8 Examples of Narrative Text with Generic Structure in the Fable Stories

 Understanding Text now is posting about story of narrative text. I'm sure all of you who are studying in high schools are very familiar with it. Even in the previous post, we collected a huge list in example of narrative text. However we can not say that it is enough to learn it.

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.

For most students who are in high school and learning English narrative text, fable story becomes the favorite one. It is admitted as fable always attracts so much. The ability of animals to act like human qualities makes the story interesting. It also teaches some moral values left after reading. So Below is the story of frog and ants.

Do you know fable? I'm sure you have known. It is a story which depicts animals to speak and do like human. Now, let's see the following example of narrative text in fable story. Fable is commonly called animal story because the fictional story is featuring animals, plants, or forces of nature that have human qualities such as ability to speak. 

When we read a text and labelled it as narrative because we find the following generic structure inside the text:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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.

Understanding the Generic Structure of Narrative Text Samples in the Fable Stories.

Completing the set of narrative text story before, we adds another fable stories that could be used as one example of narrative text. Stories mouse deer and crocodile is the story of the people who is quite popular in Indonesia and Asia.

1. Example of Narrative Text Fable: Frog and Ants Crossing the River

In a bright day, a group of ants walked to find foods for their colony. An ant named Cryo saw very delicious bread across the river. The group is joyful but they wonder how to cross the river.
Gogi the frog saw the group and come closer.
“Hi ants, you look troubled, what happen?”
“We saw a big crump over there but we don’t know how to cross the river”, Cryo answered.
“Oh, I can help you, just jump to my back”, said Gogi.
The ants jumped on Gogi’s back but all of a sudden, Gogi felt so ticklish and wiggle so the ants fell apart.
“I’m sorry, I think it will not work”, said Gogi. He felt sorry for the ant and then, he got an idea. He took a leaf and put it on the water.
“You all get on the leaf and I will push you cross the river”, said Gogi to the ants.
The ants followed Gogi instruction and they successfully cross the river. They took the bread; put it on the leaf, and Gogi once again pushed the leaf back to where they were. The ants were very thankful to Gogi that smile brightly.

Analysis of the Generic Structure
Most narrative texts, including a fable, is constructed by common generic structure. The story  begins with some characters which appear in the first paragraph. The story continue to some complication issues. The story find the solution.
1. Orientation: The ants and the frog near the river
2. Complication: It is difficult to reach the bread over the river
3. Resolution: The frog helps the ants to get the bread

That's all about the fable of the ants and the frog. They live helping to each other. The behavior which is described in the story is a moral lesson.

2. Example of Narrative Text Fable: 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 characters 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.
1. Orientation: It clearly states that the participants are the hare and the tortoise who live in once time.
2. Complication: From the second, third, and forth paragraphs, we see that the major complication is set by the arrogant hare. In the firs scene, hare and his supporters 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.
3. 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.

3. Example of Narrative Text Fable: The Story of Mouse Deer and Elephant

One day, there was a mouse deer. He was trapped in a hole that had been made by a group of hunters.
The mouse deer screamed for help but no one heard him. It was hopeless for him to escape from the trap. He waited and waited and finally  an elephant came. He  was happy and asked for help but the elephant  was not smart enough to help him. The elephant did not know how to do
In the end, the mouse deer got a bright idea. He said to the elephant, "Come down here! Come down to this hole so you can help me get out!" Foolishly The elephant agreed and followed the mouse deer's order. The elephant jumped down to the hole.
Of course the mouse deer quickly hopped on the elephant's body and then hopped out of the hole. He was free and leaving the elephant trapped in the hole in turn.

Note on the generic structure
Each story or article can be included as an example of narrative text of origin meet the elements of generic structure as follows:
1. Orientation: Introduction figure when and where the story. In the story of the deer and elephants above, clearly stated that the orientation is the deer itself and an elephant in once time.
2. Complication: Conflicts or problems. The basic concept desire problems are nothing like reality. The deer wanted to get out of the trap but could not. Even the elephant did not know how to help the deer.
3. Resolution: In the end, with a little trickery, the deer can get out of the trap while the elephant helper mlah terjebah own.

Moral Lessons We can Take
Each of us must strive to do good. Helping is a commendable attitude. However, having the attitude and good intentions are not enough. We must also smart.

4. Example of Narrative Text Fable: The Thirsty Crow

On a hot day, a thirsty crow flew over a field looking for water. For a long time, she could not find any. She left very exhausted. She almost gave up.
Suddenly, she saw water jug below her. She flew straight down to see if there was any water inside. It was surprised because there was some water inside the jug. The crow tried to push her head into the jug. Sadly she found that the neck of the jug was too narrow. Then she tried to push the jug down for the water to flow out but she found that the jug was too heavy.
The crow thought hard for a while. Then she was looking around. She saw some pebbles. She suddenly had a good idea. She started picking up the pebbles one by one, dropping it into the jug. As more and more pebbles filled the jug, the water level kept rising. Soon it was high enough for the crow to drink. “It’s working” she said.

Generic Structure Analysis
1. Orientation; introducing specific participants; a crow
2. Complication; revealing a series of crisis: the thirsty crow found some water inside the jug but she could not find the way to drink it
3. Resolution; the crisis is resolve: the crow found the way to drink water from the jug by filling the jug with some pebbles.

Language Feature Analysis
Using saying verb; said
Using thinking verb; thought
Using action verb; flew
Using time conjunction; on a hot day
Using connectives; then, suddenly, then, soon
Using past tense; the crow thought hard

5. Example of Narrative Text Fable: Mouse Deer and Crocodile

Once upon time there were a smart mouse deer. He lived near a river. The mouse deer used to go to the river to drink.
One day, the mouse deer was thirsty. He wanted to drink in the river but he knew that crocodiles were staying and waiting underwater to eat him. Hi thought hard and got bright idea. He said out loudly. “I will put in my leg and find out whether the water is warm or not” Of course the mouse deer did not do what he said. He did not put his leg but the mouse deer took a wood stick and put one end into the water. Blurrr…! Surely a rocodile grabbed the wood stick and pulled it underwater. Seeing that, the mouse deer laughed and said "Stupid crocodile! Can't you see the difference between a wood stick and a leg?” Then the mouse deer ran to another side of the river and drink some water.
On the following day, the mouse deer  was hungry. He wanted to eat some grass on the side of the river so he had to to cross the dangerous river which was full of crocodiles. Again he thought hard and found another sart idea and said loudly “Crocodiles come up!” then some crocodiles rose from the water. They looked happy and saw their sharp teeth and said “Hello, Mouse Deer. Do you come to be my lunch? We are hungry” The mouse deer just smiled and replied. “Sorry, Crocodiles, not today, I come to you to bring an invitation from the king. You are invited to the party. The king ordered me to count all crocodiles in this river so he knew how to prepare enough meal for you.”
All the crocodiles felt happy and said “Really…? Tell us what to do,” said a crocodile. “You have to line up from this side of the river to the other side,” said the mouse deer. Not long after that the crocodile got all his friends and family. He ordered to lined up across the river. the mouse deer then jumped on the Crocodile’s back. “One,” the mouse deer counted. He jumped onto the next crocodile, “Two.” And he jumped again on the next crocodile, “Three.” he kept jumping until he arrived on the other side of the river. “Just enough,” said the mouse deer. "I have counted all of you" He laughed and ran to the field of grass.

6. Example of Narrative Fable: Story of Rabbit and Bear

Once upon a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good advantage.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.
The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. Th e rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.

7. Example of Narrative Text: The Fable Story of The Rabbit and the Tiger

Once upon a time, there was a small rabbit trapped in a big hole in the middle of a jungle. He was confused because there were no roots or branches that could be used for climbing. Suddenly, he heard a roar. It was coming from the king of the jungle, which is the tiger. He realized that it could be the end of his life if the tiger knew he was there.
However, the small rabbit was not stupid. He understood that the tiger was the only chance for him to get out from the hole. Without a doubt, the small rabbit called the tiger loudly, “Hey, tiger come here!” Tiger heard the calling and searched for it. The king of the jungle found a small rabbit in the bottom of a hole. Tiger laughed because he thought that he would have a delicious easy meal that day.
Before the tiger jumped to the hole, the rabbit told him, “Tiger, you can eat me but with one condition, you must turn your back and counting from one to 50.”
“I want to take off my clothes, so you can eat my flesh easily, so do not look back”, the rabbit added.
Without asking, the tiger did what rabbit asked. He turned his back, closed his eyes and counting. In that position, his tail went down to the hole, near the rabbit’s position. As soon as possible, the rabbit grabbed the tail, jumped onto the tiger’s back and then run as fast as he could. He said to tiger, “Thank you for helping me out Tiger.”

8. Example of Narrative Text Fable: The Strength of Doves

Once upon a time, there was a group of doves flew led by their leader. They were searching for foods. One day, they felt very tired because they had flown for a long time. The leader encouraged the group to keep flying. One of the doves finally found some corn scattered beneath a tree. He told the group about it and they landed there and began to eat.
Suddenly, a big net fell and they were trapped. A man was approaching with a huge bag in his hand. The doves desperately flapped their wings. They were trying to get out from the net. The attempt was failed. The leader had a good idea. He said that all doves must fly up together. He said to his group that they would have strength to carry the net with them if they work together.
Each of the doves then picked a small part of the net. They flew together and carrying the net. The hunter looked shocked and he tried to run after them. But, the doves were flying in a speed. They flew above the hill and reached a temple where they found a mouse that helped them cut the net.

As all know stories of animals being part of a kind of narrative text because it meets the schematic structure element that is Orientation, Complication and Resolution. The English stories are also completed with the generic structure analysis that can be used to enrich our knowledge of narrative text.

Adventure stories that other mouse deer is a mouse deer and tiger and mouse deer and farmer. Narrative text on this mouse  deer considered smart animal and is  enough and resourceful to make one story so popular and loved by many children. Example of narrative text relating to fable story. Animal stories can be categorized as a narrative text if the story that meet the elements of the generic structure of narrative text, namely: Orientation, Complication and Resolution. Now let's see the following fable story

We have given you the examples of fable story for learning narrative text, the story of the frog and ants crossing river, attracts some readers. So to have more reading text, we now give this fable story of rabbit and tiger. Fable should have ability to arouse reader's attention to catch the moral value to be applied the real life.

Here is what we can learn from animal story. This fable  gives a great moral lesson. What is it? We can be very strong if we unite together. If we do thing individually, it may be weaker. So some people give the title for the doves story as Unity is Strength.

That's all the narrative text in the story of animals. Hopefully it can be enjoyable and help you to get better understanding on what is a narrative story and how it is organized.

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