for the reader: But, often the characters are made up based on the author's imagination.

c. Action or Conflict

Every narrative text has one major or event -sometimes involves conflict- that leads up
to the final, climatic scene, the final explosion or insight. All good stories usually have
some kind of conflict. The purpose is to make the story more interesting and keep the
reader's interest to finish the story. Action, according to Amer is something that happen
in the story or something that characters do as result of ,26 problem which is made up of
events that lead to the resolution.2" In other words, it is a response of something that
happen on the story. It can be character's attitude toward an event, thought, dialogues, or
statements.

d. Dialogue

Dialogue in narrative is an action when the character talks between characters or when
the character talks to himself or herself which brings the story alive for the reader. In
other words, it is verbal exchange between characters. In narrative text the dialogue
used is usually everyday conversation.

36Aly A. Amer, The Ellect of Story CGrammar Instructon on EFT Students

Comprehension of Narrative Text, (Reading in a Foreign Language, 8(2). 1992), p 712