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Narrative text
LEGENDS

I. The Student Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
 Specify general description of narrative text.
 Specify detailed and implied information.
 Specify function/purpose of narrative text
 Specify the meaning of words or sentences in narrative text
 Arrange jumbled sentences into a good paragraph in the form of recount text about
past activities.
 Identify text structure in narrative text.
 Write a simple narrative text about a legend based on ‘pictures in series’ by
considering text structure of narrative text.

II. LEARNING MATERIAL

What is Narrative?
Narrative is a text that tells a story. It can be imaginary.
The purpose of the text to entertain or amuse the readers

A narrative text should answer some questions as follows:

Who, where, when?

What happened with the characters?

How did the characters overcome the problems?

What are good values of the story?

Types of narrative text:

1. Folktales
2. Legends
3. Fables
4. Myths
5. Fairy stories
What is a legend?
A legend is a story coming down from the past; especially : one popularly
regarded as historical although not verifiable. The examples are Malin Kundang,
Lutung Kasarung, Tangkuban Perahu, Danau Toba, Roro Jongrang, etc.

Generic Structure
Narrative text consists of three parts:

1. Orientation
Presents the background on what, when, where the story and introduced the characters
involved.

2. Complication / problem / crisis

Sequence of events that lead the characters into a complication (where the crisis arises)
It is usually in the middle of the story.

3. Resolution
It is the end of the story. Sometimes the story ends happily or sadly.

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

Grammatical Features
 Use of Past Tense
 eg: lived, asked, came, felt, etc.

 Use Adverbs of Time (kata keterangan waktu)

 e.g : once, once upon a time, long time ago, etc.

 Adverbvial Conjunction
eg : then, after that, soon, before, first, at last, finally, etc.

 Adjectives (to describe the people, animal or things in the story)

 eg : beautiful girl, kind man, handsome boy, long black hair, etc.

 Use of Action Verbs (kata kerja yang berkenaan dengan kegiatan fisik)
 eg: They went up the hill

 Use of Mental Processes (kata kerja yang berkenaan dengan feeling atau thinking)
 eg : hated, like

 Direct and Indirect sentences

 Vocabularies related to the stories
Examples of Narrative Text

1. KEONG EMAS (THE GOLDEN SNAIL)

The golden snail was drifting away in the river and got caught into a net. An old woman
was fishing and used her net to catch some fish. She was surprised to see a golden snail in
her net. She took it and brought it home. When the old woman woke up in the morning,
she was surprised that the house was in the good condition. The floor was mopped. And
she also had food on the table. She was thinking very hard. "Who did this to me? The
person is very kind." It happened again and again every morning.

The old woman was very curious. One night she decided to stay up late. She was peeping
from her room to know who cooked for her. Then, she could not believe what she saw.
The golden snail she caught in the river turned into a beautiful woman. The old woman
approached her. "Who are you, young girl?" "I am Dewi Limaran, Ma'am. A witch cursed me.
I can change back as a human only at night," explained Dewi Limaran. "The spell can be
broken if I hear the melody from the holy gamelan," continued Dewi Limaran. The old
woman then rushed to the palace. She talked to Prince Raden Putra about her wife. Prince
Raden Putra was so happy. He had been looking for his wife everywhere.

He then prayed and meditated. He asked the gods to give him the holy gamelan. He
wanted to break the witch's spell. After several days praying and meditating, finally gods
granted his wish. He immediately brought the holy gamelan to the old woman's house. He
played it beautifully. And then amazingly the golden snail turned into the beautiful Dewi
Limaran. The couple was so happy that they could be together again. They also thanked
the old woman for her kindness. As a return, they asked her to stay in the palace.

2. THE LEGEND of CRYING STONE

In a small village, a girl lives with her mother. The girl is very beautiful. Everyday she puts
make-up and wears her best clothes. She doesn't like to help her mother work in a field.
The girl is very lazy.

One day, the mother asks the girl to accompany her to go to the market to buy some food.
At first the girl refuses, but the mother persuades her by saying they are going to buy new
clothes. The girl finally agrees. But she asks her mother to walk behind her. She doesn't
want to walk side by side with her mother.
Although her mother is very sad, she agrees to walk behind her daughter. On the way to
the market, everybody admires the girl's beauty. They are also curious. Behind the
beautiful girl, there is an old woman with a simple dress. The girl and her mother look
very different!
"Hello, pretty lady. Who is the woman behind you?" asks them.
“She is my servant,” answers the girl.
The mother is very sad, but she doesn't say anything. The girl and the mother meet other
people.
"Hello, beauty. Who is the woman behind you?" asks them again.
Again the girl answers that her mother is her servant.
She always says that her mother is her servant every time they meet people. At last, the
mother cannot hold the pain anymore.
She prays to God to punish her daughter. God answers her prayer. Slowly, the girl's leg
turns into stone. The process continues to the upper part of the girl's body. The girl is very
panicky.
"Mother, please forgive me!" she cries and ask her mother to forgive her.
But it's too late. Her whole body finally becomes a big stone. Until now people still can
see tears falling down the stone. People then call it the crying stone or in Indonesian
mean batu menangis.

III. EXERCISE

Direction: Read the text. Then answer the questions

MALIN KUNDANG

Long ago, an old woman and her son lived in a small village. Her son was called Malin
Kundang. They were very poor but they loved each other very much.
One day Malin Kundang told his mother that he would go to town and work there. At first
his mother did not allow him but finally she let him go with tears.
Malin Kundang worked hard in a big town and in a short time he became a rich man.
However he completely forgot his poor old mother.
Some years later he sailed to a harbor near his village. When his mother heard about this
news she came to meet him. Malin Kundang pretended not to know her. He said, “You‟re
not my mother. Go away !” His mother became very sad and before she went she said,
“Oh, Malin Kundang, you are a wicked son. You‟ll never be safe now. You and your money
will turn to stone.”
Some days later his ship left the harbor. The sea was calm but when he reached the open
sea there was a great storm. The ship was drowned. Malin Kundang and his money changed
into a stone.
Now people call it Batu Si Malin Kundang. We can see the stone from Air Manis, a village
on the coast of West Sumatra near Padang.

1. How did Malin Kundang and his mother life first?

A. They were poor and hated each other.

B. They poor but loved each other.
C. They were rich but lived unhappily.
D. They were rich and lived happily.
2. What happened to Malin Kundang after going to town?
A. He became a successful man.
B. He failed to a good job.
C. He was sick and died.
D. He had a worse life than before.

3. One of the following statements shows the major complication of the text.
A. Although they were poor they lived happily.
B. Malin Kundang told his mother that he would go to town.
C. After Malin Kundang became a rich man he pretended not to know his mother.
D. Malin Kundang and his money changed into a stone.

4. One of the following statements is the resolution of the text.

A. Malin Kundang became a rich man.
B. Malin Kundang loved his mother very much.
C. Malin Kundang went to town.
D. Malin Kundang and his money changed into a stone.

5. What do you think of Malin Kundang. What kind of man was he?
A. He was a generous man.
B. He was a wise person.
C. He was a gentleman.
D. He was an evil person.

WRITING

I. Rearrange the jumbled sentences to be a good paragraph

1. One day there was a party in the palace. All were invited. Her sisters did not let her
go with them. Cinderella was upset.
2. Finally the prince found Cinderella and they got married and lived ever after.
3. Once upon a time there was a girl named Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother
and stepsisters. They were very bossy. She had to do all the housework.
4. The prince took her glass shoe. He traveled around the country to find a girl that
would match the glass shoe.
5. The Fairy Godmother came and help her go to the party. Cinderella danced with the
prince. After a while the clock stroke twelve. She left him one of her glass shoes and
went home.
II. Complete the text with suitable words

Over a river there was a very narrow bridge.

(1) ................... a goat was crossing this bridge. Just at the middle of the bridge he (2)
................ another goat. There was no room for them to pass. (3) “...................”,
said one goat to the other,”there is no room for both of us.”
“Why should I go back?”, said the other goat. “Why should not you go back?”

1 A. today
B. one day
C. tomorrow
D. the next day

2 A. kept
B. let
C. met
D. said

3 A. come here
B. come in
C. go ahead
D. go back

IV
EVALUATION

READING

THE LEGEND OF TANGKUBAN PERAHU (SANGKURIANG)

Once upon a time in West Java, Indonesia, lived a princess named Dayang Sumbi. She was
beautiful and kind-hearted. Her hoby was weaving cloth. But sometimes she could be very
lazy. One day her weaving tool fell but she was too lazy to get it herself. She shouted out,
“Can anybody help me get my tool? If you are a female, I will take you as my sister. If you
are a male, I will marry you!”
A male creature came, but it was a dog. His name was Tumang. He happily
brought her the tool to her. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised but she kept her promise.
She married the dog. Tumang was actually a man who had been cursed by a witch to
become a dog. But at certain times Tumang could turn back to be a normal man. Their
only son, Sangkuriang, was soon born, and he grew up to be a handsome and healthy boy.
He always played with his very loyal dog, Tumang. He did not know that he was actually
his father, because Dayang Sumbi hid the secret from him. Sangkuriang liked to hunt in
the woods, of course with Tumang.
 One day Dayang Sumbi asked him to bring home a deer’s heart. But, after hunting
for several days, he could not find any deer in the woods. He did not want to disappoint
his mother and was thinking hard how to bring home a deer’s heart. Suddenly he had a
very bad idea. He killed Tumang! Then he brought his heart home and give it to dayang
Sumbi.
Sangkuriang could not cheat her. She knew it was Tumang’s heart. So, she got very
angry and hit Sangkuriang’s forehead with a piece of wood and told him to leave. With a
bad wound on his forehead, Sangkuriang left the village.
Many years later, Sangkuriang grew up to be a powerful man. One day he went
back to his village. He met a beautiful young woman there, and he fell in love with her at
the first sight. It was Dayang Sumbi! She never got older because she had been granted
eternal youth by the Gods. Sangkuriang did not know that she was his mother, so she came
to her and proposed to marry her.
When he walked closer to her, Dayang Sumbi got very surprised. She saw the scar
in Sangkuriang’s forehead, and soon she knew that he was her son, who left her a long
time ago. She told him the truth and tried hard to explain it to him, but he did not believe
her. She did not want to break his heart, so she accepted his proposal but gave him an
impossible thing to do. She wanted him to build a lake and a boat in just one night!
Sangkuriang agreed, because he knew that he could make it with the help of his
genies. By midnight he finished the lake and then started making the boat. Dayang Sumbi
was thinking hard to find a way to fail him. Before dawn, she asked the people in the
village to burn the woods in the East, and the light made all the cocks crow. Thinking that
the night would be over soon, the genies ran fast and left Sangkuriang before the boat was
finished. Sangkuriang realized that Dayang Sumbi had cheated him. He got very angry and
he kicked the boat upside down. It gradually became a mountain and it is now known as
Mt. Tangkuban Perahu.

Answer the questions based on the text

1. Who was Dayang Sumbi? She was ...

a. Sangkuriang’s father
b. Sangkurian’s wife
c. Sangkuriang’s mother
d. Sangkuriang’s grandmother

2. What did Sangkuriang do to the dog when he got nothing to hunt?

a. He left the dog in the forest.
b. He told the dog to go home.
c. He killed the dog.
d. He did nothing to the dog.

3. Who was the dog really?

a. Sangkuriang’s mother.
b. Sangkuriang’s father.
c. Sangkuriang’s grandmother.
d. Sangkuriang’s grandfather.
4. Why was Sangkuriang angry and kicked the boat? Because … .
a. he had nothing to hunt.
b. he lost his dog in the forest.
c. he couldn’t fulfill Dayang Sumbi’s request.
d. he was hated by Dayang Sumbi.

5 Dayang Sumbi knew that he was her son. (paragraph 4). he underlined word refer to
....
a. Dayang Sumbi
b. Sangkuriang
c. Sangkuriang’s father
d. Dayang Sumbi’s husband

WRITING

Fill in the blanks with the words provided

chase wish return kind disappear fell weak grant wood stolen

One day, a young wanderer got lost in a (1) . . . . . . . Suddenly he saw a light from an old
hut. He knocked on the door, and an old woman opened it. She was crying. She said that
the devil had (2) . . . . . . her magic candle. The candle could (3) . . . . . . anything she
asked. The wanderer asked he where he lived. "In a castle not far from here," said the old
woman.
The wanderer went to the castle. There he found the devil, but he was old and (4) . . . . .
. Therefore when the wanderer grabbed the magic candle from the devil's table and ran
away, he couldn't (5) . . . . . . him.
The wanderer was not a (6) . . . . . . man. He didn't (7) . . . . . . the magic candle to old
woman, but he kept it for himself. He lit the candle and made a (8) . . . . . ., "I want to
go far away from here." Suddenly the genies appeared and took him to a beautiful palace.
There was a party in the palace. There the wanderer (9) . . . . . in love with a princess.
They got married. In his happiness, the wanderer told the princess about his adventure
and the magic candle. Hearing that, the princess got very angry. At night she lit the
candle and wished that the wanderer (10) . . . . . . .
In the morning the wanderer awoke and found himself back to his ugly house in the
village.