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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chapter is aimed to answer the two questions, which are stated in the problem formulation. In this chapter, I try to analyze Chantal’s motivation in saving Viscos village. I divide my analysis into two parts. The first part will discuss about the problem which is faced by Viscos village. The second part will discuss about Chantal’s motivation in saving Viscos.

A. The Problems Faced by Viscos Village

1. The Background of the Problem

In this part, I am going to discuss the first problem that has been formulated in the previous chapter; it is about the problems faced by Viscos. The problem faced by Viscos is started when a stranger comes to tempt Viscos. In the novel, The Devil and Miss Prym, Coelho uses Miss Prym or Chantal as the major character. Chantal here will become the focus of the story from the beginning to the ending part. Before I go to a deeper discussion about the problem faced by Viscos, it is better to explain about the background of the problem first. That is about the situation in Viscos village and also why the stranger chooses this village to tempt. It is because this explanation can answer the reason about why the stranger chooses this village to tempt. Here is about Viscos situation before the stranger comes. Viscos is a small village where the inhabitants are only 281 people. Viscos is an ancient and 24 isolated place. Most of people are farmers and shepherds. Viscos village is a place for every hunter who always comes when the hunting time has come. Most of teenagers who live in Viscos village have moved to big city because they feel that Viscos village cannot guarantee their future. People’s life in Viscos always runs in harmony and peace; they eat from their livestock crops and their rice field. Every year hunters come to Viscos to do their hobby, hunting wolves. Viscos is famous with its wild wolves which live in the forest. However, Viscos is still natural; there are still a lot of forests which are possible for the animals to live. Their income comes from the hunters who stay in the only hotel in Viscos and also by selling their harvest. Every night Viscos people always gather in the only hotel’s bar. They come to tell about their daily life. Viscos has nine months winter, so they only have three months summer to cultivate their field. The harmonious and peaceful Viscos’s development is closely related to its historical background. Long time ago, Viscos village was a place for the very dregs of humanity, a place where bandits, smugglers, prostitutes, and murderers gathered. The wickedest of them all was Ahab. For Ahab, killing somebody else was a usual thing. For over two centuries, Viscos had been inhabited by the very dregs of humanity …. at that time, Viscos was little more than a frontier post, populated by bandits fleeing from justice, by smugglers and prostitutes, by confidence tricksters in search of accomplices, even by murderers resting between murders. The wickedest of them all, an Arab called Ahab, controlled the whole village and the surrounding area. p. 24 Then one day, there was a saint who came to Viscos village, he was called St. Savin. St. Savin knew about Ahab reputation and he was the wickedest among