Narrative Text - Let Me Love You

Let Me Love You

Once upon a time, there was once a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was  just a small executive in his company, his future doesn’t seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so let’s go their own ways there and then … heartbroken, the guy agreed.

When he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all these hard work and with the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company.

“You never fall until you stop trying,” he always told himself.” I must make it in life!”

One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn’t take him long to realize those were his ex- girlfriend’s parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury saloon. He wanted them to know that he wasn’t the same any more, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He had made it in life.!

Before the guy can realize, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and he got out of his car and followed them … and he saw his ex-girlfriend, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone … and he saw his precious paper cranes in a bottle placed beside her tomb. Her parents saw him. He walked over and asked them why this had happened. They explained that she did not leave for France at all. She was stricken ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want her illness to be his obstacle … therefore she had chosen to leave him.

She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him. The guy just wept. (taken from “Materi BBS-SBI XI)

Answer the questions based on the text above!
1.    What is the text about? …
2.    Who was the Guy described on the story? …
3.    Why did the girl finally decide to go to Paris leaving the Guy? …
4.    What did the Guy do with the girl’s decision? …
5.    How did the Guy succeed to set up his own company? …
6.    What did the Guy see while he was driving his car? …
7.    Did the Guy know who the elderly couple was? …
8.    Where did the elderly couple go? …
9.    What did the Guy do then? …
10.    Who was the elderly couple? …
11.    What did the couple tell the Guy? …
12.    Did the Girl really go to Paris leaving the Guy? …
         Explain your answer! …
13.    What did the girl want her parents put the paper cranes besides her tomb for? …
14.    What did the Guy feel having known what had happened with his girl? …

Narrative Text - The Smell Of Fried Fish

The Smell Of Fried Fish

A poor traveler stopped under a tree to eat his boiled rice and vegetables. A few meters away, there was small shop where a woman was frying fish and selling it to travelers who were able to afford to pay for it. This woman watched the poor traveler carefully, and when he finished his food and began to go, she shouted rudely, “You have not paid me for the fried fish!”

“But I have not had any fried fish!” he said.

“But everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice and vegetables,” argued the woman.

Soon the crowd collected. Although they supported the poor traveler, they had to admit that the wind had carried the smell of the fried fish to him.

Finally, the woman took the poor traveler to a judge. He said. “The woman says that the traveler ate his meal with the smell of her fried fish. The traveler agrees that the wind was blowing from the woman’s shop and that it carried the smell of her fish to him, so he must pay for it. What does your fried fish cost ?” he asked the woman.

“Twenty-five cents a plate,” she answered, delighted.

“Then go outside together, said the judge. ‘The traveler must hold up a twenty-five cent piece so that its shadow falls on the woman’s hand. The price of the smell of a plate of fried fish is the shadow of twenty-five cents.’

Choose the best answer based on the text.
1.      What will be the best topic of the text?
         A.      A woman and her fried fish    
         B.      A women and a poor traveler were arguing caused by the smell fried fish   
         C.      A poor traveler was eating fried fish
         D.      A poor traveler and his friend fish
         E.      A woman lost her fried fish
2.      The woman shouted poor traveler rudely because …
         A.      she lost her fried fish
         B.      the poor traveler hasn’t paid the woman’s fried fish
         C.      the poor traveler hasn’t paid her smell of  fried fish
         D.      she wanted to give the poor traveler fried fish
         E.      her fried fish was brought by poor traveler
3.      How did the judge finally decided the case belonging to the woman and poor traveler?
         A.      wisely     B.      unfairly    C.      sided    D.      un correctly    E.      hurtly
4.      The following statements are correct, except …
         A.      the poor traveler enjoyed the smell of the woman’s fried fish
         B.      the woman asked the poor traveler to pay the smell of fried fish
         C.      the judge decided the case fairly
         D.      the poor traveler finally paid a twenty five cent for the smell of fried fish
         E.      the woman took the poor traveler to the judge
5.      Soon the crowd collected, although … (paragraph 4)
         The underlined word means …
         A.    gathered    B.    forced    C.    met    D.  separated    E.  disconnected
6.      What is the type of the text?
         A.      narrative    B.  spoof    C.  hortatory exposition    D.      recount    E.      report
7.     What is the social function of the text above?
        A.  to entertain the readers with the story   
        B.  to retell past event   
        C.  to describe the fried fish
        D.      to persuade the readers to enjoy fried fish
        E.      to explain about fried fish

Re-read the text to answer these questions.
1.    What is the text about? …
2.    What does the poor traveler stop under the tree for? …
3.    What did the woman do after the poor man had finished his meal? …
4.    What was the poor supposed to do with the woman? …
5.    What did the crowd think about the case they saw? …
6.    Why did the woman take the poor to the judge? …
7.    Did the man really eat the woman’s fried fish? …
       Explain your answer! …
8.    What did the judge ask the man and the woman to do then? …
9.    Was the judge really a wise man? …
       Why or Why not? …
10. Describe the character owned by the following figures on the text:
      The beggar         :    ...
      The Merchant     :   ...
      The judge           :   ...