Five Feet Apart” Written by Rachel
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BUDDHI DHARMA UNIVERSITY THE ANALYSIS OF STELLA GRANT AS SURVIVOR IN NOVEL “FIVE FEET APART” WRITTEN BY RACHEL LIPPINCOTT Presented as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the undergraduate program RENI KASANDRA MONICA NATALIA SIMANJUNTAK (20140600043) FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TANGERANG 2019 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of The Study Reading novel has become easiest way to create imaginary about what we read, we can drawn on our imaginary through the novel we read. A wide variety of novel offer us different atmosphere, it also offer us different imaginary world to enter, and open our mind about new world from a book. In a novel there are certainly the main character that tells a story, and then there is the dialogue in it. Character and dialogue are part of the literature. According to Roberts and Jacobs (2006:2) States, "Literature is composition that tells a story, dramatizes a situation, expresses emotions, analyzes and advocates ideas." Literature is an essay that tells a story with showing situations, expression of emotions and then analyse it. By the explainations, literarute is an exciting object to be learned, it is also a kind of art crative and imaginative works. Mostly literary works have social phenomenom inside them as a reflection of the author and the audiance, expressing an ideology, culture and character of human life. Novel is one of kind of literary work. The word comes from the Italian, Novella, which means the new staff that small. Novel was developed in England and America. But with a shift in society and development time, thenovel is not only based on data nonfiction, author of novel can change accordingto the desired imagination. Sumardjo (1998: 29) says that “novel is a story with the prose form in longshape, this long shape means the story including the complex plot, many 1 character and various setting” in other words novel is an interesting work of literature that contain a story with certain meaning that the author want to convey through the text. While Kenney (1966 p.28) stated that a character is divided into two general descriptions concerning his representations in certain fiction, which are minor character and major character. Minor character if the viewer can only see one side of the character with only a few details about this character, not too represents the true human personalities as a manifestation of a single attitude or obsession in character. In contrast major character is viewable from all sides and has a lot of details given from the author. From the explanation above, it can be inferred that every character has their position in a story. Five Feet Apart novel as one of good drama novel that released in 2018, tells about teenager love story with Stella Grant as a main character is a cystic fibrosis (CF'er) patient. Stella still alive with help through all medication she takes everyday. She fights through her serious illness day by day to keep her survive and alive for her parents. Stella’s parents became one of big reasons why she needs to be survive in facing her serious illness. She knows exactly what to do to keep her alive. Five Feet Apart tellls about love, life, motivation and also death. In this story Stella was described as a survivor because she resisted her illness persistently. The Oxford Advanced Learners A. S. Hornby Dictionary (1974:871), define survivor derived from the word survive, continue to live or exist, live or exist longer that remain alive after; continue to live (or to hold a position). Survivor(n) person who has survived. Survivor is a person who is able to survive and life till the end of a condition or circumstances. For example, a survivor who 2 survive from the jungle lost. A survivor that safe from fire accident etc. Survival comes from the word survive it means the capability of defending itself from a particular situation. In this case able to defend themselves from a bad situation and critical. A survivor is the member of his or her family who continue to live after he or she has died. In certain conditions of survival challenge dominant mental attitude or psychological to search for the body's needs and to obtain needed ideas with the basic considerations of experience or education who had attended, the experience of living with high risk and challenging activities is proven to make people learn to do that better and more effective adaptation. In this study, the writer analyze the main character in novel Five Feet Apart. The classification of the character can show the writer the role of the character itself in the novel. By knowing the characteristic of the character, the writer can analyze the problem of the character itself. The reason of choosing this title is because the characteristic of Stella as survivor and her strugle to fight for her serious illness is very inspiring and interesting to be analyzed. 1.2 Statement of Problem The object of this research is novel Five Feet Apart. A novel that released in 2018 written by Rachel Lippincott. The novel tells about a girl who live as a broken- home teenager complete with her serious illness. Stella Grant’s characters in this novel is very interesting to be analyzed. Because she is a survivor which has control issue to control anything about her activity and all her medical treatment that she thinks it can help her to keep alive, even could be healed fully back to be 3 healthy and during her life in hospital stay she met a young man that gave her strenght and made her believes that she could survive for everyperson she loves. Thus, this paper will try to discuss about the characteristic of Stella Grant, and how she can be a survivor in the novel Five Feet Apart. 1.3 Research Question The general problem of this study is to find the answer of this questions : What is survivor characteristics of Stella Grant that described in novel Five Feet Apart written by Rachel Lippincott? 1.4 Goal and Function The goal of the study is to find out the survivor characteristic in Stella Grant that describe in Five Feet Apart written by Rachel Lippincott. The functions of the study are hopefully the readers can easily understand about the information that Stella Grant is a survivor in novel Five Feet Apart. Also to provide readers with motivation of keep doing useful things through hard situation. 1.5 Scope and Limitation The scope of this study is about literature in analyze a character of a sick person as survivor and explain about main character as one of important literary elements in literature works. Meanwhile, the limitation focus on Stella Grant survivor characteristic, she has different characters than other illness survivor. By knowing the role of the character, the writer can analyze the survivor characteristics found in the main character (Stella Grant). 4 1.6 Conceptual Framework In this point writer would like to explain how the writer do the research. This research will be analyzed by the writer based on any expert for the research question in the point 1.3 in this chapter. The writer will explain the analyzes to the graphic 1.1 . THE ANALYSIS OF STELLA GRANT AS SURVIVOR IN NOVEL “FIVE FEET APART” WRITTEN BY RACHEL LIPPINCOTT Psycological Approach Survivor Characteristic Resolute Person Purposeful Determined Optimist Conclusion : Found Survivor Character of Stella Grant in novel Five Feet Apart written by Rachel Lippincott 5 From the graphic 1.1 the writer would like to analyze clearly and in detail. The writer is so curious to discuss about that character of this novel written by Rachel Lippincott. In this research the writer will analyze the survivor characteristic using psycological aprroach. The writer will collected theory from the expert, journals and many definition of survivor character. 6 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.1 Review of Previous Studies The first previous study that the writer found for analysing this novel is a thesis writen by Umi Fauziah, from faculty of letters, North Sumatera University which is titled An Analysis of Main Characters in Stephanie Meyer’s Novel New Moon, 2010. She used novel for her thesis and analyzed the main characters on it. This analysis focuses on main characters in the novel New Moon, they are Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and Laurent. In addition will be explain about the minor characters too. Isabella "Bella" Swan the protagonist of the series, teenager. The main character in Fauziah’s thesis was in healhty condition, which is the main character has no serious illness. The second previous study that have been done related to this study. The study thesis conducted by Puspa Sari (2017) English Literature Program, State University of Medan, titled Optimism and Pessimism in Hazel Grace of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars Novel. This analysis is focus on the main character in novel The Fault In Our Stars which is the main character from this story has serious illness. This study was deal with the optimism and pessimism in Hazel Grace of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars novel. The similarity of those analysis with the writer analysis on Stella Grant in novel Five Feet Apart is that the characters are in the same age, adolescence. Both thesis tell about the characters relected the optimism and determined characteristic. 7 While the difference is Sari’s thesis was focused to the optimism and pessimism in Hazel Grace and also the main character from this thesis has serious illness.