Enchanted Fish

Helloo welcome back to my blog, it'me lutfi and i will explain you about narrative text.

Before starting I will open with the song

" Ibu Pertiwi "

A. The definition of narrative text

Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.

B. The purpose of narrative text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

C. Characteristic features

The following are the characteristics of Narrative Text, including:

1. Narrative Text tells a story from the past.

2. Use a noun (noun) to replace the animal, person, or object pronoun in the story.  (The Dwarfs, Carriage, etc) (Dwarves, Carriages, etc.).

3. It is more of a folk tale or is already known and developed in the community as a shared story even though it can be retold in different versions of the story.  (Malin Kundang / Indonesia: Tanggang / Malaysia)

4. The elements of the story consist of time and place settings, story themes, story characters, story atmosphere, conflict and resolution.

5. Can be arranged into a simple sequence or composed of several complex sequences.

6. Sequence is a series of statements in which the execution is sequential / coherent.  What is found first will be done first and if the order of the statements is reversed it will have a different meaning.

D. Generic Structures of Narrative Text

1) Orientation

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

2) Complication

Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

3) Resolution

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending

4) Re-orientation/Coda

This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists  of  a  moral  lesson,  advice  or  teaching  from  the writer.

E. The Characteristics / Language Feature of Narrative Text

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)

– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)

– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)

– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)

– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)

– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense.

F. Type

The following are several types of Narrative Text, including:

1. Fable (fable): A story that tells about an animal.

2. Myth (mite): This story or myth has developed a lot in society and is generally considered to be a factual story or actually happened.

3. Legend (legend): A folk tale that tells how the origin of a place exists.

4. Folk tale (folk tales): A story that is told from generation to generation so that it becomes a part of community traditions.

5. Fairy tales (fairy tales): Folk stories or children's stories which contain elements of the magic / impossibility of the characters in the story and at the end contain moral messages.

6. Love story: A love story emphasizes the theme of the story, which is the struggle to get love for the main character. Besides that, there are also other types such as: Science fiction, Horror, Mystery, History, Slice of life, Personal experience, etc.

Next, this is video materials about narrative text...

Example :

Snow White

(Orientation)

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.

(Resolution)

One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White. (Major Complication)

Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

(Complication)

She was very tired and hungry.

(Resolution)

Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

(Complication)

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, what is your name? Snow White said, ‘My name is Snow White’.

(Major Resolution)

Doc said, ‘If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White said, ‘Oh could I? Thank you.’ Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.

 Enchanted Fish

There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a small hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One day, as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water. He quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge fish. “Wow! This will feed us for days.” Much to his surprise, the fish started to talk and said, “Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince. Put me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o' kind fisherman.” The astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, “I don't want to hurt a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from.”

When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. “Didn't you ask it for anything?” said the wife. “No, I didn't, what should I have asked for?” replied the fisherman.

“I am surprised you don't realize what you should have asked for. We live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty hut. We are poor and I am so miserable. You should have asked for a nice cozy cottage. Now go back and ask the fish that we want a snug little cottage”, said his wife.

The fisherman wasn't sure about this but he still went to the seashore, sat in his boat, went to the middle of the sea and said:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!

Hear my plea!

My wife wants not what I want,

and she won't give up till she has her own will,

so come forth and help me!”

The fish immediately came swimming to him, and said, “Well, what is her will? How can I help your wife?” “Ah!” said the fisherman, “she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go. She does not like living in our little hut, and wants a snug little cottage.” “Go home, then,” said the fish, “She is already in the cottage!” So the fisherman went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. “Come in, come on in! Look at the beautiful cottage we have.” Everything went fine for a while, and then one day fisherman's wife said, “Husband, there is not enough room for us in this cottage, go back to the fish and tell him to make me an emperor.” “Wife,” said the fisherman, “I don't want to go to him again. Perhaps he will be angry. We ought to be happy with what the fish has given us and not be greedy.” “Nonsense!” said the wife; “The fish will do it very willingly, I know. Go along and try!” With a heavy heart the fisherman went to the middle of the sea and said:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!

Hear my plea!

My wife wants not what I want,

and she won't give up till she has her own will,

so come forth and help me!”

“What would she have now?” said the fish. “Ah!” said the fisherman, “she wants to be an emperor.” “Go home,” said the fish; “She is an emperor already.”

So he went home and he saw his wife sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high. And on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row. The fisherman went up to her and said, “Wife, are you an emperor?” “Yes”, said she, “I am an emperor.” “Ah!” said the man, as he gazed upon her, “What a fine thing it is to be an emperor!” “Husband,” said she, “it is good to be an emperor.” They were happy for a while.

Then a time came when she was not able to sleep all night for she was thinking what she should ask next. At last, as she was about to fall asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose. “Ha!'” thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, “after all I cannot prevent the sun from rising.” At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, “Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be Lord of the sun and the moon.” The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he fell out of the bed. “Alas, wife!” said he, “cannot you be happy with being such a  powerful emperor?” “No,” said she, “I am very uneasy as long as the sun and the moon rise without my permission. Go to the fish at once!” “I don't think this is a good idea,” said the fisherman but his wife wouldn't listen to him. “ Why don't you just go and ask the fish to make me the Lord of everything,” she said.

Then the man went shivering with fear. As he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose. The trees and the very rocks shook and the sky became black with stormy clouds. There were great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. Unfortunately the fisherman did not have any choice, so he got onto his boat and rowed to the middle of the sea and cried out as loud as he could:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!

Hear my plea!

My wife wants not what I want,

and she won't give up till she has her own will,

so come forth and help me!”

“What does she want now?” said the fish. “I am truly ashamed of my wife's greed but I can't do anything. She wants to be Lord of the sun and the moon. “Go home,” said the fish, “to your small hut.” And it is said that they live there to this very day.

Exercise 

1. Did the fisherman like asking the fish for wishes? How did he feel about it? Do you think he could have done something else instead of going back to the fish again and again? No, he feel ashamed. I think he could advised his wife not to be greedy.

2. The story doesn't reveal how the prince was turned into a fish. What do you think might have happened? I think the Prince might sinful to his parents. So, his parents cursed Prince became a fish.

3. Do you think the prince will stay a fish forever? I think no. He will turn into a human again if he doing a favor.

4. What happened at the end of the story? Please describe!  At the end of the story, fisherman's wife wants to be queen of the sun and the moon. So with embarrased, fisherman asked the fish to granted the request of his wife. Felt it was outrageous, fish transformed them became poor again.

5. Why did the fisherman's wife keep asking her husband to go back to the fish? Because, fisherman's wife was greedy.

6. What do you think of fisherman's wife? Do you feel sorry for her? Or do you feel angry with her? Discuss! I think, fisherman's wife was greedy and I feel angry with her because she always asked some thing even that imposible.

7. If you had a chance to rewrite the story, how would the story end? Write you ending of the story? Fisherman's wife want to be Lord of the sun and the moon. So, she asked her husband to go back to the fish. But, with her husband firmly refused her request. "You must realize, the fish was already given something big to us. You should be thankful and grateful to him." Said fisherman. Finally, his wife realize and apologized to her husband.

8. Imagine you are the fish in the story. Can you narrate the story form his point of view?  

 Once upon a time there was a fisherman. He caught me. I told him i wasn't a real fish but the Prince, then he let me go.

  After he reached home, he told his wife about what happened. His wife wanted him to ask me something. She asked the fisherman to ask me for a cottage. Then the fisherman came to me, called me, told me what did his wife wanted. I gave him.

  The fisherman's wife kept asking me something again and again. She wanted to be the Lord of the sun and the moon. The fisherman asked to me, but i said to him to go home, to his small hut. The fisherman and his wife became poor again and live there together.

9. What lesson did you learn from this story? Don't be greedy and be grateful for what has given.

● In my opinion story Enchanted fish is interesting because there is a good moral message :

1. Do not behave greedy for something

2. should be grateful for what you have owned

This is banner, a place that I believe there live an echanted fish and you can make a wish

Kepulauan Seribu

   The district government center is located on Pramuka Island, which started to function as the district government center since 2003. There are two Districts in the Seribu Islands Administrative Regency, namely the South Seribu Islands District and the North Seribu Islands District.

  The South Seribu Islands District oversees three urban villages, namely Pulau Tidung Village, Pulau Pari Village, and Pulau Untung Jawa Village.  The North Seribu Islands District oversees three sub-districts as well, namely Pulau Kelapa Village, Pulau Harapan Village, and Panggang Island Village.

   The Thousand Islands Administrative District has a population of 24,295 people (2019), which are spread over eleven small inhabited islands.  The eleven islands include Untung Jawa Island, Pari Island, Lancang Island, Tidung Besar Island, Tidung Kecil Island, Pramuka Island, Panggang Island, Harapan Island, Kelapa Island, Kelapa Dua Island, and Sebira Island.  Apart from inhabited islands, there are also several islands which are used as tourist islands, such as Bidadari Island, Onrust Island, Kotok Besar Island, Puteri Island, Matahari Island, Sepa Island, and so on.

This narrative by me

True Friends

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend”.

☆ this is my video about "TRUE FRIENDS"

And I end this material, then let's sing a song together " Apuse"

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