NARRATIVE 3

Answer the questions.

	Why Do Hawks Hunt Chicks?
Orientation	Once upon a time, a hawk fell in love with a hen. The hawk flew down from the sky and asked the hen, “Will you marry me? “.	Participants
Complication	The hen loved the brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him. But he said “I can’t fly as high as you can. If you give me time. I may learn to fly as high as you. Then we can fly together.”	Simple Past
Resolution	The hawk a greed. Before he went away, he gave the hen ring “ this is to show that you have promised to marry me “, said the hawk.	The use of Feeling Verbs
Complication	It so happened that the hen, that the hen already promised to marry a rooster. So, when the rooster show the ring, he became very angry, “ throw that ring away at once! “ shouted the rooster. The hen was so frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away the ring immediately.	The Use of Saying Verbs
Resolution	When the hawk come a few month later, the hen told him the truth. The hawk was so furious that he cursed the hen,“ why didn’t you tell me earlier? Now, you’ll always scratching the earth and I’ll always be flying above to catch your children“, said the hawk.	The Use of Adverbs

1. What is the purposeof the writer telling this story?

2. Does the first part of the story tell:

    a. Who is involved?

    b. What happened?

    c. Where and when did it happen?

3. Did the hen face any problems to marry the hawk?

4. How did she solve the problem?

5. In which paragraphs can you find the hen’s solution?

6. Does the story end in a happy or sad ending?

7. Does the story happen in past or present time?

Purpose:

- To amuse or entertain

- To deal with actual/ imaginative experiences in different ways.

Text Organization

- Orientation

- Complication

- Resolution

Language Features

- Focus on specific and individual participants.

- The use of material process (action verbs).

- The use of some behavioral and verbalprocesses

- The use of relational and mental process.

- The use of past tenses

- The use of temporal conjunctions and circumstances.

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