THE UGLY DUCKLING ONE UPON TIME, A

THE UGLY DUCKLING

ONE UPON TIME, A MOTHER DUCK SAT ON HER EGGS. SHE FELT TIRED OF SITTING ON THEM. SHE JUST WISHED THE EGGS WOULD BREAK OUT.SEVERAL DAYS LATER, SHE GOT HER WISH. THE EGGS CRACKED AND SOME CUTE LITTLE DUCKLINGS APPEARED. "PEEP, PEEP" THE LITTLE DUCKLINGS CRIED. "QUACK, QUACK" THEIR MOTHER GREETED IN RETURN.
HOWEVER THE LARGEST EGG HAD NOT CRACKED. THE MOTHER DUCK SAT ON IT FOR SEVERAL DAYS. FINALLY, IT CRACKED AND A HUGE UGLY DUCKLING WADDLED OUT. THE MOTHER DUCK LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. HE WAS SO BIG AND VERY GRAY. HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THE OTHERS AT ALL. HE WAS LIKE A TURKEY WHEN THE MOTHER DUCK BROUGHT THE CHILDREN TO THE POND FOR THEIR FIRST SWIMMING LESSON.
THE HUGE GREY DUCKLING SPLASHED AND PADDLED ABOUT JUST AS NICELY AS THE OTHER DUCKLINGS DID. "THAT IS NOT A TURKEY CHICK. HE IS MY VERY OWN SON AND QUITE HANDSOME" THE MOTHER SAID PROUDLY HOWEVER, THE OTHER ANIMALS DIDN'T AGREE. THEY HISSED AND MADE FUN OF HIM DAY BY DAY. EVEN HIS OWN SISTERS AND BROTHERS WERE VERY UNKIND. "YOU ARE VERY UGLY" THEY QUACKED.
THE LITTLE POOR DUCKLING WAS VERY UNHAPPY. "I WISH I LOOKED LIKE THEM" HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. ONE DAY, THE UGLY DUCKLING RUN AWAY AND HID IN THE BUSHES. THE SAD DUCKLING LIVED ALONE THROUGH THE COLD AND SNOW WINTER. FINALLY THE SPRING FLOWERS BEGAN TO BLOOM. WHILE HE WAS SWIMMING IN THE POND, HE SAW THREE LARGE WHITE SWANS SWIMMING TOWARD HIM. "OH, DEAR. THESE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS WILL LAUGH AND PECK ME TOO" HE SAID TO HIMSELF.
BUT THE SWANS DID NOT ATTACK HIM. INSTEAD, THEY SWAM AROUND HIM AND STROKED HIM WITH THEIR BILLS. AS THE UGLY DUCKLING BENT HIS NECK TO SPEAK TO THEM, HE SAW HIS REFLECTION IN THE WATER. HE COULD NOT BELIEVE HIS EYES. "I AM NOT AN UGLY DUCKLING BUT A BEAUTIFUL SWAM" HE EXCLAIMED.
HE WAS VERY HAPPY. FROM THAT DAY ON, HE SWAM AND PLAYED WITH HIS NEW FRIENDS AND WAS HAPPIER THAN HE HAD NEVER BEEN.
NARRATIVE TEXT - GENERIC STRUCTURE IN THE STORY OF THE UGLY DUCKLING
ORIENTATION OF THE NARRATIVE TEXT: IT INTRODUCES THE PARTICIPANTS WHICH INVOLVE IN THE STORY OF THE UGLY DUCKLING. THEY ARE DUCK MOTHER, UGLY DUCKLING, DUCKLING'S SISTER, AND THE SWAN.
COMPLICATION OF THE NARRATIVE text: It brings the rising conflict. In a long story, the complication should be minors and a major. In this story of ugly duckling, the major complication is that the new born duck is different form other little ducks. The difference makes him get bad treatment from others animals. As results, he is sad, unhappy and finally runs away.
Resolution of the narrative text: It comes to a solution for the complication. In narrative texts, a resolution can be happy ending or sad ending. In this story of the Ugly duckling, the resolution is happy one. He gets new friends who do not treat him badly.
Moral value : do not be sad because it's got an ugly facebecause you definitely have the advantage that other
Sumber :http://www.englishdirection.com/2012/02/narrative-text-ugly-duckling.html


The Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile

One day there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he saw a crocodile so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side of the river. The crocodile agree and told the monkey to jump on its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river with the monkey on his top.
Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stopped in the middle of the river and said to the monkey, “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the monkey. So he will be healthy again.”
At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard. Then he had a good idea. He told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank. “What’s for?” asked the crocodile. “Because I don’t bring my heart,” said the monkey. “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in the river bank.”
The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back. Then he climbed up to the top of a tree.
“Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” said the monkey to the crocodile. “Now I am free and I have my heart.”
Orientation:The participants or characters of the story are a smart monkey and dull crocodile. The time set is just one day. The story takes place in a river
Complication: Every narrative text must consist of conflict or problem. A simple definition of problem is when something goes and it is not what we want. In the story the complication start when the crocodile want to eats the monkey. Of course the monkey don not want to be the crocodile's meal and that is the problem which sets the whole story.
Resolution: A problem must be resolved. It can succeed or fail. In this story, the monkey succeeds to solve the problem. He get free from the hungry crocodile.
To have clear understanding, take a look at the following example of narrative text about the way of a smart monkey getting free from from a hungry dull crocodile.
Moral value
• do not behasty in doing something
• Do not be fooled

Sumber : http://www.englishdirection.com/2010/08/narrative-text-with-direct-speeches-in.html
The Smartest Parrot

Once upon time, a man had a wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot could say every word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place where it was born. The name of the place was Catano.
The man felt excited having the smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot would not say Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano however the bird kept not saying the word.
At the first, the man was very nice to the bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid bird!” pointed the man to the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you” the man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it. Then the man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”. The bird kept not to say the word of Catano.
One day, after he had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really got very angry. He could not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house. There were four old chickens for next dinner “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just stay with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I will cut the chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you too, stupid parrot”. After that he left the chicken house.
The next day, the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and was very surprised. He could not believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death chickens on the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”.
Analysis the Generic Structure
Orientation: It sets the scene and introduces the participants/characters. In that parrot story, the first paragraph is the orientation where reader finds time and place set up and also the participant as the background of the story. A man and his parrot took place once time.
Complication: It explores the conflict in the story. It will show the crisis, rising crisis and climax of the story. In the parrot story, paragraph 2, 3, 4 are describing the complication. Readers will find that the man face a problem of why the parrot can not say Catano. To fix this problem, the man attempted to teach the bird. How hard he tried to teach the bird is the excitement element of the complication.
Resolution: It shows the situation which the problems have been resolved. It must be our note that “resolved” means accomplished whether succeed or fail. In the last paragraph of the smartest parrot story, readers see the problem is finished. The parrot could talk the word which the man wanted. The parrot said the word with higher degree than the man taught the word to it. That was the smartest parrot.