Approach of the Study

19 attention about who and how the character is through his characterization. According to Abrams‟ theory, the narrator is categorized as a major character in this novel. The narrator attracts the readers‟ attention through their characterization in the story. Furthermore, he takes the important role in the story. He appears from the beginning to the end of the story. He can attract the readers by telling stories with an interesting explanation. He also can bring us into his childhood memory. The narrator is a round character. According to E. M. Forster 1974 that a round character responds to change: he or she is capable of surprising in a convincing way p.47. The narrator‟s way of thinking often surprises the readers by showing his thought like a child even he is an adult. He also told the readers about his childhood that he had to give up on his dream to become a drawer and changed himself so he could fit in into the society that most grown-ups expected. Forster 1974 also stated that round characters are fully developed that make the readers enable to see character‟s “full psychological complexity” p.50. Through narrato r‟s story about his childhood, the readers can understand narrator‟s personality. The readers understand that the narrator actually a person that has a head full of imagination. He is also someone who really wants to be different from the rest of other grown-ups around him. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 20

2. The Narrator’s Characteristic

Characterization is important for the researcher to understand the character more deeply. Characterization is a process which the character is described as a real being in reality. In other words, characterization can be a tool for the readers to believe as a person to be compared in real life condition Rohrberger Woods, 1971. In order to understand more on narrator‟s characterization, the discussion of the narrator‟s characterization will be analyzed using the method by Murphy. The researcher can know the characteristic of the character by looking at the personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation of others, reactions, direct comment, and a thought.

a. Dreamy

Based on the illustrations and dialogs in the novel, the narrator is a dreamy person. His dreamy personality is in the form of positive meaning. It is beyond from being an imaginative person because he can seek beyond the surface that no one ever thought. It is just the same as dreaming the reality. It is shown when he was a child, he drew a boa constrictor swallowed an elephant. The grown-ups could not interpret the narrator‟s drawing of a boa that had swallowed an elephant. They thought it was a drawing of a hat. The narrator has to draw it again for their boring understanding, showing the inside of the boa constrictor with an elephant. Here, the evidence in The Little Prince novel 1943.