The disadvantages are mostly seen in the students because each student somehow has different point of view in learning reading skill. The boredom, the
ability to compete, and the inability to work in groups might distract the application of jigsaw technique. Moreover, if students find jigsaw technique is
something new for them, it might take a quite long time to get familiar with jigsaw technique so the boredom might come up. According to the disadvatages
mentioned above, teachers who are willing to apply jigsaw technique should get prepared for all of the possibilty that may happen.
C. NARRATIVE TEXT
1. The Understanding of Narrative Text
There are many kinds of reading text which are learned by the eleventh grade students of senior high school. The importance of learning a reading text
will not only affect students‟ reading ability but also it will be a good model for English writing. Besides, reading texts also provide the opportunities to study
language: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and the way to construct sentences, paragraphs, and texts.
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One of the texts learned is narrative text. Narrative text can be in both written and spoken forms. Narrative is a story writing, it consists of
events in the order that they happen and it uses time order to organize the sentences.
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Narrative is the old structured form of human communication. The statement is said because people spend the rest of the lives telling stories, for
example telling about the events that happened in the time when the parents were still young. In some sense, every life is a narrative, a chronology of events both
small and large.
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To sum up, narrative text is a story writing that is arranged
chronologically based on the time order about the events happened.
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Jeremy Harmer, How To Teach English, Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education Limited, 2003, p. 68.
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Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, Introduction to Academic Writing, New York: Pearson Education, 2007, p. 24.
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Donald Pharr and Santi V. Buscemi, Writing Today, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, p. 174.
2. The Purposes of Narrative Text
A text always has a purpose about what the readers can get after reading it. Narrative text aims to amuse, entertain, and to deal with problematic events
which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
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Based on the book entitled The Student Writer by Barbara Fine Clouse, she stated that there are five purposes of narrative text which are to
entertain, to express feelings, to relate experience, to inform, and to persuade.
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Another purpose of narrative text stated by Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson is to provide entertainment, to make the audience think about an issue,
teach them a lesson, or excite the emotions.
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From the statements above, the purpose of narrative text can be various, based on the story provided. Narrative
text consists of stories that ever happened in the past time so most narrative text aims to entertain or to amuse the readers an also to inform the past stories.
3. The Elements of Narrative Text
