Background of Study INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study

Literature is writing which expresses and communicates feelings and attitudes toward life. There are some types of literature such as poem, prose, and drama. One of the literatures I analyze is prose about novel. Novel consists of five elements. They are theme, character, setting, plot and point of view. I choose to describe and to analyze about the character in the novel. Novel is one of human literature creations. Novels do not, however, present a documentary picture of life. According to Kennedy 1991: 203 that novel is a book- length story in prose, whose author try to create senses while we read, we experience actual life. The novel is a picture of real life and manner of time when it was written. Some of them are fiction unreal and some are nonfiction real. In nonfiction novel, the author’s presents actual people and events. In fiction novel, the readers can know more about the character. By this description, the readers will know about characters are categorized as a main characters and peripheral characters. Character is one part which very important in a story. Character make the story become real and interesting. We can understand about the way of story in a novel. Without character, the novel is nothing. The readers can get meaning and many messages of life from the character in a story. New Moon is one of the famous novels in the United States. It was written by Stephenie Meyer. It was published on September 2006 and translated into 20 languages. Universitas Sumatera Utara It consists of four series. They are New Moon, Twilight, Eclipse and Breaking down. The novel is very interesting. I choose this novel as my topic in this paper because I am very interested with the story of New Moon. This story is not only made in novel, but also in a film. Many people read this novel and watch the film. There are many messages that we get like a friendship, spirit in life and love. It tells about the story of a woman trying to maintain her love until whenever and anywhere. With love, she can spirit in life. Although their lifes are different. One is human and the other is vampire. This novel has values of fantasy, and romance. Each figure in the characters in the story has unique characters. In this novel we can feel what the characters do.

1.2 Scope of Study