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The Purse of Gold

A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in a market place. Opening it,he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shouted, "Areward! A reward to the one who find my leather purse!"

Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchantsaying, "Here is your purse. Will you keep your word to give a reward now?"

"Reward?" scoffed the merchant greedily counting the amount of gold. "The purse Idropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward I'll giveto you.! Go away or I'll tell you to the police."

"I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let's take this matter to the court!" In thecourt, the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both.Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of

gold. Well, that's a considerable cost. But the purse the beggar found had only 100 piecesof gold. Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost."

And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the golds to the beggar.

Silent Love

Once, there was a couple who love very much each other. From the very Begining, thegirl's family objected strongly on her dating this guy. Saying that it has got to do withfamily background & that the girl will have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were tobe with him.

Due to family's pressure, the couple quarrel very often. Though the girl love the guydeeply, but she always ask him: "How deep is your love for me?"

As the guy is not good with his words, this often cause the girl to be very upset. With that

& the family's pressure, the girl often vent her anger on him. As for him, he only endureit in silence.

After a couple of years, the guy finally graduated & decided to further his studies inoverseas. Before leaving, he proposed to the girl: "I'm not very good with words. But all Iknow is that I love you. If you allow me, I will take care of you for the rest of my life. Asfor your family, I'll try my best to talk them round. Will you marry me?"


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The girl agreed, & with the guy's determination, the family finally gave in & agreed to letthem get married. So before he leave, they got engaged.

The girl went out to the working society, whereas the guy was overseas, continuing hisstudies. They sent their love through emails & phone calls. Though it's hard, but both

never thought of giving up.One day, while the girl was on her way to work, she was knocked down by a car that lostcontrol. When she woke up, she saw her parents beside her bed. She realised that she wasbadly injured. Seeing her mum crying, she wanted to comfort her. But she realized thatall that could come out of her mouth was just a sigh. She has lost her voice......

The doctors says that the impact on her brain has caused her to lose her voice. Listeningto her parents' comfort, but with nothing coming out from her, she broke down.

During the stay in hospital, besides silence cry,.....it's still just silence cry that companied

her. Upon reaching home, everything seems to be the same. Except for the ringing tone ofthe phone. Which pierced into her heart everytime it rang. She does not wish to let theguy know. & not wanting to be a burden to him, she wrote a letter to him saying that shedoes not wish to wait any longer.

With that, she sent the ring back to him. In return, the guy sent millions & millions ofreply, and countless of phonecalls,.. all the girl could do, besides crying, is still crying....

The parents decided to move away, hoping that she could eventually forget everything &be happy.

With a new environment, the girl learn sign language & started a new life. Telling herselfeveryday that she must forget the guy. One day, her friend came & told her that he's back.She asked her friend not to let him know what happened to her. Since then, there wasn'tanymore news of him.

A year has passed & her friend came with an envelope, containing an invitation card forthe guy's wedding. The girl was shattered. When she open the letter, she saw her name init instead.

When she was about to ask her friend what's going on, she saw the guy standing in frontof her. He used sign language telling her "I've spent a year's time to learn sign language.Just to let you know that I've not forgotten our promise. Let me have the chance to beyour voice. I Love You. With that, he slipped the ring back into her finger. The girlfinally smiled.


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Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquakehappened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali.Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not knowthat it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone andelectricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.

Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even Icould not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I coulddo but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. Theearthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked Godthat nobody was seriously injured.

Analyzing the Text

Generic Structure Analysis

Orientation; introducing the participant, using first person point of view, I was on the carlas week.

Events; describing a series of event which happened. The car lunched to one side.Telephone and electricity poles was falling down, etc.Re-orientation; stating the writer's personal note. Thanking God because nobody wasseriously injured.Language Feature Analysis

Using personal participant; IUsing chronological connectives; then, and, suddenlyUsing linking verb; was, wereUsing action verb; moved, left, walked, made, etcUsing simple past tense pattern; earthquake happened, I was on the car, my car lunchedon one side, etc

The Princess and The Pea

There once was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but it had to be real princess.So he went all over the world looking for a real princess. Everywhere he met youngladies told him they were real princess, but could never be completely sure that this wastrue. There was always something about them that did not seem quite right. And so, afteralong 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 andlightning in the sky above the royal castle. Then there was a knock at the castle gate. Theold king went out to see who it could be.


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A princess was standing outside the gate. The rain ran down over her hair and clothes andinto her shoes. She told the king that she was a real princess, and he asked her to comeinside.

Well, said the old queen. Well soon find out if that is true. She went into the guest

bedroom and took the mattress and blanket of the bed. Then she put a little green pea onthe bed. She put twenty mattress on top of the pea, and then twenty mattress on top of thepea, and then twenty blankets on top of the mattress. This was where the princess wasgoing to spend the night.

The next morning the queen asked the princess how she had slept.

oh, it was terrible answered the princess. didnt close my eyes all night. I dont knowwhat was in my bed, but I lay on something hard, and now I am black and blue all over. Itwas quite a terrible night.

Now, the king, the queen and the prince could be sure that this was a real princess shehad felt the little pea trough twenty mattresses and twenty blankets. Only a real princesswill be able to do that.

So the prince married the princess and the pea was put in a museum for everyone to see,unless someone has taken it, its still there today

Father Eyes

Once in a city, there was a skinny young boy who loved football very much. Practiceafter practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the otherboys, he got absolutely nowhere. At all the games, this hopeful athlete sat on the benchand hardly ever played. This teenager lived alone with his father, and the two of them hada very special relationship.

Even though the son was always on the bench, his father was always in the standscheering. He never missed a game. This young man was still the smallest of the classwhen he entered high school. But his father continued to encourage him but also made itvery clear that he did not have to play football if he didn't want to. But the young manloved football and decided to hang in there. He was determined to try his best at everypractice, and perhaps he'd get to play when he became a senior.

All through high school he never missed a practice nor a game but remained a bench-warmer all four years. His faithful father was always in the stands, always with words ofencouragement for him.


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When the young man went to college, he decided to try out for the football team as a"walk-on." Everyone was sure he could never make the cut, but he did. The coachadmitted that he kept him on the roster because he always puts his heart and soul to everypractice, and at the same time, provided the other members with the spirit and hustle theybadly needed.

The news that he had survived the cut thrilled him so much that he rushed to the nearestphone and called his father. His father shared his excitement and was sent season ticketsfor all the college games. This persistent young athlete never missed practice during hisfour years at college, but he never got to play in a game.

It was the end of his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice fieldshortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram. The young manread the telegram and he became deathly silent.

Swallowing hard, he mumbled to the coach, "My father died this morning. Is it all right if

I miss practice today?" The coach put his arm gently around his shoulder and said, "Takethe rest of the week off, son. And don't even plan to come back to the game on Saturday."

Saturday arrived, and the game was not going well. In the third quarter, when the teamwas ten points behind, a silent young man quietly slipped into the empty locker room andput on his football gear. As he ran onto the sidelines, the coach and his players wereastounded to see their faithful teammate back so soon. "Coach, please let me play. I'vejust got to play today," said the young man. The coach pretended not to hear him. Therewas no way he wanted is worst player in this close playoff game.

But the young man persisted, and finally feeling sorry for the kid, the coach gave in. "Allright," he said. "You can go in." Before long, the coach, the players and everyone in thestands could not believe their eyes. This little unknown, who had never played before wasdoing everything right. The opposing team could not stop him. He ran, he passed,blocked, and tackled like a star.

His team began to triumph. The score was soon tied. In the closing seconds of the game,this kid intercepted a pass and ran all the way for the winning touchdown. The fans brokeloose. His teammates hoisted him onto their shoulders. Such cheering you never heard.

Finally, after the stands had emptied and the team had showered and left the locker room,the coach noticed that this young man was sitting quietly in the corner all alone. Thecoach came to him and said, "Kid, I can't believe it. You were fantastic! Tell me what gotinto you? How did you do it?"

He looked at the coach, with tears in his eyes, and said, "Well, you knew my dad died,but did you know that my dad was blind?" The young man swallowed hard and forced asmile, "Dad came to all my games, but today was the first time he could see me play, andI wanted to show him I could do it!".


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The Three Feathers

There was once upon a time a king who had three sons, of whom two were clever andwise, but the third did not speak much, and was simple, and was called the simpleton.

When the king had become old and weak, and was thinking of his end, he did not knowwhich of his sons should inherit the kingdom after him. Then he said to them, go forth,and he who brings me the most beautiful carpet shall be king after my death.

And that there should be no dispute amongst them, he took them outside his castle, blewthree feathers in the air, and said, you shall go as they fly. One feather flew to the east,the other to the west, but the third flew straight up and did not fly far, but soon fell to theground.

And now one brother went to the right, and the other to the left, and they mockedsimpleton, who was forced to stay where the third feather had fallen. He sat down and

was sad. Then all at once he saw that there was a trap-door close by the feather. He raisedit up, found some steps, and went down them. Then he came to another door, knocked atit, and heard somebody inside calling - little green waiting-maid, waiting-maid with thelimping leg, little dog of the limping leg, hop hither and thither, and quickly see who iswithout.

The door opened, and he saw a great, fat toad sitting, and round about her a crowd oflittle toads. The fat toad asked what he wanted. He answered, I should like to have theprettiest and finest carpet in the world. Then she called a young one and said - little greenwaiting-maid, waiting-maid with the limping leg, little dog of the limping leg, hop hitherand thither, and bring me the great box.

The young toad brought the box, and the fat toad opened it, and gave simpleton a carpetout of it, so beautiful and so fine, that on the earth above, none could have been wovenlike it. Then he thanked her, and climbed out again.

The two others, however, had looked on their youngest brother as so stupid that theybelieved he would find and bring nothing at all. Why should we give ourselves a greatdeal of trouble searching, said they, and got some coarse handkerchiefs from the firstshepherds' wives whom they met, and carried them home to the king.

At the same time simpleton also came back, and brought his beautiful carpet, and whenthe king saw it he was astonished, and said, if justice be done, the kingdom belongs to theyoungest. But the two others let their father have no peace, and said that it wasimpossible that simpleton, who in everything lacked understanding,should be king, and entreated him to make a new agreement with them.

Then the father said, he who brings me the most beautiful ring shall inherit the kingdom,and led the three brothers out, and blew into the air three feathers, which they were to


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follow. Those of the two eldest again went east and west, and simpleton's feather flewstraight up, and fell down near the door into the earth.

Then he went down again to the fat toad, and told her that he wanted the most beautifulring. She at once ordered her big box to be brought, and gave him a ring out of it, which

sparkled with jewels, and was so beautiful that no goldsmith on earth would have beenable to make it.

The two eldest laughed at simpleton for going to seek a golden ring. They gavethemselves no trouble, but knocked the nails out of an old carriage-ring, and took it to theking, but when simpleton produced his golden ring, his father again said, the kingdombelongs to him. The two eldest did not cease from tormenting the king until he made athird condition, and declared that the one who brought the mostbeautiful woman home, should have the kingdom. He again blew the three feathers intothe air, and they flew as before.

Then simpleton without more ado went down to the fat toad, and said, I am to take homethe most beautiful woman. Oh, answered the toad, the most beautiful woman. She is notat hand at the moment, but still you shall have her. She gave him a yellow turnip whichhad been hollowed out, to which six mice were harnessed. Then simpleton said quitemournfully, what am I to do with that. The toad answered,just put one of my little toads into it. Then he seized one at random out of the circle, andput her into the yellow coach, but hardly was she seated inside it than she turned into awonderfully beautiful maiden, and the turnip into a coach, and the six mice into horses.So he kissed her, and drove off quickly with the horses, andtook her to the king.

His brothers, who came afterwards, had given themselves no trouble at all looking forbeautiful girls, but had brought with them the first peasant women they chanced to meet.When the king saw them he said, after my death the kingdom belongs to my youngestson. But the two eldest deafened the king's ears afresh with their clamor, we cannotconsent to simpleton's being king, and demanded that the one whose wife could leapthrough a ring which hung in the centre of the hall should have the preference. Theythought, the peasant women can do that easily, they are strong enough, but the delicatemaiden will jump herself to death.

The aged king agreed likewise to this. Then the two peasant women jumped, and jumpedthrough the ring, but were so clumsy that they fell, and their coarse arms and legs brokein two. And then the pretty maiden whom simpleton had brought with him, sprang, andsprang through as lightly as a deer, and all opposition had to cease. So he received thecrown, and has ruled wisely for a length of time.

Three Fish


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Once three fish lived in a pond. One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond andsaw the fish. This pond is full of fish, they told each other excitedly. we have neverfished here before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our nets and catch thesefish! So saying, the fishermen left.

When the eldest of the three fish heard this, he was troubled. He called the other fishtogether and said, Did you hear what the fishermen said? We must leave this pond atonce. The fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all! The second of the three fishagreed. You are right, he said. We must leave the pond.

But the youngest fish laughed. You are worrying without reason, he said. We havelived in this pond all our lives, and no fisherman has ever come here. Why should weleave this pond? I am not going anywhere/ I will stay here, my luck will keep me safe.

The eldest of the fish left the pond that very evening with his entire family. The secondfish saw the fishermen coming in the distance early next morning and left the pond at

once with all his family. The third fish refused to leave even then.The fishermen arrived and caught all the fish left in the pond. The third fishs luck did nothelp him he was caught and killed.

BAWANG MERAH BAWANG PUTIH

BAWANG Putih lived with her step mother and her step sister, Bawang Merah. BawangPutih's mother died when she was a baby. Her father remarried another woman and laterher step sister was born. Unfortunately, not long after that her father died. Since then,Bawang Putih's life was sad. Her step mother and her step sister treated Bawang Putihbadly and always asked her to do all the housework.

One morning, Bawang Putih was washing some clothes in the river. Suddenly, hermother's clothes were brought away by the river. She was really worried so she walkedalong the river side to find the clothes. Finally she met an old woman. She said that shekept the clothes and would give them back to Bawang Putih if she helped the old womando the household chores. Bawang Putih helped her happily. After everything wasfinished, the old woman returned the clothes. She also gave Bawang Putih a gift. The oldwoman had two pumpkins, one pumpkin was small and the other one was big. BawangPutih had to choose one.

Bawang Putih was not a greedy girl. So she took the small one. After thanking the oldwoman, Bawang Putih then went home. When she arrived home, her step mother andBawang Merah were angry. They had been waiting for her all day long. Bawang Putihthen told about the clothes, the old woman, and the pumpkin. Her mother was reallyangry so she grabbed the pumpkin and threw it to the floor. Suddenly they all weresurprised. Inside the pumpkin they found jewelries. "Bawang Merah, hurry up. Go to the


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river and throw my clothes into the water. After that, find the old woman. Remember,you have to take the big pumpkin," the step mother asked Bawang Merah to do exactlythe same as Bawang Putih's experience. Bawang Merah immediately went to the river.She threw the clothes and pretended to search them. Not long after that, she met the oldwoman. Again she asked Bawang Merah to do household chores. She refused and asked

the old woman to give her a big pumpkin. The old woman then gave her the big one.Bawang Merah was so happy. She ran very fast. When she arrived home, her mother wasimpatient. She directly smashed the pumpkin to the floor. They were screaming. Therewere a lot of snakes inside the pumpkin! They were really scared. They were afraid thesnakes would bite them. "Mom, I think God just punished us. We had done bad things toBawang Putih. And God didn't like that. We have to apologize to Bawang Putih," saidBawang Merah.

Finally Bawang Merah and her mother realized their mistakes. They apologized andBawang Putih forgave them. Now the family is not poor anymore. Bawang Putih decidedto sell all the jewelries and used the money for their daily lives.

SNOW WHITE

Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt anduncle because her parents were died.One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the castlebecause they wanted to go to America and they didnt have enough money to take SnowWhite with them.Snow White didnt want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she decided to run away. Thenext morning she run away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast,she run away into the wood.In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked butno one answered so she went inside and felt asleepMeanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There, theyfound Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said; What is yourname?. Snow White said; My name is Snow White. One of the dwarfs said; If youwish, you may live here with us. Snow White told the whole story about her. Then Snowwhite ad the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Generic Structure Analysis1. Orientation; introducing specific participants; Snow White2. Complication; revealing a series of crisis: Snow Whites aunt and uncle would leaveher in a castle, Snow White run away, Snow White felt hungry in the wood.3. Resolution; the crisis is resolve: the dwarfs permitted Snow White lived in theircottage lived happilyLanguage Feature Analysiso Using saying verb; answeredo Using thinking verb; decidedo Using action verb; run awayo Using time conjunction; once upon a time, one day


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o Using connectives; then, meanwhileo Using past tense; she heard her uncle

"CINDERELLA STORY" the Clearest

Example of Narrative Text

Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother 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 asscrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. Thetwo step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave themmany handsome dresses to wear.One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the kings son wasgoing to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much timechoosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away wentthe 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 godmotherstanding beside her, because I want so much to go to the ball said Cinderella. Wellsaid the godmother, youve 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 acoachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderellas raged dress with herwand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glassslippers. Now, Cinderella, she said; You must leave before midnight. Then away shedrove in her beautiful coach.Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with thekings son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quicklyas 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 fittedthe glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, nomatter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the kings page let Cinderellatry on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fittedperfectly.Finally, she was driven to the palace. The kings 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


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time and place set. Orientation actually exists in every text type though it has differentterm. In this story, the first paragraph is clearly seen to introduce the participants of theCinderella Story. They were Cinderella her self as the main character of the story, herstep mother which treated Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported hermother 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 anarrative text. In a long story, the complication appears in several situations. It means thatsome time there is more then one complication. In this Cinderella story, we can seeclearly that there are Major Complication and Minor Complication.The second paragraph is the major complication of this Cinderella story. Cinderella gotbad treatment from her stepmother. It is the bad crisis which drives into several minorcomplications which Cinderella has to overcome.Resolution: it is the final series of the events which happen in the story. The resolutioncan be good or bad. The point is that it has been accomplished by the characters. Likecomplication, there are Major Resolution and Minor Resolution.

In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella lived happily. It is the happyresolution of the bad treatment.

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