Background of the Study

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

There are some ways to express ideas, especially in the literary works. There is a literary work that brings us to the world of dreams and takes us away from a reality. It has to be contrasted with a literary work that needs the interpretation. Literature is a personal expression of feeling including experience, idea, motivation and confidence in a concrete description by using the language. Novel is a part of prose form beside the short story. The most of people read novels and short stories. A novel expresses some aspects of human’s love and existences. Because a novel talks about the human activities and describes what has been happened in surrounding, so it is written in a long composition. Kenney 1966; 103 says, “Novel is generally thought of as containing about forty five thousand words or more”. So a novel is longer narrative than a short story and a novella. Novel, as a literary work has been known since eighteenth century in England. Beside novel, we also can find others literary works; there are poem, poetry, drama, and prose. A prose is often as a specific term for all discouraged spoken or written which is not patterned into recurrent matrix united that we call verse. Prose has longer meaning because it covers everything that is written as literary work but it includes some of nonfiction works. This novel titled “ A Brief Description of Mystic in Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl’s Novel Beautiful Creatures”, the meaning of mystic in the Greek Universitas Sumatera Utara 2 language is secret geheim, secretive geheimzinnig, hidden verborgen, dark donker or shrouded in thick darkness in het duister gehuld. There are a lot of understanding about the mystical, both based dictionary, anthropology and philosophy itself. Heres some understanding of the mystical: The Department of Language 2002:5 says, “Mystic is highly believed to supernatural cannot be explained by an ordinary human reason it is a sub- system that exists in almost all religions and religious systems to satisfy the human desire to experience and feel the emotion united with God”. Koentjaraningrat 1980:132 says, “A form of religion that is based on belief in one God who is considered encompasses all things in nature and the religious system itself from the ceremonies aimed at achieving unity with god”. When we combined the mystic with culture, then in truth is a mystical irrational knowledge or could not understand the ratio, meaning that a causal relationship cannot be understood that occur ratios and have the forms of thought and expression of absolute truth in a society. Expression and irrational thoughts have formed a behavior in public life and became a culture. The writer chooses the Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl’s novel “Beautiful Creatures” as the resources of the data because the writer interested in the story. Beautiful Creatures is a good novel because it teaches how to use magic that well. Universitas Sumatera Utara 3

1.2 Problem of the Study