Narrative Text

Narrative text

        Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.

The purpose of narrative text

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

Generic Structures of Narrative Text

• Orientation

        Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story:             who and what is involved in the story.

• Complication
  Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.
  
  
• Resolution
  The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending

• Re-orientation/Coda
  This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists  of  a  moral  lesson,  advice  or  teaching  from  the writer