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Shaw 1972:189 says, “Novel is a lengthy fictitious prose narrative portraying character and presenting an organized series of events and settings.”
According to Wellek Warren 1989:282 say, “The novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. The romance, in
lofty and elevated language, describes what has never happened nor is likely to happen.” This statement shows that novel is realistic, while the romance ispoetic
or epic. Novel is growing from the forms of narrative nonfiction; letters, journals, memoirs or biographies, chronicles or history. In other words the developing
novel is from any documents.
2.2 Character
Characters, according Edgar 1987 says that a character may be defined as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description,
and commentary, author sport rab characters that are worth caring about, rooting for, and even love, although there are also characters you may laugh, dislike, or
even hate. Develop the story was not separated from the freedom of creativity.
Fiction offers the life model which attitudes and experienced by the characters of story according to how the author in looking life itself. Because the author is
deliberately created the world in fiction, he has the complete freedom to display the characters according to his taste, whoever the person, whatever his social
status, however his attitude and whatever the problems faced.
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2.3 Plot
Plot is basically sequences of events in logical and chronological relations which are interrelated, caused or experienced by the characters. The plot outline is
divided into three parts, namely early, middle, and end. The first part contains the exposition that contains instability and conflicts. The middle part contains the
climax which is the heigh of the conflict. The final section contains troubleshooting.
Stanton 2007:26-29 states that plot is a series of the events in a story. A certain event affects another event causally. Cause and effect happens to an event
that results conflict. For instance, an act of stealing affects the owner and tries to catch the thief for prison. That event results the cause in terms of conflict. Thus
the event will be affecting for all the story. Plot is very close to the existence of the character. If the story only has a little in character, there will be more close
and simple to plot, in contrast a novel that has many characters in the story the plot will be more complicated. Plot also helps the reader easier in understanding
the story. Usually a good or popular novel uses simple plot, so the strength of the novel also depends on the plot.
2.4 Setting
