A Description on Characterization of Main Character In

A DESCRIPTION ON CHARACTERIZATION OF MAIN CHARACTER IN

JOHN GRISHAM’S NOVEL THEODORE BOONE THE ABDUCTION

A PAPPER WRITTEN BY YULIA ALDINA SAGALA REG. 152202055

DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDY UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2019

Universitas Sumatera Utara

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ABSTRACT

A Description On Characterization of The Main Characters In John Grisham’s Novel, Theodore Boone The Abduction. Paper: English Department, Faculty Of Culture Study, University Of Sumatera Utara Medan, 2019.The purpose of this research is to analyze the characterization of main character, which is mostly found in the

Grisham’s Novel, Theodore Boone The Abduction. In this case. the method of this

study is using qualitative method. The research questions will be answered in analyzed description. The concept of analizing the main character is by using Graham

Little theory. It is related in his books “Approach to Literature” about steps to

analysis of the characterization which is based on these aspects: Physical appearance of the main characters, and Social Status Of The Main Character

Key words: Novel, Characterization, Main Character

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ABSTRAK

Penjelasan Karakterisasi Dalam Pemeran Utama Yang Terdapat Di Novel John Grisham Theodore Abduction. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis karakterisasi pemeran utama dalam novel Grisham’s Novel, Theodore Boone The Abduction. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Pertanyaan penelitian akan dijawab dalam deskripsi yang dianalisis. Konsep yang digunakan dalam menganlisis main karakter adalah menggunakan teori Graham Little. Teori

tersebut berkaitan dengan bukunya yang berjudul “Approach to Literature”

menjelaskan tentang langkah-langkah menganalisis karakterisasi yang didasarkan pada aspek berikut: Penampilan fisik karakter utama dan status sosial karakter utama.

Kata kunci : Novel,Karakterisasi, Karakter Utama

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In the name of Allah, the most Generous and the most Merciful

First of all, I would like to give all majesty and praise to Allah SWT, the lord of the word for blessing and giving me the opportunity, health, strength, patients, and ability to accomplish this paper and Prophet Muhammad SAW. However, this success would not be achieved without support from individual, people and institution. However, this success would not be achieved without support from individual, people and institution. For all guidance, the researcher would like thanks to:

 Dr. Drs. Budi Agustono, M.S, as the Dean of Faculty Cultural Studies,

University of Sumatera Utara.

 Dra. Swesana, Mardia Lubis, M.HUM as the head of English Diploma

Study Program, and also as my beloved supervisor who give me chance to prove my qualified for finishing this paper, for teaching precious knowledge and wonderful experience during the study, and also the stuffs for the facilities and opportunities have given to me during my study in this University.

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 Foremost, special appreciation and thanks to my beloved parents, Alm.

Jamaluddin Sagala and Zumroh Sinambela, who never stop praying and

supporting me, for her love, comfort, care, attention, encouragement, loyalty, and financial support. They are the biggest inspiration and motivation for me. For my Mom, I do love you. I hope I can make you always happy every time, I will make you proud to one day. I will do it for you, I promise.

 Special thanks to my beloved brother Anthonyster Sagala & Rani Sartika

Manurung who have support me to continue my study. Thankyou so much for your caring to me. Not only the financial support that you have given to me, but the supports, advices and your loving. I really hope my Allah reply all of your kindness

 For my big family, aunty Rabiati, Zaileha, Maimunah and also my lovly

sister Hubayroh, big thanks for always giving me your loving and suporting to continue my study. I love you all. You often help me anytime and anywhere. I hope someday i can replay their kindess
 Also big thanks to my sister Fatma Indriyani who has helping me with financial suport and her caring to my study. May Allah reply your kindess, Sis.

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 For my best friend Faradibanasution, who always giving me her suport, big thanks you always make me to laugh every time and everywhere.You are the real friend because you are always there when i am happy and sad. I feel so lucky because I have ever know you and until now
 Darzah Rizkiana, who always help me and cheer me up in every situations.  Maryani & Yollanda, thankyou for being my lovly old friends. I miss you.

Finally, I will accept the suggestion and critics that build me up from the

readers because I know this paper is not perfect, and that’s why your critics might

make this paper better. Thanks to all readers who read this paper.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION………………………………………………… 1 COPYRIGHT DECLARATION……………………………………………..... 2 ABSTRAK…………………………………………………………………….... ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS…………………………………………………… TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Background of the Study ………………………………….…………. 1.2 The Problem of the Study ……………………………………………….... 1.3 The Object of the Study …………………………………………….…... .. 1.4 The Scope of the Study …………………….…………………….……...... 1.5 The Significance of the Study …………………………….......................... 1.6 The Method of the Study ……………………………………………...........

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Novel…………..……………………..…………….……....................... 2.2 Character…………………………………………............……..………

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2.3 Characterization………………………..……………………….....…...

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2.4 Definition of Character ……………..………………..……….....…......

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2.5 The Types of Character ...............…..………………..……….....…......

3. DESCRIPTION

3.1 The Physical Status of Main Character ………..........................................
3.1.1 Theo Bone............................................................................................ 3.1.2 April Finnmore....................................................................................
3.2 The Social Statu Of Main Character............................................................
3.3 The Personality Of Main Character.............................................................

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

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4.1 Conclusion ……………………………………………….………...……... 4.2 Suggestion ……………………………………………………...………….

REFRENCE......................................................................................................

APPENDICES…………………………………………………………………

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SUMMARY......................................................................................................... 31

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Of Study

Literature represents and pictures out various aspects of life. According to
Wellek and Warren (1956: 3) the literature mirrors and expresses life that is even more ambigious . It means that the literature is come up from the events happen in the society. In literature, the author presents a work to delivers his/her ideas to the reader.

Here, we can understand that in every work has its own characteristic dan authors‟

objective. It is obvious that the author‟s ideas in a work can be very influential to the

readers‟ mindset. Moreover, the definitions of literature cannot only stop in one person‟s opinion. The researcher will comes up some definitions from some experts of

literature in this discussion.
Hmlyn (1998:1) also describes about literature in a different way. He states that literature in the word originally meant all written language. More formally, literature is defined, according to one dictionary, as writing in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essensial features, as poetry, romance, history, biography, essay etc. Not all good books are literature, but all literature is good, interesting, significant, well written, etc.
Graham Little (1970:101-102) states that a novel develops a theme which is one of the best ways to express moral and social thought. By using obvious pictures of its time guides us to perceive that we comprehend its setting. It invites us that we have lived in it.

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Furthermore, according to Long (1991:3) literature in the broaden sense, perhaps, literature means simply the written records of the race, including all its history and science, as well as its poems and novels; in the narrow sense literature 12 in the artistic record of life, and most of our writing is exclude from it, just as the mass of our buildings, mere shelter from and from cold, are exclude from architecture.
Every novel was created with their own purpose. The purposes of novel in real life are to entertain and give benefit to its readers. We could get knowledge, entertainment, information and messages by reading the novel.
Based on the topic to be studied, here the researcher chooses novel to be discussed. Novel is one of literary work that which presents some values of character buildings, especially those which are presented by a particular cast of the novel. In fact, reading a novel is able to enrich our understanding in giving interpretation about its content. Furthermore, by reading novel, brings us to know more about various human being aspects and things happen in the reality

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In this paper the writer uses John Grisham‟s novel Theodore Boone The
Abduction. The writer choose this novel because the writer is very interested to the main characters in this novel. Characters are very important in a story. Characters make the story become real and interesting. The writer only focussed to the characterization of main characters in this novel. The story told about a man who

had lost her best friend in 13-year-old Theodore Boone. He had a bestfrend named, April.
The story begins with Theo being woken up in the middle of the night to find out that April has been abducted. The fear is that April's cousin, the notorious criminal Jack Leeper, has kidnapped her. He is seen around town and eventually caught. Leeper claims to know where April is but refuses to tell the police unless they agree to his conditions. Theo and his friends search the town but are stopped by unhelpful policemen. The rumors around April's disappearance are made worse when a body is pulled out of the river. However, after a few days of examining the body, the police discover it was a man.

1.2 Problem Of Study

The main problem in this paper is about how are the characterization of main

characters that is potrayed in the John Grisham‟snovel Theodore Boone The

Abduction?

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1.3 The Objective Of Study

The purpose of the study is to describe about the characterization of the main characters that is potrayed in the John Grisham‟s novel Theodore Boone The

Abduction

1.4 The Scope Of Study

The scope or limitation of the study is needed to be the base of everything which is related to the solution of the problem itself. In order to make the study more specific, the writer chosee to find some characterization of main character that is potrayed in the Theodore Boone The Abductionn novel and the writter only focuses on the physical appearance of the main characters and social status of the main characters in the novel.

1.5 Significant Of Study

The significance of writing this paper was expected to be useful both theoretically and practically. Theoretically the results of this study are expected to be beneficial for readers, society and any other researcher in educational field to get motivated in analyzing some literary works especially about some characterization character through the novel
Practically the results of this study are expected to provide some information and knowledge especially in analyzing the characterizations in the Theodore Boone The Abduction novel. I hope this paper can be used as the reference for student of literature and can be adeded to the library collection

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2.6 Method Of Study

On this paper the writer used the qualitative research. The writer identifies patterns and relationships on which to base an analysis of the findings. The data source is from the Theodore Boone The Abduction novel and also from internet.
Technique of Data Collection the researcher used some methods of collecting data. The methods are as follows: Reading and understanding the novel, reading some other resources related to the novel, giving marks to particular parts in the novel which are considered to the charcterization of the main character, taking note, classifying the data into categories and developing them into a good unity, and drawing conclusion and suggestion.

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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Novel

The word comes from the Italian, Novella, which means the new staff that small. The novel developed in England and America. The novel was originally developed in the region from other forms of narrative nonfiction, such as letters, biographies, and history. But with a shift in society and development time, the novel is not only based on data nonfiction, author of novel can change according to the desired imagination. Sumardjo (1998: 29) says that “novel is a story with the prose

form in long shape, this long shape means the story including the complex plot,

many character and various setting”.

According to William Kenney (1966: 27), character is an imagined person who fills up the story. A character is obviously relevant too us. In describing a character, a writer needs to make the character resembles human beings, but sometimes some characters are described much more special than others, and sometimes they are unrealistic in which they are too kind or too bad
Lukacs (1988, p.24) states novel is the epic of an age in which the extensive totality of life is no longer directly given, in which the immanence of meaning in life has become a problem, yet which still thinks in terms of totality. One type of literatury works that presents pictures of human life is novel. Novel is a story that tells some episodes of human life. In the Italian language the term novel is called a novella. Novella is literally means "a new small stuff", and then interpreted as a short story in prose, as cited by Abrams in Nurgiyantoro (2005).

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Novel is narrative text informing of prose with a long shape that including some figures and fiction event. The intrinsic elements of novel are theme, plot, setting, characterization, point of view, etc (Nurgiyantoro, 2007:10).

2.1.1 Intrinsic Element
Intrinsic elements are the elements that consist of characterizations or disposition, events, plot, theme, the central narration and language style. The mentioned intrinsic elements are described as the following:

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Theme
The theme essencially is meaning contained in the story or, briefly, the meaning of the story. It comments upon some aspect of life and has value outside the story (Stanton, 1965).

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Character
Talking about fiction work, the terms which are usually are like character and characterization interchangeabl, yet the meaning of both is somewhat the same.

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Characterization often equated with character and disposition that often means as the placement of certain figures with certain temperaments in a story (Nurgiyantoro, 2005).

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Setting
Setting is related with the time and place of storytelling. The timing can be the noon or night, day, month, or year, and it can also mean duration of the story. Setting is the element of fiction which reveals where and when of events. Setting denotes location, historical period and social surroundings in which the action of a text develops (Klarer,1999).

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Plot
Plot is the plan or main story of a literary work. This explains that as a story runs, it needs to maintain logical relationship to what went before and what is yet to

come. And one for certain, a plot plays a frame in which to enact its author„s

intention (Rabiger, 2008).

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Point of View Point of view

It is an author„s decisions about who is to tell the story and how it is to be

told is among the most important he or she makes (Diyanni, 2004).

2.2 Character

Before we talk about characters, first we should know the meaning of a character itself. Character is personality or traits. Character is ones who are involved

in the story. Duffy and Petit (1953: 24) stated that ―Character is a person in a story

or a play
The character is one of the important elements of fiction. Characters are elements which can be found in a movie plot and characters are inseparable, because plot is not simply a series of event happened that come out of character to delineate

characters. In order word, when we know „what happened to him or her„ and ‗how did it work out for them„, so we should find out the action of the character in a

sequence of events.

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