A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE NOTEBOOK A PAPER BY JOELFI SAKTI PRAWIRA REG. NO. 152202054 DIPLOMA OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2019 AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I am JOELFI SAKTI PRAWIRA, declare that I am the sole author of this paper. Except where the reference is made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for the award of another degree in any tertiary education. Signed : ………… Date : October, 2019 i COPYRIGHT DECLARATION Name : JOELFI SAKTI PRAWIRA Title of paper : A Description of Plot Used in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook Qualification : D-III / Ahli Madya Study Program : English I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the direction of the Librarian of the Diploma-III English Study Program Faculty of Culture Study USU on the understanding that users are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia. Signed : ………… Date : October, 2019 ii ABSTRACT A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. There are many elements that can create a novel, one of them is plot. Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story, around which the characters and settings are built. The writer has an interest to describe the plot that used in a novel written by Nicholas Sparks that has the best story and plot, entitled The Notebook. It is tells about a love story of Noah who continuously read a story from his notebook about his love journey with his wife, Allie, who has alzeimer. In describing this novel the writer uses library research by qualitative description method. Keyword : Plot, Conflict, Structure iii ABSTRAK Novel adalah karya fiksi naratif yang relatif panjang, biasanya ditulis dalam bentuk prosa, dan yang biasanya diterbitkan sebagai buku. Ada banyak elemen yang bisa membuat novel, salah satunya adalah plot. Plot adalah bentuk karya literatur yang digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan kejadian kejadianyang membentuk sebuah cerita. Plot dikenal sebagai landasan sebuah novel atau cerita, dimana tokoh dan latar dibentuk. Penulis tertarik untuk mendeskripsikan plot yang digunakan didalam novel yang ditulis oleh Nicholas Sparks yang memiliki cerita dan plot terbaik, berjudul The Notebook. Novel ini menceritakan tentang kisah cinta Noah yang secara terus-meerus menceritakan perjalanan cintanya melalui buku catatannya kepada istrinya, Allie, yang memiliki ingatan jangka panjang. Dalam mendeskripsikan novel ini penulis menggunakanmetode pencarian pustaka dengan pengumpulan deskripsi. Kata Kunci : Alur, Konflik, Struktur. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alhamdulillahi rabil 'alamin, I expresses my highest gratitude to Allah SWT for love, blessing, health, opportunity, and mercy to complete this paper. This paper entitled “A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE NOTEBOOK” is submitted as the one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Study Program in Faculty of Culture Study, University of Sumatera Utara. I presents my sincere appreciation to : 1. Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S as the dean of Faculty of Culture Study, University of Sumatera Utara, 2. Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum as the Head of English Diploma Study Program. Also this paper would not have been possible without the help, support,suggestion, guidance, correction and patience of my advisor 3. Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum as My Supervisor for his advice, supervision, and crucial contribution in the improvement of the result of this paper. 4. The Lecturers in English Diploma III for all the knowledge, help, and support. 5. My Parents Sri Duluaida and Johan Arifin Prawira, thankyou for the love, prayers, and bless. 6. All of my friends for help, support, joy and laughter. v TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION .................................................................................. i COPYRIGHT DECLARATION .............................................................................. ii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................ ii ABSTRAK .................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ......................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................... vi 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background of the study ................................................................................. 1 1.2 Problem of the study ....................................................................................... 3 1.3 Objective of the study ..................................................................................... 3 1.4 Scope of the study ........................................................................................... 3 1.5 Significance of the study ................................................................................. 4 1.6 Method of the study ........................................................................................ 4 2. REVIEW AND RELATED OF LITERATURE ................................................. 5 2.1 The Novel ........................................................................................................ 5 2.2 The Plot ........................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Kind Of Structure. ........................................................................................... 10 2.4 Conflict ........................................................................................................... 13 3. A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE NOTEBOOK ..................................................................................................... 17 3.1 Plot Structure described in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook…………… .. 17 3.2 Conflict found and settled in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook ................... 20 vi 4. CONLUSION AND SUGGESTION .................................................................... 23 4.1 Conclution ....................................................................................................... 23 4.2 Suggestion ....................................................................................................... 24 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................... APPENDIX ................................................................................................................. vii 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Literature is a term use to describe written or spoken material. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. According to Robert and Jacobs (1995:2) say that Literature is classified into four genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. In the sense of literary, prose also called fiction, narrative text, or narrative discourse. Fiction is a narrative work that tells something that is imaginary, something that does not exist and happen in the real world. As a work of imaginary, fiction directs various problems of man and humanity, life and living. Fiction tells the various problems of human life in the interactions with the environment and others. Fiction is the result of dialogue, contemplation, and reactions to the environment and the life of the author. The major forms of literature are novel, poem, drama and short story. In this paper a novel is used as the material of the discussion, which the novel itself belongs to the literary work. Reeve (1785) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. On the other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human 1 real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc. Among the genre of literature, novel is one of the prose fiction. Watson (1979:158) says, “Novel is a fictional prose narrative of length, usually with a claim to describe the real.” Novel is a picture of real life and manners of the time in which it was written. The novel has the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The intrinsic elements are truly seen from the novel. There are five main intrinsic elements, they are: theme, plot, character, setting, and point of view. According to Fananie (2001:93) says that plot is the construction which is made to read on of a sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or experienced by actors. It means an entire series of events contained in the story, caused or experienced by actors. The Novel which deals in this paper are written by Nicholas Spark entitle The