John Egan THE ANALISYS

3. THE ANALISYS

Carry Me Down is the second novel by M.J.Hyland. The genre of this novel is fiction novel and this novel about family friction. Carry Me Down 2006, her second novel, was winner of both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize Eurasia Region Best B Carry Me Down is divided only one part. Carry Me Down was released on April 23, 2006. 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 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. Main character is classified important and kept on performing that it feels dominating the whole story. A main character always presents in every page of the Novel concern. There are three characters in M.J. Hyland’s novel Carry Me Down. As Burhan Nurgyiyantoro 1998:176 states that they are called main character because they are often presented in every page of the novel, though they their superiority valves are not always the same. In the other words, they dominate the whole story. The main characters in the novel are as follows :

3.1 John Egan

John Egan is main character in this story. John Egan is an unforgettable character. He is an unusual eleven years old boy. His voice has already broken. He life with his father, mother and grandmother. They life for temporally in his Universitas Sumatera Utara grandmother’s cottage in Gorey, Wexford. Before they moved to Dublin, Irish together with his both parents. he is a kind boy, honest, friendly ,easygoing etc. But his body not like a boy in 11 years old. He is a big enough, bold and freakishly tall for his young age. He is nearly 6 feet tall 183 centimeters, with feet as big as rubber boots. John like cat very much, Crito it names. Like his father, so he choose cat as his pet. He also loves play and watching football. He is an Irish too like his father and mother. But he’s very hates with Irish study at his school and can’t speak Irish fluently. John has a little hole in his head. Therefore he always scratching his head every time he can. When he’s scratching his head, his head always bloody. It makes his father very angry with John when he is scratching his head . When he’s scratching his head, John like a Foolish man said his Father. Therefore his father buy a red hat for John to prevent him to scratching his hat and injury him. His favorite book is Guinness Book Of Records. Because his dream is want to put his name in a record sometime. Like his father, who dreams of studying at Trinity College. That record is lying detection. He is believes that he has a unusual talent in lying detection. And he sure that unusual talent can make him be famous person in the world sometime. He know when somebody is lying. When somebody lying, he will vomited, dizzy, his neck and his ears will be fells hot suddenly and he feels sick, as quoted below: “He’s liar and I have proof. I vomited because he lied to me. He lied about not feeling sad.’ It more than being sick. I saw the expression on his face change when he told the lie and I heard the change in his voice and I saw his hands shake. M.J.Hyland.2006:30 ” He school at Gorey National School. The lesson he don’t like very much in this school is Irish lesson. Although his both parent from Irish, he can’t talk Universitas Sumatera Utara with Irish language. Therefore his teacher hates him, because he never serious in Irish lesson And in this school John has made only one friend, that’s name is Brendan, and he loses this friend after an experiment goes wrong and he wets the classroom floor, to the disgust and taunts of his classmates. He was only trying to break a urine-retaining record. He have three headings for person lying : Major Lies Rojam Seil and Minor Lies Ronim Seil and White Lies Etihw Seil . But, he said White Lies backwards isn’t a good word, so he have changed White Lies to Etuh Seil. He also makes codes for his family who has been already lying him. And make a note on his logbook, The Gol Of Seil. His Mother is Romtha, Father is Hafta, grandmother is Morga, uncle Tony is Tolac, uncle Jack is Jatal and aunty Evelyn is Lonev. Although aunty Evelyn never lying him, he prepare page headed with her name, Lonev. and waiting for the lies she will tell and always keep hidden The Gol Of Seil under his matters, along with the money that he took from his grandmother’s purse. Every day when he have time, he always read Guinness Book Of Records magazine and always try to find out, there’s anybody who has a gift for lie detection. He more spirit than before to appear his name in a record at Guinness Book Of Records, when he know there’s nothing person can’t identifying a lying in the world like his unusual talent. John sent letter to Guinness Book Of Records for his ambition. He hopes Guinness Book Of Records will be interested with his own unusual talent and can invite him to attend on their show on television and put his name in their records and can prove for them and world. There’s any three letter that John sent for Universitas Sumatera Utara Guinness Book Of Records. this is one of three John’s letters for Guinness Book Of Records: Dear Guinness Book Of Records, My name is John Egan and I have a rare gift. I think you will be interested in this gift of mine and you should let me prove it to you. I can tell when somebody is lying with nearly 100 accuracy. I hope you will write back to me soon and let me do a demonstration for you. Yours sincerely, John Egan. M.J.Hyland.2006:90 John noticed the sensation caused by lying : what lying does to his temperature, his voice and his body. He noticed that his left hands is in a first but it is hard to know what his right hand might be doing if it were not occupied holding the telephone receiver. He also noticed that he is speaking faster than usual. But, John very sad when they moved from Gorey to Dulbin. He left good teacher, god school etc. And he dislike very much with their Dublin tower block in Dublin. He can’t sleep well in his bedroom since they moved, because he said that his bedroom very smelling and narrow. Then he change his position of his bedroom with his father. He sleep again with his mother and his father sleep in John’s bedroom. In his new place, he never try to stop his ambition and his dream, that he want to going to Guinness Book Of Record with his unusual talent, lye detection. If there something happens with him and people around him, he always makes a logbook like a diary. He give the name title of his logbook with The Gol Of Seil. Universitas Sumatera Utara By this stage the family has moved to Dublin, Irish. Where the only accommodation available is in a high-rise block in Ballymun, In this place, Jhon school at Ballymun National School. John is little beat indecent. Sometimes, when his family has a problem, John’s mother can’t sleep for a week because of depression with his father . So John want to help his mother to sleep well. when his mother lies next to him, He takes her resting hands and fold them across her mother’s chest and he look at her. Then John climb on top his mother. Then John’s legs straddle her stomach and hips, when her mother moves and groans, he try to stop her moving with take the pillow and put it over her face and then he lay down on her. When his mother stop moving, John put his head on the pillow and they are booth sleepy, suddenly his mother kicks him and his mother alleging that he want to smother and try to killed her. After that, he brings by two guards into boys home. He Stay there for a week. John very sad and regretfully about that. But he’s very lucky because he have a loving mother. His mother still loving and care him very much. Then his mother brings him back out of home boy and back to home. They’re going into their house also with his father. They moved back into grandmother’s cottage at the Gorey. His grandmother very glad because John and his family come again and stay with her again. John can repair his parent problem and can make their relationship be harmonist again. In their old placeplace, he back into his old school at Gorey National School and met again with his favorite teacher, Mr. Roche. Finally, John forgetting his ambition and his dreams for put his name in a record at Guinness Universitas Sumatera Utara Book Of Records and forgetting also his unusual talent and want to life like a normal boy and life hapifully together with his family. John is Irish like his both parent, but he hate Irish study at his school and can’t speaking Irish fluently. John is a big enough, bold and freakishly tall for his young age. His voice has already broken. He is nearly 6 feet tall 183 centimeters. He not seems like a boy in 11 years generally. He is a smart boy, kindness, honest, friendly, easygoing boy but also he is a lazy boys. He also love cat very much, like his father. Therefore, he choose cat as his pet. With his talent as a liar detector, John can identifying person who want to lying him. His dream is want put his name in record at Guinness Book Of Record as a liar detector. But, before he gets his dreams, he must to face a problem in his family. Finally, when his problem is over. He’s forgetting his dream and choose to live normal like a boy generally with his family.

3.2 Michael Egan.