Example of Narrative Text :
Text Narrative 1 :
Sleeping Beauty
The king and queen
were celebrating the birth of their only daughter. The fairies of the kingdom
came to the palace to celebrate the new born baby. And, as tradition marked,
each one gave a gift to the child. But as the youngest fairy was about to
bestow her gift upon the baby, a witch came in! The witch was very angry
because she hadn’t been invited to the party.
”One day the princess
will prick her finger on a spindle and die!” she shouted bitterly.
”No!” intervened the
youngest fairy, ”Instead, she will sleep for a hundred years.”
The youngest fairy did
not have the power to cancel the witch’s spell, but she could change the spell
and help the princess.
The following day, the
king ordered his people to burn any spindles in the ki' The king and queen were
happy to see their daughter grow up happily and healthily.
One sunny spring day,
the princess took a walk together with her lady companions. The lady companions
were so busy talking that they didn’t see the princess opening an old wooden
door with full of curiosity.
”Well!” said the
princess, ”I’ve never been here before.”
After going up a long
flight of stairs, the princess found a room with an old woman spinning with a
spindle. The young lady had never seen one before and was very curious!
The princess went in
and asked, ”What are you doing, old lady?”
”I’m spinning a
spindle. Come nearer and you’ll be able to do it, I’ll show you how.” Said the
evil witch.
Soon after, the lady
companions found the young princess lying on the floor. When they saw spindle,
they immediately understood what had happened.
”Oh, no! She has
pricked herself! The young princess has pricked herself and will now sleep for
one hundred years!” they cried.
The king ordered the
princess to be taken to the best room in the palace and sent his messengers to
find the youngest fairy. When the youngest fairy came, she waved her magic wand
and everybody who accompanied the princess immediately fell asleep, too.
The years went by.
Nobody remembered the princess and the curse anymore until, one day, a young
prince decided to climb up the tallest tree and see what the abandoned palace
was hiding. There he saw the princess and fell in love with her.
The prince went into
the palace. He thought the sleeping princess was so beautiful that he kneeled
next to her bed to kiss her cheek. Magically, the ”Sleeping Beauty” and the
whole palace awoke.
The following year,
the prince asked the princess to marry him. Eventually, they became the
happiest couple in the kingdom and lived happily ever after.
Text Narrative 2 :
The Old Grandfather and His Grandson
Once upon a time,
there was a very old grandfather. His eyes were almost blind, his ears were
deaf and his knees shook. When he sat at the table, he could not hold the spoon
strongly. He spilled soup on the tablecloth. Besides, some of his soup would
run back out of his mouth.
His son and his son’s
wife were annoyed. Finally they made the old grandfather sat in the corner behind
the stove. They gave him not enough food in a clay bowl. He sat there and
looked at them sadly. He was almost crying.
One day the old
grandfather could not hold the bowl because his hands were too weak. The bowl
fell to the ground and broke. The woman scolded him. However, the old
grandfather did not say anything. He could only cry. Then, he bought him a
wooden bowl and made him eat from it.
Once the husband and
wife were sitting in the dining room, their four-year-old son put together some
pieces of wood on the floor. His father asked him what he was doing. The little
child said that he was making a bowl for his father and mother to eat from when
he became an adult.
The man and the woman
looked at each other. They began to cry. They brought the old grandfather to
the table immediately. Since then, they always let him eat there. If he spilled
a little, they didn’t say anything.
Text Narrative 3 :
The Two Friends and The Bear
One day, two young
friends, Ida and Rizki decided to go exploring together. Before they set out
they promised that if they met with any danger they would face it together.
They went deep into a
deserted part of forest. Suddenly, a bear came out from the bushes towards
them. Ida quickly climbed the nearest tree. Rizki saw that he did not have time
to escape. So he laid down on the ground and pretended to be dead.
The bear growled as it
came closer and closer. It sniffed around Rizki and went close to his ear.
Rizki held his breath and kept very still. A short while later, the bear
grunted and went away. It is known that some bears will not touch you if you
’play dead’.
Ida came down from the
tree and asked, ”Why did the bear put its mouth to your ear?” ”Yes, Adam
replied, the bear told me not to make friends with people who ran away and left
others to face danger by themselves”.
Text Narrative 4 :
The Golden Tree
Once upon a time, in a
little village, there was a big palace and in the palace, there lived a rich
king.
One day, the king
promised one of his gadeners would give three million gold coins if he could
grow a tree all year round, which bore rich golden fruits. The gardener
searched all over the countryside but he couldn’t find the right seed to grow a
tree, which would bear golden fruit.
So last, he went to
see old owl that lived deep in the forest and knew all about many things. The
wise old owl told him to do and where to go get the right seed to plant. The
gardener did exactly what he was told. He planted the seed and he waited.
Suddenly the tree sprang up so quickly.
The tree began to bear
rich golden fruit. The gardener ran back to the palace and took the king to see
the tree. The king was very surprised. Therefore, the king agreed to give the
gardener his money. The gardener went home and lived happily ever after.
Text Narrative 5 :
Princess Who Loved to Sing
Princess Isabel loved to sing very
much. She sang anytime and anywhere. When she was singing, everyone must be
quite. If not, she would punish them.
One day, an old beggar asked her some
money while she was singing. Princess Isabel was very angry, but the beggar was
angry, too. The old beggar was actually a witch. She cursed Isabel, ”From now
on you can’t sing!”
Fortunately, there was a fairy. She
was a good one. She said, ”You can sing again after you do a good thing to
someone else”
Text Narrative 6 :
Roro Jonggrang
It is a story about a
beautiful woman called Roro Jonggrang and a giant called Bandung Bondowoso. The
giant fell in love with the woman and asked he to marry him. However, the woman
refused as she knoew that the giant had killed her father.
The woman would marry
the giant if he could build a thousand temples in one night. The giant decided
to fulfill her request. He asked some ghosts to help him build one thousand
temples in one night.
In the next morning,
Bandung built only 999 temples, so Roro Jonggrang refused to marry him. Bandung
was very angry and he spelled out his magic words to complete his job.
Unfortunately, it was far from his hope. The magic words turned Roro Jonggrang
into a stone.
This story is one of
the several well-known legends in Indonesia. You can still enjoy the statue of
Roro Jonggrang in Prambanan Temple, Central Java, Indonesia.
