Contoh Text Narrative Bahasa Inggris
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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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