20 beliefs, practices, desires, and intentions. Obviously, a character may differ from
the author in any or all these areas.
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Meanwhile, characterization is portraying of clear picture about someone, which presents in a story. Characterization means how the writer tells the reader
about physical and non-physical characteristic of the person told in the story. Characterization or personality, is defined, as in fiction, by what the characters do,
by what they say, by what others say about them, and setting in which they move. The characters are also defined in part by other characters as whom they in some
degree resemble or from whom they in some degree differ.
B. The understanding of Novel
Literary work is an application of feeling and language toward real life. One of literary work form is a novel. The Novel is an exploration or chronic of
living, dreaming and illustration in standard work, influence, connection, result, destroy, or human behavior.
In literary books, novel is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which characters and events are usually in prose about imaginary people long
enough to cover a book. “The definition of novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length, in which characters and actions representative of real life are
portrayed in a plot of mere or less complexity”.
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There are two important aspects to understand a novel. They are the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The intrinsic elements are the analysis of the
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Characterization, fromhttp:en.wikipedia.pedia.orgCharacterization, retrieved May 8
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2009.
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Oxford advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English, University Press, 2005, 7
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Edition, p. 1039.
21 literature itself without looking to the relation with the extern aspects. They are
theme, plot, character, setting, and point of view. Whereas the intrinsic element is the analysis of the literature work it by looking to the relation with the extern
aspects such as sociology, psychology, religious, and philosophy.
C. The Elements of Novel 1. Theme
Theme is not summary of the story. The theme of a piece fiction is its controlling ideas or its central insight. It is the unifying generalization about life
stated or implied by the story.
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The gist of one’s thoughts or root of the matter, which will be submitted by the narrator to reader with the context of whole
story.
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Theme in literature is important subject and experiences of our public and private lives such as love, marriage, hope and so on. The common experiences in
life can become a theme in literatures.
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2. Plot
