adjar.id – Apakah Adjarian senang membaca narrative text?
Narrative text merupakan jenis teks yang menceritakan rangkaian peristiwa secara kronologis dan saling terhubung.
Nah, kali ini kita akan membahas soal mengenai narrative text berujul “The Ugly Tree” yang ada di buku Bahasa Inggris untuk SD/MI kelas 5 SD, halaman 40.
Tujuan utama dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembaca, sehingga alur ceritanya biasanya imajinatif.
Tak jarang juga jenis teks satu ini menggunakan hewan atau tumbuhan sebagai tokoh utama dalam cerita.
O iya, selain untuk menghibur, narrative text umumnya mengandung nilai moral yang dapat diambil sebagai pembelajaran.
Seperti halnya soal yang akan dikerjakan kali ini, terdapat beberapa nilai moral yang dapat dipetik dari cerita “The Ugly Tree”.
Memangnya, seperti apa cerita “The Ugly Tree”? Apa saja nilai moralnya?
Simak bersama, yuk!
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Read the text below carefully!
(Baca teks berikut dengan teliti!)
The Ugly Tree
Long, long ago, in a dense forest there were thousands of tall and beautiful trees. They were happy, but proud of themselves.
Among them there also an ugly tree whose branches were badly twisted. Its roots had uneven curves. All the trees made fun of that ugly tree.
"How are you, hunchback?" the other trees always shouted and their laughter made the ugly tree feel sad. But, he never raised a voice against them.
The ugly tree thought, "I wish I were as beautiful as the other trees. Why did God do this to me? Neither can I provide shade to the travelers not can the birds make their nests on me. Nobody needs me."
One day, a woodcutter came to the forest. He took a look at the trees and said, "These trees are lovely.
I must cut them." As soon as he picked up his axe the trees became frightened. 'Chop, Chop, Chop' went the woodcutter's axe and one by one the trees started to fall. "None of us is going to be spared," screamed one of the beautiful trees.
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Soon that tree too was brought to ground by the woodcutter's axe. By now, the woodcutter had come near to the ugly tree.
He had just raised his axe when suddenly he noticed how crooked the ugly tree was. "Hmm! This crooked tree seems to be useless for me. I cannot make long straight logs of this ugly tree," he thought. And he moved towards another beautiful tree.
The ugly tree heaved a huge sigh of relief. He realized that by making him ugly, God had actually given him a boon.
From that day the ugly tree never complained. He was happy with his crooked branches. He never forgot how he was spared from the woodcutter's axe, only because he was crooked and ugly.
Pengembangan Karakter
Nilai moral apa yang terkandung dalam cerita di atas?
Jawab: Dari cerita “The Ugly Tree” kita dapat memetic pelajaran bahwa kita harus selalu bersyukur dengan semua yang Tuhan beri, apapun itu.
Tuhan selalu memberikan yang terbaik dan kita tidak tahu maksud tersembunyi dari kekurangan yang Tuhan berikan.
Selain itu, Tuhan menciptakan manusia dengan kekurangan dan kelebihan masing-masing. Kita spesial dengan cara kita sendiri.
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Cerita tersebut juga mengajarkan kita arti kesabaran. Apapun hal yang kita dapatkan dan miliki, kita harus tetap bersyukur.
Sebab, terlalu serakah dapat membawa kita ke jalan yang salah.
Nah, Adjarian, itulah nilai moral dari cerita “The Ugly Tree”.