Mustapa Ahyar Nasution : A Brief Study Of Intrinsic Elements In Habiburrahman El Shirazy’s Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, 2009.
Besides that ‘Ketika Cinta Bertasbih’ uses the sub- plot, because the author tells not only tells the story of one character but also other character. He tells about Khairul
Azzams family, Eliana’s family,and Azzam’s friend
3.3 The Analysis of the Character
We usually will face several character that are appeared in story. But each character has different role. Based on ‘Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih’ the writer will
analyze the main character and peripheral character.
3.3.1 Main Character
There are four main character found in Novel Ketika Bertasbih. They are Khairul Azzam, Eliana, Anna Althafunnisa, Furqon.
We usually will face several characters that are appeared in story. But each character has different role in ‘Ketika Cinta Bertasbih’. In this part writer will analyze the
main characters and peripheral characters 1.
Azzam. His fullname is Khairul Azzam, a 28th young man, an indonesian collage student in Alzhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He has finished his study until nine years.
It must for five years because after his father died. Khairul Azzam become a patriarch otomaticly. He do business in creating tempe and meatball in Cairo. For defraying
himself in Cairo and his family in Indonesia because the one who has to help his family in Indonesia is Azzam.
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2. Eliana is ambassador daughter. She is smart, high intelligence and she is friendly.
She also indonesian. Eliana lived in Cairo eith her parent’s. They are rich. Sometime Eliana comes to Indonesia to finish her work. It is as an actress, because Eliana is a
character in Indonesia. Eliana loves Khairul Azzam because she thinks Khairul Azzam is a hard worker, but Eliana not yet introduce Khairul Azzam to her parents.
“Buk, kalo misal kak Azzam benar dekat sama Eliana terus nanti mau menikahi Eliana, ibu setuju tidak?
Kalo Eliana itu muslimah, mau mengaji, mau menutup aurat dengan baik dan taat pada suami ya...Ibu setuju saja. Siapa toh yang ga mau
punya menantu cantik dan kaya seperti Eliana?’’Rahman, 137
3. Anna Althafunnisa. Anna Althafunnisa is Indonesian collage student in Alzhar
University, Cairo, Egypt. She is smart and high intelligence. She is a leader religious school daughter. Her parents are a religious peoples so that she is a religious girl too.
She is a right woman to be wife. Anna Althafunnisa loves Azzam and Azzam also loves her too. But Anna has been proposed by Furqan. She is called as main character
because she has important role in this story. She loves Khairul Azzam, but she doesn’t know about Khairul Azzam identity. She receives Furqan to be her husband whereas
Khairu Azzam knows that Anna Althafunnisa was propose by his friend. And then Khairul Azzam can not love Anna. the Khairul Azzam true love is Anna
Althafunnisa.
Mustapa Ahyar Nasution : A Brief Study Of Intrinsic Elements In Habiburrahman El Shirazy’s Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, 2009.
4. Furqan is Khairul Azzam’s best friend. Furqan is an Indonesian colage student in Al
Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He is a richman. Furqan lives in apartement in Cairo, but his parent lives in an Indonesia. Furqan is a smart people, high intelligence, of
course he is friendly. Not like Azzam, Furqan has finished S1, but he continues his study to S2 and he has finished for that. Furqan is handsome so many girls love him
like Eliana. And he loves Eliana too but he thinks Anna is more match than Eliana to be his wife. Finally Furqan and Anna Althafunnisa get married.
3.3.2 Peripheral Characters
