PENGERTIAN NARRATIVE
Narrative is the most
famous type of any text. Various purposes are communicated in a narrative type.
However the way it is constructed is describing certain event, character or
phenomenon in detail. Narrative prefer showing to telling and that the power of
narrative. Reader will feel as he show by him self what happen in the text.
Actually narrative can be fiction such as short story or novel and non-fiction
like memoirs.
According to Madison
smart Bell, the narrative design, or what we call form or structure, is of
first and final importance to any work of fiction. In that structure, we will
find elements of story; characterization, point of view, theme and plot. Plot
is the way of the story constructed.
When we read a text,
we can call it narrative as we see the following generic structure inside the
text:
Orientation;
the introduction of what is inside the text. What text is talk in general. Who
involves in the text. When and where it happen.
Complication;
what happens with the participants. It explores the conflict among the
participants. Complication is the main element of narrative. Without
complication, the text is not narrative. The conflict can be shown as natural,
social or psychological conflict.
Resolution;
this is the phase where the participants solve the problem aroused by the
conflict. It is not matter whether the participants succeed or fail. The point
is the conflict becomes ended.
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