Contoh Narrative Text : Fabel (Cerita Binatang)
- Pernahkah anda mendengarkan cerita fabel? Tentunya pernah dong. Ya
cerita fabel adalah cerita yang biasa kita dengar biasanya pada waktu
kita masih kecil. Fabel adalah cerita yang menceritakan
kehidupan hewan yang berperilaku menyerupai manusia. Cerita tersebut
tidak mungkin kisah nyata. Fabel adalah cerita fiksi, maksudnya khayalan
belaka (fantasi). Kadang fabel memasukkan karakter minoritas berupa
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1. The Tiger Who Would Be King
One morning the tiger woke up in the jungle and told his mate that he was king of beasts.
"Leo, the lion, is king of beasts," she said.
"We need a change," said the tiger. "The creatures are crying for a change."
The tigress listened but she could hear no crying, except that of her cubs.
"I'll
be king of beasts by the time the moon rises," said the tiger. "It will
be a yellow moon with black stripes, in my honour."
"Oh
sure," said the tigress as she went to look after her young, one of
whom, a male, very like his father, had got an imaginary thorn in his
paw.
The
tiger prowled through the jungle till he came to the lion's den. "Come
out," he roared," and greet the king of beasts! The king is dead, long
live the king!"
Inside the den, the lioness woke her mate. "The king is here to see you," she said.
"What king?" he inquired, sleepily.
"The king of beasts," she said.
"I am the king of beasts," roared Leo and he charged out of the den to defend his crown against the pretender.
It
was a terrible fight and it lasted until the setting of the sun. All
the animals of the jungle joined in, some taking the side of the tiger
and others the side of the lion. Every creature from the aardvark to the
zebra took part in the struggle to overthrow the lion or to repulse the
tiger, and some did not knot know which they were fighting for, and
some fought for both, and some fought whoever was nearest and some
fought for the sake of fighting.
"What are we fighting for?" someone asked the aardvark.
"The old order," said the aardvark.
"What are we dying for?" someone asked the zebra.
"The new order," said the zebra.
When
the moon rose, fevered and gibbous, it shone upon a jungle in which
nothing stirred except a macaw and a cockatoo, screaming in horror. All
the beasts were dead except the tiger, and his days were numbered and
his time was ticking away. He was monarch of all he surveyed, but it
didn't seem to mean anything.
2. The Fox and the Crow
A
crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted
the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit,"
said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and
sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else,
that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make
him drop the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this
particular crow in this particular case.
"They
say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having
carefully removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot,
"but you must be nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored
jackets and bright vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black
and I am unique.
"I
am sure you are," said the fox, who was neither crazy nor nearsighted,
but sly. "I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most
famed and talented of all birds, and I fain would hear you tell about
yourself, but I am hungry and must go."
"Tarry
awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon
he tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to
tell about himself. "A ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to
doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow bars last
forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last, but never
least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians,
and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two
points," he concluded arrogantly.
"Oh,
every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the
lion's share of what I know you could not spare." And with this he
trotted away into the woods, his appetite appeased, leaving the hungry
crow perched forlornly in the tree. Eboza.com
3. The Wolf and the Dog
Once
there was a wolf who was nearly dead with hunger. He was very thin, so
that the outline of his bones could be seen clearly beneath his thinning
coat of hair. With hardly enough energy to walk, the wolf had little
hope of finding food. As he lay beneath a large tree, a dog out for a
walk noticed him. Seeing how thin and hungry-looking the wolf was, the
dog felt sorry for him and said, "You are in terrible shape! You look as
if you haven't eaten for many days."
"You're
right," said the wolf. "I haven't eaten because you and your friends
are doing such a good job of guarding the sheep. Now I am so weak that I
have little hope of finding food. I think I will surely die."
Then
why not join us? Asked the dog. "I work regularly and I eat regularly.
You could do the same. I will arrange it. You can help me and the other
dogs guard the sheep. In that way, we won't have to worry about your
stealing the sheep any more and you won't have to worry about going
hungry any more. It's a good deal for both of us."
The
wolf thought it over for a few minutes and then decided that the dog
was right. So they went off together toward the ranch house where the
dog lived. But, as they were walking, the wolf noticed that the hair on a
certain part of the dog's neck was very thin. He was curious about
this, for the dog had such a beautiful coat every where else. Finally,
he asked the dog about it.
"Oh,
don't worry about that," said the dog. "It's the place where the collar
rubs on my neck when my master chains me up at night."
"Chained
up!" cried the wolf, "Do you mean that you are chained up at night? If I
come to live with you, will I be chained up at night too?"
That's right," answered the dog. "But, You'll get used to it soon enough. I hardly think about it anymore."
"But,
if I am chained up, then I won't be able to walk when I want to take a
walk or to run where I want to run," the wolf said. "If I come to live
with you, I won't be free anymore." After saying this, the wolf turned
and ran away.
"The
dog called after the wolf, saying, "Wait! Come back! I may not be able
to do everything I want to do, but I'm healthy, well-fed, and I have a
warm place to sleep. You are too worried about keeping alive to enjoy
life. I'm more free than you are."
4. The Fox and The Cat
One
day a cat and a fox were having a conversation. The fox, who was a
conceited creature, boasted how clever she was. 'Why, I know at least a
hundred tricks to get away from our mutual enemies, the dogs,' she said.
'I know only one trick to get away from dogs,' said the cat. 'You should teach me some of yours!'
'Well, maybe some day, when I have the time, I may teach you a few of the simpler ones,' replied the fox airily.
Just
then they heard the barking of a pack of dogs in the distance. The
barking grew louder and louder - the dogs were coming in their
direction! At once the cat ran to the nearest tree and climbed into its
branches, well out of reach of any dog. 'This is the trick I told you
about, the only one I know,' she called down to the fox. 'Which one of
your hundred tricks are you going to use?'
The
fox sat silently under the tree, wondering which trick she should use.
Before she could make up her mind, the dogs arrived. They fell upon the
fox and tore her to pieces.
A single plan that works is better than a hundred doubtful plans.
5. The Lion and The Mouse
Once,
as a lion lay sleeping in his den, a naughty little mouse ran up his
tail, and onto his back and up his mane and danced and jumped on his
head, so that the lion woke up.
lion
angry and mouseThe lion grabbed the mouse and, holding him in his large
claws, roared in anger. 'How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I
am King of the Beasts? Anyone who disturbs my rest deserves to die! I
shall kill you and eat you!'
The
terrified mouse, shaking and trembling, begged the lion to let him go.
'Please don't eat me Your Majesty! I did not mean to wake you, it was a
mistake. I was only playing. Please let me go - and I promise I will be
your friend forever. Who knows but one day I could save your life?'
The
lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. 'You save my life? What an
absurd idea!' he said scornfully. 'But you have made me laugh, and put
me into a good mood again, so I shall let you go.' And the lion opened
his claws and let the mouse go free.
'Oh thank you, your majesty,' squeaked the mouse, and scurried away as fast as he could.
A
few days later the lion was caught in a hunter's snare. Struggle as he
might, he couldn't break free and became even more entangled in the net
of ropes. He let out a roar of anger that shook the forest. Every animal
heard it, including the tiny mouse.
