Background of the Study Problem of the Study Scope of the Study

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

In Literature, there are three large genres of literature, they are poetry, drama, and prose. Prose concludes novel or romances and short story. Novel or romance usually is longer than short story. The writer would like to describe one of those genres of prose that is novel. Novel is human creation which tells about human life, with conflict and the end makes a change of the character with simple description. Roberts and Jacobs 1995:1 say that Literature is written or oral compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas.” With the major genres being prose fiction, poetry, drama, and prose non fiction. Poetry, drama, and prose fiction are imaginative literature. Wellek and Warren 1989:216 say that novel is a picture of real life and manners among the time in which it is written. Some novels are fiction and some are based in the true story. Novels not only have function to entertaining but also give meaning, message, education and impression to the readers. Mintzberg 1994 says strategy are a plan, ploy, pattern, position, and perspective; strategy is a process of sensing, analysing, choosing and acting. The strategy formulation has to complement the environment of operation and the available resources. The writer chooses the Sophie Kinsella’s novel “Can You Keep a Secret” as the resources of the data because the writer is interested in the story. Can You Keep a Secret is a good novel to read because not only contain an education and Universitas Sumatera Utara information about how to keep a secret, has so many characters, events that contents conflict, and because each serves different elements and strategies of the novel are solid and support each other.

1.2 Problem of the Study

The problem of the study are : a. How is trust held strongly ? b. How is silence refered to strategy ? c. How is cooperation well done ?

1.3 Scope of the Study

The writer would like to analyze the plan and the idea through what they do and say and the descriptions of the strategies to keep a secret.

1.4 Objective of the Study