NARRATIVE TEXT 4

	Two travelers and a big tree
Orientation	Once, two men traveled on a dusty and rough road that had no trees on its sides. They were walking to a distant village during daylight to attend a wedding feast.	Passive Sentences Past Continuous
Complication	The summer Sun was so hot that they were sweating a lot.	Simple Past
Resolution	They looked for a shady tree for shelter from the Sun. After sometime, they saw a big old tree with thick, green leaves and branches spread far and wide like a big umbrella. They made the tree a shelter, put their small bundles on the ground and stretched themselves out in the cool shadow of the tree. They felt relieved and rested for a while, talking about the wedding feast.	The use of Feeling Verbs
Complication	After about an hour, one of the travelers said to his friends, " Look! What a useless ugly old tree! So big and yet it bears no fruits at all! "	The Use of Saying Verbs
Resolution	On hearing this, the tree felt insulted. Angrily, it yelled. " You ungrateful man! You are enjoying my cool shadow and using it for a shelter, yet you all call me useless and ugly! Can there be a more wretched creature than you? So now, get up and get away from here! "	The Use of Adverbs
Re-orientation	Feeling scared that a tree could talk, the two men ran away in horror.	The Use of Connectives

Purpose:

To entertain the reader with a story that deals with complications or problematic events which lead to a crisis and in turn finds a resolution.

Text Organization:

- Orientation

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened, introduces the participants of the story; who and what is involved in the story.

- Complication.

Tell the beginning of the problem which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

- Resolution

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending.

- Re-orientation

This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer.