Monkey and Crocodile

One day, a monkey wanted to cross a river. He saw a crocodile in the river, so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side. The crocodile told the monkey to jump on its back. Then, the crocodile swam down the river.

Now, the crocodile was very hungry, so when it was in the middle of the river, it stopped and said to the monkey,”Monkey, my father is very sick. He must eat the heart of the monkey. Then, he will be strong again.”

The monkey thought for a while. Then he told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank. “What’s for?”, asked the crocodile. “Because I didn’t bring my heart with me,” said the monkey. “ I left it under the tree, near some coconuts.”

So, the crocodile turned around and swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back and climbed up the top of a tree. “Where is your heart?”, asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” the monkey said to the crocodile. “Now I am free and you have nothing.” The monkey told the crocodile not to try to fool him again. The crocodile swam away, hungry.

   Analysis  :

Generic Structure of Narrative Text: 

1   .      Orientation

(the first paragraph)

2   .      Complication

(the second paragraph)

3   .      Resolution

( four sentences in the forth paragraph)

4   .      Reorientation

(two sentences in the last from paragraph four)

Language Features   :

1   .      Linking Words            : so, then, and, because, as soon as.

2   .      Mental Verbs              : want (wanted), be (was), think (thought).

3  .   Action Verbs           : saw, asked, take, told, jump, swam, stopped, said, eat, bring, left, turned around, reached, climbed, try.

Situation of the Text :

1   .      Field    : the crocodile which was trying to fool a monkey by asking his heart as a medicine for crocodile’s father.

2   .      Tenor   : the participants are the monkey and the crocodile. In this story the monkey has good brains so that he didn’t let the crocodile got his heart.

3   .    Mode : the channel of the text is written text. The purpose of the text is to amuse the reader and get the moral value of the story.