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and Italy to describe these works and differentiate them from middle century and classical romance as a something new.
2.2 Characters
The Characters in fiction novel maybe defined as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description and commentary authors portray character that are
worth caring about, rooting for, and even loving, although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike , or even hate.
The character is revealed by how character responds to conflict, by his or her dialogue and through descriptions. The character in a story are the characters involved from the
beginning until the ending part of the story plot.
Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs 1995 : 51
said that character is natural facsimile from the human with all good and bad characteristics. A story is usually related to big conflict of the character.It probable to involve
interaction with another character in complicated situation, or with idea or ordinary condition. The character may win, lose, or relevant. He or she can learn and become better
for experience or maybe lose point and no change. Furthermore, according to Roberts and Jacobs, character is the verbal realization from human, personality which determines
thoughts, statements, also attitudes. The writer got interactions between character and environment through interview, action, and also comments 1988:64.
From the above statement, character is any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal
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characters who are worth caring about, rooting for, and even loving, although there are also charaters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate.
2.3 Plot
Plot according to Roberts and Jacobs in their book
Literature: AnIntroduction to Reading and Writing
1995:88 said that plot is all the actions or incidents, speeches, thoughts, and observations are linked together to make up an entirety, sometimes called an organic unity.
The essence of this unity is the development and resolution of a conflict in hich protagonist, or central character. The plot is interactions of causes and effects as they develop
sequentially or chronologically. Plot is stories are made up mostly of actions or incidents that follow each other sequentially. Finding a sequential or narrative order, however, is only the
first step toward the more important consideration. The plot is the controls governing the development of the actions. In a well-plotted story, things precede or follow each other not
simply because time ticks away, but more importantly because effects follow causes. From the above statement, plot is organized how actions, should be related in each other,
how some events have relationship with other events and the plot is interactions of causes and effects as they develop sequentially or chronologically
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2.4 Setting
