Example narrative text in this article is arranged briefly and concisely but still has various rules and proper narrative text structures. The structure of the narrative text, of course, consists of orientation, complication (conflict & conflict peak), and resolution (problem-solving & closing).
Here are some examples of narrative texts in various themes, including someone infected with the COVID-19 pandemic, educational, environmental, and artistic narratives.
Example of Short Narrative Text (Short)
The story of Yunus, who was infected with the Corona Virus
Orientation
Yunus is an employee of a mining company based in Jakarta. Right when the Covid-19 pandemic began to hit Indonesia, he was assigned to make an official trip to East Java.
The company is currently working on several new oil and gas mines in the province. Thus, not only Yunus was assigned but also several of his colleagues from his division and several other divisional teams.
It can be said that dozens of employees from his company will work in Central Java during the project. There were no special restrictions to leave Jakarta at that time.
Complications
Initially, Yunus' official trip went smoothly. One day, one of his colleagues could not attend the weekly inter-divisional meeting due to illness. Reportedly he had to be rushed to the hospital because he had a fairly severe fever.
A few days after the meeting, held in a closed room using air conditioning, Yunus also fell ill. He had a fairly high fever, and when he went to the clinic, the doctor sentenced him to have to treat him because he was considered to have symptoms of typhoid.
After two weeks of treatment, Yunus was recovering quite well and asked to be sent back to his home in Bandung because he wanted to meet his family. The hospital also allows it on the condition that it does a rapid test first.
At this time, Indonesia has begun to make various efforts to avoid the coronavirus transmission and has begun to require rapid tests for someone who travels outside the city. Yunus' rapid test results also showed that he was classified as non-reactive and was finally allowed to return to Bandung.
When he arrived in Bandung, Yunus decided to stay isolated and not physically contact his wife and children. Risma, the wife of Yunus, agreed; however, Yunus' condition, which had started to improve before, turned out to be gradually worsening again.
This time, in addition to fever and numbness of his tongue, he also felt the symptoms of shortness of breath. His fever increased again, and his wife took the initiative to take Yunus back to the hospital.
Upon arrival at the hospital, Yunus was required to do a swab test before being hospitalized. This time, health protocols in Indonesia are getting stricter. Yunus' family agreed, and it turned out that Yunus had tested positive for the coronavirus or had COVID-19 symptoms.
At that time, the hospital asked Yunus' wife and the whole family to take a swab test. The horror began to surround Jonah and his family. Anxiety fear, coupled with Yunus' condition that had not improved, added to his wife's bitterness.
Resolution
The Yunus family's house was finally visited by officers who carried out the sterilization by spraying disinfectant throughout the Yunus family's residence area. The arrival of the officers also picked up Yunus' entire family for isolation while waiting for the swab test results.
Fortunately, the swab test returned negative for Yunus' wife and children. Yunus finally recovered after being treated for two months in the hospital. During those two months, he said that his fever did not go away, and his breathing was still disturbed, accompanied by a slight pain in his chest. In the end, when he touched the third month of his treatment, he was declared to have recovered and was free from the coronavirus.
Example of Educational Narrative Text
Thanks to SMK, I Can!
Orientation
Since I was little, I have always loved video games. Video games are interesting entertainment that can relieve our boredom in everyday life. This entertainment is also known to have benefits to train our motor development.
Several studies have been carried out by providing gameplay therapy to the elderly to not suffer from Alzheimer's or senile dementia. In conclusion, video games are a positive way to unwind and benefit if played in a balanced portion.
Complications
Unfortunately, the love of playing games became one of the biggest obstacles in my educational development. So much fun playing games, I always leave time to study. I only do the housework as little as possible because I always want to play more games.
My habit, which can be said to be quite a bit addicted to playing games, makes my school achievement a mess. I got a warning from the BK teacher that my average score was the lowest in my junior high school. He said he was worried about my recent declining academic achievement, even though I was already in 9th grade.
That's when I started trying to come back to my senses and study harder. But it seems it was a bit too late. Because, in the end, my passing grade was not satisfactory, and I had little chance of getting into a public school.
Resolution
Then, in that predicament, my father gave me advice that turned out to be life-changing. He said, "Son, you like playing games, don't you? How about you learn how to make games too? Do you want to enter SMK in informatics? You're already good at using a computer from SD." I also agreed, and it turns out that's where I stand.
Although there are no specific subjects that teach us how to make games, programming, multimedia image processing, and animation are still taught. From these various basic subjects, I could figure out for myself how to make games. Now, I am one of the outstanding students in our SMK.
I managed to become a provincial champion in designing and creating a school website. My grades are also quite good, I have become one of the pride of our school, and my parents are also very proud of me, who has now become quite accomplished in school.
But don't get me wrong, I'm still playing the game. Only this time, I can occasionally adjust the duration portion when I need entertainment on the sidelines of my busy study. Now, I can study well and experience the positive effects of video games without experiencing the negative effects.
Examples of Environmental Themed Long Narrative Texts
The Flood Disaster That Hit My Village
Orientation
My family and I live in dayeuhkolot, citereup, Bandung district. The area is a suburban area of Bandung, known as a traffic jam area. However, that's not all, and our area is also known as an area that is regularly hit by floods. When I was a child, my home was a comfortable place.
Although sometimes it does flood, but not as bad as now. The water level will only reach the middle of my calf, which at that time was still quite short. The time is also not long, only a few hours, the flood usually has receded.
Floods have only become an annual disaster that feels quite pleasant for a small child like me. Sometimes my friends and I are even engrossed in fishing in the puddles near our house. But all that changed when I started sitting in middle school.
Complications
The flood that hit our village turned into a terrible disaster. His height reached my chest and prevented me from going to school. I was quite lucky because our house was on a fairly high level. Although simple, our house also has a 2nd floor which is our escape when a flood hits.
Meanwhile, our neighbour who is at a low altitude can't stay in his house. Floods submerged their houses to the ceiling and even their roofs. They were forced to evacuate to a higher bridge area. There the TNI had set up a temporary camp for refugees while picking up other flood victims in the vicinity.
Floods like this continued to hit our area until high school. Slowly stalls and other places of business around here began to close. Factory employees usually rent rents near our village are starting to become empty. Our area has become very quiet from various economic activities.
In fact, the government has reduced flooding by dredging, expanding, and deepening the Citarum tributary, which is very close to my house. However, this flood never stopped and even seemed to get worse.
The walls of our house are dirty, and there are marks of water soaking all over. Our refrigerator was not safe because it was flooded several times. Our water pump also experienced the same thing. In addition, my father's motorbike also had to get off the engine several times because it was flooded.
Resolution
Actually, I do not know the exact cause of the flood that hit our village. The information I know goes back to preserving the environment that is less well maintained. Several students who had the opportunity to carry out Real Work Lectures at Dayeuhkolot had time to provide various questioning activities regarding flood disaster management and prevention.
In this activity, I got information about the balance of nature that does not work can cause this kind of disaster. Starting from throwing garbage in its place and not throwing it into the river.
Disposing of garbage is one of the problems that occur in our village. There are still many residents who throw garbage carelessly into the Citarum tributary in our area. However, this is not the only cause of this flood. Development in water catchment areas is also the cause. So the government also began to mobilize activities to fix these problems. Our village has begun to enforce the mandatory use of paving blocks for roads in our area to remain comfortable but still absorb water.
Until now, various other efforts have also been made, from upstream to downstream of the Citarum River. Now, when I was in college, Dayeuhkolot was still a flooded area. Some of the government's efforts are actually starting to be felt even though they only have a small effect. However, now my village seems to be a dead city. There is only one shop that still sells near my house. The rest decided to close and move to other areas because they could not stand the flood disaster.
Meanwhile, I chose to study environmental management techniques to determine how an area should be managed to prevent flooding. So that when I finish my studies, I can contribute to my village. Because this is my house, where I used to live, much more beautiful, it doesn't turn into a muddy puddle polluted by garbage like this.
Artistic Narrative Text Example
An artistic narrative text is a narrative text that is designed to entertain the reader through an artistic fiction story and usually has a hidden meaning or message in it. Here is an example.
Nirvana in the Forest Behind the School
Orientation
This afternoon I decided to venture into the forest behind the school. A place that is often the main tweet of my class. It is said that there are often strange and scary sounds. For me, of course, the soundbank there, the name is also the forest. There must be a lot of animals roaming around it.
This forest is quite dark because the trees around it are very dense. The path alone really leaves almost no room for my shoulders to move. The path is also a bit of a climb, and after half an hour of walking, I still haven't found any light trails indicating a slightly open spot.
However, as soon as I started to get tired, I saw a mysterious gate that would lead me to nowhere. What is clear, the gate is shaped like a gebyok or a large wooden door full of carvings from classical times.
Complications
When I opened the gate, I was amazed at the natural beauty I saw. Here, the earth alone is made of gold grains mixed with shards of resplendent red rubies. A tree that grows leaves of money flowers bloom is made of silk with diamonds studded with diamonds.
Not only that, the flow of the river here is milk that is ready to be scooped up to drink. I was confused about where to start the journey. Cotton candy reeds might be a good appetizer. But, when I think about it, sweets are more suitable for dessert.
I finally decided to taste the milk that runs all over this place. I used a glass made of caramel candy to drink it. The taste is so fresh; the milk smell is thick cold but doesn't make my teeth hurt; it's cold, just like water from a mountain spring.
Before long, I began to touch the entire area. The various gold coins that gushed out from the slide I pocketed. The leaves were made of neatly folded money I spent. Various cut fruit hanging on the sweet fragrant tree I devoured without stopping.
Resolution
Until finally, I heard the school bell faintly ring. Then I remembered that the break would be over soon. I hurriedly ran, trying to get back to school with the pain in my stomach from eating too much.
My acceleration was disturbed because of the grains and gold coins I pocketed. When I arrived at school, my friends looked surprised to see me. I ignored him and then immediately sat on my bench. My seatmate was still looking at my face.
While sitting down, I accidentally fell some coins and money. My friend then asked, "Where did the gold coins and money come from". I spontaneously answered, "yes, bring it from home". Immediately the gold coin turned into a withered yellow flower. The money that fell also seemed to fade into leaves.
My friends and I were surprised to see it. Maybe it was all just an illusion from the start. But then our teacher approached and said, "if you share, you will be like Entong, who is now a rich merchant in this village," he said in a whisper. "The forest gate is only open to certain people who are not greedy," he continued.
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