Contoh Text Narrative

A GOOD LESSON

Cheung Tsai was a good-for-nothing fellow. He knew that his father, old Mr. Cheng, was a rich man. So Cheung Tsai was very careless with his father’s money and spent as much as he pleased.

When old Mr. Cheung found out, he did not give his son any more money. Cheung Tsai began to think of a plan. He went to his friends and borrowed money from each of them, saying, “Don’t worry. My father is so rich that I can easily pay back all money I have borrowed from you.

Soon, he owed all his friends so much money that refused to lend him anymore. At least they began to ask him for their money back. Cheung Tsai did not know what to do, so his friends all went to old Mr. Cheung and asked him for their money back.

Mr. Cheung was very angry. He gave his son two huge sacks full of dollar coins and ordered him to go to the home of each of his friends to repay the money he owed them.

Cheung Tsai walked from house to house, carrying the heavy sacks of money. At least he thought to himself, “if giving money away to people is such hard work, how much harder it must be to earn the money.”

From that day onwards, he was very careful with money.

                                                                                                                                   

THE BOY AND THE PEAR

Long ago in China, there lived a little boy named Hung Yung. He was the youngest child in the family and had many elder brothers and sisters.

One day, their father brought home a great big basket of pears. He put the basket on the table and told his children that Hung Yung could each take one pear to eat. All the children except Hung Yung came up to the table and began to choose the biggest and the nicest pear. Hung Yung alone stood back, away from his brothers and sisters.

When their father saw this, he was surprised and asked, “Hung Yung, why don’t you choose yourself a big pear?”

The little boy answered, “Let my brothers and sisters have the biggest pears because they are bigger than I am. I will take the smallest one.”

His father was very pleased with this reply because Hung Yung was then only three years old. He knew that his son would one day grow up to be a great man. Years later, Hung Yung really grew up to be a great man.