NARRATIVE TEXT
NARRATIVE
TEXT
Social
Function:
To
amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different
ways; Narrative deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning
points of some kind, which in turn fields a resolution.
Generic
Structure:
- Orientation: sets the scene and introduces
the participants
- Evaluation: a stepping back to evaluate the
plight.
- Complication: a crisis arises
- Resolution: the crisis is resolved, for
better or for worse
- Re-orientation: optional
Significant
Lexico grammatical Features:
- Focus on specific and usually
individualized participants.
- Use of material processes (and in this
text, behavioral and verbal processes).
- Use of relational processes and mental
processes.
- Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal
circumstances.
- Use of past tense.
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The following story will be
special for each of you who want to know the real meaning of love.
There once lived a chief’s
daughter who had many admirers. All the young men in the village wanted to have
her for a wife and were all eager to fill her skin bucket when she went to the
brook for water.
There was a young man in the
village. He was a good hunter but he was poor and had a mean family. He loved
the maiden and wishe he could marry her. So, one day when she went for water,
he threw his robe over her head while he whispered in her ear “Will you marry
me?”.
For a long time the maiden acted
as if she hadn’t heard anything, but one day she whispered back telling that
she would be willing to marry him if he took a scalp. So he made a war party of
seven, himself and six other young men. Before they started, they sat down to
smoke and rest beside a beautiful lake at the foot of a green knoll that rose
from its shore. The knoll was covered with green grass and somehow as they
looked at it they had a feeling that there are something about it that was
mysterious and uncanny.
One of the lover’s friend was so
curious about it that he ventured into the knoll. Four of the young men
followed. Having reached to the top of the knoll, all five began to jump and
stamp about in sport, but suddenly they stopped. The knool had begun to move
toward the water. It was a gigantic turtle. The five men cried out, but the
others could do nothing. In just a few moments, waves had closed over them.
The other two men, the lover and
his friends went on but with heavy hearts. After someday, they came to a river.
Worn out with fatique, the lover threw himself down on the bank. Fortunately,
the lover’s friend came to help him. The following day, his friend told him
that he found a fish which he had cleaned and asked him to eat the fish
together. The lover said that if he ate the fish, his friend had to promise to
fetch him all the water that he could drink. When they had eaten, the kettle
was rinsed out and the lover’s friend brought it back with full of water. The
lover drank the water at a draught. Again his friend filled the kettle at the river
and again the lover drank it dry but still asked for more water. The lover’s
friend then took the lover to the river, when the lover saw the river, he
walked to the river, sprang in, and lying down in the water with his head
toward land, drank greedily.
Then, he called out his friend.
The friend came and was amazed to see that the lover was now a fish from his
feet to his middle. Sick at the heart, he ran off a little away and threw
himself upon the ground in grief. After awhile, he returned to find that the
lover was now a fish up to his neck.
The friend went home and told
his story. There was a great mourning over the death of the five young men and
for the lost lover. In the river, the lover had become a great fish and its fin
was just above the surface. Canoes had to be portaged at great labor around the
obstruction.
Meanwhile the chief’s daughter
mourned for her lover as for a husband and nobody could confort her. Day by
day, she sat inside her mother’s tepee with her head covered with her robe,
silent, working, and working. Whenever her mother asked, the maiden did not
reply.
The day lengthened into moons
until a year had passed and then the maiden arose. She left her mother’s tepee
with holding lots of things in her hands. There were three pairs of moccasins,
three pairs of leggings, three belts, three shirt, three head dresses with
beautiful feathers, and sweet smelling tobacco.
One day she had a new canoe
made. Then, the next morning she stepped into the canoe and floated slowly down
the river toward the great fish. Her canoe came and stopped to the place where
the gerat fin arose. One by one she laid her presents on the fish’s back,
scattering the feathers and tobacco over his broad spine.
“Oh fish,” she cried, “oh, fish,
you who were my lover, i shall not forget you, because you were lost for love
of me, i shall never marry. All my life i shall remain a widow. Take these
presents, and now leave the river, and let the waters run free, so my people
may once more descend in their canoes. Slowly the great fish sank, his broad
fin disappeared and the waters of the St.Croix (stillwater) were free.
Questions
1.
The
faithfull lovers refer to
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2.
What was
actually the great knoll?
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3.
When did the
lover start changing into a fish?
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4.
What did the
maiden do when knowing that her lover had changed into a big fish?
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5.
Who were the
main chracters of the above story?
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6.
How did the
main characters in the story overcome their problems?
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7.
Does the
story happen in past or present time? Give evidence.
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