Feminism Definition of Terms

especially in rural or more conservative areas are unwilling to allow their daughters to live away from home or to be exposed to the potential dangers of daily commuting to and from university, such as being stranded at a closed checkpoint and unable to return home at night, a fairly frequent occurrence for thousands of Palestinians. Other than going to school, i.e when they can, young Palestinian girls had few opportunities for development, recreation, and participation, very few safe spaces exist for young girls to congregate, and even these suffer from lack of necessary funding and are poorly equipped and managed. Meanwhile, some families have no choice but to pressure their daughters to marry at an early age because of poverty and living expenses. Despite all these difficulties, the rates of learning and school attendance are growing, which proves the strong will of Palestinian females and give their credence to education. The percentage of illiterate women 15 years and above in the West Bank and Gaza Strip decreased from 15.9 in 2000 to 10.2 in 2006. Although it is higher than illiteracy rate among males, 90 it remains lower than its parallel rate in Palestinian refugee communities, which was estimated at 24.4 in Jordan’s camps in the year 2000, 20.7 in Syria in 2006, and 29.5 in Lebanon in 2006 as well. Meanwhile, female student enrolment at the elementary and secondary school levels remained high in the WB and GS 90 and 81.6 in 2006 and 2007 respectively. This percentage is particularly greater than the level of female student enrolment among Palestinians in refugee hosting countries, which was estimated at 68 in Jordan in 2000 for females aged 6-24 years, 66.5 in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Syria in 2006 for females aged 7-24 years, and 59.3 in Lebanon in 2006 for females aged 7-17 years.

B. Review of Related Theories

1. Characters and Characterization

According to Abrams, character is the persons presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say - the dialogue - and what they do - the action 1981:2. Therefore characters are important element in the story. The stories always introduce their characters to give a description to the readers. Character is commonly used in two ways Stanton, 1965:17. The first is that character designates the individuals who appear in the story. The second is that character refers to the mixture of interests, desires, emotions, and moral principles that makes up each of these individuals. Character gives a certain situation or circumstance in the story because he or she shows his or her emotions in it. According to Holman and Harmon 1986:70, Character is a complicated term that includes tile idea of the moral constitution of the human personality, the presence of moral uprightness, and the simpler notion of the presence of creatures in art that seem to be human beings of one sort or another. Jones 1968:84 adds that characterization is the depicting of clear images of a person. According to Jones, there are two methods of characterization, the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI