Narrative Text
Narrative Text 
Someone tells a narrative text in order to entertain, stimulate emotion or to teach.
A narrative text has three elements or parts :
1. The orientation introduces main characters in a setting of place and 
 time. It tells about : the story’s setting , the time when the story  
happens, and the main characters of the story.
2. The complications tells the problems of the story and how the main  
characters solve them. Series of events ( It includes situations,  
activities, or events that lead to the climax or complication. )
3. The Resolution tells the ending of the story (The complication or  
problem is solved here. It shows the end of the story, usually a happy  
ending ).
A narrative text uses the simple past tense.
EXAMPLE :
There
 once was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but it had to  be a 
real princess. So he went all over the world looking for a real  
princess. Everywhere he met young ladies who told him they were real  
princesses, but he could never be completely sure that this was true.  
There was always something about them that did not seem quite right. And
  so, after along time, the prince went back home to his parents and was
  very sad.
One evening there was a terrible storm. It rained heavily and there was 
 thunder and lightning in the sky above the royal castle. Then there was
 a  knock at the castle gate. The old king went out to see who it could 
be.
A princess was standing outside the gate. The rain ran down over her  
hair and clothes and into her shoes. She told the king that she was a  
real princess, and he asked her to come inside.
“Well, said the old queen. We’ll soon find out if that is true. She went
  into the guest bedroom and took the mattress and blanket off the bed. 
 Then she put a little green pea on the bed. She put twenty mattress on 
 top of the pea, and then twenty blankets on top of the mattress. This  
was where the princess was going to spend the night.
The next morning the queen asked the princess how she had slept.
“Oh, it was terrible!” answered the princess. “I didn’t close my eyes  
all night. I don’t know what was in my bed, but I lay on something hard,
  and now I am black and blue all over. It was quite a terrible night”
Now, the king, the queen and the prince could be sure that this was a  
real princess! She had felt the little pea through twenty mattresses and
  twenty blankets. Only a real princess will be able to do that!
So the prince married the princess, and the pea was put in a museum for 
 everyone to see. And, unless someone has taken it, it is still there  
today.