Objective of Study INTRODUCTION

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2.1.1. Character

In a literature, character has an important role in a story beside it make the story alive, character is viewed as a strategic position to carry a message or something that author wants to convey in the story, as Holman states that the character most often used to refer to a person in fictional story. The person is described not as an individualized personality 74. So characters which represents person become something interesting the story. Character is not only enough to build a story. The author has the way to depict the character to make the story more alive it is called characterization. Characterization is standard to introduce a character. We can understand a character deeply this thesis provide some of character. According to Richard character is the author’s way to make the readers