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A Description of Characters in Alexandra Potter’s Novel Don’t You Forget About Me

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TETA KARINA GINTING

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK

Kertas karya yang berjudul “A Description of Characters in Alexandra Potter’s Novel

Don’t You Forget About Me” membahas tentang kepribadian tokoh utama yang terdapat di dalam novel ini. Tokoh-tokoh utama memiliki kepribadian berbeda-beda yang menarik untuk dibahas. Dalam penyusunan kertas karya ini digunakan metode penelitian kepustakaan yakni dengan membaca beberapa buku yang berhubungan dengan judul ini atau sebagai sumber untuk mendapatkan beberapa informasi yang dapat berhubungan dengan judul ini dan juga dengan penelusuran dari internet. Dari uraian tersebut, ada tiga karakter utama dalam novel ini. Mereka adalah Tess, Seb, dan Fergus. Tess adalah gadis patah hati yang mempunyai satu orang saudara laki-laki yang suka pergi berpetualang keliling dunia dan orangtuanya yang meninggalkannya dimalam tahun baru. Dia adalah seorang yang pelupa.

Tess adalah orang yang setia yang tidak pernah melupakan mantan kekasihnya selama dua bulan ini. Dia pintar, periang tetapi terkadang dia seorang yang suka menyalahkan dirinya sendiri tentang sesuatu yang buruk. Seb adalah pria yang pintar dan sangat sukses, Seb juga seseorang yang tidak pernah serius dalam menghadapi sesuatu dan seseorang yang mudah gugup. Seb juga mempunyai selera humor yang bagus, baik terhadap binatang, dan suka berolahraga. Dia adalah orang yang sederhana yang tidak suka repot. Fergus adalah orang yang ceria dan suka tersenyum, dia juga seseorang yang bersyukur dengan segala situasi dan apapun yang dimiliki

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT

This paper is entitled “A Description of Characters in Alexandra Potter’s Novel Don’t

You Forget About Me” discuss about the main character’s personalities which exist in this novel. The main characters have different personalities that interesting to be discussed. The library research is used by reading some books that relevant to this title or as a source get some information that can support this tittle and also by searching on internet. From the description, there are three main characters in this novel. They are Tess, Sen, and Fergus.

Tess is a heartbroken girl who has one brother who loves backpacking around the world and her parent who left her when the new year’s eve. She is a forgetful person. Tess is a loyal person who never forget her ex after this two months. She is clever, cheerful but somehow she is also a kind of person who likes to blame herself about something bad. Seb is smart and super success. Seb is also a person who never getting serious to face something and a person who’s getting nervous easly. Seb is also has a good sense of humour, kind to animals, and likes to work out. He is a simple person who doesn’t like to be fuss. Fergus is a cheerfully person who always likes to smile. He is also a greatful person with every situations and everything he has.

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank to Almighty God for blessing and give me health, strength, and ease to finish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma-III certificate from English

Department Faculty of Cultural studies, University of Sumatera Utara.

Then I would like to express a big gratitude and appreciation to the Dean of of Faculty of

Cultural studies, Dr. Drs. Budi Agustono, M.S and the head of Diploma-IIII English Study Program,

Dra. Swesana Lubis, M.Hum who give me her time and knowledges about doing this paper. Then I would like to express my special thanks to my supervisor Drs. Siamir Marulafau, M.Hum for his availability and advice to correct the process of writing this paper. I would like to say big thanks to my examiner for this time and suggestion to correct this paper. I would also like to say a deep gratitude to all of the lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for giving me many knowledges, skills, and abilities.

I would like to say thanks to my beloved family especially to my parents, my dearest mother

AMINAH SEBAYANG and my father JOHNSON GINTING. Thanks for all your prayer, loves and supporting me mentally and materially

I would like to say thanks my lovely sister EVAANESSA SINULINGGA for always remind me to finish this paper, cares and loves. I also wants to say thanks to my bestfriend, Khayrani Zuhra,

Ivana Lasria Hutajulu, and Seasilya Samosir. Thanks for your support, cares, times, jokes, and other things that help me to finish this paper. Thanks for the great friendship.

Medan, October 2017

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Teta Karina Ginting

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION...... i

ABSTRAK...... iii

ABSTRACT...... iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………………….. v

TABLE OF CONTENTS...... vii

I. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study...... 1

1.2 Problem of Study...... 3

1.3 Scope of Study...... 3

1.4 Objective of Study...... 3

1.5 Method of Study...... 4

1.6 Signifiance of Study...... 4

2. REVIEW RELATED OF LITERATURE

2.1 Novel…………………………………………………………...... 5

2.2 Plot …………………………………………………...... 7

2.3 Character …………………………………………...... 8

2.4 Theme …………………………………………………………………….. 14

2.5 Setting ...... 14

3. THE DESCRIPTION 3.1 Tess ………………………………...... 16 3.2 Seb ...... 19 3.3 Fergus ...... 21 4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion……………………………………………….……………….. 23 4.2 Sugesstion……………………………………….……………………….. 25

BIBLIOGRAPHY….…………………………………………………………… 26 APPENDICES SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of The Study

Literature is an art of literary works such as novels, magazines, and books.

Literature consist of written productions, often restriting to those deemed to have artistict or intellectual value. Roberts and Jacobs (1993:1) say that literature refers to composition that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, analyze, and advocate ideas. Literature has four categories or genres (1) prose fiction, (2) poetry,

(3) drama, and (4) nonfiction prose. The writers chooses on prose fiction, exactly on novel.

Whitla (2010:155) says novel is an extended work of prose fiction, longer than a short story or a medium length fiction, called a novelette or novella. It means that novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

This paper is about the main characters of novel, we know that novel is a part of literature. Character is one of important element in fiction, especially novel.

The main characters could be more than one in novel, they are an antagonist and protagonist.

The writer focus on main characters in the novel Don’t You Forget About Me, they are Tess and Seb. Tess is a heartbroken girl when seb breaks up with her and can’t help blaming herself. If only she’d done things diffrently. If only she could make right all her regrets but she can’t. It’s over. She has to forget about him.

Drunk and upset on New Year’s Eve, she wishes she’d never met him. But when

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA she wakes up to discover this dream has come true, she realises she has a chance to do it all over again, and this time to get it right.

1.2. Problem of The Study

The problem in this paper is about : How are the main characters potrayed in Alexandra Potter’s novel Dont’t You Forget About Me

1.3. Scope of The Study

In this paper the writer does not discuss about all of aspects of the novel that make the readers being confused. The writer dicides to only discuss about the analysis of the main characters’ potrayed in one of Alexandra Potter’s novel.

1.4. Purpose of The Study

The purpose is to make the readers know about the main characters’ personality in Alexandra Potter’s novel and get some knowledge about character.

1.5. Method of The study

In this paper, the writer uses the work of collecting method. That is by collecting data from books in the library (Library Research) , Reading, and also search information from the internet.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1.6. Significance of The Study

1. It becomes a reference of the next writer who wants to continue a research

on this topic.

2. It can help to develop to describe about the main characters on novel

1.7. Reason for Choosing The Topic

The reason for choosing the topic is because the main characters in this

Alexandra Potter’s novel is interesting for the writer, also not too difficult for the writer.

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2. Review Of Related Literature

2.1 Novel

Novel is a form literature in which there are cultural values, social,educational, and moral. That means the novel is a prose essay which contains a series of stories that highlight the nature and character of the perpetrarors.

Rees ( 1973:106 ) says that novel is a fictional prose narrative of considerable lenght in which characters and actions representative of real life are potrayed in a plot of more or less complexity. In other words a novel is a piece of prose fiction of a reasonable length.

Watson (1979:4) says a novel is a way to learning about how things were or are cognitive isntrument, and those who distrust stories as evidence should consider how often coversation we use them to make a point or answer questions. It means novel has many function to inform or make a points or in some subjects of distrust stories.

The novel is a literary prose shaped like a short strory. Both novel and short story tell all events or problems that occur in human life. The difference takes place in historian. Short story kinds to be single plot and limited in member but novel is longer.

Wellek and Werren (1956:216) say novel is a picture of real life and manners and of time in which it is written. Or novel is a form of literature which is fiction in the form of words or writings that have intrinsic and extrinsic elements.

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1. Extrinsic Element

Extrinsic element is an element of the building from the outside of literary

work, such as the ecenomic aspects of the author, culture, religion,

background writer, and education writer.

2. Intrinsic Element

Intrinsic element is an element that builds a paper or essay novel of the

structure that will embody literary works, such as theme, character or

characterizations, plot, setting, point of view, the style of the language used

and the mandate. In this paper, the writer uses intrinsic element that tells about

character or characterization.

There are some kinds of novel, they are: action adventure, crime, detective, fantasy or fairytale, horror, thriller, romance, science, and fiction. .

2.2 Plot

Plot is based on the interactions of causes and effects as they develop sequentially or chronologically. In a well done story, all the actions or incidents, speech, thoughts, and observations are linked together to make up an entirety, sometimes called an organic unity.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Robert and Jacobs ( 1993:88 ) says that plot is stories made up mostly of actions or incidents that follow each other sequentially. Finding A sequentially or narrative order, however, is only the first step toward the more important consideration. The plot, or the controls governing the development of the actions.

Stanton (1965:14 ) suggested the plot is a story that contains the sequence of events, but each incident is only connected in cause and effect, an event which caused or led to the occurrence of other events.

Plot is a important element of fiction or literary work, even most of the readers consider it as the important element among the other elements of a novel.

Stanton stated that plot is a story that consist of events order, but each event is connected by cuasality.

One event is caused or caused the others. Kenny says that plot is the events shown in a story, which are arranged according to causality. The existence of the plot depends on there essential elements: event, conflict, and climax.

Event can be meant by change one situation to the other. Conflict is a dramatic thing, directed to competition between two balanced powers and show action – reaction.

Event and conflict usually have a close relation. They can cause each other, actually conflict is event.

Plot is what the characters thought, did and said. It is the action proper given unity by the enveloping action, the universal action, and the archetypal action. As Aristole said, What gives a story unity is not as the masses believe that it is about one person but that it is about one action.

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2.3 Character

Stanton ( 1965:17 ) says that the use character terms itself in any english suggest two different , that is as the story characters presented, and as personality, attraction, willing, emotion, and moral principil possessed by the characters. It means that character can be explained on two things: first, as a character in a story, it means that the character indicates to the person who plays in the story, for example as the answer of the question:

“who is the main character in this novel?” or “who is the protagonist in this novel?” and so on. The character indicates to characteristics and attitude of the player. In addition, more indicates to the personal quality of a player in a story. According to Jones (1968:33 ) states that charcterization is the description of clear image about someone who appeared in a story. And the second, as a character’s personality, attraction, emotion and moral.

Robert and Jacobs (1993:4 ) say that character may be defined as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, author potray charactes who is worth carrying about, rooting for, and even loving, altought there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate. In a story emphasizing a major characters, you may expect that each action or speech, no matter how small, is part of a total presentation of that complex combination of both the inner and outer self that constitutes a human being.

There are five ways to present their characters, they are action, descriptions, both personal and environmental, dramatic statements and thoghts, statement by other characters and statement by the author speaking as story teller or observer. There are also two types of character, they are round character and flat character.

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There are two types of character. The british novelist and critic E. M. Forster, calls the two major types are “round” and “flat”. Round character is a major character in a work of fiction and flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction.

Round character is a major character in a work of fiction and flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction. Round Character is figure with many different characteristics and undergo development, and sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. The basic of trait of round character are that they recognized, change with, or adjust to circumstances. Robert and Jacobs (1993:133 ) says that round character usually the main figure in a story. They usually play a major role in a story, round characters are often called the hero or heroine.

Many main characters are anything but heroic. The protagonist is the central to the action, moves against an antagonist, and exhibits the ability to adapt to new circumstances.

To the degree that around characters are both individual and sometimes unpredictable, and because they undergo change or growth, they are dynamic.

Flat character is so contrast with round character, flat character does not grow.

They remain the same because they may be stupid or intensive or lacking in knowledge or insight. They end where they begin and are static not dynamic. But flat characters are not therefore worthless, for they usually highlight the development of the round characters. Sometimes flat characters are prominent in certain types of literature, such characters might be lively and engaging , even though they do not develop or change.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA They must be strong, tough, and clever enough to perform recurring tasks like solving a crime, overcoming a villian, or finding a treasure. The term stock character refers to characters in this to degree that stock characters have many common traits they are representative of their class or group. Such characters with variation in names, ages, sexes, have been constant in literature since the ancient Greeks.

Character can be distinguished to protagonist character and antagonist character.

When read a novel, the readers always identify themselves with the certain character that can give sympathy or empathy, and involve emotionally with the character.

Protagonist is a character that many people like. A protagonist is sometimes called “hero” by the audience or readers. Protagonist is identical with all the good character inside the actors which had been choosen and created by the author.

Alterbernd and Lewis (1966:59 ) say that protagonist is character that admired characters that are norms personifications, the values, which ideal for reader.

A protagonist is the main character in the story. The readers often give sympathy to the protagonist character. In short words, everything felt, thought, and done by the character represent us. The self-identification towrad the character is an emphaty given by the readers.

A fiction must have a conflict and a pressure had by protagonist. The Protagonist is the central to the action, moves against an antagonist, and exhibits the ability to adapt to new circumstances.

In contrast, antagonist is a character that many people do not like. Luxemburg

(1992:145 ) says that antagonist is the opposite character of protagonist either physically and psychologically. The antagonist character usually causes conflict for protagonist. Altough there are other things such as disaster, accident environment and

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA society, social rules, moral values, authority can cause conflict but if it is not done by a character, they are called as antagonist force.

Foster (1970:101 ) says that an antagonist is the character who opposes to the protagonist, the person that help cause conflict for the protagonist.

There are character traits in literature. Roberts and Jacobs (1993:132) say that a trait is a quality of mind or habitual mode of behaviour. Sometimes, of course, the traits we encounter are minor and therefore negligible. But often a trait may be a person’s primary characteristic (not only in fiction but also in real life).

There are also the way of character disclosed innovel. Roberts and Jacobs (1993:132) say that an author uses five ways to present their characters in the novel. As the reader, we must use our knowledge and experience to make judgements about the qualities of characters being revealed. The five ways that an author uses to present their characters are:

1. Actions

What Characters do is our best way to understand what or who they are. As

the ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand

how they may be changing or why they do things they do nevertheless, their

actions express their characters.

2. Descriptions (Personal and Environmental)

Appearance and environment reveal much about character’s social and

economic status, but they also teel us more about character traits.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 3. Dramatic Statements and Thoughts

Altought the speeches of most characters are functional essential to keep the story moving along they provide material from which we can draw conclusions.

Often, characters use speech to hide their motivate, though we as readers should see through such a ploy.

4. Statements by Other characters

By studying what characters say about each other, we can enhance our understanding of the character being discussed. Ironically, the characters doing the talking often indicate something other than what they intend perhaps because of prejudice, stupidity, or foolishness.

5. Statements by The Author Speaking As Story Teller or Observer

What the author says about the character is usually accurate, and the authorial voice can be accepted factually. However, when the authorial voice interprets actions and characterisitic, the author assumes the role of a reader or critic, and any opinions may be questioned. For this reason, authors frequently avoid interpretations and devote their skill to arranging events and speeches so that readers may draw their own conclusions.

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2.4 Theme

Theme is the central idea of novel. In a novel, must have a theme, the author will thinks about what themes will be created. Robert and Jacob (1993:53) say that in fiction, ideas take the form of an underlying theme or central idea, which helps to tie the work together. Fiction necessarily embodies issues and ideas. Even stories written for entertaiment alone are based in an idea or position.

The process of determining and describing the themes or ideas in stories is probably never complete. One of the ways in which we may judge stories is to determine the degree to which they embody a number of valid and important themes.

2.5 Setting

Setting in literary work is important because it may be stir the reader’s imagination as well as reveal the significance of the action. The element of setting can be differentiated into three principle element, they are: setting of places, setting of time, and setting of society. Althought each of these elements offer situations but actually the are close influence each other.

Robert and Jacobs (1995:230 ) say that setting is the natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal environment, including everything that characters know and own.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Characters may be either helped or hurt by their surroundings, and they may fight about possession and goals. Further, as characters speak with each other, they reveal the degree to which they share the customs and ideas of their times.

Setting is a critical component for asisting the story, in some stories the setting becomes a character itself.

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3.THE DESCRIPTION

3.1 Tess

Tess is the main character of the novel. Tess is a super efficient PA (Personal

Asisstant) of Richard Blackstock in one of company in London. Tess has one brother who loves backpacking so much. When the new year’s eve her parents flew out to Australia to visit her brother there.

“No, I shake my head. “My parents flew out to Australia to visit my

brother who’s backpacking around the world, so I spent it with my

grandad”. My earlier resolve not to engage with fergus is fast

disappearing and I can’t help being drawn into opening up.”

(Alexandra Potter, 2012:09)

Tess is a forgetful person. She always forget about something small or big things. She also always forget about what her should to do about her job and about her life. It describes as written below,

“ I’m distracted by an email pinging into my inbox. It’s from my

boss, Sir Richard, remainding me about his visa for his upcoming trip

to India and as always I’d forgetten all about it”

(Alexandra Potter, 2012:04)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Tess is a loyal person. She has an ex-boyfriend, Seb. She always thinks that Seb went because of her, if only she’d done things diffrently. Tess always think about Seb after they had the converstion two months ago, when seb telling tess that he loved tess but wasn’t in love with tess. Tess really fall in loved with seb and until now after 2 months ago she is still thinking about Seb. It describes as written below,

“To tell the truth, he’s never off my mind. He’s on it from the

moment I wake up in the morning to the moment I go to bed. Ever

since we broke up two months ago. Well, actually it was two months,

one week and three days and yes I’m still

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 05)

Tess is a kind of person who likes to blame herself if something bad happen to her and people around her. She is also blame herself when Seb broke her up and said that he likes her but he doesn’t love her. Tess think it happened because of her mistakes. It describes as written below,

“Since that conversation that wasn’t really a conversation’ I haven’t

heard from him, apart from the odd text ‘just to say hi’ and an e-card

wishing me a Merry Christmas. But I only have myself to blame.

Althought he never said it, deep down I know it’s all my fault we

broke up, I’m the reason it didn’t work out between us, and I can’t

help thinking if I’d done things differently we’d still be together…”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 06)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA “Unexpectedly I feel a bit anxious. Maybe that was the reason we

broke up but he never told me? Maybe I wasn’t sexy enough. Maybe I

didn’t satisfy him sexually? Maybe – my stomach knots – I was bad

in bed. Hurriedly I force myself to dismiss the thought.”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 147)

She is a clever girl that can be prove with her work status as the best PA who has a great brain with a great skills of PA. Her Granddad is also now Tess is a clever girl and her

Granddad always smile everytime looks to Tess. It describes as written below,

“Granddad raises his eyebrows approvingly.

“Well, aren’t you a clever

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 61)

“I feel my cheeks colour slightly. Clever hasn’t got anything to do

with. It’s more a case of having a kind boss who took pity on me and

turned a blind eye all year to my appalling PA skills”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 61)

Tess is a person who hates to be late but unfortunately, how hard she is trying to be not late she usually is. It describes as written below,

“ I hate being late’, I say, meeting his gaze. Which is true, I do hate it.

Unfortunately, however hard I try, I usually am. It’s as if my keys

hide themselves down the sofa on purpose. Or tube trains

intentionally sit in tunnels.

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 103)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA She is a person who doesn’t like books. Reading books, having books or get around books to reading or anything else. Tess is so far from a bookaholic status and she knows that.

It describes as written below,

“Yes, to me, I think, regocnising the book in his hand. It’s the same

one he gave me before but I never got around to reading.”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 104)

Tess is a person who likes to spend her time at home more than going out somewhere just to spend the time. She feels good at home whatever the home situations or looks like is. It describe as written below,

“God, it feels good to be at home than out there. Padding into the

kitchen in my stockinged feet, I flick on the kettle. Even if the kitchen

is a mess, it’s still so good to be at home. We’re out of milk too, I

realise, tugging open the fridge and surveying the empty bottle left on

the shelf.”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 30)

She is a strong woman. Although she feels hurt she is trying to be not crying. She feels really hurt when she thinks about seb. She is alone in new year’s eve and she knows it hurt but she is strong not to be crying at that time. It describe as written below,

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA “Boorn. It hits me again. For a few moments he hadn’t been in my

head, but now he comes flying back in again, almost knocking the

breath out of me. Feeling my eyes prickle, I try quickly distracting

myself by grabbing the remote and switching on the TV. I’m not

going to cry, I tell myself firmly, I am not going to cry.”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 32)

3.2 Seb

Seb is an American who works in London. He is a success man who broked tess’s heart after nearly a year being together. Tess really loves seb and feel so broke when seb broke her up. Seb is so different to tess with his strange cultural references. Seb is smart and super success. He has a big broad shoulders, and the one who loves soy lattes so much. It describes as written below,

“I loved that he was american and so different to me, with his strange

cultural references, addiction to soy lattes and habit of

mispronouncing the tube stations (he once called Leicester Square

Lie-ces-ter Square). Loved that he was succesful and smart and had

these big broad shoulders that I could snuggle up againts, into what I

used to call “the nook”.

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 6)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Seb is a person who never getting serious to face something except in the spooky situation. He is always joking whatever the situation is. It describes as written below,

”Except the spooky thing is, he doesn’t seem like he’s kidding.

Whenever seb used to fool around there were always telltale signs.

But today there’s no twitching of his lips, no nervous scratching of his

head, no shifty not meeting of the eyes.

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 80)

Seb is a person who is getting nervous easly. Everytime he is getting nervous he will always shoved his hands to the pocket and he becomes stutter. It describes as written below,

“ His hands are shoved deep into his pockets and he’s got a nervous

look on his face. I know everytime seb’s getting nervous he will

always looks like this. My chest tightens. “Well, I was just

wondering.. if maybe.. you’d like to go out for a drink with me

sometime..”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 90)

He has a good sense of humour, kind to animals, and likes to work out. He loves every kind of sports and exercise. That’s why seb actually has a great body. It describes as written below,

“Good sense of humour, kind to animals, hobbies include helping

little and old ladies across the street”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 107)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA “Oh and I loves all kinds of sports and exercise, I like to work out, try

to keep myself in shape, you know.”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 107)

Seb is a simple person. Who doesn’t like to be fuss with something as long as that thing can be handled by another person. He prefer to paid someone to did his job than to be fiss. That’s seb, a simple person. It describes as written below,

“Wow, not me. I’d rather have a professional choose my colour

scheme for me”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 140)

3.3 Fergus

Fergus is a regular bicycle couriers in tess’s company. Tess have seen him popping in and out of reception. But tess never really spoken before, apart from a couple of times when kym, tess’s company receptionist, has popped to the loo and tess has to sign for urgent parcels. Fergus is a cheerfully person. everytime he arrived in tess’s office he always smile. It describes as written below,

“Grand, replies Fergus cheerfully as always. “Nearly had a punch-up

with some wanker in a Porsche who doesn’t know his arse from his

indicator, but other than that…”

(Alexandra Potter 2012 : 7)

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Fergus is a person who has so many sisters, so many nieces, and so many nephews.

But fergus is always feel greatful for that. And a person who always proud of his so many family. It describes as written below,

“ I’ve got seven sisters, eleven nieces, and two nephews, he explains.

“Imagine them all in one room. All shouting over the top each other

and I’m so thankful” (Alexandra Potter 2012 : 9)

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4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

Novel is a genre of fiction written in a narrative prose, usually in the form of a story.

In every novel, there must have some characters, without a characther it is not a novel. Every novel also has different characther’s personalities. It can be good person or bad person, it also can be a funny person or shy person and so on.

Characters can affect the reader and can give negative or positive impacts. They may learn from the past or their bad experience or may miss the point and be unchanged.

Don’t You Forget About Me was Alexandra Potter’s 10th novel, Alexandra Potter had already write 12 novels and many of her novel become best seller. The writer chooses “

Don’t You Forget About Me “ novel written by Alexandra Potter because the main characters in this Alexandra Potter’s novel is interesting for the writer, also not too difficult for the writer.

And from the discussion in the previous chapter,the writer would like to cunclude the character’s personalities on Don’t You Forget About Me directed by Alexandra Potter, we can find the main characters are Tess, Seb, and Fergus:

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1. Tess is the main character of the novel. She is a heartbroken girl who has one brother who loves backpacking around the world and her parent who left her when the new year’s eve. She is a forgetful person. Tess is a loyal person who never forget her ex after this two months. She is clever, cheerful but somehow she is also a kind of person who likes to blame herself about something bad.

2. Seb is an American man who works in London and who broked tess’s heart after nearly a year being together. Seb is smart and super success. Seb is also a person who never getting serious to face something and a person who’s getting nervous easly. Seb is also has a good sense of humour, kind to animals, and likes to work out. He is a simple person who doesn’t like to be fuss.

3. Fergus is a reguler bicycle couriers in tess’s company. Fergus is a cheerfully person who always likes to smile. He is also a greatful person with every situations and everything he has.

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4.2 Suggestion

The main characters in this novel are so interesting to discuss. The words in this novel are not too difficult. Don’t You Forget About Me novel is teaching us that we must to be ourself, dont change to be anybody else just because of someone that we love, The conflict of the story also reflect a moral value dealing with human life.

I would recommend Don’t You Forget About Me to someone who always blame himself or herself with their relationship. The lesson and massage are strong enough. At the end of this paper, the writer like to say that reading a novel actually has many advantages and the readers may have some moral teaching from what they read. The readers feel pleased when they read a novel like this novel, especially for students of english to learn more about charaters, vocabularies and cultural views.

The writer hopes that this paper will make the readers understand more about charaters or characterization in Don’t You Forget About Me by Alexandra Potter and will be interested in reading it.

And after reading this paper, the writer also hopes that this paper will be useful to the other student for describing novel especially the main characters.

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APPENDICES

A. Biography of the Author

Alexandra Potter was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Potter was educated at Liverpool University, where she received an honours degree in English Literature and Film

Studies. Alexandra Potter is the best-selling author of TWELVE novels that can be described as romantic comedies with a magical twist.

In 1993, at the age of 23, Potter moved to London to be the editor of a puzzle magazine. In her spare time, she wrote articles for British glossies such

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA as ELLE,Company, More!, and Cosmopolitan. Five years later, she moved to Australia, where she worked for the Australian Vogue and Cleo Magazine.

In 1999, Potter began work on her first novel, What's New, Pussycat?. She signed a deal with literary agent Stephanie Cabot. Within days of handing in her finished manuscript, a bidding war broke out between several publishers. Potter ended up signing a two-book deal, and Pussycat was published in April 2000.

Potter has written 12 novels until now. The title of her novels are :

1. What's New, Pussycat? (2000)

2. Going La La (2001)

3. Calling Romeo (2002)

4. Do You Come Here Often? (2004)

5. Be Careful What You Wish For (2006)

6. Me and Mr Darcy (2007)

7. Who's That Girl? (2009)

8. Do You Come Here Often? (2010)

9. You're The One That I Don't Want (US: You're (Not) The One) (2010)

10. Don't You Forget About Me (2012)

11. The Love Detective (2014)

12. Love From Paris (2015)

Her books have been published in both the UK (including the Commonwealth) and the

United States and have been translated and sold in 21 territories, including France,

Germany,Netherlands,Spain, Greece, Turkey,Poland,Russia, Bulgaria, CzechRepublic, Indon esia,Brazil, Macedonia, Romania,Slovenia, China, Croatia and Serbia. Her novel Me and Mr.

Darcy won Best New Fiction at The Jane Austen Regency World Awards in May 2008.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Potter has sold the film rights to several of her novels, including You're The One I

Don't Want and Calling Romeo.

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B. Summary of The Novel

Tess is heartbroken girl when Seb breaks her up and can't help blaming herself. Tess

Connolly is madly and deeply in love with his wonderful, handsome American boyfriend

Seb. Until she's sat across from him on his couch, hearing the dreaded six words any girl hates to hear "I think we should break up".

Heartbroken and can't understand why, Tess starts to beat herself up about the things she should of changed, or things she should of said and done. But it's too late for that now, and nothing can get her man back. So taking a bottle of tequila and drinking alone in her room to the countdown of New Years Eve, Tess decides to think about everything in her past relationship, until a thought strikes her.

Whilst a little drunk and full of tears, she scribbles down that she had never met Seb on to a piece of paper and throws it into the fire. As well as a small box, that holds tiny memories of their relationship. Everything, evaporating into the air on the cold night.

Though the next morning, everything is different. Her wish came true and now, she doesn't have any memories of Seb at all, even her flatmate and best friend Fiona cannot remember him, or even her grandpa.

Soon Tess starts to rethink how to change her relationship, starting all over again in a whirlwind of emotions, love and friendship. Tess finally meet Seb again and start new relationship with Seb, she really try to fix everything that she tought wrong in her relationship with Seb before. In the middle of her second chance, Tess meet with an Irish reguler bicycle couriers named Fergus in her company. Tess finally become a friend with Fergus, and Tess become get closer with Fergus.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Tess feel comfortable with Fergus, because she think that Fergus can understand her and give her attention. In the other side, Tess still continue her relationship with Seb. As time goes by, Tess realize that she is not become herself when she is together with Seb, she becomes anyone else because she really wants to fix her relationship with Seb.

Tess start to think that this is not what she wants, she realize this is not the relationship that she wants. So as with Fergus, Tess thinks that her feeling to Fergus is just a empty feeling, she realize that her feeling to Fergus is just because she feel uncomfertable when she is with Seb, and Fergus give her attention and care.

Finally, Tess end her relationship with Seb and so as with Fergus. Tess decide to be alone, and back become the real herself. Tess start her new life and don’t want to be anyone else just because of someone that her love.

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