Narrative Text

Example of narrative text:

The Lazybones

Mr. Jones was a famous bakery in town. He owned a small bakery. Mr. Jones’s  son, Tom,  was very very lazy. People called him “lazybones”.  Mr. Jones had only one helper in his shop, named Bob. With just one helper, He was busy all day, but Tom did nothing to help. That’s why Mr. Jones was always complaining about him.

“ That boy!” said Mr. Jones. “ He’s really lazy. He does nothing but laze about all day.”

One day Mr. Jones told Tom to watch some cakes in the oven. Instead of watching the cakes, Tom fell asleep and the cakes  were burnt. Mr. Jones was really angry. “Can’t you do anything properly?!” he scolded.

A few days later Mr. Jones had a bad cold. The doctor said he had to stay in bed for a week.

“ My goodness, I can’t!” said Mr. Jones. “ What will happen to my shop?”

“ Don’t worry about the shop,” said Mrs. Jones. “ Bob, Tom and I will look after it.”

“ Tom?” said Mr. Jones. “ As if he would do anything to help!”

“ Just believe in Tom.” Said Bob surely. “ You will help us deliver the bread, Tom.”

Tom stared at Bob. “ That’s hard work,” he said.

“ Well, somebody has to do it.” Said Mrs. Jones firmly

So, whether Tom liked it or not, Bob woke him up at five every morning. Then everyday Tom went round to deliver the bread. Of course the customers were very surprised to see him. You see, they all knew he was a lazybones. They were praised  him and it made Tom happy.

As the day passed , Tom fell that work wasn’t so bad. And he stop being a lazybones.

Taken from:

BSE: Developing English Competencies

*with some changes*