Contoh Narrative Text - Dongeng adalah salah satu cara yag digunakan oleh para leluhur untuk megajarkan nilai dan norma, diturunkan secara turun temurun melalui pencitraan yang sedikit dilebih-lebihkan. Perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan yang belum sepesat sekarang, membuat dongen terkadang hanya bersivat dogma bahkan intuisi. Bahkan, beberapa pihak mengklaim bahwa eksistensi dongeng hanyalah isapan jempol para leluhur yang tidak menghendaki anak-cucunya melakukan tindakan yang tidak mereka inginkan, kerana sesungguhnya hal yang mereka ceritakan tidak dapat dijelaskan secara klinis. Itu sebabnya, dongeng berkembang pesat di wilayah-wilayah yang belum terjamah modernisasi secara menyeluruh, seperti Indonesia dan wilayah-wilayah lain yang masih berbentuk kesukuan. Tetapi ternyata, dongeng juga berkembang pesat di negara-negara barat yang notabee tersohor sebagai wilayah yang sudah bertransformasi menjadi wilayah globalisasi.
Berbeda dengan Indonesia, negara-negara barat menyebut dongeng sebagai
Bedtime Story, karena mereka umumnya menceritakan cerita-cerita tentang
kehidupan tepat sebelumwaktu tidur. Dan berikut ini adalah Kumpulan
Dongeng Bahasa Inggris yang sudah ada sejak zaman dahulu kala. Dan Jika berbicara mengenai dongeng, tentunya kita akan segera bersinggungan dengan salah satu genre teks yang sangat erat kaitannya dengan legenda, cerita rakyat, bedtime story, dongen dan kawan-kawan. Genre Teks tersebut adalah
Narrative Text. Berikut ini adalah beberapa
Contoh Narrative Text yang sudah tersohor penggunaannya :
The Ant and The Grasshoper
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| The Ant and The Grasshoper |
The grasshopper had spent the whole of the summer singing day and night. Then autumn had come, with the night becoming colder. All too soon, winter followed with the north wind blowing without stopping and ice anywhere. The grasshopper had done nothing to prepare all of this. Now, she was hungry and her store-cupboard was empty. It was then when she remembered the little ant who had living nearby. The whole summer trough, this ant had worked steadly to get a store of food whilst the weather was fine, so that she would have a store of good thigs to eat.Just thinking about it, now made the grasshopper’s mouth water. Dare she called hardworking ant? Wiithout stopping to think twice, the grasshopper went and knocked at the ant’s front door. Could she sphare some food, just enough to eat until the spring? The grasshopper would pay to the ant without fail next August.
“ I’m afraid not !” said the ant very firmly
“ What did you do all summer long?” the ant asked.
“well,” replied the grasshopper, “ i sang . . .”
“you sang !” said the ant, ”whilst I worked hard. Well, know you can dance.” And she clossed the door.
Snow-White and The Seven Dwarf
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| Snow-White and The Seven Dwarf |
There was one a king, who after his first wife died and married a women who as evil as she was beautyful. This king had a lovely doughter called Snow-White. The new queen, who was also a witch, hatted her from the very biginning. Now the wicked queen had a magic mirror, and one day the mirror said thatSnow-White was the fairest in the land. The queen was furious and decided to put her to deth. But Snow-White helped by one of the queen’s guard, escape into the forest. There, she came accross a little cottage where the seven dwarfs lived, and they said Snow-White could stay with them. She did the houshold chores and look after them all, and they loved her in return.
Meanwhile, thanks to her magic mirror, the wicked queen had discovered where Snow-White was. She turned her-self into an old woman and poissoned the rossiest looking-apple she could find. Then, off she went into the forest, planning to give the poisoned apple to the Snow-White. At the momment Snow-White took a bite, she fell to the groundin adead faint. The seven dwarfs believe that she was died and laid her in a crystal casket which they set down in her favorite part of the forest.
One day, a handsome prince happened to the riding through the forest. And the moment he saw the Snow-White. He felt he just to liftthe lid of the crystal casket and give her a kiss. At once, Snow-White oppened her eyes and smile at him. The evil spell which the wicked queen had cast upon her was broken.
How the seven dwarfs rejoiced! And soon after, they rejoiced again when Snow-White and the handsome prince were married. And they hapily ever after.
The Hen Which Laid The Golden Eggs
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| The Hen Which Laid The Golden Eggs |
There was once a farmer who was always complaining because his hens could never each lay an egg everyday. He tried changing their feed for special grains which were supposed to help them lay more eggs, but it was not good. The poor hens did all they could, but the farmer was never satisfied. Then, oneday, as the farmer felt among the straw, he saw something shining. An dit was a beutiful golden egg. He had a hen who laid golden egg. He took the hen in his arms, wondering a moment if he were dreaming. But No. It realy was true. The little hen was quite real.
The farmer set the hen aside the others and put her in a place which was quite and cozy, trying to make her comfortable. He was always feeding her, doing all his could to see that she would lay lots of golden eggs each day. Then, he kept lifting her up, feeling around in the straw, hoping to find more and more golden eggs each time he took. The little hen was very patient. But the day come when she felt that she had suffered enough.
Instead of Golden Eggs, she decided, she would lay one ordinary egg each day, like the other hens. When the farmer flew into a rage, the little hen said, she would not lay eggs at all. The other hens said they would do the same thing, unless that the farm would come to a standstill. The farmer knew then he would have to treat hens much better, learning the lesson that nobody should take advantage of those who work hard. They might just be stronger than anyone imagines.
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| Cinderella |
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters. The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach. Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.
The Fox and the Crow
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| The Fox and the Crow |
A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else, that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop the cheese and sing.
But this is not what happened to this particular crow in this particular case. "They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having carefully removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique. "I am sure you are," said the fox, who was neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and talented of all birds, and I fail would hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and must go." "Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me."
Whereupon he tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians, and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two points," he concluded arrogantly. "Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know you could not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his appetit appeased, leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.
WHY THE COCK NEVER EAT A MILLIPAD
Long ago the cock had a pair of beautiful horns on his head. But at that time there was a dragon who was prevented from ascending into heaven because he lacked a pair of horns. And so he offered the millipede as a guarantor, and borrowed the horns from the cock!
When the millipede came for the horns, he said to the cock: "When you want your horns back, you must call out at dawn: 'Give me back my horns!' and they will be returned to you at once. You need have no occasion to be concerned in the least." The kind cock knew how difficult it was to ascend to heaven, so, reassured by the good security the millipede offered, he loaned his horns without hesitation, just twisting them right off his head. He also thought to himself that when the dragon returned form his visit to heaven, they could sit down and have a good conversation; he would ask the dragon to tell him how things were in heaven, and if it really was beautiful there, as he had always heard. If it was true, he might consider going there himself someday, he thought.
So, next morning at daybreak (for the dragon's visit was scheduled to be brief), the cock called out loudly: "Give me back my horns!" But, even though he repeated this demand ten times over, there was no sign at all of either the dragon or the horns. Worried, the cock promptly went off to complain to the millipede, who soothed him, saying: "If the dragon has not returned the horns this morning, then he will certainly do so tomorrow. At the very latest, the day after that. Just learn to be a little patient and your horns will soon be back on your head, just as before." The cock did wait several days, but although he called out every morning at sunrise: "Give me back my horns!" They never did reappear.
The cock was extremely annoyed at this deception and loss, as you can well imagine, therefore he ordered all the members of his family to eat millipedes on sight. Even so, the cock has not yet given up hope of getting his horns returned. He ordered his descendants always to call out at the break of day: "Give me back my horns!" He still hopes that the dragon may hear him!
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