Narrative TEXT
Narrative text is text that tells something imaginative or fantasy. Purpose: to entertain the readers.
GENERIC STRUCTURE
· Orientation (introductory story): introducing the characters in the story, setting, and time.
· Complication: the emergence of problems between the characters.
· Resolution: problems can be solved
· Re-orientation (optional): end of story
characteristics:
Using the past tense
Usually begins with adverbs of time (adverbs of time) as long time ago, once upon a time, in a Faraway Land.
Using conjunctions: then, before, after that, etc.
A Legend of Candy Cane
A candy maker in
Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the
Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth,
ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He
began with a stick of pure white, hard candy. White to symbolize the
Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of Jesus, and hard to symbolize the
Solid Rock, the foundation of the church, and firmness of the promises
of God.
The candy maker made the candy in
the form of a "J" to represent the precious name of Jesus, who came to
earth as our Savior. It also represents the staff of the "Good Shepherd"
with which He reaches down into the ditches of the world to lift out
the fallen lambs who, like all sheep, have gone astray.
Thinking
that the candy was somewhat plain, the candy maker stained it with red
stripes. He used the tree small stripes to show the stripes of the
scourging Jesus received by which we are healed. The large red stripe
was for the blood shed by Jesus on the Cross so that we could have the
promise of eternal life, if only we put our faith and trust in Him.
Unfortunately, the candy became known as a Candy Cane - a meaningless
decoration seen at Christmas time. But the meaning is still there for
those who "have eyes to see and ears to hear".
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