Contoh Text Narrative Bahasa Inggris


Pada kesempatan kali ini saya mau share tentang tentang teks narrative, atau dongeng dalam bahasa inggris. Berikut adalah beberapa teks narrative yang akan saya bagikan.


The Ant and The Dove
            An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.                The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches.                                                                                                    The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.   


Legend of Toba Lake
            Once upon time, a fisherman named Batara Sahala Guru lived in the Batak Land. One day, he caught a fish. He was surprised to find that the fish could talk. It begged Sahala to set it free. He did it accordingly.                                                                        As soon as the fish was free, it changed into a woman. She was so beautiful that Sahala fell in love at once. He asked her to marry him. The woman agreed to marry Sahala. However, she told him that he must never let out the secret that she was one a fish. Sahala promised that he would not tell anyone about it.                                   They were happily married and had two daughters. Every morning Sahala went out fishing. One day, his daughters brought him his lunch. However, instead of bringing the food to their father, the two girls ate it. When Sahala knew what they had done with the meal, he got very angry. He shouted at the saying, “You behaved exactly like the daughters of the fish!”.                                                                                They did not know what their father ment. They went home and asked their mother about it. The mother was very upset. Although Sahala apologized to her, she would not forgive him for breaking his promise.                                                                    Then the earth began to shake and the volcano started to erupt. The earth cracked and formed bog hole. It is said that the hole became the Toba Lake.

Legend of Pari Temple
            A long time ago, there lived an old man in the Penanggungan Mountain. His name was Kiai Gede Penanggungan. He had supernatural power. Kiai Gede Penanggungan had a beautiful daughter named Dewi Walangangin who was not married yet. Kiai Gede Penanggungan prayed days and nights for her daughter to have a husband. One day, a young handsome man came to his place. The name of the man was Jaka Pandelengan. He wanted to be Kiai Gede Penanggungan’s student. Kiai Gede agreed to have Jaka as his student with one condition that he would marry her daughter. Jaka Pandelengan and Dewi Walangangin soon get merried. Kiai Gede Penanggungan taught Jaka many things.                                          After several years, now it was time for the couple to live separately from Kiai Gede Penanggungan. They would move to another village. Kiai Gede gave some seeds of pari or paddy to the couple. He asked the couple to plant the seeds. He also warned the couple not to be arrogant when they were rich. He wanted the couple help poor people. Te couple started new life. They planted their seed. Soon, the seed grew and became a lot of rice. Now the couple became very rich. The poor neighbours came to the couple to ask for some pari seeds but the couple fefused to help them.                                                                                                                     .           Kiai Gede heard about the couple’s bad behavior. Soon he visited the couple. He met them when the couple was working on the field. Kiai Gede talked to the couple. He reminded not to be arrogant, but he couple ignored him. They said nothing to Kiai Gede. Kiai Gede got very angry. Then he said “You two are like temples”. You don’t listen me. Right after he said those words, an incredible thing happened. Slowly, Jaka and Dewi turned into temples. Because the temples stood among the pari, the people name them as Pari Temple.

Legend of Pesut Mahakam
            Long time ago, there was a village in East Kalimantan. The village was near the Mahakam River. The villagers always worked hard. Although they were poor, they were very happy. They also helped each other.                                                      In the village, there was a rich family. The head of the family was Pak Pesut. Everybody knew Pak Pesut because of his stinginess. He did not like to help others. His family always ignored people. That’s why Pak Pesut’s family always lived alone and never mingled with others.                                                                                      It was a very long dry season. All the rice fields could not get water properly. The villagers could not harvest the rice. Therefore, all villagers sent some young men to look for a place that had enough water for their rice fields.                                Finally, those young men found a waterfall and it was enough to water their rice fields. Later, all the villagers rushed to the new place. The villagers asked Pak Pesut to join them but he refused it. So, all the villagers left him and his family alone in the village. When they arrived at the new place, they all were very happy. They had enough water from waterfall.                                                                                                It was in the morning when Pak Pesut’s wife was cooking their last portion of rice. Suddenly, someone knocked the door. A beggar came to his house.”Go out! I don’t have enough rice,” said Pak Pesut. He was lying.”Please mercy me. I’m so very hungry. Give me a little rice, please..!” asked the beggar.                                                   Pak Pesut immediately asked his family to eat the rice. He was worried the beggar would enter his house and stole the rice.”But the rice is still in the cooking pot. Mother is still cooking it. If we eat the rice, it will be very hot,” said his son.” I don’t care! If you all don’t eat now, you will never eat again,” said Pak Pesut. Later, Pak Pesut and his family ate the rice. It was very hot. They needed water to drink. They rushed to Mahakam River. It was so hot that they finally jumped to the river.         The  beggar saw the accident. He then prayed to God.                                                                    Amazingly, Pak Pesut family slowly changed into fish. The fish looked like dolphin. Since then, everybody named the fish as Pesut Fish.
                                                                                              

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