NARRATIVE

By Mohd. Amir Syamsudin

Narrative
IT IS USED TO ENTERTAIN, that is to gain and hold the readers interest in a story. TO TEACH and TO INFORM writers reflections on experience IT CAN BE IMAGINARY or FACTUAL (fairy tales, mysteries, fables, romances, adventures stories, myths and legends), or it can be complicated event that leads to a crises that finally find a solution.

Generic Structure
Orientation (a setting of characters & a plot) Complication (problems are arising) Resolution (solution of problems) Coda (moral values taken from the story)

Generic Structure
A resolution contains how the characters solve the problem arisen in the complication. It can be ended by happy or sad ending. A coda provides a comment or moral values based on what has been learned from the story

Language Features
Certain nouns are as pronoun of person, animal, certain thing in a story. Adjectives that form noun phrases. Time connectives and conjunction to arrange the events. Adverb and adverbial phrase to point the place of event.

Language features
Action verbs are past tense. Saying verbs that refer to what the human
participants said, told, promised; and thinking verbs indicating thought, perception or feeling of the characters in a story Dialog often included and the tenses change according to the circumstances

One day a big ship was broken near a small island. There was only one man survived. He was washed away to an empty island. Every day he waited for help but no one came. He built a little hut from the wood. One day after looking for food, he arrived home and found his little hut on fire. The smoke rolled up to the sky. Everything was lost. He was very sad.

Early the next day, however, he heard the sound of a ship that was getting closer to the island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was here?" asked the man to the rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied. The man thanked God for the good luck. The bad thing made a good thing.

Lets analyze it !

One day a big ship was broken near a small island. There was only one man survived. He was washed away to an empty island.

Orientation

Who ? a man When? one day Where? on an empty island

Every day he waited for help but no one came. He built a little hut from the wood. One day after looking for food, he arrived home and found his little hut on fire. The smoke rolled up to the sky. Everything was lost. He was very sad.

Complication

Problem: his little hut on fire, Everything was lost.

Early the next day, however, he heard the sound of a ship that was getting closer to the island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was here?" asked the man to the rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied. The man thanked God for the good luck. The bad thing made a good thing.

Resolution and coda

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