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3. THE ANALYSIS OF PLOT PICTURED IN “THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER’’
In analyzing the plot of the novel the perks of being a wallflower, the writer uses the theory who described by R.S. Gwynn in his book “fiction”. In this regard, he
explained that the plot consists of 3 parts which are made up of several sub-sections, namely
:
Climax
Moment of crisis
Conclict Falling action Exposition Rising Action Resolution
3.1 Exposition
Exposition is the first stage in a story that introduced the who, what, when, where the composition of the story. “Who” to introduce the main characters, “what”
to explain what makes them the main characters meet, “when” to explain when they meet or meet, and “where” to explain where they met. According to the explanation
of R.S Gwynn, the opening story in The novel “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” can be referred to in medias res because it preceded by some action.
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Exposition “Who” in novel the perks of being a wallflower is quite simple because the main character introduces his status in his family directly on page 5
:
……………”there are three of us and I’m the youngest. My brother is the oldest. My sister is the middle…………………my mom and
my dad………………….”
Before introducing other characters, the main character, Charlie Kelmeckis introduces his moral character that expressly in several different pages;
Hal 6 :…………..”I’m really afraid of going…..’ Hal 7:……………” I’m started to cry”
Hal 8:……………”I’m pretty emotional” Hal 9:…………”I like to read book twice”
Hal 10:…………”I like eating with my fingers and off napkins….”
From the explanation above, we can see that the character of Charlie in this story is very cowardly, whiny because the phrase “I’m started to cry” often
mentioned in several page, and also a little strange because he does not have the same habits with the habits of her family.
Then the story continues and introduces other characters namely Patrick. Charlie explains the status of Patrick in this story. Patrick is a senior students in his
school who follow some grade repetition and make it into same class with Charlie at sophomore class taught by Mr. Callahan;
Hal 13 : ”well I’m in shop class…………. There is a guy in shop class named “nothing”…………………………………when his
real name is Patrick” Charlie said
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In this story, Charlie also introduces the character of Patrick, we can see from this statement bellow.
Hal 19 : “he’s a very friendly person”………NothingPatrick do a very funny impersonation of your teacher”
Patrick is very friendly to everybody, he likes to make things weird in the class that made other students laughed.
In the next story Charlie wrote his experiences meeting with Sam. Sam is the step- sister of Patrick. Charlie tells about Sam with little bit of amazing and love sense.
Hal 19 : “Sam has brown hair and very very pretty green eyes.” “Sam had a very nice smile
Here also described the status of Patrick and Sam. They are brothers. They are very closer each other. It makes Charlie proud to know both of them. They are
friendly and really unlike other seniors who like to do bad things to the new students. Hal 20 : “we’re brother and sister,” Patrick said, still laughing.
“that’s Sam explained that they were actually stepsister and stepbrother since Patrick’s dad married Sam’s mom.
Exposition “where” in novel “The perks of being wallflower” also told very clearly. Charlie, Sam and Patrick met during football matches in their school. Even
though Charlie had met with Patrick before, but they have not made a close
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interaction until they met at a football game. At the time, Charlie came alone and Patrick sat next to Sam. Patrick calls Charlie and encouraged him to join them.
“I went to the high school football game the other day, and I don’t understand why…… I was just kind of watching people, seeing
who was in love and who was just hanging around, and I saw that kid I told you about…. NothingPatrick was there at the football
game”
Exposition When can be seen that the main character meets other characters in time indication “the other day” in Pages 18. However, it can be estimated that word
“the other day” is the third weeks Charlie in school. In the novel, Charlie writes a letter on 29 September and gave a time indicator “about last two weeks” and a story
they met was written in a letter dated 6 October. Charlie writes down too that they met after few weeks he in new school.
Exposition What is told about what thing makes the main character meet with other characters. it is because they study in school and they have a senior-junior
relationships as often ordinary students. Sam and Patrick is a senior of Charlie and Charlie is a new students. In addition, Patrick mentioned was the student who has a
repetition class in Mr. Callahan class and he became a classmate of Charlie. From the analysis stage of the Exposition above it can be concluded that the
early part of the story in the Novel “The Perks Of Being Wallflower”, the author Stephen Chbosky explains or tells the exposition parts “who”, “when”, “where”,
and “what”, clearly and sequentially in the same few pages.
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3.2 Rising Action
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