Nama:QOWIYATUS SHOLIHA

Kelas: IX A

SMPN 1 BANYUASIN III

Narrative text legend – Sura and Baya

A long time ago, there were two animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was the name of a shark and Baya was a crocodile. They lived in a sea.

Once Sura and Baya were looking for some food. Suddenly, Baya saw a goat “Yummy, this is my lunch,” said Baya. “No way! This is my lunch. You are greedy” said Sura. Then they fought for the goat. After several hours, they were very tired.

Feeling tired of fighting, they lived in the different places. Sura lived in the water and Baya lived in the land. The border was the beach, so they would never fight again.

One day, Sura went to the land and looked for some food in the river. He was very hungry and there was not much food in the sea. Baya was very angry when he knew that Sura broke the promise. They fought again.

They both hit each other. Sura bit Baya’s tail. Baya did the same thing to Sura. He bit very hard until Sura finally gave up and went back to the sea. Baya was happy.

Note on the Generic Structure of Narrative Text
How we know that the legend of Surabaya above is a narrative text? Can we find the proof that the story of Sura and Baya is a narrative?. Which point does show us that the the legend above deserves to be labeled as narrative story? Can we answer such questions? Or even we ask ” Do we need to find the proof?

Well, I think finding the proof which shows that the story above is narrative or not is important. Remember we, high school students, often find questions like

What is the genre of the text?

What is text types of the story above?

What type is the text above?

And of course, that such question can vary from phrase to another ones. The point of such questions are only one if we have the ability to identify the type of that legend story. So how we can identify the types of every text? That is the important of knowing generic structure of the text. Now lets see it

Structure	Contents
Orientation	The orientation is Sura and Baya as the participants of the story. Remember a participant can be a character in another term
Complication	There is a confrontation scene among the participants. It is the fighting between Sura and Baya. The fight for food happen several times and they determine the plot of the story as a whole
Resolution	Baya is happy because Sura gives up in the last fighting

That’s all about the example of narrative text in the legend of Sura and Baya (Surabaya city). Providing with the generic structure analysis, hopefully this post helps you to understand and identify any text easily, which  is narrative and which one is not.