Contoh Narrative Text Legend Bahasa Inggris Lengkap

  Contoh Narrative text bahasa inggris adalah sebuah teks dalam pelajaran bahasa inggris yang menceritakan sesuatu yang tidak benar benar terjadi, hanya khayalan belaka yang dikarang oleh penulis, namun ada juga yang benar benar terjadi sesuai fakta yang ada.

  Salah satu tujuan narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembacanya, mengajak pembacanya untuk berimajinasi karena kebanyakan cerita narrative teks adalah khayalan atau dunia imajinasi, dan juga tidak lupa sang pengarang menuliskan beberapa amanat atau pesan moral yang terkait dalam cerita tersebut.

  Dalam narrative text ada bermacam macam cerita diantaranya cerita fable, sebagai contohnya yaitu si kancil dan seekor buaya, srigala dan anjing, harimau siraja hutan ,dan ada juga cerita legend yang menceritakan asal usul sesuatu atau dapat disebut juga dengan cerita rakyat diantaranya contoh nya yaitu Surabaya, Banyuwangi, rawa pening,sangkuriang dan  gunung tangkuban perahu, candi Borobudur, candi prambanan, dan masih banyak lagi. Berikut ini adalah kumpulan contoh narrative text legend dalam bahasa inggris :

The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu       Once, there was a kingdom in Priangan Land. Lived a happy family. They were a father in form of dog,his name is Tumang, a mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi, and a child which was called Sangkuriang.

One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang began desperate and worried because he hunted no deer. Then he thought to shot his own dog. Then he took the dog liver and carried home.

  Soon Dayang Sumbi found out that it was not deer lever but Tumang's, his own dog. So, She was very angry and hit Sangkuriang's head. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar then cast away from their home.

 Years go bye, Sangkuriang had travel many places and finally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman and felt in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The woman looked at the wound in Sangkuriang's head. It matched to her son's wound who had left severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.

  She couldn't marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat for celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake. With a dawn just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new day.

   Sangkuriang failed to marry her. She was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.

The Legend Of Banyuwangi

   Once upon a time, there was a local ruler named King Sulahkromo. The king had a Prime Minister named Raden Sidopekso. The Prime Minister had a wife named Sri Tanjung. She was so beautiful that the king wanted her to be his wife.

   One day, the King sent his Prime Minister to a long mission. While the Prime Minister was  away, the King tried to get Sri Tanjung. However he failed. He was very angry. Thus, when Sidopekso went back, the King told him that his wife was unfaithful to him. The Prime Minister was very angry with his wife. Sri Tanjung said that it was not true. However, Sidopekso said that he would kill her.

  He brought her to the river bank. Before he kill her and threw her into the river, she said that her innocence would be proven After Sidopekso killed her, he threw her dead body into the dirty river.

  The river immediately became clean and began to spread a wonderful fragrance. Sidopekso said, "Banyu...Wangi... Banyuwangi". This means "fragrant water". Banyuwangi was born from the proof of noble and sacred love.

The Legend of Rawa Pening

 Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village. He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.

  Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if there is a flood you must save yourself.

  Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The “lesung” was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy continued his journey. While he was passing through the village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.

The Legend of Surabaya

  A long time ago, there were two animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was the name of a shark and Baya was a crocodile. They lived in a sea.

  Once Sura and Baya were looking for some food. Suddenly, Baya saw a goat.
“Yummy, this is my lunch,” said Baya.
“No way! This is my lunch. You are greedy” said Sura. Then they fought for the goat. After several hours, they were very tired.

  Feeling tired of fighting, they lived in the different places. Sura lived in the water and Baya lived in the land. The border was the beach, so they would never fight again.

  One day, Sura went to the land and looked for some food in the river. He was very hungry and there was not much food in the sea. Baya was very angry when he knew that Sura broke the promise.

  They fought again. They both hit each other. Sura bit Baya's tail. Baya did the same thing to Sura. He bit very hard until Sura finally gave up and Awent back to the sea. Baya was happy.

 The Legend Of Prambanan Temple

   Once, there was a beautiful Javanese princess whose name was Rara Jonggrang. Rara Jonggrang whose beauty was very famous in the land was the daughter of Prabu Baka, and evil king.

  One day, a handsome young man with super natural power named Bandung Bondowoso defatted and killed Prabu Baka. On seeing Princess Rara Jonggrang’s beauty, Bandung Bondowoso fell in love wither and wantted to marry her.

   Meanwhile, Princess Rara jonggrang felt sad due to her death father. She did not want to marry Bandung because he had killed her father. But she was also afraid of Bandung. So to refuse politely, she made a condition. "I will marry you but you have to build one thousand temples in one night as a wedding gift" requested Rara Jonggrang. Bandung Bondowoso agreed with the condition. Helped by the spirit of the demons, Bandung Bondowoso started building the temples. Approaching midnight, the work would nearly be done. Rara Jonggrang knew and thought, "What shall I do? Bandung Bondowoso is smarter than I. I would lose against Bandung."

   Suddenly she got an idea. She woke up all the women in the palace and ordered them to make the noisy sounds of grinding rice so that the rooster thought at had already been dawn. Bandung Bondowoso got frustrated because he failed completing the thousandth temple.
"The Princess has deceived me!" Following his anger, he cursed Roro Jonggrang, "You have been cheated. Now, the thousandth temple is you!"

  At once, the Princess turned into a statue. knowing this, Bandung Bondowoso regretted and he went away into a farm land. From then people called the temple Prambanan Temple and the Princess statue Rara Jonggrang statue.

 Nah itulah contoh text narrative legend bahasa inggris, contoh lainnya juga ada silahkan lihat di artikel terbaru tentang contoh narrative text bahasa inggris lengkap, semoga bermanfaat.

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