The Description Of Plot Found In Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Novel Obsidian

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THE DESCRIPTION OF PLOT FOUND IN JENNIFER L.

ARMENTROUT’S NOVEL

OBSIDIAN

A PAPER

BY

WARDHAH MUNAWWARAH

REG.NO: 122202060

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA

FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES

DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

MEDAN

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It has been proved by Supervisor,

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Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum.

Submitted to Faculty of Culturel Study, University of Sumatera Utara in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Diploma-III in English Study Program

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Head of English Diploma Study Program,

NIP: 19521126198112 1 001 Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A.

Approved by the Diploma-III of English Study Program Faculty of Cultural Study, University of Sumatera Utara as a Paper for the Diploma-III Examination.

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Accepted by the Board of Examiner in partial of the requirements for the D-III Examination of the Diploma-III of English Study Program, Faculty of Culture Study, University of Sumatera Utara.

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The Examination is held on June 2015

Faculty of Culture Study University of Sumatera Utara Dean,

NIP: 19511013197603 1 001 Dr. Syahron Lubis, MA

Board of Examiners:

1. Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A. (Head of ESP) __________

2. Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum. (Supervisor) __________ 3. Drs. M. Syafi’I Siregar, M.A. (Reader) __________

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iii ABSTRACT

Plot is the sequence of events in a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end. The short story usually has one plot so it can be read in one sitting. There are five essential parts of plot; Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution. This paper is entitled The Description of Plot Found in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Novel OBSIDIAN. In this novel narrated infidelity is about an alien who live in the earth and live a life like human. A woman knew about identity of alien. The enemies want to use the woman to destroy alien. But a woman protected by alien from enemies attack. And finally alien has fallen in love with the woman. In this research the writer usesqualitative description method to describe the plot which is presented in the novel

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iv ABSTRAK

Plot merupakan urutan kejadian atau peristiwa dalam sebuah cerita atau sandiwara. Plot biasanya sudah direncanakan, bagian yang logis dalam suatu kejadian yang memiliki awal, pertengahan, dan akhir. Cerita pendek biasanya memiliki satu plot yang bisa dibaca dalam satu kedudukan. Ada 5 bagian yang penting dalam plot; Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, dan Resolution. Kertas karya ini berjudul The Description of Plot Found in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Novel OBSIDIAN. Dalam novel ini dikisahkan tentang seorang alien yang tinggal di bumi dan hidup seperti manusia. Seorang wanita mengetahui tentang jati diri mereka yang sebenarny. Seorang musuh ingin memanfaatkan manusia untuk menghancurkan alien. Tapi, manusia tersebut dilindungi oleh alien dari serangan musuh. Dalam penelitian ini penulis menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif untuk menggambarkan plot yang sudah tersaji dalam novel tersebut.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank Allah SWT, the almighty God for His blessing and leading me during all my life. Praise is to the prophet Muhammad SAW, the leader of messangers and guiding of faithful so that I could finish my study to fulfill one of requirements for the degree of Ahli Madya from the English Departement, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan.

Then, I would like to thank the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studieis, University oof Sumatera Utara, Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, MA, and all the staffs for their help during the period of study in this faculty.

I would like to thank to Drs. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A as the head of English Department for giving all facilities and oppurtunities during my academic years and completing this paper. I would like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor, Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum. for his support and beneficial suggestion, and their willingness to share time in correcting this paper throughout the preparation of this paper and the period of doing this paper. I also would like to thank

to Drs. M. Syafi’i Siregar, M.A. as my reader who gives the correction and advices

to finish this paper, and all lecturers who have given so much knowledge throughout my academic years especially to my academic supervisor. I would like to thank to Kak Putri who always helps me in administration process.

My best deepest appreciation and love are dedicated to my beloved father Hairul Hidayat and my beloved mother Nurizmah, who always pray, support, and advice me with their love. For my sister Rizky Azzahra, my brother Ahmad Rasyidi

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and my little brother Ahmad Farhan, and the whole of my family, I would like to thank a lot of their love, support and time to share and lead me.

My special thanks is dedicate to my best Fake Friends, Nanda Yustika Sari (bunda), Shella Novianti (Mbak), Lara Rizqy Yoriza Purba (Kakak), Yuni

Asyifah Natalia Lubis (Bou), Alfi Navais Muthyah Ritonga (Etek). Who always

help and support me every time in every condition, thanks for their love and care, thanks for their having great time together and spending our time, money and energy for three years in sweet memories, thanks for their crazy and for the unforgettable moment that we did and always live my life. I love you girls, you are so amazing. And I say thanks to Muhammad Rizki as a expert and charismatic senior who always give me some information about paper.

I would like to thank to all of my senior and junior who always support me, give me some question about when I am graduation. Thank to my classmates in A and B class who have the same spirit to get the success. For all brothers and sister in SOLIDAS (Student of English Diploma Association) who have give support.

Finaly, i realize that this paper is far from being perfect. I have done my best to complete this paper. Therefore, the writer will accept the suggestion from the readers because this paper is not perfect. Finally, i hope this paper would be useful for the readers in future.

Medan, July 11th 2014 The Writer

Reg. No: 122202060 Wardhah Munawwarah

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR DECLARATION... i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION……… ii

ABSTRACT………... iii

ABSTRAK…..……… iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMEN………. v

TABLE OF CONTENTS……….………. vii

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of Study……….. 1

1.2 The Problem of Study……… 2

1.3 The Scope of Study………....… 3

1.4 The Objective of Study……….………. 3

1.5 The Significance of Study……….. 3

1.6 The Method of Study………. 3

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Novel………... 5

2.2 Plot………. 7

2.2.1 Exposition………... 8

2.2.2 Rising Action……….. 8

2.2.3 Climax………. 9

2.2.4 Falling Action……….………. 10

2.2.5 Resolution……….……… 10

3. THE DESCRIPTION OF PLOT FOUND IN JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT NOVEL OBSIDIAN 3.1 Exposition……… 13

3.2 Rising Action……….………..… 15

3.3 Climax……….. 17

3.4 Falling Action………... 20

3.5 Resolution……… 21

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion……… 23

4.2 Suggestion………...……. 25

REFERENCES……… 26

APPENDIECES A. Biography of Jennifer L. Armentrout... 28

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iii ABSTRACT

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iv ABSTRAK

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1.Background of the Study

There have been various attempts to define what literature is. Literature can be considered as a product of imagination in writing form. It reflects the result as the value of an art work. Taylor (1981:1) says that literature, like other arts, is essentially an imaginative act, that is, an act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.

The major forms of literature are novel, poem, drama and short story. They have much in common. Poem is focused on lyrics written by stanza; drama related to performance on stage by using dialogue; short story is a short form limited in members of page.

In this paper a novel is used as the material of the discussion, which the novel itself belongs to the literary work. Revee (1985) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. In other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc.

Fananie (2001:93) says that plot is construction which is made to read on of a sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or

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experienced by actors. It means an entire series of events contained in the story, caused or experienced by actors.

The Novel which deals in this paper are written by Jennifer L. Armentrout entitle Obsidian. Jennifer L. Armentrout was born June, 11, 1980,Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States. She spends her time reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write. She shares her home with her husband, his K9 partner named Diesel, and her hyper Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent her time writing short stories…therefore explaining her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes Adult and Young Adult Urban Fantasy and Romance.

The novel tells Alien who live around human and the writer want to know how the Alien live a life in this planet. Generally, Aliens are strange for human, sometimes frightening. But in this story Aliens are different and it makes the novel unique and creative on it’s own. The writer have never read a novel about aliens who were beings of light so definite It makes the writer interest to describe of plot in this novel. Finally, the research of this paper focuses on the plot used in the novel written by Jennifer L. Armentrout entitle Obsidian. This is the background as well as the reason why this paper focus on the description of plot found in this paper.

1.2.Problem of the Study

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3 1.3. Scope of the Study

The description of this paper is limited to plot in the novel. Therefore, the scope of this paper is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action is restricted to the plot found in this novel.

1.4. Objective of the Study

The objective of this paper is to describe plot found of the novel.Thepurpose of writing this paper, the writer hopes the readers wil get some knowledge about the plot. Then the writer wants to explain and describe to readers about the story or plot of this novel.

1.5. Significance of the Study

Theoretically, the significance of this description is to increase the literary understanding in terms of literary works and plot found in novel Obsidian. Practically, it has significance for the readers to understand what plot is in a novel.

1.6. Method of the Study

The writer uses qualitative description metheod in doing in this paper. The primary of data sources is Obsidian novel and the secondary of data sources are books and internet.Method of the description in this paper is a library research. The writer collects some data to support the description, finding the related data to the research then narrowing the collecting data of the library research to the related

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element which are about plot. The data in the words, texts and quotations from. The writer reads and notes that data then selects to be interpreted. Having understood the story of the novel, the writer can analyze the plot of the novel and make the conclusion.

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Fiction writing is any kind of writing that is not factual. Fictional writing most often takes the form of a story meant to convey an author’s point of view or simply to entertain. The result of this may be a short story, novel, novella, screenplay, or drama, which are all types (though not the only types) of fictional writing styles.

2.1 Novel

Novel is a length story which tells about life experience of human being. It can be made base on imagination. The imagination is not really life experience, it is impossible in real life. Rene (1985) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. On the other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc.

Watson (1979:3) says that novel is the name of a literary kind, and there is a story to tell about how, over the centuries, its substance has widened and its conventions changed. So it means novel is literary

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work, narrate about the life in centuries ago. Of course, novel is a way to send message in social, such as in novel find character that plays role hero and felon. Hero in novel will be success but not felon will be loser. From this message the reader can get inspiration that hero is good but felon is bad.

Reading a novel can help reader to think the conversation of character, it makes the imagination improved became more criticism. Because the reader thinks what thing is good to support. In the beginning of novel is not interesting in the ending, because it takes the attention the reader to read the whole story. Watson (1979:3-4) says that novel is a way of learning about how things were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who distrust stories as evidence should consider how often in conversation we use them to make points or answer questions.

Novel is usually written in the past tense because the author tells story that happens in the past, the author imagine the story firstly then interpret it in writing so the imagination first then writing in the past tense. In addition novel is written in past tense because it is a heritage of senior novelist, like saying of Watson (1979:6-9) says that why most novels are mainly composed in the past tense? And why is it that when readers or critics recount the plot of a novel, or any part of one, they commonly translate it into the present? The simplest answer to these questions is that we conventionally associate past tense with telling a story, and present tense with analysis. In ordinary conversation, it is worth nothing, anecdotes are usually in the past tense, even when they are offered as fictitious.

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7 2.2 Plot

Plot is one of the elements of fiction and organized the sequence of events and actions that make up the story. A novelist uses plot to arrange the sequence of events. In most stories, these events arise out of conflict experienced by the main character. The conflict may come from something external, like a dragon or an overbearing mother, or it may stem from an internal issue, such as jealousy, loss of identity, or overconfidence. As the character makes choices and tries to resolve the problem, the story's action is shaped and plot is generated. In some stories, the author structures the entire plot chronologically, with the first event followed by the second, third, and so on, like beads on a string. However, many other stories are told with flashback techniques in which plot events from earlier times interrupt the story's "current" events.

Plot must be effective and it includes a sequence of incidents that bear a significant causal relationship to each other. Causality is an important feature of realistic fictional plot because something happens because of a result something else. In other words, it's what mostly happened in the story or novel or what the story's general theme is based on, such as the mood, characters, setting, and conflicts occurring in a story. An intricate, complicated plot is known as an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot can have multiple inferences, such as with songs the ballad tradition.

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Talking about plot means we talk about the actions or events that are usually resolved at the end of a story. The fictional plot maybe a struggle between opposing forces, love and many others and it is usually resolved by the end if the story.

There are five essential parts of plot:

2.2.1 Exposition

The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed. The exposition is the introduction to the characters and setting of the story. The exposition hooks the reader, providing enough interest and information to the intended audience to encourage the reader to continue reading. Every story must have a beginning, the start, or exposition, is where the characters and setting are established. During this part of novel, the conflict or main problem is also introduced.

2.2.2 Rising Action

This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax). The rising action introduces the conflict or problem in the story. This part of the plot tells us what it is that the main character or protagonist is facing. During the rising action, the main character struggles with this conflict or problem. The conflict may be:

a) Character vs. character: the problem the protagonist faces is one involving another character

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b) Character vs. society: the protagonist faces a problem involving something in the society in which they live (example: racism)

c) Character vs. self: the character has some internal struggle inside themselves d) Character vs. nature: the protagonist struggles with some natural force (tornado, harsh climate, etc.)

After the characters and main problem have been established, the main problem or conflict is dealt with by some kind of action. In this part of the story, the main character is in crisis. This is the place for tension and excitement. The complication can arise through a character’s conflict with society, nature, fate, or a number of themes. In this part of the story the main character is aware a conflict has arisen and takes some kind os step to battle this crisis.

2.2.3 Climax

The climax is the high point of the story, where a culmination of events creates the peak of the conflict. The climax usually features the most conflict and struggle, and usually reveals any secrets or missing points in the story. Alternatively, an anti-climax may occur, in which an expectedly difficult event is revealed to be incredibly easy or of paltry importance. Critics may also label the falling action as an anti-climax, or anti-climactic. The climax isn't always the most important scene in a story. In many stories, it is the last sentence, with no successive falling action or resolution.

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10 2.2.4 Falling Action

The falling action is the series of events which take place after the climax; it is where the protagonist must react to the changes that occur during the climax of the story. The events and complications begin to resolve them. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement). Following the climax, the story begins to slowly wind down. Falling action, one of the two final story elements, shows the result of the actions or decisions the character has made. This eventually leads to the final part of the novel, this crisis resolution.

2.2.5 Resolution

The part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict. The resolution, also often called denoument, which is French for “to untie” or “unraveling”, is the conclusion of the story. Here, the conflicts are resolved, all lose ends are tied up, and the story concludes with either a happy or sad ending.

In a story, the events maybe rise and fall repeatedly and actually a plot develops a series of complications or intensification of the conflict that leads to a moment of great tension. Sometimes the author will use some techniques in writing the plot to make the story more interesting or to add a twist or turn. Foreshadowing is where the author may hint at what might happen in the future. Flashback is where the author might tell us something that has happened in the past to help explain the

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present. Irony is when the author has something happen in the story that is the opposite of what the reader expects.

Plot can be divided into two types, they are closed and open. This division is based on the way how an author presents the resolution of his story, they are:

1) Closed plot: in this type of the plot the end of the story is clear because the author presents a definite resolution of conflict. Most narrative works use closed plot, because the end of the story is clear, readers do not have to think a lot about it.

2) Open plot: this type of plot has little or no resolution at all. The author, however, creates some clues in the story that will lead his readers to conclude the resolution of the story. “ Crane in his work, The Concept of Plot states that any novel or drama represents a composite of three elements: action, character, and thought. Plot is, thus, the particular synthesis of the three elements. Razali Kasim (2005:20) divides plot into three kinds,

a) Plot of Action: in this kind of plot the interest lies in “what happens next”, while the character and thought are portrayed minimally. We rarely, if ever, find any serious or intellectual issues.

b) Plot of Character: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the moral character of the protagonist.

c) Plot of Thought: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the thought of the protagonist and in his feeling.

In a well plotted story, things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks away, but more importantly because effects follow causes. In a good story

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nothing is relevant or accidental; everything is related and causative. The controlling impulse in a connected pattern of causes and effects is conflict which refers generally to people or circumstances that a character (often the protagonist) must face and try to overcome (often the antagonist). Conflict brings out the extremes of human energy, causing characters to engage in the decisions, actions, responses, and interactions that make up most stories. Conflict is the major elements of plot because opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest

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3. THE DESCRIPTION OF PLOT

3.1 Exposition

The exposition of this novel is beginning in West Virginia. Katy and her mother move from Florida to West Virginia because they want to leave all the sadness that is in Florida. Since his father died, her mother always trying to forget the sadness by her work. After her father died, her mother always want to stay away from their house. Finally they decided to move as far away as possible from house to West Virginia

Daemon is an Alien and he has a twin sister who is also an alien. They are from beyond the Abell, It is the farthest galaxy from the Earth, about thirteen billion light years from here. And he is about another ten billion or so. There is no telescope or space shuttle powerful enough to travel to his home. There never will be. The name of his planet. It was called Lux. And he is called Luxen. He came here in a meteorite shower fifteen years ago, with others like him. But many came before them, probably for the last thousand years. Not all of their kind came to this planet. Some went farther out in the galaxy. Others must’ve gone to planets they couldn’t survive on, but when it was realized that Earth was sort of perfect for them, more came here.

After explaining about himself, Daemon explained that the presence of him and the other Luxen was known by some locals who think that they are God only knows what And no branch of government who knew about them but not their power. DOD is a branch of that government who think that Daemon and his kind are

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harmless freaks. While Katy was the only one who knows they are. DOD will intervene and do something that is not desirable to katy if Katy inform someone about them. Besides, there are others out who want to have the power that the Luxen have, especially the power of Daemon. They will do anything to get Daemon to and others.

“I don’t know. I just do. And honestly, no one would believe you. And if you made a lot of commotion, you’d bring the DOD in, and you don’t want that. They will do anything to make sure the human population isn’t aware of us.” (Obsidian, p. 183)

They are Arum and their planet was destroyed by Arum. Arum is the only enemies of the Luxen who want to steal their power. They come from Luxen’s sister planet. They destroyed the Luxen’s house. The Arum is the children of the shadows, they have the determination to suffocate all the light that is in the universe.

“The Arum are the children of the shadows, jealous and determined to suffocate all light in the universe, not realizing for one to exist so must the other. Many Luxen feel that every time an Arum is killed a light in the universe fades away. It’s the only thing I remember about Mom.” (Obsidian, p. 193)

There are Arum are in this planet with Katy and Daemon. The Government thinks that they are Luxen. Luxen do not tell the truth to the DOD because they think that the DOD will realize the power of Luxen through the Arum. They will do anything to make sure the Luxen stay secret. Therefore Katy should not let anyone know about the Luxen. Luxen will not let the DOD find out about Katy, because if they knew, katy will be disappear.

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“But I do remember the name of our planet. It was called Lux. And we are called Luxen.That’s Latin for light. We came here in a meteorite shower fifteen years ago, with others like us.But many came before us, probably for the last thousand years. Not all of our kind came to this planet. Some went farther out in the galaxy. Others must’ve gone to planets they couldn’t survive on, but when it was realized that Earth was sort of perfect for us, more came here.” (Obsidian. p. 175)

Daemon watched Katy for a few moment and said that he and his kind were too young to know what the name of our galaxy was. Or even if his kind felt the need to name such things. And finally he remember the name of his planet.

3.2 Rising Action

Daemon invite Katy to go hike in the Rocks and she accept the invitation from Daemon. In there, Daemon surprisedly by a bear who were immediately behind Katy. He try not to make Katy shocked and scared. But Katy finally know. Daemon started yelling and waving his arms, but it didn’t faze the bear. The bear rushed them. Suddenly, katy fainted after hearing the blast of heat. And it turned out the blast was from a Daemon. He use his power to scared it off.

After a few weeks, Katy went to the library by herself. Time passed faster, suddenly the library took on a gloomy aura. the librarian turned off most of the lights, and she was having trouble making her way back to the front desk. After registering books borrowed, the librarian turned her back and dashed off to lock up. Katy also walked to her car with the rain pouring down. When she was looking for her car keys, suddenly there was a gravelly voice interrupted her struggles. The stranger asked for

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help Katy to borrow him a jack. Katy initially ignored the man however, eventually he lent the jack.

Unexpectedly, The stranger smiled and then pushed her hardly. The stranger is Arum who have found the trace on Katy that makes Arum easily find her. He attacked Katy and threated to tell where Daemon and his kind. Katy does not know the identity of Daemon and the enemies, she does not understand what the Arum mean. Arum more angry. But suddenly Daemon come against Arum and help Katy from the attack.

Daemon invite Katy back to take a walk at night because there was something that he want to talk to Katy. He said that Katy cannot be friends with him and his sister. It makes Katy angry and hurt. She headed around Daemon and started walking. She knows that Daemon will run after her. Angry and disgusted with herself, she nearly broke into a dead run from the pursuit of Daemon. And suddenly there was a truck racing toward her. Around fifty feet away. She could not escape from a truck was going to hit her. But it will not happen because Daemon stooped a truck that will hit Katy with the light that is his power. Katy shocked to see Daemon who very different. Daemon lit from the inside. his entire body being replaced

by an intense reddish-yellow light that swallowed him whole. After the incident, Katy know what Daemon is. He tell Katy that he is an alien.

When the Luxen use their abilities around people, they will absorb Luxen’s light. And they are lit up like the fireworks.and the Arum will use Katy to get to the Luxen. But the glow will fade if the more energy they use,the brighter the trace.

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When Daemon save Katy from stopping the truck can be tracked and bear attack, the trace on Katy, make the Arum to find Katy and almost killed Katy. Before, the Arum don’t come their house a lot, because they don’t think any Luxen are there. Because the beta quartz in the Rocks throws off Luxen’s energy signature. While that’s one of the reasons why there are a lot of Luxen there. Even so, Arum is heading where Katy is. They saw Katy’s trace and then Katy is a huge risk with the trace. If Arum find Katy, they will kill her.

“Humans are like glow-in-the-dark T-shirts to us. When we use our abilities around you, you can’t help but absorb our light. Eventually, the glow will fade, but the more we do, the more energy we use, the brighter the trace. Arum don’t come here a lot, because they don’t think any Luxen are here. The beta quartz in the Rocks throws off our energy signature, hides us. That’s one of the reasons why there are a lot of us here. But there must have been one coming through. He saw your trace and knew there had to be one of us nearby. It was my fault.” (Obsidian, p. 206)

3.3 Climax

After the incident in the dance party night, when Simon was trying to tempt Katy, Daemon came to the save her. He managed to make Simon fear and regret. After that Daemon take katy home. Half way home, suddenly Daemon out the words that make Katy surprised and he immediately slamming on the brake. When Katy try to see what caused such Daemon. And it turns out he realized that there was a man who was standing in front of their car. He knew the man. They are Arum. As if it was planned, Daemon reached down and yanked up his pants leg. He held something

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long, dark and shiny. It is a kind of dagger sharp. It is Obsidian. Obdisidian is the only thing that can kill Arum. Daemon gave it to katy to protect herself from Arum.

“This is obsidian—volcanic glass. The edge is wicked sharp and will cut through anytA

‘p-0ahing,” he explained quickly. “It’s the only thing on this planet, besides us, that can kill the Arum. This is their kryptonite.” (Obsidian, p. 275)

After a few times using his strength, finally Daemon managed to kill one of the three Arum. After seeing his brother killed by Daemon, both Arum was not received. Then they joined their power to destroy Daemon. Sending Daemon spinning up into the air. Daemon’s light form faded and bringing him down to his knees on the side of the road. Daemon did not have to kill them anymore. She seemed exhausted by the light of issuance. Finally Katy jumped forward and brought it down with every ounce of strength she had with Obsidian dagger in her hand. She managed to kill one another between the two Arum. And then the remaining Arum left them.

Barruck is Arum remaining. He was really angry and will definitely find Daemon and Katy to revenge against his family. The bad things that Barruck will be back to get revenge on his family and he was afraid that the DOD will know where Katy are. Daemon and his kind worry about the return of Barruck. Katy is lit up because of she was with Daemon when Arum attacked. Daemons emit a burst of light so that the sign was attached to the body of Katy. It makes Barruck easily find Katy and kill her. Daemon and his kinds try to find how to make Barruck appear before them.

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“She’s lit up like a freaking disco ball,” Ash said accusingly. “I could probably see her from Virginia.”

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“She was with me last night when the Arum attacked,” Daemon responded calmly. “You know that. Things got a little…explosive. There was no way I could cover what happened.” (Obsidian, p. 293)

Barruck is Arum remaining. He was really angry and will definitely find Daemon and Katy to revenge against his family. He is not only want to kill Daemon and want to have his power, but also he want to kill Katy who have been killed Arum with Obsidian. He try to find Katy and Demon in a good time. Katy have a plan to lure Barruck to get away from Daemon and his kind. Because if Barruck managed to find Katy, he will use her to destroy Luxen. She carry out her plan to go to the Fields near the school for lure Barruck there and then the Luxen come and take him down together. And it happen ed when Katy lure Barruck to get away from Daemon and his kind. He found Katy in the Fields near the school for lure by herself. But Barruck did not hesitate directly kill Katy. He try to revenge against of his family. And after that, he attacked back her and try to destroy her. No mercy. A few later, Daemon and his kind came to save Katy from Barruck attacke in the Fields. They try to destroy the remaining of Arum back who want to kill Katy. Finally, Barruck is dead.

“If you make my trace stronger, I can definitely lead him away from here. And he won’t come here and Daemon”

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“And I’ll be a liability. Baruck will know that. You have to stay here. If Baruck finds us together, he’ll use me to destroy you. The best plan is for me to lure the Arum away and let the guys meet me in the field and take him down together.” (Obsidian, p. 326)

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20 3.4 Falling Action

After the first incident of Arum attack in the Fields, Katy is lit up like a freaking disco ball. The Luxen are worry about the return of Barruck. Because the trace on Katy makes Arum can find her back easily use her to get to Daemon. And Arum can contact DOD to inform them that Katy knows about identity of Luxen. DOD will interverne and do something is undesirable to Katy. Or she will be disappear. Daemon and his kind try to how to deal with the last Arum. Because Barruck is gonna see her no matter where Luxen put her. The Luxen are in danger. They try to get the trace off her, then that will buy them time to find Barruck. So, The boys of Luxen, they are looking for Baruck. They are going to continue searching and keep an eye on things. Arum will not stop until he has Daemon. So Daemon should be protect her from Arum attack. He will not let Arum destroy her because she would be a weakness to him.

“I killed two of his brothers and gave you the means of killing the third.” He was totally at ease discussing the fact that there was a deranged alien out to kill him. He had balls. I liked that about him. “Arum is vengeful creatures, Kitten. He won’t stop until he has me. And he will use you to find me, especially since you came back. They’ve been on Earth long enough to recognize what that can mean. That you would be a weakness to me. (Obsidian, p. 307)

The boys of Luxen spotted Baruck. He is heading this way Luxen are in danger of the trace on Katy and she is a weakness of Daemon. Because of that, Katy have a plan to lure Barruck to get away from Daemon and his kinds and let the guys meet her in the field and take him down together. If Barruck managed to find Katy,

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he will use her to destroy Luxen. Katy carry out her plan to go to the fields near the school for lure Barruck there and then the Luxen come and take him down together.

After the incident that Katy was lure Barruck in the field, Daemon and his kind searching the whole country to make sure that there are no Arum. And they have not seen a single one. After that, Daemon gave Katy something reached into the front pocket of his jacket. And it ws a piece of Obsidian about three inches long, polished and shaped into a pendant. The glass was shiny black. It seemed to hum against her skin, cool to the touch. The silver chain it hung from was delicate, spiraling over the top of the pendent. The other edge was sharpened into a fine point.

“Yes, Mommy. I’ve been with another group, searching the whole damn state to make sure there aren’t any Arum that we’re not aware of,” Daemon said, his deep voice soothing a weird ache within me at the same time I wanted to thump him upside the head. (Obsidian, p. 350)

“Believe it or not,” Daemon said, “even something as small as that can actually pierce Arum skin and kill them. When it gets really hot you’ll know an Arum is nearby even if you don’t see one.” (Obsidian, p. 352)

3.5 Resolution

In the end, Daemon and Katy have been killed Arum on their way. Daemon killed Arum with the light that is his power and Katy killed them with the only thing that can destroy Arum‒Obsidian. Arum is dead. There are not Arum anymore. Daemon and his kind have been searched in a whole country to make sure there are not Arum that they are not aware of. After the third Arum is dead, Katy’s life bact to

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normal, although not entirely. Even though he wanted to post something on her blog but she can not because the laptop damaged by Daemon

“Wait a sec. You think we should be together because of some kind of freaky alien mojo that has connected us? But two minutes ago you were bitching about being stuck with me?” …

“Yeah, well, I wasn’t bitching. I was pointing out that we are stuck together. This is different…and you’re attracted to me.” My eyes narrowed. “I’ll get back to that last statement in a second, but you want to be with me because you now feel…forced?”

“I wouldn’t say forced exactly, but…but I like you.”

Daemon has fallen in love with Katy but he is embarrassed to admit, as well as Katy. Katy is not sure of Love’s Daemon. Because she guess that Daemon does not love her because he was bitching about being stuck with her. She want to Daemon love her of hearth but Daemon does not understand. She still does not want to admit that she also loves Daemon. She is ngry because Daemon assume that the just stuck in situation like that. They accuse each other that they fall in love.

“That this is the most ridiculous declaration of attraction I’ve ever heard,” I said, standing. “That is so lame, Daemon. You want to be with me because of whatever crazy stuff that had happened?” He rolled his eyes as he stood. “We like each other. We do. It’s stupid that we keep denying it.” (Obsidian, p. 355)

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4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

The plot used in the novel of Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian is progressive plot. Progressive plot means that the plot content is chronologically narrated. It simply contains the beginning, middle, and an ending.

The exposition of the story is to introduce the character, the setting or place where the events take place. The main character is Katy, has a neighbor are cool, sexy and arrogant. The setting is West Virginia, house, school, and the Field. West Virginia is small town. Katy and her mother move in West Virginia because her mothers always remember with the death of her husband. Florida was dad, katy thought.

She has a neighbor who is an alien. He named is Daemon. He is an alien from beyond the Abell, It’s the farthest galaxy from the Earth about thirteen billion light years from here. And they have the only enemies who want to steal their power. They called is Arum. They want to destroye the Luxen and they have the determination to suffocate all the light that is in the universe.

The conflict happens when Daemon left the trace on Katy that makes Arum can find her easily to use her to get to Daemon and his kind. When Daemon or his kinds use their abilities around people, they will absorb Luxen’s light. And they are lit up like the fireworks. When Daemon save Katy from stopping the truck can be tracked and bear attack, the trace on Katy, make the Arum to find Katy and almost

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killed her. The Arum use Katy to get to the Luxen. They can find Daemon and his kind with the trace on Katy and knew there had to be one of Luxen nearby.

After dance party incident, Daemon take Katy home. Suddenly Then the car simply turned off, engine, and lights. They saw the man in front of their car and they are Arum. Arums find them and try to kill Daemon and Katy. He gave Katy some kind of black glass shaped into a dagger, sharpened to a fine point on one end and leather binding on the other. That is this is obsidian—volcanic glass. Obsidian is the only thing on this planet, besides Luxen, that can kill the Arum. it is their kryptonite.

The falling action in the story is when Daemon try to protect Katy from Arum attack. And he does not let DOD to find Katy who knows about identity of Luxen. DOD will interverne and do something undesirable to Katy if they knows about Katy. Daemon try to searching Barruck who makes inform DOD about Katy is. Daemon and Katy alltogether kill the Arum who want to steal Daemon power and try to kill his girl. He gave Katy a piece of Obsidian about three inches long, polished and shaped into a pendant. The glass was shiny black. It is the only things that can destroy Arum.

Resolution of the plot in this novel is that Daemon has fallen in love with Katy but he is embarrassed to admit, as well as Katy. Katy is not sure of Love’s Daemon. Because she guess that Daemon does not love her because he was bitching about being stuck with her. She want to Daemon love her of hearth but Daemon does not understand. She still does not want to admit that she also loves Daemon. She is

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ngry because Daemon assume that the just stuck in situation like that. They accuse each other that they fall in love.

4.2 Suggestion

Plot is sequence of events which have cause and effect relationship. Plot is important to know because it frames the conflict as expressed in the story. There will not be a story of literary work if there is no plot. Fananie once said that plot is the construction which is made to read on of a sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or experienced by actors. It means an entire series of events contained in the story, caused or experienced by actors.

After analyzing Obsidian, I would hope that the reader can understand the entire story significance of the plot in a literary work. Reading a novel since that novel is one of a familiar literary works to anyone. So the writer hopes that this paper will be helpful for the readers, who wanted to know about plot and its elements or parts.

Plot elements can be divided into five; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement. In this case, Obsidian is a good novel and is suitable for teenager and adult. It tells you how one should really want to protect his love from the enemies and I want to the readers understand to take a good massage from the story and they have to memorize that being a good person will always win.

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APPENDICES

A. Biography of Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout was born on June 11th, 1980 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States. When she is not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, pretending to write and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. She shares her home with her husband, his K-9 partner named Diesel and her hyper Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent her time writing short stories. Therefore explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes Young Adult Contemporary, Urban Fantasy/Paranormal and Romance. She writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J.Lynn. She is the author of the Covenant Series

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(Spencer Hill Press) the Lux Series (Entangled Teen) and the upcoming YA Don't Look Back (2014) and untitled YA (Fall 2014) from Disney/Hyperion. She is also published with Harlequin Teen and HarperCollin She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

She started writing seriously in 2007 with her first book, a young adult paranormal romance, and she got a contract on that in 2010 through a small press, Spencer Hill Press. They published it in October 2011. She started out like most authors do looking for an agent but she could not get one. Once her book came out. She was able to get one. Since 2011, she has had 13 books come out. All the books that have come out are with Entangled Publishing and Spencer Hill. My Harlequin Teen book doesn’t come out until the end of this year and my Disney Hyperion books are scheduled to come out in 2014.

She decided to self-publish in the first place is came up with the idea in the shower and wrote the book in 20 days in January. She can write pretty fast. She sent a partial to her agent and they loved it. They targeted about four-to-five publishers and it was really well-received and all the editors loved it but it got turned down at every publisher because the new adult market is very risky. It is hard to get it into bookstores. And the market is getting flooded. So, they had this book they thought would sell it but couldn’t.

When they found out they could not sell it Kevan and I had a serious conversation – neither of them had done anything with self-publishing before but she

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knew some authors who had done it and had some help getting copy editors and cover designers and other people to help. They formed a marketing plan that we thought would work. She has a platform but they wanted to reach beyond her readership so that is when they decided to do the three-day $0.99 deal and it worked. It has all happened so quickly. She wrote the book in January, they published it in February. It is been an insane couple of months.

Jennifer Armentrout has two nominations in this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 – the best books of 2013. The categories are: Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction But really, we only care about ROMANCE ANDYOUNG ADULT

FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION – the two categories featuring Jennifer

Armentrout books!

The 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 03, 2013. Opening Round: November 04 – 09. Voting open to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below). Semifwrite-inal Round: November 11 – 16. The top five write-in votes become official nominees, bringing the total to 20 nominees in each category. Additional write-ins no longer accepted. Final Round: November 18 – 25. The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote! 2013 Eligibility Books published for the first time in the United States in English between November 26, 2012, and November 16, 2013, are eligible for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards.

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Books published between November 17, 2013, and December 31, 2013, will be eligible for the 2014 awards.

B. Summary of Obsidian_Novel

Katy and her mom move to a small town in West Virginia from Florida. Her mother name is Kellie Swartz. Katy and her mother moved to West Virginia because they want to leave all the sadness that is in Florida. Ever since Dad died, her Mom had started working more and more. She used to want to be home. Then it seemed like she wanted to be as far away as possible. She had d finally given up on that option and decided they needed to drive far away. At least since they had gotten in West Virginia, even though she was still working like a demon, she was determined to be more in Katy’s life.

She doesn’t like her new house because it looked like something straight out of a horror movie. But she has beautiful neighbor but arrogant. His name Daemon Black. They met when Katy came to his house and asking about the quickest way to the grocery and a place that sold plants. But that question make her tears of anger and embarassement burnt her eyes because Daemon is so arrogant and start to mock her. Daemon has sister, she name Dee. She is different from Daemon. She is a good person and she wants to makes friends with Katy. Although Dee's brother Daemon is a complete jerk to Katy. While Katy tries to adjust to living in the small town, she grows closer to Dee and more curious about Daemon.

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Dee took Daemon’s car keys and until he play nice with Katy, he does not get them back. It’s too damn annoying for him to get replacements. Dee hid his keys. She is good at hiding stuff, too. He has already torn the house apart, and he cannot find them unfortunately she has left town and will not be back until Sunday. He is supposed to take Katy swimming tomorrow. If he does that, then Dee will tell him where his keys are hidden—and he has to be nice. Those plans involve him getting his car keys back. And it also plans to daemon apologize to Katy but in the beginning, she does not want to forgive him but finally she did. When Katy and Daemon went to hiking in the Rocks, on the way, they get in an argument; she walks in front of a truck since she is so angry she is not paying attention. Daemon turns into a beam of light and rescues her from in front of the truck. Katy finds out Daemon and Dee are aliens called Luxen, and there is another alien race called Arum which is the Luxen's enemies. The governments know about the Luxen being on Earth, but allow them to stay as long as national security is not breached. Daemon tells Katy the reason he has been mean to her even though he is attracted to her is that his brother Dawson became involved with a human girl called Bethany and they were both killed.

Arum is the only enemies of Luxen. They want to destroy Luxen and steal their power. When the Luxen use their abilities around people, they will absorb Luxen’s light. And they are lit up like the fireworks.and Arum will use Katy to get to the Luxen. But the glow will fade if the more energy they use,the brighter the trace. When Daemon save Katy from stopping the truck can be tracked and bear attack, the

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trace on Katy, make the Arum to find Katy and almost killed Katy. The Arum use Katy to get to the Luxen. They can find Daemon and his kind with the trace on Katy and knew there had to be one of Luxen nearby.

After in the dance party night, half way home, suddenly Daemon out the words that make Katy surprised and he immediately slamming on the brake. When Katy tries to see what caused such Daemon. And it turns out he realized that there was a man who was standing in front of their car. He knew the man. They are Arum. As if it was planned, Daemon reached down and yanked up his pants leg. He held something long, dark and shiny. It is a kind of dagger sharp. It is Obsidian. Obdisidian is the only thing that can kill Arum. Daemon gave it to katy to protect herself from Arum. And after the incident of Arum attack in the Fields, Katy is lit up like a freaking disco ball. The Luxen are worry about the return of Barruck. Because the trace on Katy makes Arum can find her back easily use her to get to Daemon. And Arum can contact DOD to inform them that Katy knows about identity of Luxen. DOD will interverne and do something is undesirable to Katy. Or she will be disappearing. Daemon and his kind try to how to deal with the last Arum. The boys of Luxen spotted Baruck. He is heading this way Luxen are in danger of the trace on Katy and she is a weakness of Daemon. Because of that, Katy have a plan to lure Barruck to get away from Daemon and his kinds and let the guys meet her in the field and take him down together. If Barruck managed to find Katy, he will use her to destroy Luxen. Katy carry out her plan to go to the fields near the school for lure Barruck there and then the Luxen come and take him down together.

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After the incident that Katy was lure Barruck in the field, Daemon and his kind searching the whole country to make sure that there are no Arum. And they have not seen a single one. After that, Daemon gave Katy something reached into the front pocket of his jacket. And it was a piece of Obsidian about three inches long, polished and shaped into a pendant. The glass was shiny black. It seemed to hum against her skin, cool to the touch. The silver chain it hung from was delicate, spiraling over the top of the pendent. The other edge was sharpened into a fine point.

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When they found out they could not sell it Kevan and I had a serious conversation – neither of them had done anything with self-publishing before but she

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FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION – the two categories featuring Jennifer

Armentrout books!

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Books published between November 17, 2013, and December 31, 2013, will be eligible for the 2014 awards.

B. Summary of Obsidian_Novel

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After the incident that Katy was lure Barruck in the field, Daemon and his kind searching the whole country to make sure that there are no Arum. And they have not seen a single one. After that, Daemon gave Katy something reached into the front pocket of his jacket. And it was a piece of Obsidian about three inches long, polished and shaped into a pendant. The glass was shiny black. It seemed to hum against her skin, cool to the touch. The silver chain it hung from was delicate, spiraling over the top of the pendent. The other edge was sharpened into a fine point.

The Description Of Plot Found In Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Novel Obsidian