1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background Of The Study
Literature is concerned with all aspects of human and universe in their entirety. There are three important branches of literature; novel, drama and poetry.
One of important branches is novel. On the other hand, novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which character and action representative of
real life are portrayed in a lot of more or less complexity. Characters are the persons presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who
are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say- the dialogue-and by what they do-
the action. The grounds in a character’s temperament and moral nature for his speech and action constitute his motivations’ Nurgyantoro, Burhan, 1981: 20.
Based on explanation, the character’s expression through the dialogue and expression has a moral value. If character has a good bad or negative side, so does
the moral. On the other hand, if in the expression character has a good or positive side, the moral will be positive.
The writer is very interested to describing main character in the novel Carry Me Down because this novel of fiction story that describe about the talent
of an usual 11 years old, John Egan his name. The most interesting of this novel is when John believes that he can identifying somebody who lying him. He believes
that his talent can make him be famous, because he want to put his name in a record at Guinness Book Of Record. He live with his father and mother in his
grandmother cottage. Carry Me Down is a tour de force character study. Beyond this, it is a portrait of a child in Ireland at a particular time, the Sixties or perhaps
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Seventies, oppressed by a lack of opportunity. Its also an attempt to track the mental damage done by misunderstanding, by neediness that is not met with
affection. The language is easy to understanding for the reader.
1.2 Scope Of The Study
Based on background of study, this study focused on The John Egan talent in M.J. Hyland’s novel, Carry Me Down. In those short stories so many topics can
be discussed. It is important to limit the topic in order to make the paper easily and clearly understood for the readers. And this chapter, the writer only
description about main character, including physic status and moral. The inform from that characters is taken by the character itself, the people commented and
from the description of narrator.
1.3 Purpose Of The Study.
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