The Background of the Study The Scope of the Writing

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Background of the Study

Character is an essential element in the story. Since it portrays the type of person and the attitudes that heshe usually has when heshe is in certain situation. Moreover, a story can not exist without characters and they are powerful to make the story seems alive and real. Characterization is the author’s way to describing the different characters of the people. Abrams in Nurgiyantoro1998:165 said that characters are closely related to the plot because characters are doing action, while action forms the plot of literary work. It can be seen in this quotation: “Characters are the people presented in dramatic of narrative works, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with the moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say the dialogue and what they do in the action.” Then, Abrams grouped the characters in to two parts. First is the major character, who always appears in most of the story. This characters decides the development of the plot and story. And the second is the minor character, which is only put forward one or several times in story and perhaps it is relatively in short portion of story. Based of above explanation, we include that all of the story in film has characters, such as in Man on Fire film which is directed by Tony Scott, has a great story with strong characterization. The story in this film is very interesting. Because this film tells about an alcoholic man, Creasy who becomes the Universitas Sumatera Utara bodyguard of the beautiful child, Pyta. Creasy has a unique character, because sometimes he will be a good man, but in the other hand, he will be a bad man. The writer has chosen Tony Scott’s film Man on Fire as the subject matter of this paper because this film is different from the others; it was giving meaningful message to the viewer.

1.2 The Scope of the Writing

The writer believes that there are many important aspects of film that can be discussed, but in this paper she talks one of them that is character. She will concentrate on analysis of character in two parts: major character and minor character. Beside that, the summary of man on fire will be enclosed to help the readers know the stories about.

1.3 The Purpose of the Study