Contoh Paragraf Narrative

Narrative Text

Contoh Paragraf Narrative

A narrative is a text that is aimed to entertain, amuse, teach a lesson or moral, explain something or make a comment.

The narrative consist of:

Ø  Orientation         : introduces the participants and the setting.

Ø  Complication     : a crisis or problem arises.

Ø  Resolution          : the crisis or problem is solved.

Ø  Coda                   : a moral or a message (optional).

Significant language features:

Ø  Focus on specific participants,

Ø  Use of factional verbs,

Ø  Use of past tense,

Ø  Extensive use of adjectives and adverbs, and

Ø  Use of connectors of time.

Briar-Rose

By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

                Long ago there lived a king and a queen. They had no child. One day, when the queen was taking a bath a frog crawled ashore out the water and said to her: ‘You will give birth to a daughter’ . It happened as the frog had said, and the queen give birth to a little girl of such beauty that the king was full of joy and ordered a great feast.

                He invited everyone to come to the feast, including the wise-women of the land, in the hope that they would show the child affection and favor. There were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but because he had only twelve golden plates for them to eat from, one of them had to stay at home. The feast was celebrated with great magnificence, and when it was over the wise-women bestowed their magic gifts on the child: one gave her virtue, another beauty, a third wealth, and so on, till she had everything in the world you could wish for. Just as the eleventh of them had spoken her spell, the thirteenth suddenly entered.

                She meant to avenge herself for not having been invited, and without greeting or looking at anyone she cried out in the loud voice: ‘ In her fifteenth year the princess shall prick herself on a spindle and fall dead’. Everyone was horrified, but then the twelfth wise-women, who still had not uttered her wish, said; ‘but it shall not be death the princess falls into, only a deep sleep lasting a hundred years.

                The king, who dearly wished to protect his beloved child from this misfortune, gave orders that every spindle in his kingdom was to be burnt. But on the very day the princess was to reach the age of fifteen, the king and queen were not at home and the girl stayed behind in the palace all by herself. So, she explored everything, looked at the rooms and bedrooms just as she pleased, and finally came to an old tower. She climbed to the top on the narrow spiral stairs and came to a little door. In the lock was an old rusty key: when she turned it the door sprang open and there, in a little room, sat an old woman with a spindle, busily spinning her flax. Interested, the princess took the spindle in her hand and wanted to learn how to spin too. But she had scarcely touched it when the spell was fulfilled and she pricked herself in the finger.

                The moment she felt the prick she fell down on the bed that was standing there, and lay in a deep sleep. And this sleep spread over  the entire palace: the king and queen, who had just got back and entered the hall, began to fall asleep, and so did their whole court with them.

                 But round the palace a thorn thicket began to grow taller and taller every year and in the end surrounded the entire castle. But the legend of the lovely sleeping Briar-Rose (for so the princess came to be called) was told in the land, so that from to time princess would come and try to force their way into the castle. But none of them succeeded, because the thorn bushes gripped each other as if they had hands, and the young men got trapped among them, and couldn’t free themselves and died a piteous death.

                 After many years another prince came to that country. He determined t free the sleeping princess.

                When the prince approached the thorn ticket, the thorns had all turned into enormous beautiful flowers, which parted of their own accord and let him through unharmed, and behind him they closed up again and made a hedge. Then he went further and saw the whole court lying asleep in the hall, and up their beside the throne lay the king and the queen.

                Then he went still further, and in the end he came to the tower and opened the door of the little room where Briar-Rose was sleeping. There she lay, and she was so beautiful he couldn’t take his eyes of her, and he stopped down and kissed her. As his lips touched hers, Briar-Rose opened her eyes, woke up and smile at him. Then they went downstairs together, and the king woke up and so did the queen and the whole court, and they looked at each other in astonishment.

                To end the story, the prince and the princess got married. The wedding was celebrated with great magnificence, and they lived happily till the end of their days.

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