CHAPTER III STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL
This chapter contains the structural analysis of Joyce Lebra’s
The Scent of Sake
novel. In this chapter the researcher gives a brief explanation of the structural elements of the novel. This chapter is divided into two parts
that is the structural elements and the discussion. The structural elements of the novel include character and characterization, setting, plot, point of view,
style and theme.
A. Structure Elements of
The Scent of Sake
Novel 1.
Character and Characterization
Character is a part of fiction. Character is someone who plays in a show or story. Kennedy defines character as “an imagined person who
inhabits a story therefore they cannot be expected to have all attribute of real human beings” Kennedy, 1983: 45. Meanwhile, Characterization
is the process by which the researcher reveals the personality of a character. Character can be divided into two types, namely major
character and minor character. The major character belong the familiar as well as important character in the novel that takes part of the story.
Thus, the minor character consists of character that supports the major character to make them more alive. Kennedy states that “minor
characters are the characters which exist to support the major character
and make the story more convincing and life like Kennedy, 1983: 45.
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After analyzing
The Scent of Sake
novel, the researchers tries to classify the characters based on the basis of importance and the number
of characters into two: the major characters are Rie-Omura, Kinzaemon, Hana, Jihei, Yoshitaro, Seisaburo, Eitaro. Then, the minor characters
are Kin, O-natsu, Kikuji Yamaguchi, O-Toki, Sunao, Kinnosuke.
1 Major Characters
a Rie-Omura
Rie-Omura is a woman and she lives in Kobe, Tokyo. She is the first child of Kinzaemon and Hana. She is the daughter of
renowned businessman
sake
who marries
mukoyoshi
named Jihei. Physically, she has large eyes and arresting her teeth
protruded slightly and she has long, black and thick hair.
“Then she scratched under the cotton scarf that held back her long thick hair and shifted on the rush mat
on which she was kneeling.”
The Scent of Sake,
2009: 1 “She sighed. Although her eyes were large and
arresting, her teeth protruded slightly, there was no denying. She knew she was not a beauty, in the
classical sense.”
The Scent of Sake,
2009: 9 When she was nineteen years old, her parents wanted her to
get married to continue generations of
sake
businesses by adopting a
mukoyoshi
or adoption husband. She tries to comply with all the rules applied by her parents. As a woman, Rie
always wants to see her father happy.
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