A NARRATOLOGY ANALYSIS ON JUN CHIU’S CROP CIRCLES A THESIS BY: DINI OKTAVIA REG. NO. 160705015 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2020 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA i UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, a great thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for His blessing, love and guidance in my life that I could finished my thesis entitled “A Narratology Analysis On Jun Chiu’s Crop Circles”. Secondly, I would like to give my sincere gratitude to Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S., as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Sciences, for the facilities during my academic years in this faculty. Thirdly, I would like to give my sincere gratitude to Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, M.A., Ph.D., as the Head of English Department, who has provided facilities for the authors to attend education and Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph.D., as the Secretary of English Department, as well as my supervisor for his kindness, knowledge, patience, motivations, as well as his precious time for guiding me in writing and finishing this thesis. Furthermore, I would like to give my appreciation to Muhammad Yusuf, S.Pd., M.A., as my co-supervisor for his time, kindness, and attention and for tutoring me that I can accomplish writing this thesis. Your contributions to this are very priceless and valuable. Moreover, I would like to express a deepest gratitude to my beloved parents. Your love, pray, moral support and spiritual advice are the most important thing in the world. Then, I would like to thank my brother and sister for the happiness and laugh that we share together. I also would thank to Pak Kirno as the administration staff at English Department for always helping me in preparing my file. Last but not least, I would to give biggest thanks to my classmate in English Literature A 2016, especially Cindy, Dea, Nisma and Alfi for always ii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA understanding me with all the stupid think I do and for the helps, motivations, spirits and laugh that I could finish this thesis. Then, I would like to appreciated for all the hard times and the unforgettable moments that we spend together everyday in about for years. Finally, the authors submit all to the Almighty God, Allah SWT hopefully this thesis can be beneficial to the world of education and health. Medan, 9th July 2020 Dini Oktavia Reg. No. 160705015 iii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT This thesis entitled A Narratology Analysis on Jun Chiu’s Crop Circles. The purpose of this study is to find out the elements of narrative found and the function of narrator found in Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles. The design of this research was qualitative design. The data of this study were in the form of picture there were 20 pictures taken from silent comic. The data obtained from Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles were published in June 4, 2016. The data were collected through stages: finding out and determining, classifying and separating the pictures of Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles which included into the components of narrative. Analysis of data qualitatively using the analysis phase of Miles, Huberman and Saldana: condensation, display and verification. The research result show the elements of narrative found in Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles those are narrative mood (transposed speech-indirect style); narrative instance (narrative voice: heterodiegetic narrator, time of narration: simultaneous narration; narrative perspective: external focalization), narrative levels (embedded narrative, metalepsis) and narrative time (order: analepsis, narrative speed: ellipsis, frequency of events: singulative narration). The functions of the narrator found is the ideological function because the narrator wants introduce public policy. Key Words: Narratology, silent comic, Crop Circles, Transposed speech, Ideological Function iv UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK Skripsi ini berjudul: “A Narratology Analysis on Jun Chiu’s Crop Circles”. Tujuan dari tesis ini adalah untuk mengetahui unsur-unsur narasi dan fungsi narator pada komik tanpa teks Crop Circles karangan Jun Chiu. Desain penelitian ini adalah kualitatif. Data berupa gambar tanpa teks sebanyak 20 gambar yang diambil dari Crop Circles terbitan 4 Juni 2016. Data dikumpulkan melalui tahapan: mencari dan menentukan, mengklasifikasikan dan memisahkan gambar yang termasuk dalam elemen narasi. Analisis data secara kualitatif menggunakan fase analisis menurut Miles, Huberman dan Saldana: kondensasi, penyajian dan verifikasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan unsur-unsur narasi yang ditemukan di Lingkaran Tanaman Jun Chiu yaitu: narrative mood (transposed speech-indirect style); narrative instance (terdiri dari narrative voice: heterodiegetic narrator, time of narration: simultaneous narration; narrative perspective: external focalization), narrative levels (terdiri dari embedded narrative dan metalepsis) dan narrative time (terdiri dari order: analepsis, narrative speed: ellipsis, frequency of events: singulative narration). Fungsi narator yang ditemukan adalah fungsi ideologis karena penulis ingin memperkenalkan kebijakan publik lewat komiknya. Kata Kunci: Narratologi, komik tanpa teks, Crop Circles, Transposed speech, Ideological Function v UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION .................................................................... i COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ............................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ........................................................................... iii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................. v ABSTRAK .................................................................................................... vi TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................. vii LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................... ix CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 1 1.1 Background of the Study ...................................... 1 1.2 Problems of the Study ......................................... 4 1.3 Objectives of the Study ......................................... 4 1.4 Scope of the Study ............................................... 5 1.5 Significance of the Study ...................................... 5 CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE .............. 6 2.1 Narratology ........................................................... 6 2.1.1 Definition of Narrative ...................................... 7 2.1.2 Element of Narrative ......................................... 8 2.2 Function of Narrator .............................................. 14 2.3 Silent Comic .......................................................... 15 2.4 Related Studies ...................................................... 17 2.5 Theoretical Framework ......................................... 20 CHAPTER III : METHOD OF RESEARCH ...................................... 22 3.1 Research Design .................................................... 22 3.2 Data and Data Source ............................................ 22 3.2.1 Data .................................................................... 22 3.2.2 Data Source ........................................................ 22 3.2.3 Data Collection .................................................. 22 3.3 Data Analysis ........................................................ 23 CHAPTER IV : ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS .................................. 26 4.1 Element of Narrative in Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles . 26 4.1.1 Narrative Mood .................................................. 26 4.1.2 Narrative Instance .............................................. 33 4.1.3 Narrative Levels ................................................ 37 vi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 4.1.4 Narrative Time ................................................... 39 4.2 Function of Narrator .............................................. 43 4.3 Findings ................................................................. 43 CHAPTER V : CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ................. 45 5.1 Conclusions ............................................................ 45 5.2 Suggestions ........................................................... 45 REFERENCES ...................................................................................... 46 APPENDIX vii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Ileana Surducan‟s silent comic A Game of Hide and Seek- Narrative Mood (Source: Fatihah, 2019) ............................... 2 Figure 1.2 Jun Chiu‟s Crop Circles (Narrative Time-Order) .................. 4 Figure 2.3 Pak Tuntung (Source: mantanaja.blogspot.com) 17 Figure 2.1 Theoretical Framework ............................................................. 20 viii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Semiotics is the study of signs and it is one of applied linguistic branches. Signs take the form of words, images, sounds, odours, flavours, acts or objects but such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning. Semiotics deals with the meaning or symbol or sign used as the message (Peirce, 1958). Chandler (2007:1-2) In Semiotics the Basics, stressed that semiotics is about visual signs. The sign can be drawings, paintings and photograph that also include words, sounds and body