Narrative Text: The Story of Hare and Tortoise
There was once an arrogant hare who wanted to prove that he was better than everybody else, so he chose the slowest animal in the county, the tortoise, and invited him to a five mile race. The tortoise accepted his challenge and trained hard for the event, while the hare walked around boasting that he was going to humiliate the tortoise and make him look stupid. The day of the race dawned. The tortoise set off at a slow and steady pace, while the hare was dancing around laughing at him; other animals were laughing too, including the rabbit, the badger, and even the little hedgehog. The hare became exhausted from all his dancing around, so he decided to have a nap. When he awoke, he realised that a few hours had passed and the tortoise was nowhere to be seen. The hare panicked and ran the whole course as fast as he could, which was very fast indeed. As he reached the top of the final hill, he could see the finish line in the distance, with the tortoise walking slowly across it, the victor. Narrative text: Generic Structure As we all know that a narrative should explore problems among the charracters which lead into an interesting plot of the story. This plot determine the narrative story whether it runs smoothly or not. Well, the following note is the generic structure from the story of Hare and Tortoise. Orientation: It clearly states that the participants are the hare and the tortoise who live in once time. Complication: From the second, third, and forth parragraphs, we see that the major complication is set by the arogant hare. In the firs scene, hare and his suppoeters tried to humiliate tortoise while in the same time the tortoise was practicing hard. Because hare thought it was safe, he took a nap, but that was his big mistake. Resolution: The story of hare and tortoise is closed with the scene of tortoise winning the race. It was a bed and sad ending for hare but it was the victory of tortoise. Narrative Text: Moral Value There are two main purposes of writing a narrative text 1. Entertaining the readers with an interesting story. 2. Teaching a certain moral lesson to the readers.
What we can catch for above narrative text in the story of hare and tortoise is that we feel entertained with the fable story, animals do like we do. The second thing we get the point is that "fast" is not always winning but "slow" and steady is winning in the end. Orientation There was once an arrogant hare who wanted to prove that he was better than everybody else, so he chose the slowest animal in the county, the tortoise, and invited him to a five mile race Complication The tortoise accepted his challenge and trained hard for the event, while the hare walked around boasting that he was going to humiliate the tortoise and make him look stupid. The day of the race dawned. The tortoise set off at a slow and steady pace, while the hare was dancing around laughing at him; other animals were laughing too, including the rabbit, the badger, and even the little hedgehog. The hare became exhausted from all his dancing around, so he decided to have a nap. When he awoke, he realised that a few hours had passed and the tortoise was nowhere to be seen. The hare panicked and ran the whole course as fast as he could, which was very fast indeed. Resolution As he reached the top of the final hill, he could see the finish line in the distance, with the tortoise walking slowly across it, the victor.
TRANSLATE Dahulu, ada seekor kelinci yang ingin membuktikan dirinya bahwa iya lebih baik dari yang lain, jadi, ia memilih hewan paling lambat di negerinya, kura-kura, dan mengajaknya untuk balapan sejauh lima mil. Kura-kura menerima tantangannya dan berlatih keras untuk hal itu. Sementara kelinci berjalan keliling mengatakan bahwa ia akan mempermalukan kura-kura dan membuatnya terlihat bodoh Hari dimana perlombaan dimulai, kura-kura memulai dengan kecepatan lambat dan tetap, sementara kelinci menari-nari menertawakannya, binatang lainpun juga menertawakannya, termasuk kelinci, musang, dan bahkan landak kecil Kelinci kelelahan karena tariannya, jadi ia memutuskan untuk tidur sejenak. Ketika ia terbangun, ia menyadari bahwa beberapa jam telah berlalu dan kura-kura tidak terlihat dimana-mana.
Kelinci panic dan berlari sepanjang lintasan secepat yang ia bisa, dimana ia memang sangat cepat Saat ia mencapai puncak bukit terakhir, ia dapat melihat garis finis di kejauhan dengan kura-kura berjalan dengan lambat melewatinya, pemenang QUESTION 1. How many characters ? Answer : two characters, The Hare and The Tortoise 2. Who is the main characters ? Answer : The Hare and The Tortoise 3. What is the complication ? Answer : The Hare invited The Tortoise for five mile race and the tortoise accept it 4. What is the resolution ? Answer : The Tortoise won the challenge 5. Is there any moral value ? Answer : yes, "fast" is not always winning but "slow" and steady is winning in the end.
