Criticism REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Eleven Minutes deals more with feelings than with acts, and strays from the marginal docudrama cliché. It is a hard novel, with moments that capture the reader’s attention with perfect expertise. Deeply personal and tender”. http:santjordi-asociados.com. Swan says that Eleven Minutes is an important and brave book about sexuality and love, the crucial and unsolved problem of contemporary culture, everyone’s problem http:mouthshout.comreviewswan.html. As we know that sexuality and love are very important for most people in dealing with their life. Therefore, this novel could be a good book to learn about those two things without thinking and imitating the negatives aspects. Notre Temps Magazine in France agrees that the novel also convinces all the readers to listen to what our heart is saying and to follow our dreams http:santjordi-asociados.com. In this story, Paulo Coelho emphasizes on Maria’s belief of following her heart and do what she thinks is right.

E. Theoretical Framework

There are two problems to answer in this study. The first one is to find out the description of Maria and second is to dig out how Maria struggles for a better life. In order to answer the problems, there are some theories applied in this study. The theories are useful to analyze the novel. Firstly, I use the theories of character and characterization applied to answer the first problem. The theories of character from Henkle and Foster are used to find out what types of character the major character is in the novel. Then, I apply the methods of characterization from 20 Murphy to find out the complexity of the character in this case Maria.. This can help me to analyze the description of Maria’s character. Moreover, I apply the theory of struggle for life, motivation and hierarchy of needs from Maslow. The theories are used to analyze the human motivation and needs in life. Therefore, the theories would help me understand more about motivation and the needs of the character in having a better life. 21 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI