Moral Values of Narrative Texts in Senior High School

Abstract

Moral values become the main issue in education. Every element in school has the responsibility to impart moral values to the students in order to build good characters. In the teaching-learning process, the teachers can teach moral values through texts, mainly in narrative texts. In this research, the researcher tries to find out the moral values in four narrative texts in senior high school textbooks, titled English Zone for Senior High School Students Year XII. The title of the narrative texts are Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih, Seeking at The Great Wall, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin. This research used a qualitative research design with descriptive analysis to analyse the texts deeply. The data in this research comes from the text which are available in the textbook. The results indicate that every text has, at least, a moral value in its narrative, among others: The wickedness will be destroyed, the kindness and patience will bring to the happiness, sacrifice for love, dishonesty will bring difficulties or Breaking the promise bring the difficulties.