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3. THE ANALYSIS OF PLOT USED IN PAULO COELHO’ NOVEL ALEPH
3.1 Exposition
The exposition of this novel is beginning at the Paulo’s house. Paulo lives in Saint Martin, French Pyrenees with his wife. Paulo, fifty nine years old, is a
writer who tells story based on his life. Paulo has a spiritual mentor, his name is J. J wants Paulo regrets his past for better living in the future by a sacred road. Paulo
accepts what J said, he has a plan to make a book fair in many countries and cross Russia. His wife gives her bless, she lets him go to another countries for a long
time. They make a promise to meet again in Germany to watch the World Cup. Paulo is doubt to bring into reality his planning because a clairvoyant said to his
wife that there is a woman who will follow his journey and that girl will show her love and resentment. Paulo doesn’t believe that, and he will continue his book fair
journey to six countries by train. “The soul of Turkey will give your husband all the
love she possesses but she will spill his blood before she reveals what it is she is seeking.” Paulo
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Hilal is a young woman, twenty one years old. She is a violinist. She studies violin in Ekaterinburg, but actually it is not because she wants to show her
talent in music, she is just a victim of sexually abused. She depresses, so she decides to play the violin because when she plays the violin she can forget about
her problems.
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Paulo’s readers. She wants to join with Paulo to visit the six countries and cross Russia. Paulo cannot give the permission to her because he doesn’t know who she
is truly. She forces him, she thinks that the journey can help her to forget what happen with her in the past. Paulo wonders why she was so excited to join in the
journey, Paulo senses there is something wrong with that girl. “I was born in Turkey and came to study violin in
Ekaterinburg when I was twelve. It wasn’t exactly my vocation. I started practicing a lot because I was
sexually abused when I was ten.” Paulo Coelho, 2011: p.54-5
Paulo lets Hilal to follow his journey because he is curious with Hilal, he wants to know more about her. They need long time to cross the Russia by train
so they have much time to know each other. Hilal doesn’t have the real permission to follow that journey, she just gets the permission from Paulo so it is
hard to her to always beside Paulo. Because of that she asks Paulo to give a note to make her easy to meet him.
“You have to write a note giving me permission to come back here, I had a terrible time getting
here…” Paulo Coelho, 2011: p.74
In the train, Hilal shows a long cloud in the sky photo to Paulo. He doesn’t know why she shows that, he looks at the picture and then looks at the Hilal’s
eyes. He lost his concentration and feels something different with Hilal’s eyes. Those eyes bring him to the imagination about sacred place. He remembers J
directly when he can see the sacred place from Hilal’s eyes. They are in the nice
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Hilal to stop that, but they can’t do anything, they really see the peace and love in the sacred place. Paulo doesn’t know why Hilal’s eyes show him like that, he asks
to Hilal to explain what happen before. Hilal just wants to show that picture, but Paulo looks at her eyes seriously.
She looks at Paulo’s eyes too without purposely. Those eyes show her same imagination with Paulo, she can see the sacred place too. She does not know why
it happens to them. “The noise is starting to diminish, my concentration
is going, and I’m not entirely sure who or where I am. I know that I’m asking her to cooperate, to go
back where she came from, but the words coming out of my mouth bear no relation to what I’m
seeing. I’m looking at the light, at a sacred place, and a wave washes over me, filling me with peace
and love, two things that rarely come together. I can see myself, but at the same time I can see elephants
in Africa, waving their trunks, camel in the desert……” Paulo Coelho, 2011: p.78
Paulo calls that situation as Aleph. He can visit his sacred placed from looking at Hilal’s eyes. He is sure that they had known each other. Hilal relies that
she has met Paulo before when she looks Paulo’s picture. She believes that she will meet Paulo the next time. And it happens to them.
“I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to
meet again at some point in this life…..life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?”
Paulo Coelho, 2011: p.81
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hotel. The teacher tells how talent she is in playing the violin. He says Hilal as an unstable person, so he cannot control her to practice playing the violin to fit the
schedule. She must practice hard because she will perform in a concert. He sees that Hilal has been lose her interest in playing the violin, he thinks that she is
more interest in Paulo’s journey than play the violin, therefore he meets Paulo to explain that he needs Hilal to practice the violin again. Actually he doesn’t care
what Hilal wants to do in out of practice but it is impossible when she is rehearsing for a concert. He hopes Paulo asks Hilal to back to join the violin
practice but Paulo just keep silent, he lets Hilal discusses with her teacher because he doesn’t know what happens clearly.
Hilal doesn’t want to practice of play the violin again, because of Aleph. She is lost her energy. She is curious with Aleph and she is focus in that journey
because she wants to find the answer why she and Paulo look the sacred place in Aleph. Hilal believes that the journey can show the reality.
“Yes, the Aleph. I couldn’t find it, and my energy stopped flowing.” Paulo Coelho, 2011: p. 110
Paulo believes that they had met before because Aleph has showed the scared place. It means that Hilal is a girl that a clairvoyant says before, the soul of
Turkey and as he knows Hilal was born in Turkey but he still can’t remember the detail story about them. Paulo hopes Hilal doesn’t remember what happen in the
past time too, he is so afraid because he has made a fault in the past life.
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in the past time. Paulo cannot tell the detail story, but he just says that they have a relationship in the past time, hence they are easy to be close and fell comfort each
other. “The Aleph had revealed to me a little about the
woman standing before me. I can’t remember every detail of our joint story but I know that she and I
have met before. I only hope she never learns in what circumstances that meeting took place. Paulo
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3.2 Raising Action
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