Narrative Text

                                      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.