TASK 5

TASK FOR MEETING 5

McGrath (1955) says that when the authors writers narrative text, he/she tells the reader story. Although narrative serve a variety of purpose, the most successful ones usually share three basic characteristics: they are clearly organized in time, make a central point, and contain specific details relevant to that point. It’s purposed to entertain, to gain and hold a readers' interest. A narrative text refers to any type of text that tells a story. This type of text can be fictional (made up) or non fictional (a personal account of an event).

How to differ narrative writing and other writing genres

           

The most fundamental difference narrative text with other writing genre is in generic structure. Narrative text has generic structure they are:

• Orientation
• Complication
• Resolution
• Re-orientation

I will give more explanation differences narrative text and other writing, I choose for example differences between narrative and recount writing.

The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the generic structure. Recount writing presents the past experiences in order of time or place; what happened on Sunday, then on Monday, the on Tuesday. In simple way, recount describes series of events in detail. It does not expose the struggle on how to make them happen. The event happened smoothly.

On the other hand, narrative introduces crises and how to solve them. Narrative writing always appear as a hard portrait of participant’s past experience. It reveals the conflict among the participants. Cinderella’s conflicts with her step mother and sister are the example. The conflict is the most important element in a narrative writing. Narrative without conflicts is not narrative any more.

How to make a narrative writing
  

• Decide topic

What is the story you want to tell?

Example: My bad experience to bought handbag

• Decide  your plot and setting

Example: plot (forward), setting (setting place on supermarket), (setting time in the evening).

• Make orientation text for introducing

Example:

One day there was a young girl named Arum Nur Wijayanti. She is careless and prodigal girl. She was attractive and cheerful in daily activity.  She was me. I lived with her parents and my sisters.   All of my sisters already got married.  My parents and my sister is a teacher. I was school in SMA N 1 PUNGGUR when the third semester I went to Bekasi to visited my sister. I went to Bekasi with my father by bus. When arrived in my sister’s house I did my activity like usual in my house. But in Bekasi I always go around by bicycle. I always go alone by bicycle in every morning and evening.

• Make complication for crisis of story

Example:

Then I was so shock and sad because the money was not enough with the price. The price was more expansive then the money which I brought it.

• Make resolution from the story this step it is the final series of the events which happen in the story.

Example:

I said “sorry my money was not enough. I failure to bought this handbag and I will bought someday, thank you”.  I went out from the supermarket with my disenchanted.

• The last re orientation for closing the story.

Example:

I was so sad, shy, and I ride her bicycle while cried. I didn’t tell with my father and my sister and the next morning I back to my village with my father by travel.

Analyze the topic sentences

Unpayable Handbag

            My bad experience when I failure to bought handbag in supermarket. This happened when I in Bekasi. One day there was a young girl named Arum Nur Wijayanti. She is careless and prodigal girl. She was attractive and cheerful in daily activity.  She was me. I lived with her parents and my sisters.   All of my sisters already got married.  My parents and my sister is a teacher. I was school in  SMA N 1 PUNGGUR when the third semester I went to Bekasi to visited my sister. I went to Bekasi with my father by bus. When arrived in my sister’s house I did my activity like usual in my house. But in Bekasi I  always go around  by bicycle. I always go alone by bicycle in every morning and evening. 

        The next evening I go around by bicycle. I went to come back in my village. So I prepared my needed for tomorrow. When go around I went to supermarket to bought handbag for my things, because I brought many things so I need handbag. I brought a few of money that was Rp 20.000 to buy that handbag. When I entered in supermarket I was looking for that handbag, and the situation in supermarket was crowded in the evening. I found that handbag and I took. The price was not written as usual in the handbag. So I just took. I made line with the other customer and the made line was so long. Then when my turn I said “How much?” and the caseer said “Just it, RP 27.500”. Then I was so shock and sad because the money was not enough with the price. The price was more expansive then the money which I brought it. Than the caseer said “You would take it this handbag?” and I said “sorry my money was not enough. I failure to bought this handbag and I will bought someday, thank you”.  I went out from the supermarket with my disenchanted.

I was so sad, shy, and I ride my bicycle while cried. I didn’t tell with my father and my sister and the next morning I back to my village with my father by travel.

Note:

Underlined sentences are called topic sentence because they are outline from the paragraph. The following sentences explain or describe the idea in more detil. Those following sentences are mostly called supporting sentence.