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Wabarakaatuh.
Welcome back to my blog.
In this blog, I will discuss the enchanted
fish and I will also tell you the places that I think have the enchanted fish.
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What is Narrative Text?
Narrative
text is a fictional story or an essay made to entertain readers. Narrative text
we usually encounter in the form of fairy tales, folk tales, and other
fictional stories. The purpose of narrative text, as mentioned above, is to
entertain readers / listeners in a story with sequential events that lead to a
climax, and finally find a solution.
Generic Structure of Narrative Text
Narrative text has 3 structures like this:
o Orientation, The Orientation section contains the introduction
of the characters, the background, place and time of the story. (who, what,
when and where)
o Complication In the complication section, problems begin to
emerge and must be resolved by the main character in the story.
o Resolution is where the story ends. In this section the
problem is resolved by the main character. In the Resolution section, there is
usually moral values or advice from the story or what is commonly referred to as
Coda.
Use of Grammar in Narrative Text
In
Narrative text we have to use the past or past form, because this story is made
up or fiction. The form of tenses can use the past perfect, past continuous,
past perfect continuous, or it could be past future continuous. All of these
rules should not be used as a reference because the tense refers to the
conditions and situations of the sentence.
Characteristics of Narrative Text
o Using the Verb Action in Past Tense Forms. For example:
Walked, Said, Wondered, etc.
o Using certain nouns as pronouns for certain people, animals
and objects in the story. For example: the princess, the girl, the queen, etc.
o Using adjectives that form a noun phrase. For example: The red
riding hood, the poisoned apple, etc.
o Use Time Connectives and Conjunctions to sort events. For
example: before, after, then, next, soon, etc.
o Uses Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase to show the location of an
incident or event. For example: on the sea, in the mountain, there, happily
ever after, etc.
Enchanted Fish
There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a small
hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One day,
as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching
his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water. He
quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge fish. “Wow!
This will feed us for days.” Much to his surprise, the fish started to talk and
said, “Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince. Put
me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o' kind fisherman.” The
astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, “I don't want to hurt
a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from.”
When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her
everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go
again. “Didn't you ask it for anything?” said the wife. “No, I didn't, what
should I have asked for?” replied the fisherman.
“I am surprised you don't realize what you should have asked
for. We live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty hut. We are poor and I
am so miserable. You should have asked for a nice cozy cottage. Now go back and
ask the fish that we want a snug little cottage”, said his wife
The fisherman wasn't sure about this but he still went to the
seashore, sat in his boat, went to the middle of the sea and said:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
The fish immediately came swimming to him, and said, “Well,
what is her will? How can I help your wife?” “Ah!” said the fisherman, “she
says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before
I let you go. She does not like living in our little hut, and wants a snug
little cottage.” “Go home, then,” said the fish, “She is already in the
cottage!” So the fisherman went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of
a nice trim little cottage. “Come in, come on in! Look at the beautiful cottage
we have.” Everything went fine for a while, and then one day fisherman's wife
said, “Husband, there is not enough room for us in this cottage, go back to the
fish and tell him to make me an emperor.” “Wife,” said the fisherman, “I don't
want to go to him again. Perhaps he will be angry. We ought to be happy with
what the fish has given us and not be greedy.” “Nonsense!” said the wife; “The
fish will do it very willingly, I know. Go along and try!” With a heavy heart
the fisherman went to the middle of the sea and said:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
“What would she have now?” said the fish. “Ah!” said the
fisherman, “she wantsto be an emperor.” “Go home,” said the fish; “She is an
emperor already.”
So he went home and he saw his wife sitting on a very lofty
throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high.
And on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row. The fisherman
went up to her and said, “Wife, are you an emperor?” “Yes”, said she, “I am an
emperor.” “Ah!” said the man, as he gazed upon her, “What a fine thing it is to
be an emperor!” “Husband,” said she, “it is good to be an emperor.” They were
happy for a while
Then a time came when she was not able to sleep all night for
she was thinking what she should ask next. At last, as she was about to fall
asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose. “Ha!'” thought she, as she woke up and
looked at it through the window, “after all I cannot prevent the sun from
rising.” At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said,
“Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be Lord of the sun and the moon.”
The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he
fell out of the bed. “Alas, wife!” said he, “cannot you be happy with being
such a powerful emperor?” “No,” said
she, “I am very uneasy as long as the sun and the moon rise without my
permission. Go to the fish at once!” “I don't think this is a good idea,” said
the fisherman but his wife wouldn't listen to him. “ Why don't you just go and
ask the fish to make me the Lord of everything,” she said.
Then the man went shivering with fear. As he was going down to
the shore a dreadful storm arose. The trees and the very rocks shook and the
sky became black with stormy clouds. There were great black waves, swelling up
like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. Unfortunately the
fisherman did not have any choice, so he got onto his boat and rowed to the
middle of the sea and cried out as loud as he could:
“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”
“What does she want now?” said the fish. “I am truly ashamed
of my wife's greed but I can't do anything. She wants to be Lord of the sun and
the moon. “Go home,” said the fish, “to your small hut.” And it is said that
they live there to this very day.
I want to tell you readers a place that I think
has an enchanted fish
Wayag Island
Wayag is a Raja Ampat icon, who comes to Raja Ampat must visit
this destination. Wayag is the farthest island from Raja Ampat. Therefore, to
arrive at this place, it takes six to seven hours by speedboat and must depart
at night or dawn. Or if we want to get a lot of moments we should stay around
the Wayag area, there is International Conservation here. We can ask for their
help to take us around and up the top of the karst hills in Wayag. This hilly
island has white sand and is surrounded by other small islands. To get a photo
or a beautiful view, we have to go to the top of the hill which can be reached
for one to 2 hours of climbing on the hard reef. From the top of this hill, we
can see the whole view of Raja Ampat.
Keep in mind that to climb the cliffs and karst in Wayag, you
should wear shoes, or at least mountain sandals with a back strap. The reason
is, the karst here is very sharp and dangerous, besides that, just bring what
you need, if you can't bring it, you should ask for help from the ship crew or
guide to be able to carry our goods.
Source :
o https://travel.kompas.com/read/2014/07/07/112941827/Inilah.Wayag.Ikonnya.Raja.Ampat.Papua?page=all
That is the material about narrative text and its examples and the
place where I think there is an enchanted fish.
See you on the next blog
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