The Example Of Recount Text

Group 2/8c :

Raden Roro Gina paramita

Nadya Intan Kartika

Kurnia Suci Arta

Sefina Putri Maulidina

The defination of Recount Text

  Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is 

either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among 

the participants and that differentiates from narrative

•Generic Structure of Recount

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time

2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past

3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story

Orientation (The Flood)

 

One Christmas in 2007, I was joining a final test try out at school. It was held from 

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. One of my schoolmates, Rini, asked me for accompanying her to 

the bus stop. When we arrived there, suddenly the heavy rain fell down from the

 sky. Rini suggested me to go home soon while she was entering the bus.

event  

It was still raining when I was home. The rain did not stop and became bigger 

when the night had come. People were standing in front of their house, hoping 

that the flood would not come. In the middle of the night, I watched news that 

South Purwodadi had been drowned.

The next day, Purwodadi had become a flood area. All activities were paralyzed. 

No one went for work or school because the land had been covered by flood. 

However, thank God for not allowing the flood entered my house. Even my house 

had been changed into an emergency kitchen. It was so crowded there. I and 

my father took a walk around the center market and Central Purwodadi. All 

that we could see was water and water. At night, the flood looked like a 

beautiful ocean with the moonlight on it. I felt as if I was one of the passengers of 

Titanic who was sailing on the sea.

 

      re-orientation

Finally, the flood was starting to decrease in the next morning. I and my family 

cleaned our front yard together. That was the greatest flood that I had ever 

experienced in my hometown