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2. Data Analysis
The writer analyses the main character in the Amazing Grace movie by using the character theory. The writer would analyze the data by analyzing the
main character in Amazing Grace movie. In this analysis, the writer explains the data such as the dialogues and picture of this movie.
3. The Research In
s
trument
The instrument of this research is the writer herself by watching movie and analyzing the data collected to find out the connection and other aspects related to
the subject of research.
4. The Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis in this research is the movie “Amazing Grace” directed by Michael Apted and released on February 23
rd
, 2007.
F. Place and Time of The Research
This research is conducted in Jakarta, in the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, the academic year 2010
to 2011.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Definition of Character
In this chapter, there are definitions of character given by some experts. Henderson in his book wrote:
“Character refers to the people authors create to inhabit their stories. Characters should be believable and consistent. Being believable means
not that all characters be like people we have known but they believable in the context of the story. Consistently requires not that the characters
remain exactly the same, but that any changes in character be sufficiently by what happens to them in a story.”
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From the definition above, it can be known that character belongs to people in a story that is created to make story alive. Character has to be suitable
with the story situation that happens in it, and the character will be just changed if there is something, which causes it.
In addition, Hall emphasizes the character as something imagined by saying,“A character is an imagined person in story, whom we know from the
words we read on the page”.
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In another word, character means a figure in a story that is known and thought by readers.
Pickering and Hoeper state, “Character applies to any individual in a movie. For purposes of analysis, characters in fiction are customarily described
by their relationship to plot, by degree of development they are given by author, and by whether r not they undergo significant character change”
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Henderson, Gloria Mason, et al., Literature and Our Selves a Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers New York: Longman, Inc, 2006, p. 9.
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Hall, Donald, To Read Literature Fiction, Poetry, Dream. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wiston, 1981, p. 47.
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Pickering, James H., and Jeffry D. Hoeper, Concise Companion to Literature New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1962, p. 24.
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