Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella.
She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered.
They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the
hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and
pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other
hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome
dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the
ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited
about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At
last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella
could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up
and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go
to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a
cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go
to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine
coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped
Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown.
Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said;
“You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced
again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve,
she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass
slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would
marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on
the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed
their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the
slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted
perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was
overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.
Notes on Generic Structure of Narrative Text
Orientation: it
means to introduce the participants or the characters of the story with the
time and place set. Orientation actually exists in every text type though it
has different term. In this story, the first paragraph is clearly seen to
introduce the participants of the Cinderella Story. They were Cinderella her
self as the main character of the story, her step mother which treated
Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported her mother to make
Cinderella was treated very badly. Cinderella was introduced as a hero in this
story. She struggled against the bad treatment from her step mother and
sisters.
Complication: it
is such the crisis of the story. If there is not the crisis, the story is not a
narrative text. In a long story, the complication appears in several
situations. It means that some time there is more then one complication. In
this Cinderella story, we can see clearly that there are Major Complication and
Minor Complication.
The second paragraph is the major complication of this
Cinderella story. Cinderella got bad treatment from her stepmother. It is the
bad crisis which drives into several minor complications which Cinderella has
to overcome.
Resolution: it is
the final series of the events which happen in the story. The resolution can be
good or bad. The point is that it has been accomplished by the characters. Like
complication, there are Major Resolution and Minor Resolution.
In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella
lived happily. It is the happy resolution of the bad treatment.
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