I know, you have already heard about
Cinderella story, it was a beautiful story right? A short story with a happy
ending.. and I want you to read this once again :-) lets begin, don’t be
serious guys!!!
CINDERELLA
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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