Character Portrayal In L.A. Meyer’s Novel Bloody Jack

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CHARACTER PORTRAYAL IN L.A. MEYER’S NOVEL

BLOODY JACK

A THESIS BY

ADE ADRINA ZULFIKAR REG. NO. 090705033

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA

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CHARACTER PORTRAYAL IN L.A. MEYER’S NOVEL

BLOODY JACK

A THESIS BY :

ADE ADRINA ZULFIKAR REG. No. 090705033

Supervisor, Co. Supervisor,

Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M. Hum Dra. Diah Rahayu Pratama NIP.19630216 198903 1 003 NIP.19561214 198601 2 001

Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara Medan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from Department of English

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA

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Approved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as thesis for the Sarjana Sastra Examination.

Head, Secretary,

Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M.Hum NIP.19541117 198003 1 002 NIP.19590419 198102 2 001

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Accepted by the Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara, Medan.

The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Suamtera Utara on………..

Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara

Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, MA NIP.19511013 197603 1 001 Board of Examiners

Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S NIP.19541117 198003 1 002

……… Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M.Hum NIP.19590419 198102 2 001

……… Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M. Hum NIP.19630216 198903 1 003

……… Dra. Diah Rahayu Pratama NIP.19561214 198601 2 001

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Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum NIP.19571002198601 2 003

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillaahirahmaanirahiim

Time has been passing so fast it seems like yesterday when I for the first time came to this faculty as a new student in English Department. Now in my last grade in English Department, I have responsibility to write a paper on the requirement of completing my study at Sarjana Sastra. For all of this, I would like to thank the Almighty Allah S.W.T who gives everything, especially health, knowledge and opportunity to finish my thesis entitled Character Portrayal in L.A. Meyer’s Novel Bloody Jack.

Then I would like to express my sincere gratitude and high appreciation to :

1. Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, MA as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara.

2. Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S, as the Head of English Department, and also Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M.Hum as the secretary.

3. Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M. Hum as my supervisor, for his friendly cooperation in completing this thesis. For his precious time, his patience and seriousness in completing this thesis.

4. Dra. Diah Rahayu Pratama as my Co – supervisor, for her seriousness in completing my thesis.

5. To all the lecturers of English Department, for their valuable knowledge and guidance during my study at the faculty.

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6. Thank to Kak Rizki Arafah who lent me the novel as the source of my thesis, and also to Bang Amran who helped during my study.

7. My beloved parents, Zulfikar and Hilma Aboebakar, my brother Fariz Zulfikar and my man Rudy Ardiansyah Putra who have patiently given their moral and financial, advice, support, love and paryers for me so that I can finish my study at the university.

8. To all of my best friends Yaumil Rizki Adinda, M. Savrizal, Nur Alfisyahri, Nurhasanah, Erna Januarini and all of my classmates whose names I cannot tell one by one. Thank you for the help and time we shared together in our study.

Finally, I realize that this thesis may have many weaknesses; therefore I open my mind to constructive critic and suggestion in order to make this thesis better.

Medan. 25th July 2013 The Writer

Ade Adrina Zulfikar Reg. No. 090705033

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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

I, Ade Adrina Zulfikar declare that I am the sole author of this thesis except where references is made in the text of this thesis. This thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a thesis by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgements in the main text of this thesis. This thesis has not been submitted for the award of another degree in any tertiary education.

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Name : ADE ADRINA ZULFIKAR

Title of Thesis : CHARACTER PORTRAYAL IN L.A. MEYER’S NOVEL “Bloody Jack”

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ABSTRAK

Skripsi ini berjudul “Character Portrayal in L.A. Meyer’s Novel “Bloody Jack”.

Penulis mencoba untuk menganalisis penggambaran tokoh utama yang pada novel Bloody Jack karangan L.A. Meyer. Penggambaran tokoh terlihat melalui karakter individual. Bab I skripsi ini mencakup penjabaran tentang sastra yang dilengkapi dengan latar belakang permasalahan, tujuan pengkajian, batasan pembahasan, dan metode penelitian yang digunakan. Bab II menampilkan defenisi novel, defenisi karakter, dan jenis-jenis karakter. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dijelaskan dalam Bab III, kemudian pada Bab IV menganalisis tentang karakter utama dan juga beberapa karakter pendukung. Skripsi ini ditutup dengan kesimpulan-kesimpulan dari analisis serta saran bagi pembaca bahwa sangat penting mengetahui karakter seseorang. Lampiran-lampiran yang berupa ringkasan cerita dan biografi penulis disajikan untuk memudahkan pembaca memahami skripsi ini.

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ABSTRACT

This thesis is titled "Character portrayal in LA Novel Meyer's "Bloody Jack". The author tries to analyze the portrayal of the main character in a novel written by Bloody Jack LA Meyer. Figures seen through the portrayal of individual character. Chapter I of this thesis includes a description of the literature that comes with the background of the problem, objective assessment, discussion of limitations, and the research methods used. Chapter II displays a novel definition, definition of character, and character types. The method used is described in Chapter III, then in Chapter IV analyzes the main character and also some supporting characters. This thesis closes with the conclusions of the analysis and advice to the reader that it is very important to know a person's character. Appendices in the form of a summary of the story and the author's biography is presented to facilitate readers to understand this thesis.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study ... 1

1.2 Problem of the Study ... 4

1.3 The Objective of the Study ... 4

1.4 The Scope of the Study... 5

1.5 The Significance of the Study ... 5

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 Definition of Novel ... 8

2.2 Definition of Characters ... 8

2.2.1 Main Character ... 10

2.2.2 Minor Character ... 11

2.3 Character Traits ... 11

2.4 The Types of Character ... 12

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2.4.2 Flat Character ... 12

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY 3.1 The Method ... 17

3.2 The Technique for Collecting Data ... 17

3.3 the Technique of Analyzing Data ... 18

CHAPTER IV AN ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTERS 4.1 Mary Faber... 20

4.2 James Emerson Fletcher ... 31

4.3 Rooster Charlie ... 34

4.4 Liam Delaney ... 37

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 39

5.1 CONCLUSION ... 39

5.2 SUGGESTION ... 41

REFERENCES APPENDICES

i. Author’s Biography ii. Summary of Bloody Jack

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ABSTRAK

Skripsi ini berjudul “Character Portrayal in L.A. Meyer’s Novel “Bloody Jack”.

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ABSTRACT

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1Background of the Study

Literature is considered as the reflection of human imagination. It is commonly known as a written of art. Literature is writing which expresses and communicates thoughts, feelings, and attitudes to life. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalists or non -fiction), as well as an original imagination. In literature, there are three branches of literature such as drama, poetry, and prose. Prose is a type of literature that is written expression without rhyme scheme or lyrical structure. Meanwhile, prose can also divided into novel, short story, romance, etc.

In this thesis, the object to be discussed is a novel. Richard (1981-46) says, “novel is a normally a prose work with a quiet length complexity which attempts to reflect an express something of the quality of value of human experience.” In other words, novels are long prose works with a great amount of detail on every page. The effect of this detail is that the readers can recognize the complex reality of a character or event in the story. Novels, however, are long works with great amount of detail on every page. They present all the complicating facts that need to be taken into account before we can reach any sort of judgment. The effect of this detail is that we come to recognize the complex reality of character or event in the story.

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Novel is a long prose contains a series of stories of one’s life with the people around him by accentuating the character and nature of each actor. Novel tells of an amazing event of the characters, the events which made something different that change the fate of the characters. Novel tends to expand and emphasizes complexity. Expand and complexity means is dispositive in this case, the problems experienced by the character, and the expansion of the background story. So, novel is a fiction depicting the life story of characters through a complex series of events and changes the fate of the character.

Novel presents characters and actions as representation of real life condition and situation of the human. The characters or the people in the real have ambition, desire, joy, sadness, egoism, feeling, thought, and many things that deal with fact of human life. In other words, the novel is the combination of the real life experiences and the imagination of the author. Therefore, literature may offer life lessons that the novel teaches. Novel contains many aspects that reflected based on the human real life. This aspects commonly concern with emotion, feeling, problems, etc. The elements that build up novel are character, setting, plot, and theme. Character is people in a story are referred to as characters and also representative of real life. Setting is the place and time in a work of narrative. Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern. Theme is one of the big components of literature along with things like the plot and characters. The theme can be the meaning or lesson that a story is trying to convey. Point of view is the position or stance of the narrator.

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Character is one of the important parts of novel. The people in a novel are referred to as characters. Characters are representative of real life, such as human life, hope, sadness, happy, and others which deal with real life.

From the description above, I sympathize with the main character in the novel that I discuss, the character Mary Faber. Because of the character of Mary in the novel is very interesting to be discussed, as well as other characters. In the novel, the character of Mary is described as a very nice girl, smart, and strong in the face of problems in her life.

Character is very important in real-made creation of literary works such as novel, drama or even some of poems. The nature of character presentation gives a positive impact for readers to find out what is going on and what is it for. Character, disposition, and character, referring to the attitude and the nature of the figures as interpreted by the reader, it refers to the personal qualities of a leader. Personalities and characterization often equated meaning with character and disposition refers to the placement of certain figures with a certain character in a story.

In this thesis, I will analyze the main characters in L.A. Meyer’s novel

“Bloody Jack”. There are many characters in the novel, but here I just want to

analyze Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber and James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson Fletcher as main characters and also there are some of minor characters. The reason why the middle name of Mary is Jacky because she followed the UK ship as a lackey and on that ship there is no girl can follow or work, so Mary changes her name to Jacky and then she can

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follow the ship to survive her life. And also the reason of middle name of James is Jamie because he didn’t want if everybody called him as James, because it just made him remembered with his father who made James work on that ship. The reason to choose this topic I based on the recognition of the main characters as human being who have their own personality which is concerned with moral and mental qualities. Some facts of the moral life are such that everyone has to make decision continuously in a world where there are right and wrong ways of doing this. Our actions and decisions affect others as well as ourselves. Moral practices and standards depend on the stage of social development. Morality grows out of life itself and is an attempt to discover and live the good life. But in this thesis I examine the character through their behavior, like main character behavior.

In the discussion to find a character in a novel we need to use an intrinsic theory. Because the character is one of the building elements literature included in intrinsic. And also to find a character in a novel we need to use qualitative research method. Because the type of analysis is words that will take a sentences to prove how the character is described.

Having read the novel, the characters portrayed are important to analysis. Finally, I want to explain about the main characters portrayed and a little about the moral of minor character in L.A. Meyer’s novel “Bloody Jack”.

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1.2Problem of the Study

The problems of the study in this thesis are:

• How are the main characters personal behavior portrayed?

• How are mental of the main characters portrayed in the novel?

1.3The Objectives of the Study

• To identify the main characters behavior through their behavior

• To explain the mental of the main characters behavior through their behavior

1.4The Scope of the Study

In this thesis, I would like to focus the main characters portrayed in L.A. Meyer’s novel Bloody Jack; they are Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber, James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson Fletcher. I was interested by the courage and effort in maintaining Marry Jacky life by following the UK Ship as lackey. Her personality grows and changes from day to day, but the other characters remain the same from figures the beginning. There are many characters portrayed in the novel Bloody Jack. Such as character portrayed of Mary ‘Jacky’ who very brave girl in her life, James which is very close himself from the others, Liam Delaney who always help Mary if she get trouble with someone and there are also some characters that are wicked, greedy and others. But in this thesis I focus to the main character.

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1.5The Significance of the Study

Theoretically, this analysis to add the literary understanding of literature works and also characters through the novel. This analysis is supposed to enrich the material study of literature academically.

Practically, this thesis can be applied to know about character portrayed through the novel “Bloody Jack”. It also can be used for everyone who wants to understand the novel as one of literary genres besides poetry or drama.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1 Definition of Novel

According to Reeve (1975:26) novel is a picture of real and manners and of the time in which it was written. Taylor (1981: 62) says that novel is a prose work of quiet some length and complexity which attempts to reflect and express something of the quality or value of human experience or conduct.

A novel according to the encyclopedia of American International is:

“Novel tells of even within the range of ordinary of experience and avoids supernaturalism and their stories are original, not traditional or mythic. Novel plots involve numerous character, who usually are not grad or heroic figures often quit the opposite. Most novels use language close to that of the colloquialism of normal daily speech. “

2.2 Definition of Characters

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“ The characters in a good novel are interesting, exciting, convincing, complex and realistic. If the author has created a particularly genius or individualistic character, than we, as readers, will find that character interesting regardless of whether or not we sympathize with him or her.”

Character is very important in real-made creation of literary works such as novel, drama or even some of poems. The nature of character presentation gives a positive impact for readers to find out what is going on and what is it for. According to the of character not to denote a fictional person, but the quality of the person acting in the story and reacting to its situations. And he also writes:

“But the most important of these is the structure of the incidents. For tragedy is a representation not of human beings but of action and life. Happiness and unhappiness lie in action, and the end (of life) is a sort of action, not a quality; people are of a certain sort according to their characters, but happy or the opposite according to their actions. So (the actors) do not act in order to represent the characters, but they include the characters for the sake of their actions".

In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes. The art of creating characters, as practiced by actors or writers, has been called an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work. The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically, often

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in society and its ideas about human

The main character is called the protagonist and the villain is called the antagonist. The terms protagonist and main character are variously defined and, depending on the source, may denote different concepts. In fiction, the story of the protagonist may be told from the perspective of a different character. An example would be a narrator who relates the fate of several protagonists, perhaps as prominent figures recalled in a biographical perspective, the protagonist in a same person as the intrigue alone is what the audience feels toward a focal character, while a sense of empathy about the character's objectives and emotions is what the audience feels toward the protagonist. Although the protagonist is often referred to as the "good guy", it is entirely possible for a story's protagonist to be the clear villain, or of the piece. The antagonist may be the story's hero; for example, where the protagonist is a criminal, the antagonist could be a law enforcement agent that tries to capture him. In this thesis the protagonist character is Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber as the main character.

In this thesis, I would like to analysis characters portrayal which has meanings:

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• a word picture of a person's appearance and character

• acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

• a representation by picture or portraiture

• any likeness of a person

• representation by drawing or painting

2.2.1 Main Character

In reading the novel, the author usually presents several characters for the reader that will appear in the novel when the reader read the entire story of the novel. Main character also called protagonist its leading actor, therefore, there could be only one in a novel. All the characters that the author of the novel present to the reader has different function and role to each characters that the author created in a story. The characters whose appearance is the most frequently appear in the story usually hold the most important part of the story in the novel, and their traits as the center the action and the theme of the story. These characters are called as the main characters.

2.2.2 Minor Character

Minor characters as the supporting characters of the main characters that their function is to illuminate the main characters. Role of the main characters are also not too important as the role of the main characters, although the minor characters sometimes related to the major characters directly. Minor characters almost always

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flat or two dimensional characters. They have only one or two striking qualities; their predominant quality is not balanced by an opposite quality. They are usually all good or all bad; such characters can be interesting or amusing in their own right. Sometimes referred to as static characters because they do not change in the course of the story. The appearance of minor characters is usually infrequently, it is so much different from the appearance of the main characters in the story who always dominate for the entire story.

2.3 Character Traits

Sometimes, the traits we encounter are minor. But often a trait may be a person’s primary characteristic which not only in fiction but also in real life. Characters may be ambitious or lazy, aggressive or fearful, thoughtful or inconsiderate, confident or self-doubting, kind or cruel, quiet or noisy, careful or careless, open or secretive, visionary or practical and also humorous, respectful, self-confident, creative, intelligent, honest, friendly, hard-working, shy, little, busy, lazy, successful responsible, helpful, dreamer, happy, leader, gentle, loving, proud, wild, ambitious, quiet, curious, disagreeable, arrogant, inventive, patriotic, fun-loving, loner, joyful, lovable and still much again.

2.4 The Types of Character

There are two major types of character: they are round character and flat character.

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2.4.1 Round character

Is a character with a complex and realistic personality; often called "three-dimensional" or "multifaceted" characters. A round character is a character whose changes throughout the story. Let's say at the beginning he was afraid but at the end he faced his fears. Round characters usually play a main role in a story; round characters are often called the hero or heroin. Many main characters are heroic, and it is because preferable to use the more neutral word protagonist. Round characters are both individual and sometimes unpredictable, they are dynamic. The round characters also known as the main characters because they play a main in a story of novel.

2.4.2 Flat character

Is a minor character in a work of fiction that does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. And also often called "one-" or "two-dimensional" characters or static characters. Flat characters play a supporting role to the main character that as a rule should be round. Flat characters do not grow; they are static because they end where they begin. Usually, flat characters are minor, although not all minor characters are necessary flat.

Flat characters sometimes are prominent in certain types of literature, such police, detective, and cowboy stories, where the focus is less on character than on performance. These kinds of characters might be lively and engaging, even though they do not develop or change. Characters stay flat as long as they merely perform

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their roles and exhibit conventional and unindividual traits. When the authors bring characters into focus, however, no matter what roles they perform, they come from flatness and move into roundness. It means that the ability to grow and develop, to be changed by circumstances, makes characters round, without of these traits makes characters flat.

According to Millie and Yates (1982:228), there are at least six methods by which an author can show the characters. They are:

• By what the person say

• By what someone else says

• By his or her action

• By indicating his or her thoughts

• By the way that other people treat him or her

• By the author’s direct words

A character in a work fiction may realize in a character in a work of in a number of ways. Character, after all, has been constructed to make out reported actions the words they are give to say and the commentary made of on them by their creator. Character is revealed by how a character responds to conflict, by his or her

In analyzing this thesis, I use intrinsic and extrinsic approach. Intrinsic approach leads to understand more about the language, style, symbols, images, contrast, structure and development of plot in a literary work. The extrinsic approach

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is meant to help to strengthen the understanding and to enlarge the appreciation of work. Both intrinsic and extrinsic approaches lead me to get a deeper understanding about novel. Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. Point of qualitative research. Data is collected from selected research participants, and providing in narrative description.

The Way of Character Disclosed in Novel

There are five ways to present the characters in a novel. As the readers, we must use our own knowledge and experience to make judgments’ about the qualities of characters being revealed.

1. Actions

What character does is our best way to understand what or who they are. As the ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand how they may be changing or why they do things they do nevertheless, their actions express their characters.

2. Descriptions

Appearance and environment reveal much about character’s social and economic status, but they also tell us more about character traits.

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Although the speeches of most characters are functional – essential to keep the story moving along – they provide material from which we can draw conclusions. Often, characters use speech to hide their motivate, though we as readers should see through such a ploy.

4. Statements by other character

By studying what characters say about each other, we can enhance our understanding of the character being discussed.

5. Statement by the author speaking as story teller or observer

What the author says about the character is usually accurate, and the authorial voice can be accepted factually. However, when the authorial voice interprets actions and characteristic, the author himself assumes the role of a reader or critic, and any opinions may be questioned.

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CHAPTER III

METHOD OF RESEARCH

3.1 Research Design

Each scientific writings should have a certain kind of method to analyze the problem that is taken. So does this thesis. It uses an approach to discover accurate information about character portrayal on L.A Meyer's novel entitled "Bloody Jack". I use some steps to identify and analyze the problem, collect data, and revise theories. Data collected can be analyzed using statistical technique and would also be considered qualitative descriptive research. Descriptive research can use qualitative or quantitative methods to describe or interpret a current event, condition and situation. But in this thesis I used qualitative descriptive method.

The research was conducted by two ways, the first way is library research which is done by reading some references related to it and the second way is field research which is done by analyzing the novel. The method that is used in this thesis is library research which done within intrinsic and extrinsic approach to analyze character portrayal.

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3.2 Data Collection

When all data and supporting information are collected by reading all references, then it will be selected to the most significant data that will be used in the process of finishing this thesis. Of course, the first step is to read the novel, Bloody

Jack, as the main source. I read the novel for several times to understand the novel

clearly. Then I also read other supporting sources related to the topic as mentioned above. After data collected, selected, and analyzed the object with used descriptive analysis method.

3.3 Data Analysis

The next step is to analyze the primary data is L.A Meyer's novel entitled

"Bloody Jack". The analysis is carried out with the help of other supporting data, such

as from the internet, some data from the other books which supporting this thesis, and also, I take some data from a thesis which is all of that supporting my thesis. From the internet, I take data about the meaning of character portrayal and I take about the novel. And also I take some data from a thesis which is supporting my thesis. So, this thesis gets data not only from the novel but also from the others supporting data.

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The Way to Analyze

Researcher

Source of Data Novel Bloody Jacky

Data Selection

Quotations, words, phrase, Sentences, quotations

Conclusion

Analysis Descriptive Qualitative

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CHAPTER IV

AN ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTERS

4.1 Mary Faber

Mary Faber is the main character in Bloody Jack. She is ten years old. She comes from a middle class London family. She is the daughter of Jack Faber and Nancy Faber, and she has a younger sister, Penny, who is seven years younger than Mary. Mary has long curly hair and the colour is dirty blonde and her skin colour is pink and speckled on her face. And she has brown eyes. Mary has little body so her friend called her little Mary.

For the first ten years of her life, she live with her parents and her younger sister and she lives like the other girls at that time. Lives like the other means that Mary happy with her life and she can play with her friends like usual, she can get anything she want like new and the best dress, the best shoes and others. Until one day that she called “That Dark Day”, where for the first she lost her father because of pestilence and finally died.

’’ Back on That Dark Day when my poor dad died of the pestilence and the man dragged him out of our rooms and down the stairs, his poor head hanging between his shoulders and his poor feet bouncin’ on the stairs, and me all sobbin’ and blubberin’ “

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For a young girl it’s hard to lose her father because father was an important figure to our lives. Because of the figure of father is like a foundation for our lives, and also father like a handle for our lives. So, if we lose our father it same like we lose our lives foundation and we don’t have grip anymore. Not only mothers who give love for her child, but also father. Sometimes father over protective to his child especially his daughter, but there is a reason why he does that, that’s all because of he love his child very much. And now Mary cannot get attention and protect anymore from her father. There is so many influence of father in the lives of his children, especially for a young girl such as making her feel so confident and also he will be an example for his daughter when she was building her own life. Like Mary, her father likes her teacher also who always teaches Mary to read. It’s important can reading because with reading become more open, have a sharper mind and other things which is related to the brain. We can get the information about anything happen in this world and also we know about something which is we don’t know before. Reading is very good for our health, both physically and mentally. Mary’s father is a teacher and always teaches Mary to read that’s why Mary can read although she never gets in to the school.

The corpse of her father bring by a man named Muck. Muck is the messenger of a doctor named Grave who told Muck to collect the bodies of orphans and adults to be dissected and used as research material with reasons for doctor world progress. And after they finished their work, the bodies are used as research material was thrown away to a place. Actually it’s not good if we treat the body like that, because

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they are supposed to treat the body properly. Like, if they have finished using the bodies as research material they have to bury the dead properly not just thrown their away.

Muck brings the body of Mary’s father with his feet bouncing on the stairs. Why Muck brought the corpse of Mary’s father like that? That’s all because of Muck thinks that it’s not necessary to bring out the corpse with the good way moreover people who died because of the pestilence. So, Muck brought the corpse of her father like that but it’s not good. Just like what I’ve told above that we must treat the corpse with properly, didn’t care of how they died and because of what.

Mary feeling sad and lose her father, but she was not hopeless because she still has mother and sister and she thinks that she can live even though only with them. Indeed, even though Mary lost her father as foundation of her lives, but she may not become hopeless because she thinks that still have mother who always beside her and giving support of what she want to do. But the situation did not last long. Because Muck said that he’ll be back and would take her mother and sisters who are also struck the pestilence and they’ll die as soon as possible.

Indeed, because a few days later Muck comes and take her mother and sister but he did not bring little Mary because at that time Mary still healthy. Mary feels so sad, because for the first she must lost her father and now she lost her mother and her younger sister. Mary now lived alone and she try to be more self supporting even though she didn’t know where to go. As a little girl it’s hard to live alone moreover

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she still ten years old because basically a girl who still ten years old still need support and attention from her family. Why she still need support is because if she want to do something difficult and she not sure to do that, at that time the existence of her parents is very important to give support and make sure that she can do it. And why she still need attention because usually a children who did not get attention from their family usually they do something bad to get the attention such as drunk, use the drug, or always make trouble. So, every child must get support and attention from what they want to do. Not only ten year old who still need figure of father and mother but also adults like me still need the support of my parents. Especially, when we have to take a decision that may be though to think by our self, we need advice from our parents to finish it. And the great one is Mary won’t give up even though she lived alone. And finally she decided to join into a gang in London which is all the children’s are orphans like her. She join the gang because she has no one in her life and she don’t know what to do and where to go. We know that everyone can’t live alone because surely we need someone beside us to survive. For a little girl like Mary it’s hard to live alone because life outside is very dangerous and not safe for her. So she choose to join in the gang to survive.

“I’ve been with Charlie and the gang for four, maybe five, years since That Dark Day when my world was changed forever.”

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Charlie is a leader in the gang. Charlie always protects his friends from the other gang who want to make a trouble and try to take their place. Actually, Mary did not sure enough that she can survive with her gang. But, she always tries to make sure herself that she can pass everything by joining the gang even though she never lives like that before. In the gang, Mary is the little one even though she is not the youngest one. And also she is cleverer than the others. In Mary’s gang always happens at changes like losing a friend because of starvation and then they get new friend who joined the group.

Live in a gang is really wild because we must do something bad and not suitable to do. For example to survive every child in a gang must survive by begging with every people. Usually their begging for money and sometimes they ask for some food. Begging is really bad action and it can be bad habit if always do that. Sometimes there are some people who hate that action because their always thinks “why they are not try to do something that can make them get some money”, for example try to get job or help someone and finally give them money. So, not all people will give good response for person who always begging. So they are not always success and get outcome from their action. And the other action is stealing. There are so many things can be the object of stealing such as a things like wallet, beg, necklace and others. To get that entire thing usually people who want to steal defraud it from the owner if they are careless. And the other object to steal is food. Just like Mary and the gang do, they are stealing food from a restaurant or another place which is selling food. And also they are stealing from a house and from the

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people who buying some food. Because they can’t get that from begging and they choose to steal that food.

Actually, Mary hate to beg and steal, but she must do that to survive herself and her friends. Begging and stealing is a bad habit that should be avoided by everyone. Because it can annoying and disruptive the mindset of a person’s and the character of a person’s moreover is done by a children who didn’t have parents as the foundation and guidance in their life.

After take a long time, finally Mary feel comfortable join with Charlie’s gang, because Charlie as a leader always protects his friends from the others especially if he protects Mary from the other gang who want to get her. And also Mary feels so comfortable if she near with Charlie. She considers Charlie as her brother and also her family. But, Mary cannot feel comfortable for a long time, because Charlie died by Muck and Muck bring his corpse to Dr. Grave to become research material. That’s all started when Charlie came to Muck as if daring. And finally Mary feels sad for the third time.

‘’ Ah, Charlie, you was a good one, you was. You looked out for us in your way and took care of us in your way and always shared even though you didn’t have to and was always happy in spite of all. “ (Bloody Jack, page: 27)

The sentence of “Ah, Charlie, you was a good one” means that Charlie is a good boy in front of his friend. Beside as a friend Charlie also a leader and as a protector of his

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friends. So, when Charlie died, all his friend feeling sad especially Mary as his close friend. Charlie’s known as a brave boy who protects his friend from another group and to keep their place from them. Before Mary left Charlie on the street, she take Charlie’s clothes and shiv as memento of Charlie.

Since the death of Charlie, Mary leaves the group. The reason why she left the group because of she didn’t want end like Charlie. And also she want to repair herself be better because if we look from her experience join in the gang it make her has bad habit like stealing and begging. Although she do that for survive but it stay bad action which is not good for children because it can make her become wild and has bad habit. She disguises herself as a boy named Jacky. For a boy, name Jacky has meaning a brave boy and clever in face the world. Maybe everyone who his name is Jacky can find the way to survive his life even though he is an orphan. Mary plans to join into the war ship. But before, she cut her hair until look like a boy. On her way to the sea, Mary through a place where we can find something to eat and she heard a man called her and gives a job for her that is keep his horse until he finish his lunch. And then, when the man finishes his lunch he came into Mary and takes his horse and also he pay Mary because she has kept his horse. A place where Mary stays right now, a boy can get a job easier than a girl. Because a young woman or a girl are regarded as bad luck. Of course she won’t if everybody knew that she is a girl not a boy because it just makes her like dirt in their eyes. And finally she decided to changes herself become a boy.

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‘’ It’s easier being a boy, because nobody bothers with you. Like, I couldn’t have gone into that tavern yesterday as a girl cause they would have shouted “get out of here, you filthy girl”. It’s easier being a boy, cause no one remarks upon me being alone. It’s easier being a boy, cause when someone needs something done like holding a horse. It’s easier being a boy, cause I don’t have to look out for no one but me.” (Bloody Jack, page: 33 and 34)

Mary feels that easier being a boy because there is no one that will disturb her. She feels freer live without teasing from the others who hate girls. Mary also feels comfortable become a boy because she can go anywhere she want, not like girls who always kidnapped and used as beggars, thieves or others. And Mary thinks that easy for a boy to get a job so they can survive their live without begging and stealing like she done when she still joined with Charlie’s gang. For the proof, when on the way to the sea, there is a man who needed her helps to keep his horse and he pays Mary when he finished his lunch. If at that time Mary’s come as a girl, surely they will shout to Mary and ask Mary to go far away from that place. And also they will say something that can hurt Mary as a girl. Because, all the people who stay at that place thinks that a boy is more important than a girl because a boy is more useful than a girl.

Finally, Mary arrived at the sea and she looks at to a ship named Dolphin and decides to follow that ship as a lackey. And when a man ask her what she can do, directly Mary said that she can read better and when they ask about her name faster Mary said that her name is Jacky. Actually that’s not the begin’ from she changes her name, but she begin changes her name when she left her gang and cut her hair. And

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also when there is a man needed her help, she comes as a boy not a girl. On that ship, she got new friends which is also comes as lackey; they are Benjy, Tink, Willy, Davy and James. She also meets Liam Delaney and the other cadets on that ship. Even though their just a lackey they must look clean and better than their condition when they came on that ship. So, there is a cadet that gets instruction to clean them all. Of course that condition makes Mary afraid if her camouflage would discover and she would throw up.

‘’ I’m thinking of how I’m gonna be discovered in the most humiliating way, all starker’s out there on the deck to the hoots and cries of all till they puts me overbroad. I’ve heard they have put girls over the side as they’re supposed to be bad luck and I hopes they at least gives me a barrel to cling to and.” (Bloody Jack, page: 57, 58)

Mary afraid if her camouflage would discover but at that time when that cadet cleaned them all Mary try to stay calm and didn’t do anything that can discover her camouflage. Mary thinks if her camouflage will discover she must get some teasing from all of them and she will throw up to the sea. Because like I said first there is no girl that can following the war ship. For that, she do the same like her friends done, she do that for keep her camouflage stay save, and also her body still look like a boy so it’s no problem if she open her clothes like the others but she must hide the important part of her body to keep save. And right, after they cleaned her camouflage still save. Mary is smart girl because she can keep her camouflage stay save and she always get the way how to keep her secret from the others.

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A week since Mary following that war ship, Mary unconsciously that from the beginning she had felt comfortable if she more close with James. Mary feel that same like when she near with Charlie.

“And I manages to wriggle up next to him. I don’t know why I want to, but I do and I gets it done.”

Actually, Mary want always more closer with James, but she must keep her distance from James because she didn’t want if her camouflage discover. And also she didn’t want to make James thinks that Mary is a strange boy. Mary always tries to get the way for close with James, like midwatch together or just a little chat with James. If she did it, she will be very happy with that condition and didn’t want to far from James. What Mary’s feel it’s pure from her heart, just like another girl who fall in love with someone when there’s interaction between both of them like eye contact or just sit beside him and feels so comfort it’s enough to make them fall in love. But that made her different from other girls is the condition of Mary being a boy now, so for a moment she can’t tell James that she fall in love with him.

There are some cadets on that ship who always make Mary in trouble, they are Bliffil and Sloat. Sloat is homosexual; he always tried to rape Jacky/Mary. Until he knows that Jacky who is known as a boy is a girl. While Bliffil is a cadet who always bullying the new children who following the ship like Mary and friends.The cadet should give a good example to all those new members, such as teaching a few things that should be done by a cadet and how this being good. But, what we got here there

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are two cadets who always make trouble on that ship, didn’t care who their opponents is it a children or the oldest than them. But, in this novel the victim was always Mary, there is no other children. Maybe because of she looks little than the other so they just disturb Mary. When Sloat tried to rape Mary he was surprised of what he saw.

‘’ Well, well, what have we here? Not a little rooster, but a little hen, my…Well, well, even better. Got a little henhouse there Jacky? A cuckoo’s nest? Such fun.” (Bloody Jack, page: 170)

Sloat becomes happy knows that and he trying hard to rape her. Mary tried to fight it by putting a shiv of Charlie’s to the Sloat stomach. Mary’s bravery proves that she didn’t want if something bad happens to her. And finally Sloat tumbled and finally plunged into the sea. I think that Sloat behavior to Mary is one of the wicked acts of moral and it can damaged mental of Mary. And the other cadet is Bliffil. He never does like Sloat do, but he just always kicked Mary and he was battered to Mary. Because of that thing, Bliffil broke Mary’s nose, some of her tooth and one of her hand. There is no reason why Bliffil do that only to Mary. If someone ask him he just laugh and won’t to answer that question. Since that accident, if Mary wants to go to a part of that ship her always with one of her friends, he won’t to go alone anymore. Because she still afraid if Bliffil comes and attack her against. What Bliffil and Sloat done of course can damage mental of Mary and also her physic. Damage her mental from what Sloat done to her it’s so bad and if that’s happened to other girl of course that girl would hopeless and some of them choose to end their life. We can see from the news which tells about raping a girl under the age. Besides damage the

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mental of victim the incident also damage their family. Damage her physic from what Bliffil done to Mary. Bliffil bullying Mary with beat up her face and bodies. Lucky Mary, because every Mary got attempted from Sloat and Bliffil, her sea dad always come and brought her out from that situation. Sea dad is like her father, which is gives her lessons and protect her from difficult time.

What Sloat and Bliffil done is a crime. A crime is defined as any act that is contrary to legal code or laws. There are many different types of crimes, from crimes against persons to victimless crimes and violent crimes to white collar crimes. With each type of crime also come different profiles. For example Crimes Against Persons. Crimes against persons, also called personal crimes, include murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery. Personal crimes are unevenly distributed in the United States, with young, urban, poor, and racial minorities committing these crimes more than others. But in this thesis the crime is rape and bullying with a person. The other crime is Crimes Against Morality. Crimes against morality are also called victimless crimes because there is not complainant, or victim. Prostitution, illegal gambling, and illegal drug use are all examples of victimless crimes. In this thesis the morality crime such when Sloat tried to rape Mary and also he is homosexual. Because when he try to rape Mary, he don’t know that Mary is a girl, but when he opened her pants finally he know that.

Mary is smart girl and friendly. She is brave also. She can face of the world although without her parents. She also helpful, she always help the people who need help. Mary learns much thing on the ship. Beside she can read, she also can keep her

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feelings from the others like if she feels afraid if her camouflage be discovered. And also she can sew now, and she tries to make new clothes for herself. It’s good if a little girl like Mary can learn much in the place like that. Because it’s so unusual a little girl can learn much especially sewing their dress by herself. In this modern era, so many girls won’t to sewing because they think that’s embarrassing. I don’t know why they said sewing is embarrassing, because I think sewing is important for all girls in this world even though we can ask someone to do that. Mary also can play a flute and now she makes herself look nice and she still trying to keep her camouflage.

4.2 James Emerson Fletcher

James is the second child of a first class family in England. James was put on a ship when he was twelve because of a fall in his family's income in the wine industry. Actually, James did not want to join in the Dolphin ship. But he was forced by his family was in financial difficulties and debts and also he is a son who has responsibility so he want to help his family out of that condition. His father tries to make sure and give him support without words just put his hand on James shoulder, although he know that his son hate it.

“The man has his hand on the boy’s shoulder and the boy has his head

down and is looking powerful grim. He’s doing a lot of gulping and blinking of the eyes” (Bloody Jack, page: 44)

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From the quotation above, we know that actually his father feel so hard to let his son following the war ship, but he must do that. Because his family was in financial difficulties and debts. There is no father want to steam their son to left them; moreover they still a little boy who needed attention and love from their family. His father tries to makes sure and gives support to his son even though without word, he just put his hand on James shoulder like convince his son about that. So do James. It’s hard for him left his family and following the ship, but he can’t do anything. As a boy, he wants to help his family out of that situation. So, even though it’s hard for him joining the ship he tries to accept that for his family.

James is very uncommunicative. He never wants to tell everyone about his past. Even though Mary and the others told each other about their past, James still didn’t want to tell them about that. He chooses to be quiet and just listen to what are they talking about. And also they won’t to ask James about his past. After a long time join into the war ship, James look a little comfort with the condition and he is not look awkward anymore. He begins to tell about his past, but not at all. One night, when Mary and James midwatch together, James starts talking about his family and the reason why his father let him join with the war ship.

Since Mary had an incident with one of the cadets on the ship named Sloat, James began strange like getting away from Mary and chose to be with the others. And usually if they went to bed Mary and James always share about anything but now he never say anything. Because James feel that Mary made that cadet do degenerate thing to Mary. Because Mary had alluring Sloat with move her ass to the

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right and left following the rhythms of billow and she don’t know that what she done has made the cadet be tempted and do degenerate thing to Mary.

Sloat has twice to tries do degenerate thing to Mary. But for the second he failed and died on Mary’s hand because Mary stuck the shiv to his stomach. Since the second incident of Mary and Sloat, finally James wants to talk again to Mary. And after a minute they were talk, James concede that he was interested to Mary and actually he want to try to do something like Sloat do to Mary. But James always tries to avoid that thing with do something that Mary hated/unlike.

“When I was mean to you….. I thought I…. I was becoming one of those sodomites. Not with anyone else. Just with you.” (Bloody Jack, page: 185)

Mary surprised heard that. She didn’t know that James had a plan which same degenerate like Sloat do. But, she was happy and feel calm because even though James had plan like that, he was trying to not to do that. As a normal man, James has to fulfill his biologic needs although by sodomites like he want to do to Marry.

After James said that things, Mary ask him to help her to try her new dress which is made by her. For a second, James looks so confused and ask to Mary “Whose dresses that?”. And then after Mary had try the dress she didn’t want to waiting for long time until James say something to her, finally she said that if James really loves her, he can kiss Mary.

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“What we are going to do Jacky?

Well, Jaimy. You can kiss me if you love me”

(Bloody Jack, page: 186)

And that’s the begin James knows that Jacky is not a boy, but a girl and her real name is Mary. James knows that he loves and likes Mary even from Mary still a boy. And finally, Mary and James have a relationship as a new couple and no one knows about that. Of course Mary feels so happy, because now she can more closely with James without afraid if James things that Mary is a strange “boy”. And also James feel happy because of he knows that Jacky is a girl he must not keep his distance and always try the way to get the distance with Mary. Both of them are happy now. And we know from the sentences that actually James is a real man who still like and want a girl. So when he thinks he want to sodomites Mary that’s all just because of he want to fulfill his biological needs.

Since James knows that Mary is a girl, he’ll become more over protective to Mary. And also because of he is a man who has big responsibility and didn’t want to lose Mary he becomes more protective to Mary. Because he didn’t want if Mary get disrupt ion from everyone who want to hurt Mary.

When Mary dropped from the ship and will leave James she ask James to come back and find her and then take her with him. James said he’ll be back and take her.

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“Come back and find me, Jaimy, and take me away,.

I will, Jacky, I will.” (Bloody Jack, page : 288)

It proves that James is faithful man. Because he didn’t want to lose Mary and he’ll bring Mary and then they’ll get married.

4.3 Rooster Charlie

Rooster Charlie is an orphan boy. He is fourteen years old. He is the leader of a gang which all of the members are an orphan child, including Mary and also he is Mary’s closest friend. Actually, it’s bad if a little boy like Charlie has been a leader in a gang. Because a little boy like him should be still get the attention from his parents and he should study at school. Actually, a little boy like Charlie might have feels live likes the other child such as play with his friends and do something which usually a child done. But, because of the death of his parents and he lost his guidance in his lives he don’t know here to go and what he must do. And finally he chooses to live at the street and becomes a leader gang there. They lived at London Street. His friends choose Charlie because of Charlie always responsible and protect them good enough. He is called Rooster Charlie because of his red hair and it falls to the side and his last name is Brewster. Rooster Charlie is a boy who has big confident. He is small but he’s smart, quick, cheerful, and he is brave boy.

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Charlie always takes care of his friends we can see from how he keeps his friends from another gang around them. If there is a gang wants to make a trouble or try to take their place, Charlie and his friend named Hugh always managed to protect their friends. Hugh utilizes his big body to face them and Charlie uses his shiv to face their enemies and always succeed to keep their place. Charlie has a dream that he want to be a soldier and he’ll change his shiv become a great gleaming.

Charlie was always fair to his friends, like if he buying food he’ll bring that to their home and share fairly to his friend. He loves his friend so much and he didn’t want if anybody hurt them. Charlie always want to make his friends happy, so if he has something that can he gives for his friend he will give it to them. For example, if he has a piece of bread for the first he give that bread to his friend and than if there is a remnant of that bread he’ll take it.

Charlie has a closest relationship with Mary. He didn’t want to lose Mary. So, when Mary asks him why they must beg to survive, whereas they can read to get some money. Charlie’s thinking for a while, than he said that he won’t to lose Mary. He is too afraid if the other gang stole her.

” Alright Mary, I’ll be telling you straight. You’re smart and you could understand my mind. I don’t want you stolen, is why.”

(Bloody Jack, page: 17)

Charlie loves Mary like his sister. He didn’t want to lose Mary so he gives more protects to Mary. He want Mary to stay with him together and also he didn’t

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want if Mary look so sad if she remember about her family. If Mary sad, he always try to make Mary laughing again and makes Mary feel comfort beside him. Charlie always looking out for Mary, he was too afraid to lose Mary or the other tries to take her from Charlie.

One day, Charlie comes to a place where a man named Muck stay there. Charlie say something which made Muck get angry to him and he like dare to Muck. Because of that, when Charlie’s walking on Lambert streets to get some food for his friend, Muck comes and hit him on Charlie’s back head with the hard thing like wood and finally Charlie died on Muck’s hand. Muck bring Charlie’s corpse to Dr. Grave place to become a research like they want. The death of Charlie of course made Mary feel so sad, because she didn’t want to lose a leader and also a brother. But Mary can’t do anything, she just crying if she remembers that incident. That’s all happened because of Charlie’s carelessness on his attitude and words of the Muck. He should be able to better maintain his attitude and words to Muck because of Muck’s job is collect the bodies to become research material doesn’t mean that he can act arbitrarily to Muck. Because whatever work of someone we should cherish it, because they did it to survive just like Mary and friends done.

4.4 Liam Delaney

An Irishman and skilled sailor, he is Jacky's overseer and "sea dad" who gives her tips and rescues her from ill-intentioned men on board. Liam never makes Mary feeling shy but he always makes Mary feel comfort if she beside him. For the first

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meeting, he teaches Mary to make ropes. Liam is tall and strong. His hair is as black as the coal. He can plays a flute which is has six holes and also he teaches me to play it. Liam ever reminded Mary of a thing:

“Up in the rigging in the sunlight is the safe place for a ship’s boy, not crawling around down in the dark hold. You listen to your old sea dad.”

(Bloody Jack, page: 69)

I think why Liam always remembered Mary to stay at the open place like that it just fro to keep Mary from every bad habit which can beat her down on that ship. Liam has assume Mary like his daughter, so he was always remembered Mary about what she must to do and what she must let it. Like the caution of Liam on the quotation above. But, Mary like didn’t care about Liam caution, she stay crawl on the dark part of that ship.

When Mary’s friend Benjy’s died because of the war between their ships with the pirates, Mary more closely with Liam. Because, she feels comfort beside him so she spends much time with her sea dad. Liam always let Mary cry but that’s not takes a long time. Because Liam didn’t want if Mary prolonged sadness.

“Jacky. You’ve got to let them go after a while, you know. You grieve for your mates what have passed on for a decent time and then you have to let them be.”

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From the quotation above, we know that Liam didn’t want if Mary always sad because of the death of her friend. Liam want Mary let her friend because after all Mary cannot crying all the time because of that. Liam ask Mary to think about the best time that ever they made together not the sad time with him and also Liam want Mary didn’t always think about the death of her friend. Even though Mary still feels sad, she always try to accept that and try to do what Liam want her to do.

Liam just like a savior for Mary. When a cadet named Sloat come to disturb Mary, Liam come and save Mary from Sloat. He knows that Sloat would sodomize Mary. He is really angry to Sloat until he said that he’ll kill Sloat if he disturbs the child’s.

“Touch any boys again and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bloody Jack, page: 159)

The quotation above, prove that Liam really care of all the children and he always protects them. Especially Mary which is like his daughter. Liam really know every misdeed of the people on that ship especially Sloat which homosexual. Every Mary get the misdeed from the cadets on that ship, Liam always come and tries to help Mary out of the situation, let Mary out of from the people who want to hurt her. Liam didn’t want if Mary gets hurt because of them. But, not only Mary that he didn’t want to hurt but also the other child that is Mary’s friend. Liam always tried to remembered them do not come into the dark part of that ship and he always try to keep them from the people who want to hurt them.

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Since that incident, Liam always gave more protects to Mary and the others child. He didn’t want if any child get abuse from Sloat or another cadet who want to sodomize them. Mary is very happy to known and close with Liam. And also Mary happy that Liam is her sea dad.

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

Based on the analysis of the main character portrayal in L.A Meyer’s Novel

Bloody Jack, I compile the conclusion and sugge stion as follows:

5.1 Conclusion

In L.A Meyer’s Novel Bloody Jack, the characters are fictitious human beings; they are Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber, Rooster Charlie, James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson Fletcher and Liam Delaney.

Having analyzed the characters, I conclude that the main character portrayed is a nice and brave girl. Beside that she is also friendly, smart and cheer full girl. Her family call her Mary, in her gang her friends call her little Mary and then when she follow the warship they call her Jacky because she is changes her name and her appearance look like a boy. Mary join in a gang because she lose her family and live alone so she choose to join in that gang. In the gang Mary survive by begging and stealing. Mary never do that before but now she must because she live in the wild world without her parents who always teach her to do something good. Wild world is very dangerous for a little girl like Mary because it can kill her anytime. The leader in her gang is Rooster Charlie, he is fourteen years old. He called Rooster Charlie

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because of his red hair and how it falls to the side. He is brave boy and really care with his friend. His friend choose him be a leader because he has leader characteristic and he is responsible with his friend. Because of his bravery make afraid all of their enemy and didn’t want to attack them and take their place anymore. But, the end of his life is really tragic, he kill by Muck and his corpse become a material research. The other character is James Emerson Fletcher, twelve years old and come from the first class family. He is uncommunicative, shy, and quiet boy. He also a brave one even though he never show it in front of his friend. He join the ship to help his family out of economic trouble. He falling in love with Mary and finally they have relationship. And the last is Liam Delaney. He is one of the cadets on that ship. He has fatherhood characteristic and great man. He is Mary’s sea dad and always keep Mary from everyone who want to hurt her. He is brave confront of everyone who always try to make trouble with him and Mary. So far he is great father and a brave man.

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5.2 Suggestion

L.A. Meyer’s novel Bloody Jack is worth reading. The presence of the main character portrayed and the immoralities from one of the characters in the novel in this thesis show the value which reflects as human concerns. The usefulness of reading the novel is meant to help us stay survives although without our family. And the main characters such as Mary Faber who can survive without her family even though she still ten years old. She makes sure herself that she can survive in the cruel world for a little girl like her. This novel taught us to be a brave person to face the risk in our life. Never hopeless even though we are just alone in the world. And we must more respectful of a woman/girl. Because there is no different between a boy and a girl. Both of them can do anything to survive themselves. But in this novel show that a girl means nothing for everyone, they like a dirt and they more care with a boy even though they are stupid. So, we must more brave, smart to face the world and we must more respectful with a woman/girl.

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APPENDICES

Biography of L.A. Meyer

Louis A. Meyer is best known as the author of the Bloody Jack seafaring novels. And also a painter. L.A. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942 and spent the next thirteen years as an Army brat, living in Germany and up and down the east coast of the U.S. Meyer liked being an Army kid, despite all the constant moving – his mother informs him and they moved twenty six times and went to twelve different schools before got out of high school. After his father retired, he went to high school in Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, and Fort Myers, Florida, and college at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At that college he meets his future wife, Annetje Lawrence. Upon graduation with a degree in English Lit, he bid the aforementioned Ms Lawrence goodbye forever and put in a summer as a floor sweeper in Chicago and then hitchhiked around Mexico and the Southern U.S. Being imminently draftable and it being in the Vietnam war era, and may not wanting to have my throat cut in some hot and bug infested foxhole, he joined the Navy and four months later he was a spanking new officer in the U.S. Navy.

L.A Meyer and his wife got married in 1966. They have two sons, Matthew and Nathaniel. He and his wife have owned an art gallery called Claire de Loon in Bar Harbor, where they sell matted and framed prints of his artwork. His sons just like him, both them are painters.

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During the Vietnam War, Meyer joined the U.S. Navy. He has said he did it to avoid death in a foxhole. He became an officer after four months, assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. He saw no combat during his tour of duty, which included ports of call in Italy, France, Spain, and Malta.

After his release from the service, they did their year in New York City where he worked as a social worker and took graduate art courses at Columbia University. Then they relocated to Scituate, Massachusetts, and he enrolled in Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts program, receiving his MFA in Painting in 1973. While at Boston University, he published two children’s picture books with Little, Brown, and Company. He taught high school art for seven years at Rockland High School in Rockland, Massachusetts.

He and his wife left teaching in 1981 to set up a silk screen printing and design shop on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. And while there they lived on a forty-foot houseboat moored in Matanzas Pass. They soon had retail shops both on Fort Myers Beach and in Bar Harbor, Maine. They had purchase land on the Downeast coast of Maine in 1971, build a house and have summered there ever since. In 1998, they closed up the Florida operation and moved to Maine full time, and they now have the Claire de Loon Gallery in Bar Harbor. They live in the small fishing village of Corea.

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SUMMARY OF BLOODY JACK

Bloody Jack is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer. It is centered on an orphan girl in London in the early 19th century. The main character in this novel is Mary Faber who came from the second class family in London. Mary has a younger sister, Penny, who seven years younger than Mary. After describing the death of the character, Mary Faber, struggling to survive on the streets of orphaned children. Their leader is a clever adolescent named Rooster Charlie whom Mary learns to love as survive each day on the streets of 18th-century London. When Charlie is murdered by a corpse seller named Muck, Mary takes Charlie's clothes and the name "Jack" to hide her identity as a girl. She quickly finds a position as a ship's boy.

Mary Faber is an orphan in a gang on the streets of Cheapside, London, during the late 18th century. After the death of the gang's leader, she dons boy's clothing and goes to the docks, where she attempts to obtain a position as one of six ship's boys on the British warship H.M.S. Dolphin. Her endeavor is successful due to her ability to read, and she is signed under the alias Jack "Jacky" Faber. After boarding the ship, she meets the other ship's boys, named Tink, Willy, Benjy, Davy, and Jaimy.

Jacky and the other ship's boys gain their sea legs and begin their duties on the ship. Jacky meets a seaman, Liam Delaney, who becomes her sea dad. Liam teaches her the ways of the ship and how to play the pennywhistle. After some time on the ship,

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Jacky finds that she's grown, and needing some new clothes, she makes her own. Jacky's new outfit catches the Captain's eye and is asked to sew up more for the others. As the plot develops, a pirate ship is spotted and a battle begins. The crew boards the enemy ship, and Jacky acquires a pistol from a dead pirate. She sees another pirate preparing to kill one of the ships boys, Jaimy, whom Jacky is starting to have feelings for. Then she shoots the pirate, who is carrying a chest of money, and thus gets the nickname "Bloody Jack". It is in this battle that Benjy, a ship's boy in The Brotherhood, (what Jacky and the other ship's boys call themselves), is killed. The ship heads for Palma to get there ship repaired after the battle. At about this time, Jacky first menstruates, and her upbringing having left her unaware of the details of female physical maturation, she believes that she is ill and about to die.

After the ship lands atthe ship's boys go to get a tattoo to show their brotherhood. Jacky then goes to a brothel to find a woman to ask 'for a friend' why she had bled before, where the madam quickly sees through her disguise and informs Jacky of the details of female bodies. The rest of the ship's boys consider Jack a rake after this, as they only know one nominal reason for a visit to a brothel.

Then the ship heads for the aboard the ship called Midshipman Bliffil starts to beat Jacky up, and only stops when the teacher yells at him. Jacky is put in the sick ward for her injuries. She convinces Midshipman Jenkins to stand up to Bliffil and teaches him some fighting moves. A crew member Bill Sloat threatens Jacky and her sea dad Liam Delaney tries to protect her, which causes some problems. When Bliffil attacks Jacky again,

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Jenkins stands up to him. Jacky begins to sleep in the rope locker because The Brotherhood's friendship is strained after recent events, and this is when Sloat tries to sexually assault her. Jacky tries to protect herself by stabbing him with her shiv, but she injures him more than she had meant to, and ends up stabbing him in the stomach and he stumbles overboard. Liam is put on trial for the murder and he is going to be hanged. Jacky intervenes and confesses to stabbing Sloat. She is put in confinement and thinks that she will be hanged instead, but she is set free because she had acted in self-defense.

After that she is welcomed back by into the Brotherhood but the feeling is still weird. Jaimy admits to her that he has strange feelings for her, and that is when Jacky asks him to hold up a dress so she can mark it, and Jaimy learns that she is really a girl and that she has feelings for him.

Soon after they arrive i and Jacky wears a dress that she bought. They eat at a café, and Davy and Tink see them. Davy and Tink do not know that the girl Jaimy is eating with is Jacky, and she leaves and changes back into her ship boy clothing. The group then finds a piercing shop, where they all get a gold hoop earring. Jacky and Jaimy exchange rings. Then they set sail again to hunt for the pirates.

They soon encounter the pirate LeFievre ("The Fever") at sea. There is a battle, but LeFievre gets away, and the Dolphin is damaged and in the process of sinking. Men are at the bilge pumps trying to keep the ship afloat when land is sighted, and the ship

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and crew stop for rest and repairs. Davy learns of Jacky's true identity when he discovers her and Jaimy curled up in a hammock together. Soon after, Mr. Tilden the teacher wants to put Jacky on a kite and fly her up so she can see more land, but the winds were blowing so hard that the tree she is tied to is ripped out of the ground and after many hours of flying she lands on an unknown island. She stays there for a few days and uses smoke signals to try to get the attention of HMS Dolphin. A boat crew from the Dolphin comes to rescue her and she finds out that LeFievre and his pirates are on the island with her and waiting to ambush the rescue crew. She tries to lead the rescue crew away but the pirates catch her and hold her for hanging and money. She is hanged, but is so scrawny and skinny that she just hangs there choking. The HMS Dolphin rescue crew lands, Jaimy quickly cuts the rope around her neck, and Jacky survives.

Jacky is finally discovered to be a girl. She is guarded by someone everywhere she goes. She is confined from almost everyone on board, including her old mates, but they secretly sneak over to the grating above her room to talk to her. She is told by the captain that she will be enrolled in Lawson Peabody's School for Girls i and then the book concludes with her stepping off the ship.

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APPENDICES

Biography of L.A. Meyer

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SUMMARY OF BLOODY JACK

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