worthless, for they usually highlight the developmet of the round characters. Usually, flat characters are minor, although not all minor characters are
necessarily flat. Sometimes flat character are prominent in certain types of literature, such
as cowboys, police, and detective stories, where the focus is less on character than on performance. Such as character might be lively engaging, even though they do
not develop or change. They must be strong, though, and clever enough to perform recurring tasks like solving a crime, overcoming a villain, or a finding a
treasure. The term stock character refers to characters in these to the degree that stock characters have many common tarits, they are representative of their class,
or group. Such as characters with variations in names, ages, and sexes, have been constant in literature since the ancient Greek.
4.3 Questions about the characters in novel
According to Richard Gill in his book Mastering English Literature 1985 : 97 , it is important able to recognize whether a character is round or flat, but we
should not confuse this with another kind of question. An author can create in a full or limited way, but the range of the character is a different consideration from
what the character is like. We should, therefore, also thinks about how an author creates the personality, or individuality, of a character. The best way in which we
can approach thinking about the personality of a character is to ask questions about the characters we meet in the novel. These questions should be about the
ways in which an author can make a character. They are: •
Telling and showing
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There are two very general questions we can ask. The first is: what are you told about the character? Authors need not tell their readers
directly about the personalities of their characters. They might show readers a number of things in and through the events of the story, but it is
very rare to find characters who are entirely created in this way. Most authors use direct telling to convey something about their characters.
The second general question has already been hinted at: what are we shown about the character? When an author shows a reader something,
it is done indirectly. Something about a chracater can emerge from the way he or she speaks, reacts or thinks.
• How characters speak
In many novels the way a character speaks is shows his her own expression. The author frequently gives the characters personalities by
making them repeat some certain words, use many illustrations in their speech, talk a great deal or say very little, or speak in a very complicated
or a quite simple manner. •
The appearance of characters In many novels it is important to ask: what does the author tell us
about a character’s appearance? It is important to remembet that not all novelist do. It is, therefore, worth asking why some novelist create detailed
pictures when others do not. If there is a detailed picture, the novelist will able to control a reader’s, but if there is not, the reader may feel to use his
or her imagination.
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When an author writes about the appearnce of a character, he or she is usually telling or showing the reader something about the inner
world of the character’s personality. •
How characters dress Another question to ask about the appearance of a character is:
how does the character dress? Some authors, however, make clothes a significant part of a character’s personality, important for the atmosphere
of the book or essential to the development of the plot. •
The social standing of characters If an author is interested in the relation between the different
classes within society, he or she is likely to stree the social standing of characters. You should remember that not every author is interested in the
working of society, and that those that are wil be interested in different societies and will have different attitudes towards them.
• The names of characters
It is useful to ask: is there anything significant about a character’s name? Often the answer will be no, but there are novels in which the
names suggest the nature of the character. The name is thus important for the meaning of the novel.
• The company of characters
It is important to appreciate what this question is driving at. It does not matter whether you know that a character is a member of a family or of
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a larger group such as the workforceof a factory. What matters is how the author presents the character.
• What characters do
The way in which a character is shown as acting or reacting is one of the chief ways in which authors establish personality. An author can
make everything a character does important. Even if the action is one that is normally thought of as slight, it can be made significant.
You must be prepared to find some characters’ action to be complex, because not every character reacts in same way throughout the
novel. In the case of such characters you must look at everything they do and balance one action against another. Although characters in novel are
not real people, they can be as puzzling. Therefore, you should be prepared to find their actions problematic.
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5. THE ANALYSIS
5.1 Harry Stanford
Harry Stanford is the protagonist of Morning, Noon and Night and one of the wealthiest men in the world. Harry Stanford is an easy target to follow. He is
six feet tall, with white hair lapping over his collar and an aristocratic, almost imperious face. He is accompained by a striklingly lovely young brunette, a pure-
white German sherped, and Dimitri Kaminsky, a six-foot four-inch bodyguard with a bulging neck and sloaping for a head.
Harry Stanford is fill with a sense of imminent danger. He has learn long ago to trust his instict. Instinct and intuition have help him one of the wealthiest
men in the world. Forbes magazine estimates the value of Stanford Enterprises at six billion. The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, dan The Financial had done profiles
on Harry Stanford, trying to explain his mystique, his amazing sense of timing, the ineffable acu-men that has create the giant Stanford Enterprises. None had
fully succeeded. What they all agree on was that he has an almost palpable, manic energy.
He is inexhaustible. His philosophy is simple: “ A day without making a deal is a day wasted”. He wears out his competitors, his staff, and everyone else who come
in contact with him. He is a phenomenom larger than life. He thinks of himself as religious man. He beleives in God, and the God he believes in wanted him to be
rich and successful, and his enemies die.
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