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The Ant And The Grasshopper

In a field one summer’s day a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content.
An ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.

“Why not come and chat with me,” said the grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?”

“I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the ant, “and recommend you to do the same.”

“Why bother about winter?” said the grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present.” The Ant went
on its way and continued its toil.

When the winter came the grasshopper found itself dying of hunger while it saw the ants distributing,
every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer.

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Generic structure Contoh Narrative Text Fable

1. Orientation: First information of the participants inside the story. From the story about ant and
grasshopper below, we see the orientation as:

In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about. An Ant passed by…

2. Complication: What happens next among the participants of the story. This phase introduce a problem
existing between or among the participants. From the example of narrative below, we see the
complication is:

“Why bother about winter?” said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present.” But the Ant
went on its way and continued its toil.

3. Resolution: The way a writer ends his story plot. It can be successful ending or failure one which leads
to sad ending story. From the story about ant and grasshopper, we see the writer give the ending as
follow:

When the winter came the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger.

2. The Monkeys and The Cap Seller – Narrative Text with Generic Structure

example of narrative text with generic structure

Story of monkey and cap seller: Narrative text with generic structure
Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped
and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his
head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his
bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there.

When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each
of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head. They had evidently done it to imitate him

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys
only made faces of him. When he begun to make gesture, the monkeys also imitated him.

At last he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap
and threw it down on the ground. And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw
the caps down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag
and went away.

Note on Generic Structure: The generic structure of above narrative story is:

Orientation: The cap seller as the participant (main character), once time as time setting, and in the
jungle as place setting. We note from discussion that the elements of orientation is shortly answering
who, when and where of the story.

Complication: The cap seller wants the monkeys to bring back his caps but the monkeys do not return
them. Of course this makes the cap seller face a problem. Complication in a narrative text is not always in
single problem. That is we know a major conflict and minor conflict.

Resolution: The cap seller gets the monkey to bring back the cap by acting of throwing his own cap. The
monkeys imitate what he has done so the problem is is solved. This story has happy ending as the cap
seller has his caps returned.

3. Contoh Narrative Text Fable – Story of Duck and Turtle

 Narrative text fable – story of ducks and turtle

Two ducks who lived in a big lake had a friend who was a turtle. One year there was a very little rain and
the lake began to dry up.

One of the ducks said to the other, “Soon, there’ll be no water in this lake. Let’s go and look for lake.”
“Yes, answered the second duck, “But first let’s say good bye to our friend, the turtle.”
When they told the turtle they were going to leave, he said, “I’ll die here without any water and without any
friends. Take me with you.”
“The ducks answered, “We can’t. We are going to fly, and you have no wings.”
“The turtle thought for a minute and then said, “please wait here.”

Then he went away and found a strong, straight stick. He brought it back to his friends, put the middle of it
in his mouth and said, “Now if each of you takes me one end of the stick in his mouth, you can lift me up
and carry me with you.”

“ That is dangerous,” said the ducks, “if you try to talk while we’re carrying you through the air, you won’t
be able to hold the stick, so you’ll fall down along way and break your shell.”
“all right,” answered the turtle, “I promise not to talk while we’re in the air. So the ducks took the stick and
flew away, with the turtle between them.
 narrative fable turtle and ducks and generic structure

All went well until they were flying over a town. Then some people saw them and shouted, “Look, those
ducks are carrying a cat!”The turtle got very angry, “A cat? I’m not …” he said, but he did not get any
further, because when he opened his mouth, the stick came out of his mouth and the poor turtle fell to the
ground.

Generic Structure Narrative Text:

1. Orientation: dalam cerita diatas jelas disebutkan tokoh cerita adalah seekor kura-kura dan 2 bebek
Two ducks who lived in a big lake had a friend who was a turtle.

2. Complication: Cerita diatas mengangkat konflik yang dimulai dengan tidak adanya air untuk bertahan
hidup kemudian mereka ingin pinadah kesuatu tempat dan membawah kura-kura tesebut terbang dengan
cara mengigit sebua tongkat kayu. Bertahan untuk tidak berbicara (supaya tidak terlepas gigitan kayu
saat tebang) inilah sebagai “major complication” dalam cerita diatas
“ That is dangerous,” said the ducks, “if you try to talk while we’re carrying you through the air, you won’t
be able to hold the stick, so you’ll fall down along way and break your shell.”
“all right,” answered the turtle, “I promise not to talk while we’re in the air. So the ducks took the stick and
flew away, with the turtle between them.

3. Resolution: cerita fable diatas dituutp dengan kegagalan kura-kura untuk tidak berbicara saat dibawah
terbang oelh kawanan bebek
because when he opened his mouth, the stick came out of his mouth and the poor turtle fell to the ground.