drinking?’
‘Nay, master, nay,’ said Lambikin; ‘if the water be muddy
up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from
you to me.’
‘Well, then,’ said the Wolf, ‘why did you call me bad
names this time last year?’
‘That cannot be,’ said the Lamb; ‘I am only six months
old.’
‘I don’t care,’ snarled the Wolf; ‘if it was not you it was
your father;’ and with that he rushed upon the poor little
Lamb and ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out
.’Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Now you must know that a Town Mouse once upon a time
went on a visit to his cousin in the country. He was rough
and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and
made him heartily welcome. Beans and bacon, cheese and
bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely. The Town Mouse rather turned up his long nose at this
country fare, and said: ‘I cannot understand, Cousin, how
you can put up with such poor food as this, but of course
you cannot expect anything better in the country; come
you with me and I will show you how to live. When you
have been in town a week you will wonder how you could
ever have stood a country life.’ No sooner said than done:
the two mice set off for the town and arrived at the Town
Mouse’s residence late at night. ‘You will want some refreshment after our long journey,’ said the polite Town Mouse,
and took his friend into the grand dining-room. There they
found the remains of a fine feast, and soon the two mice
were eating up jellies and cakes and all that was nice. Suddenly they heard growling and barking. ‘What is that?’ said
the Country Mouse. ‘It is only the dogs of the house,’ answered the other. ‘Only!’ said the Country Mouse. ‘I do not
like that music at my dinner.’ Just at that moment the door
flew open, in came two huge mastiffs, and the two mice had
to scamper down and run off. ‘Good-bye, Cousin,’ said the
Country Mouse, ‘What! going so soon?’ said the other. ‘Yes,’
he replied;
‘Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in
fear.
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