Objective of the Study

Readers should determine what their purpose for reading. 6 According to Nunan, some purposes in reading are: - To get information for certain purpose or because curious about a topic. - To know the newest news what is happening or has happened. - For refreshing, pleasure and excitement. 7 By knowing the purpose of reading, it helps the readers comprehend the text because every genre text in English has their own purposes. Thus, the readers need to know their reading purposes before they read. One genre text that Junior High School students learn is narrative text. Narrating or narrative is one of the most commonly text to read, compared with other English text. Because narrative text has been and continues to be a popular genre, there is a belief that students usually „pick up’ narrative text as their text to read and write „naturally’. 8 Chatman and Attebery defined the narrative text is a kind of story either fictive or real which contains a series of events which are presented chronologically. 9 Thus, special features of narrative text could be found in its sequence of events to attract the readers in order to build their curiosity throughout the story. Similar with Chatman and Attebery, Kane defined narrative text as a meaningful sequence of events told in words. The important thing in narrative text is how the events are ordered, not merely random. The sequence of events or usually known as chronology of the story always involves an arrangement of time. A straightforward movement from the first event to the last event is the simplest chronology. However, chronology is sometimes might be complicated by presenting the events in another order: for example, a story may 6 Cris Tovani, I Read It, but I Don’t Get It, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers Portland, 2000, p. 24. 7 David Nunan, Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom,UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 34. 8 Peter Knapp and Megan Watkins, Genre, Text, Grammar: Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005, p. 220. 9 Chatman, S., and B. Attebery, Reading Narrative Fiction, New York: McMillan, 1993, p. 8.