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for Francie, he is a good father even she knows that her father is a drinking. Francie lover her father because only her father knows and understands about her
languange, her dreams and her fighting. And Johnny Nolan does the same way. He loves his familiy but he does not know how to show it because he thinks he is
not a good husband and father for her family. Their poverty makes Johnny Nolan stress and depression. Neeley Nolan is Francie’s brother. Neeley is a good boy but
he does not has deep wishing like as his sister. He is not too ambitious but he loves so much his mother and sister. Neeley has a capability to manage money
well. And the last main characters is McScane. McScane does not has full part in this novel, but his presence gives big effects for Francie’s family. After her father,
Johnny Nolan has gone, McScane comes for being a new father for Francie and Neeley. McScane is very understanding person. He is very kind and patient. He
never forces Francie and Neeley to accept him as their father because he knows that he never can be able to change Johnny Nolan in their heart.
It is all about the main characters in the novel. Yet, the writer only analyzed Francie Nolan specificly because the writer wants to discuss only about
her struggles to fight her dreams and her existance from feminism approach.Francie is the point of this story. All the journey of this novel is talking
about how Francie fights, pretends, and success by helping another main characters especially her family.
c. Characterizations
In talks a fiction, often used terms such as character and characterization, character and disposition, character and characterization alternately pointing
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almost the same meaning. The term character refers to the person, the perpetrator of the story, for example, as an answer to the question, Who is the main character
of the novel? Or Who is the protagonist and antagonist in the novel? And so on. Character, disposition, characterizations, refers to the nature and attitude of the
characters as interpreted by the reader, it refers to the quality of self. Characterization is often equated with the character and disposition
meansdesignate on the placement of certain figures with certain temperaments in a story. Jones 1968: 33 says thatthe characterizations are painting a clear picture
of someone who is featured in a story. Stanton 1965: 17 says that the use of the term character characterizations alone in the literature include on two different
sense, namely, as the characters are displayed, and as attitudes, interests, desires and emotions and moral principles that are owned by these figures. Thus, between
a figure with its disposition indeed is something intact. However, the term characterization wider sense than character because the simultaneously covers
the issue of who the characters, how dispositive, and how the placement and discribing in a story that could give a clear picture to the reader. So in terms of
characterizations that once contained two aspects, namely, content and form.Jones 1968: 33 states that what and who is actually a character in a story not to be
something very important for the reader but when the reader can identify themselves in these figures and understand and interpret the characters in
accordance with the logic of the story and perception. Smith as the author builded many characterizations on her novel. The
characterizations that the main characters have is protagonist. Francie Nolan,
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Katie Nolan, Johnny Nolan, Neeley Nolan and McScane are the protagonist featured in that novel. They are a poor family lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Katie and Johnny Nolan as a parents are figured by unintact family because Johnny Nolan is not a responsible husband. Meanwhile, Francie and Neeley as the
children of Katie and Johnny are the person who wants fight with their life. Both of them do not mind if they have to work to help their parents in fulfilling their
daily needs. And McScane is a new father of Francie and Neeley after their father has gone. McScane is a good man for their mother, Katie but it is difficult for
Francie and Neeley to accept the presence of McScane to be their father. However, McScane pretends because he loves Katie and her children.
d. Moral Message
