Name : Sarifia Larasati Putri

NIM : 18019108
Class : NK-3

1. Structure

The Mermaid

Orientation
Long time ago there was a princess who was suffer of the witch’s magic.

Actually, the princess was very beautiful and kind person. Anybody loved her except her sister
who was so jealous of her.

If the princess still had her beauty, so every prince would prefer to marry her rather than her
sister.

Complication
One day, the sister ordered a witch to change the princess beauty into an ugly face.

The witch gave a bottle of poison to her to be added into the princess food. That poison would
change princess’ appearance into an ugly one.

At the evening when the dinner started, the sister added the poison into the food for the princess.
Nobody knew about that. The princess ate her food without noticed that there was a danger
inside her food.

After eating, in the night, the princess’ skin was blister. The princess felt hurt and she cried to
ask for a help.

No one could help her even the physicians in that kingdom. The princess was looked so scary
like a monster. She was so sad and shy because anybody was afraid of her. Then she ran away
and away from the kingdom.

She walked alone through the deep forest day and night. She was like a monster so that no
animal or predator was brave to close to her. That made her more and more sad.
She walked until she reached a beach and then she felt so tired because she never had a rest from
walking.

Resolution
At that beach she began to sleep. She did not realized that she had been sleeping for three months
and she woke up because there was a very handsome man come and woke her up.

“Wake up dear poor princes.” The man said.

“Oh, who are you? Why are you not afraid of me?” the princess asked.

“I am the king of the sea. You have been sleeping here for three months in suffer. So, it is the
time for me to help you. I will give back your beauty but after that you will never get your
previous life.” The man said.

“Oh, my lord, you are so kind. I have lost my previous life so I like to have the new life. What
should I do my lord?” the princess asked.

“Follow me to come closer to the sea.”

The princess followed that man walked into the sea. After touching the sea, the princess’ beauty
was back to her. She also amazed that the half of her body was a fish body.

“Now you cannot stay at the land dear princess, you will forever live in the sea like the fish. But
don’t be sad. I will marry you and you will be the queen in my kingdom.” The man said.

Since that, the princess never went back to the land. The king of the sea married her and she
became the queen of the sea.

Sometimes she appeared at the corral to see the sun. Some tailors or fisherman who had ever
seen her called her a mermaid.

2. Social function
Entertain the readers by the story
Educate the readers to take the moral value from the story

3. Language features
Use past tense
Use " long time ago"