<![CDATA[The problem in this research is the relationship between attitudes towards literature and the ability to read short stories together with the narrative writing skills of class X SMA Swasta RK Bintang Timur Pematangsiantar students. The aim of this research is to describe the relationship between attitudes towards literature and the ability to read short stories, together with the narrative writing skills of class X SMA Swasta RK Bintang Timur Pematangsiantar students. The method used in this study was a descriptive method using correlation analysis techniques. The author used this method because the author wanted to find the relationship between the three variables in this research, namely attitudes towards literature (X1), ability to read short stories (X2), and narrative writing skills as variable Y. The population in this study was all classes, and the instruments used in data collection were tests and questionnaires. Tests were used to obtain data on short story reading abilities and narrative writing skills, and questionnaires were used to obtain data on students' attitudes towards the literature. The research results showed that "There is a significant relationship between attitudes towards literature and the ability to read short stories together with narrative writing skills by class X SMA Swasta RK Bintang Timur Pematangsiantar students at a significance level of 5%". Compared with the assessment criteria that had been proposed previously, it turns out that the t-test value is greater than ttable, so hypothesis Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Thus, attitudes towards literature have a significant relationship with students' narrative writing skills, and the ability to read short stories also has a significant relationship with Class X students' narrative writing skills at RK Bintang Timur Private High School Pematangsiantar]]>
