Analisys Of The Main Character In Oliver Bowden’s Novel Assassin’s Creed Renaissance

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ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN OLIVER BOWDEN’S NOVEL ASSASSIN’S CREED RENAISSANCE

A PAPER BY

TENGKU DANU RIZKY FADILLAH REG.NO.092202058

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES

DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM MEDAN


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Submitted to Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera In partial fulfillment of the requirements for DIPLOMA (D-III) in English

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Head of Diploma III English Study Program,

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Accepted by the board of Examiners in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the D-III of Examination of the Diploma III of English Study Program, Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera.

The Examination is held on January, 2013

Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera Dean,

NIP : 19511013197603 1 001 Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A

Board of Examiners Examiners :

1. Dr.Matius C.A Sembiring, M.A ________________ 2. Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum ________________


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ABSTRAK

Paper ini berjudul “The Analysis of The Main Characters In Oliver Bowden’s Novel “Assassins’s Creed Renaissance”. Novel ini menceritakan tentang seorang anak laki-laki yang berjuang demi membela harkat dan martabat keluarganya yang telah di fitnah dan di hukum mati. Ada empat tokoh utama dalam novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” Yaitu : Ezio Auditore De Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, Leonardo da Vinci, dan Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio adalah anak dari Giovanni, seorang pemilik bank terbesar di kota Florence yang ternyata adalah seorang anggota assassin dan mengetahui monopoli yang dilakukan oleh Rodrigo. Leonardo da Vinci berperan besar sebagai teman baik Ezio dan pembuat atau penyedia perlengkapan untuk Ezio. Cristina Calfucci adalah kekasih Ezio yang menjadi masalah sekaligus penyemangat Ezio. Rodrigo Borgia adalah orang yang selama ini Ezio cari untuk membalaskan dendamnya. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan, yaitu membaca novel “Assassin’s Creed renaissance” dan mempelajarinya berdasarkan buku-buku teori kesastraan. Disamping itu, penulis mengambil beberapa data dari internet mengenai biografi pengarang novel tersebut.


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ABSTRACT

This paper entitled “The Analysis of Main Characters In Oliver Bowden’s Novel Assassin’s Creed Renaissance. This novel tells the story of a boy who did everything possible to defend the dignity of his family who had been in slander and sentenced to death. There are four main characters in the novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” namely: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio is the son of Giovanni Auditore who is the owner of the largest banks in the city of Florence and later in the know also is a member of the assassins group and the one who knew about Rodrigo’s conspiracy. Leonardo da Vinci played a major role as a good friend of Ezio and manufacturer or provider of equipment for Ezio. Cristina Calfucci is the lover of Ezio and also problem and encouragement for Ezio. Rodrigo Borgia is a man who has been looking for revenge Ezio. In the writing of this paper the author’s work using a librarian method, which is reading the novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” and study books by literary theory. In addition, the author took some data from the internet about the biography of the author of the novel.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the Almighty God Allah SWT, who has given me health and capability to finish this paper as my last assignment to finish my study at Diploma III English Study Program University of North Sumatra.

I also would to thank to my supervisor Drs.Parlindungan Purba,M.Hum who has given his advice, critics, and precious time in reading and correcting this paper its completeness. My thank goes to the Reader Drs.Siamir Marulafau, M.Hum for his guidance and developing critics, and also goes to Head of Diploma III English Study Program Dr.Matius C.A Sembiring, M.A for his guidance and developing critics, and also the Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies Dr.Syahron Lubis M.A for allowing me to study in Faculty of Culture Studies.

The most special thank is dedicated to My Beloved Parents for their love and patience. My Dad, Drs.H.Tengku Dahrul Aman who always give me support and spirit boost. My Mom, Hj.Nurmaini Rifna who I’m sure will smile at me from heaven now. My sisters, Tengku Febri Malinda.S.sos, Tengku Rully Oktavina.S.sos, and Tengku Ninoy Rafina.SH for suggest and sharing in

completing this paper.

Last but not least for all my friend in campus, the boys, Dedy suharto, Bungaran Petra Sihombing for our struggle, Hasan Basri Hasibuan, Usman Holomoan Ritonga, Sulaiman Sule, Habibie Colip, Achmad Taufik Tanjung, Pao Riko, and Rajendra Purba. The girls, Hotriana Saragih, Zean Evelyn, Agreny Melisa, Felicia Bernadeth, Edtri Putri, Endah Julyanmah, Winda


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Pradiastuti, Oktary Mustika and others that can not mention one by one in class A and B for the friendship that I can not forget. Also big thank for my Cousin, Habiyasa Putra Siregar a.k.a Ega for all the craziness that we do.

However, I realize that this paper is still far from being perfect because it is not easy to finish it to my satisfaction. Therefore, I welcome any constructive criticism and suggestions to give more advantages in the future.

Medan, 2013

The writer

Reg No : 092202058 Tengku Danu Rizky Fadillah


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TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ABSTRACT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1Background of the study...1

1.2Scope of the study...2

1.3Significance of the study...2

1.4Method of the study……….2

2. CHARACTERS CLASIFICATION 2.1Characters...3

2.2Division of characters...4

2.3Type of characters...8

2.4Characters development…...10

3. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MAIN CHARACTERS 3.1EzioAuditore da Firenze...16

3.2Cristina Calfucci...17

3.3Leonardo da Vinci...18

3.4Rodrigo Borgia...20

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1Conclusion...23


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REFERENCES...25

APPENDICES

Summary of Assassin’s Creed Renaissance Biography of Oliver Bowden


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ABSTRAK

Paper ini berjudul “The Analysis of The Main Characters In Oliver Bowden’s Novel “Assassins’s Creed Renaissance”. Novel ini menceritakan tentang seorang anak laki-laki yang berjuang demi membela harkat dan martabat keluarganya yang telah di fitnah dan di hukum mati. Ada empat tokoh utama dalam novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” Yaitu : Ezio Auditore De Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, Leonardo da Vinci, dan Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio adalah anak dari Giovanni, seorang pemilik bank terbesar di kota Florence yang ternyata adalah seorang anggota assassin dan mengetahui monopoli yang dilakukan oleh Rodrigo. Leonardo da Vinci berperan besar sebagai teman baik Ezio dan pembuat atau penyedia perlengkapan untuk Ezio. Cristina Calfucci adalah kekasih Ezio yang menjadi masalah sekaligus penyemangat Ezio. Rodrigo Borgia adalah orang yang selama ini Ezio cari untuk membalaskan dendamnya. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan, yaitu membaca novel “Assassin’s Creed renaissance” dan mempelajarinya berdasarkan buku-buku teori kesastraan. Disamping itu, penulis mengambil beberapa data dari internet mengenai biografi pengarang novel tersebut.


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ABSTRACT

This paper entitled “The Analysis of Main Characters In Oliver Bowden’s Novel Assassin’s Creed Renaissance. This novel tells the story of a boy who did everything possible to defend the dignity of his family who had been in slander and sentenced to death. There are four main characters in the novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” namely: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio is the son of Giovanni Auditore who is the owner of the largest banks in the city of Florence and later in the know also is a member of the assassins group and the one who knew about Rodrigo’s conspiracy. Leonardo da Vinci played a major role as a good friend of Ezio and manufacturer or provider of equipment for Ezio. Cristina Calfucci is the lover of Ezio and also problem and encouragement for Ezio. Rodrigo Borgia is a man who has been looking for revenge Ezio. In the writing of this paper the author’s work using a librarian method, which is reading the novel “Assassin’s Creed Renaissance” and study books by literary theory. In addition, the author took some data from the internet about the biography of the author of the novel.


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INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Abrams (1988 : 3) says in a dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, the main definition of literary term is : “of or pertaining to, or of nature of, literature, polite learning, or books and written compositions; pertaining to that kind of written composition which has value on account of its qualities of form. Using the literary terms as extremely important because they are the medium through which a reader interacts with a piece of literature. Literature includes play, essay, novel, poetry, and short story.

A novel usually tells of human life in its interaction with the environment and each other. In a novel, the authors make every effort to direct with the reader to the images of the reality of life through the stories contained in the novel.

Characters have conversations with each other to enable parts the reader to learn about whom they are, what role they are playing and about the events of the novel. Characters are the persons in a narrative of dramatic work of at such as novel, play, or film. A novel can, but doesn’t need to, has many characters. In novel, character can be differentiated into several kinds based on point of view of the appellation to be done. It is true that author can reveal character traits through his or her literary work. Character’s appearance in terms of how he or she acts and what other characters in the story say is a key point of understanding the story and its conflict as a whole. Thus, this is the reason as idea as the background why this paper analysis character portrayed.


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1.2 Scope of the study

The writer is sure that there are many important aspect of the novel can be discussed. In writing the paper the writer only focuses about one of the intrinsic elements of novel that is character. In the novel Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance the author would like describe about Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rodrigo Borgia character.

1.3 Significant of the study

The finding of this study is expected to be significant to the readers of literature, because it can show the inspiration, opinion and idea. From this paper, I hope the readers will get some knowledge about intrinsic element in the novel Assassin’s Creed Renaissance, especially about the main characters. Then this paper can improve the English Diploma Student’s interest in studying literature. 1.4 The Method of The Study

The method applied in this paper is descriptive qualitative. It focuses on describing how the characters are portrayed in the novel. In doing the description, the writer of this paper interpreted and analysed the quotations from the text of the novel. The quotations as data were selected in strengthen the analysis given.


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2. CHARACTER CLASIFICATION 2.1 Character

One of the most important aspect of the major novel is the interaction of characters contras are important: such contrast make both figures more real; but the character also act on one another and develop as a result of these interactions; which is often most of what a main stream novel is about. Character in a novel is not as puzzling as character in real life; a novel is short: it is a work of art, so it’s selective character in novel rather as we do in real life; from people’s actions, from what they say about themselves, from what other say about them.

Character is a person who is responsible for the thoughts and action within a story, poem, or other literature. Characters are extremely important because they are the medium through which a reader interacts with a piece of literature. Every character has his or her own personality, which a creative author uses to assist in forming the plot of a story or creating a mood. The different attitudes, mannerisms, and even appearances of characters can greatly influence the other major elements in a literary work, such as theme, setting, and tone. With this understanding of the character, a reader can become more aware of other aspect of literature, such as symbolism, giving the reader a more complete understanding of the work. The character is one the most important tools available to the author. Authors take an indirect approach by indicating how their characters look and act, what they think and say, how they live and how other characters regard them.

The authors have imparted some inspiration to the readers for the time being; as a rule, an address or an essay which is nothing inspirational. Most of all


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allusions to character by orators of all descriptions are either platitude, such as “character is a great word, one of the greatest “(Hitchcock) or character is the governing element in life and is above genius” (Saunders), or else cryptic expressions dressed in metaphors that becloud the issue. This is the following: “character is impulse that has been rained down into steady continuance” (park Hurst).

The glossary of term defines a character as a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work and characterization is the process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader.

A character is a fictional person in a story, and readers’ first reactions to him or her are usually based on their subjective cavity to empathize with the character’s experience. A character is often revealed through his or her action, which provides readers with clues about the character’s personality, motives, and expectations.

2.2 Division of character

Main character and peripheral character

The character is the part of intrinsic element in the novel that is firstly explored by the writer because it takes essential role to display any behaviour of each character in the novel. Referring to their degree of playing role in the novel, they can be grouped into two parts such as main and peripheral character. Because this research just explores the effect of child abuse on main character then the focus only concentrates to explain the definition about main character. Nurgiyantoro( 2005: 176-177) says “Tokoh utama adalah tokoh yang diutamakan


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penceritaannya dalam novel yang bersangkutan. Ia merupakan tokoh yang paling banyak diceritakan, baik sebagai pelaku kejadian maupun yang dikenal kejadian”

Through quotation above, it can be mentioned that main character is kind of character, which often shows up repeatedly as if it dominates every parts of the events in the novel. Regarding to meaning of active-passive in doing something, both of them can act as a subject that has capability in doing something or as an object that suffers the impact from treatment done by the subject or circumstances. In the other words, a main character does not only act subject but also as object. This kind of character plays important role in the novel and it cannot be ignored. The Main Character of a story represents the audience’s personal perspective into the story. Through this perspective, we the audience get to experience what it would be like personally to experience the story’s problems.

The Main Character may or may not be the Protagonist. Protagonist describes a function, whereas the Main Character describes a perspective or point-of-view.

At the end of every complete story, the Main Character will be faced with an important decision: either continues to solve problems the way he or she always has, or change their approach and attempt to solve the problem differently. The Main Character Resolve determines what their answer will be. If they maintain their approach they are said to be Steadfast. If they adopt a new paradigm, they are said to be Change. This central character is defined as change because during the moment of crisis, when their Resolve is most tested, they drop their approach to solving the story’s problems and adopt a new one. This change


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in no way guarantees a success. It simply describes a character that trades their old paradigm for a new one.

The Impact Character within a complete story provides an alternative paradigm that challenges the Main Character to re-examine his or her own point-of-view. This can be, but most often isn’t, the Antagonist of a story. By the end of the story, either the Impact Character’s influence will have won out and the Main Character will alter their paradigm, or their influence will have strengthened the Main Character’s resolve and the Impact Character will alter their paradigm. Thus, this character is essential for a story to have meaning.

Characterization is the means an author uses to describe or develop a character for the reader. The brevity of a short story insures that there will be few characters. The main character is the only character that is really developed, so characterization in a short story is fairly easy to analyze. This is instruction to find the main characters:

1. Name the main character. Sometimes in a short story, the main character will be the only character. Other times there will be a few characters but only one who is mentioned repeatedly throughout the story. Your analysis of characterization needs to focus on the main character.

2. List the main character's physical attributes. As you read the story, keep a running list of any physical descriptions of the main character. The author may reveal the character's height, age, hair colour, style of dress or other things about his appearance. Since the story is short, the


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author won't have time to describe everything about the main character. Therefore, the details he does reveal are important and will probably give you clues about the character. For example, if the main character is described as having a sinister smile, the writer is not only using alliteration to colour his writing, he is pointing out that there is something evil about the character

3. Identify character traits the main character displays. An author can reveal character traits in a description of the character's appearance or in how he acts and what other characters in the story say about him. Characterization in a short story is usually somewhat one-dimensional. The main character may be evil, unpleasant and unhappy or helpful, caring and giving. She won't usually display contradicting qualities.

4. Consider the source of your information when deciding how accurate it is. What another character says about the main character may be more reliable than what he says about himself.

5. Notice how you learned about the main character. Writers have different ways of describing a character in a short story. They can use narration to describe the character, dialogue to reveal her attributes, or some combination of technique.

Protagonist and antagonist characters

There are two order important terms to keep in mind of description people: protagonist and antagonist. Protagonist is the major character with whom we generally sympathize. A protagonist is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. It is referred to as the “hero” of a work.


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The antagonist is the character with who the protagonist is in conflict, generally not a sympathetic character. This is the character driving the story forward; the one leading the charge towards the Story Goal. This character may or may not be the Main Character of the story. Either way, the main function of the Protagonist is to Pursue. The antagonist doesn’t necessarily have to be a person. It could be death, the devil, an illness, or any challenge that prevents the main character of virtue in a literary work where the protagonist represents evil.

2.3 Types of characters

According to Karen Bernardo, characterization in literature; in fictional literature, authors use many different types of characters to tell their stories. Different types of characters fulfil different roles in the narrative process and with a little bit of analysis.

The essential function of character is to make the story in the novel meaningful. Therefore, characterization plays important role in giving the main or peripheral character selected behaviour or typical of personality. In his book Aspect of the novel, E.M. Foster defines two basic types of characters, their qualities, functions, and importance for the development of the novel: flat characters and around characters. According to E.M Foster, the definition about flat character describes below Foster’s most important contribution to the aesthetic of the novel: the distinction between ‘flat’ and ‘round’ characters. E.M. Foster (1993:47:54) says “Flat characters are constructed round a single idea or quality and can be expressed in a single sentence; round characters are multi-faceted and unpredictable. For foster, the test of a round character is whether it is


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capable of surprising in a convincing way both flat and round characters can coexist in the some novel. Flat characters have advantage of being easily recognized and convenient for their creators “

Based on quotation above, it can be said that flat characters have two basic personalities and they do not make any significant surprise in the story of the novel. The personalities and they do not make any significant surprise in the story of the novel. The personality mind, behaviour and motivation of flat character can be easily known in a period time of story. Even though this kind of character is plain and has tendency to be monotone, it can make memorable impression into the reader’s mind by the hands of an expert author through individualizing detail of appearance, gesture or speech.

In quotation above, it can be explained that round character requires comprehensive exploration and even needs separated analysis to reveal its possibilities of actual personality, mind or behaviour as a subject or object in the novel.

A special kind of flat characterise stock character, it still remains the part of flat character, which the personality or behaviour or motivation has been clearly defined in the beginning of the story telling. Perrine (1985: 68) “Stock characters the stereotyped figure who has occurred so often in fiction that his nature is immediately known; the strong silent sheriff, the brilliant detective of eccentric habits, the mad scientist who performs fiendish experiment on living human beings, the beautiful international spy of mysterious background, the cruel stepmother”.


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Regarding to the previous quotation, stock character is instantly recognizable by the reader from the beginning until the end of story because it often occurs in the novel. Some of stock characters are found very often in inferior fiction because they require either imagination or observations on the part.

2.4 Character Development

The development of character probably changes the personality, behaviour or mind of character. This development of character could be irreversible, reversible or there are even no changes at all from the beginning until the end of story. This character development can be classified into two groups, such as static and dynamic character. Perrine (1985: 69) says “The Static Character is the same sort of person at the end of the story as at the beginning.”

Based on quotation above, this character relativity stays the same from the beginning until the end of the story. It never changes because of the influence of event changing or disorder inter-relationship with other character. Perrine (1985: 69) says “The Developing (or Dynamic) character undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character, personality, or outlook. The change may be a large or a small one; it may be for better or for worse; but it is something important and basic: it is more than a change in condition or a minor change in opinion. “

In the other hand, the meaning of dynamic character is opposite to the static character. A little change from exact character whether it comes in early, middle or the end of story is fairly enough to state that character is dynamic. The dynamic of character does not measure from the quantity of changing such as big or just a little but it comes from the significant difference of character behaviour


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in some events. Therefore, the dynamic character is complex, many-sided and need full analyses to explain.

Characterization dominates in novel more often than any other element. Human nature seeks exciting adventure and simulating conflicts to satisfy our unlimited curiosity; but without characterization, an author would have to weave into his books. Characterization fulfils our need to understand each other and to discover ourselves through fictional characters. These needs motive us read. The longer the narrative, the greater and more complex characterization can become.

1. Several major characters may be developed in a novel.

The very length of the novel permits the presentation of several characters that are fully developed in almost all aspect of their nature; whereas, the short story must limit the number of characters to one or two and develop only those traits essential to the theme and action of the narrative. The length of the novel further allows the author to present several protagonist involved in various conflicts, limited only by the boundaries of the major theme.

2. Characters are revealed in many ways.

He may use the dialogue, actions, thoughts, feelings of the protagonist; or he may use the thoughts, feelings, words, actions of several or all of the other major and minor characters towards the protagonist and the antagonist.

The reader would prefer to analyze the interpret he characters for himself as the author brings characters to life through their actions, word and feelings.


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This enable us to see, hear and know the characters for ourselves so that we might draw our conclusions.

3. The role of minor characters is multiple

Minor characters play an important role in helping us to know and understand the major characters. They may serve as confidants to the protagonist, or as foils for developing character by contrast, the may provide local colour, necessary to understanding the way of life of the major characters, or as sources of information to help develop the plot. They fill in these scene provide humour or drama, and comment on the action to add variety to point of view.

4. Dynamic change is necessary in the protagonist.

The development or dynamic changes in major characters may be far greater and more complex in the novel than in the short story. Again, the changes in character may be the results of a lifetime of experiences and motivations. Whatever the dynamic change may be the amount of must time and the number of setting possible in the events of a novel will be sufficient to result in character development that is believable. (See glossary: dynamic change)

5. Motivations are essential to character development.

Motivations are the reasons a character for the things he says and does, and for the dynamic change which he may undergo. His reactions reveal his character through his responses to conflicts, events, and the people around him.

Characterization is the means an author uses to describe or develop a character for the reader. The brevity of a short story insures that there will be few


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characters. The main character is the only character that is really developed, so characterization in a short story is fairly easy to analyze.

The author must provide characters with motivations and responses that are within their experience and nature. For example, if a man who is always tolerant and gentle suddenly becomes violent and cruel without reasons or motivations that are convincing, we feel deceived. All motivations and reactions must be consistent and believable for the given character. The degree of success an author has in motivating his characters to change in some aspect of their nature is the main criterion in estimating the author’s ability as a writer.

Roberts (1995:51) says, “A story is usually concerned with a major problem that character must face. This may involve interaction with another character, with a difficult situation, or with an idea or general circumstances that force action.” It means that character is the part of intrinsic element in the novel that is firstly explored by the writer because it takes essential role to display any behaviour of each character in the novel.

Fananie (2001:98) says, “In certain things, setting must be able to form the certain theme and plot in the dimensions that associated with the place, time, area, and certain people with specific characteristics as a sequences of the environmental situation or era, way of life, and ways of thinking.” It means the successful setting must be integrated with the theme, character, style, implication or the related of its philosophical.

Roberts (1995:133) says, “The basic trait of round characters is that they recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances. The round character usually


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the main figure in a story-profits from experiences and undergoes a change or alteration, which may be shown in (1) an action or actions, (2) the realization of new strength and therefore the affirmation of previous decisions, (3) the acceptance of a new condition, or (4) discover cognized of unrecognized truths.” Through quotation above, it can be mentioned that round character is kind of character, which often shows up repeatedly as if it dominates every parts of the event in the novel.


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3. DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS

3.1

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a handsome and tall Italian boy. He is 17 years old. He has good body shape because of his climbing skill. Formerly he is a typical bad boy like everyone in his age. Fighting is one of his finest skill. Just like his father, Giovanni Auditore.

“You remind me of myself when I was your age!” (Bowden, 2009 : 29)

Ezio always tries to please his father by doing anything that his father asked.

“I want you to deliver these to Lorenzo de’ Medici at his bank without any delay”

“I’ll get it there as fast as possible” “Good boy. Go now!”

(Bowden, 2009 : 30)

He also really care about his family, He seems angry when Claudia betrayed by her fiancé, Duccio.

‘Ezio look at his sister, looked at the sadness in her eyes, a sadness suffused with not a little flare of anger. His heart steeled. “I think I’ll pay him a visit”

Ezio, enraged at the treachery, stepped forward and punched his former friend (Duccio) full in the face’. (Bowden, 2009 : 35)


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He also really care with his little brother Petruccio

‘All right, then. Ezio thought, well, I’ve done Claudia a favour today, no reason why I shouldn’t do one for Petruccio as well. (Bowden, 2009 : 38)

Ezio had a great strategic mind in although he was very young. ‘Ezio made quick calculation. He must left his palazzo two hours earlier, and it would take him perhaps twenty minutes to reach home again. He took off at a run. (Bowden, 2009 : 51)

Although suffused with hatred, Ezio still show compassion. ‘Ezio’s first thought was to leave him to a lingering death, but the eyes pleaded with him. Show mercy, he remembered, even when you yourself have been shown none. That too was part of the creed.’ (Bowden, 2009 : 239)

Ezio is a person who has a big heart, he was able to give up something he loves for the sake of others, especially for Cristina.

“You do not know how lucky a man you are. I want you to promise me to be a good husband to her. If I hear that you are not, I will hunt you down and kill you myself.” (Bowden, 2009 : 171)

3.2

Cristina Calfucci

Cristina is beautiful girl who made Ezio crush in the first time he look her. Cristina is a daughter of one of the most successful merchants in all Tuscany. She had a strong mind with her self.


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‘Cristina looked at the man angrily. ‘I’ve told you before, Vieri, I’m not interested in you. Now, let me pass.’ (Bowden, 2009 : 18)

Cristina really cares to Ezio. Whenever Ezio needs her, she always try to be there for Ezio. It can be seen when Ezio need to stay at her house after Ezio found his family being outruled by the city guards.

“Oh, Ezio, of course you can.” He fell a troubled sleep, in her arms (Bowden, 2009 : 68)

Cristina is a woman who can understand Ezio’s felling. “I know how you feel right now. But please think again about what you’re going to do. (Bowden, 2009 : 453)

Cristina still loves Ezio, even when she was married to someone else. “I seem to remember that the last time we met you

kissed me in the street and then, as cool as a cucumber, saved my fiancé’s life and left me to marry him. (Bowden, 2009 : 329)

3.3

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is a very talented artist, scientist, and sculptor. Leonardo was very care with his art.

‘Careful!’ warned Leonardo. The paintings in there are delicate, and your mother’s just paid me good money for them!’ (Bowden, 2009 : 44)


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‘I prefer to take care of this myself. Imagine if someone dropped one of the boxes!’ (Bowden, 2009 : 44 - 46)

And always feel challenged about something that he feels not understand. ‘Wait a second!’ he cried, poring over it. Then he

placed the broken blade and bracer to one side, spread out the sheet, and, referring to it, began to rummage among a row of old books and manuscripts on a nearby shelf. Finding the two he wanted, he placed them on the table and began carefully to leaf through them. (Bowden, 2009 : 90)

Leonardo could not hold back his curiosity about something. Especially something that is still mystery.

“I had your codex pages delivered to Monteriggioni as promised, but I couldn’t resist studying them some more myself and I’ve copied out my findings.” (Bowden, 2009 : 376)

Leonardo is one of Ezio’s closest friends. He knew that Ezio must to succeed to fulfil his vengeance. He always helps and provides Ezio with his knowledge. Couple of Ezio’s Blade, bullets, powder and other was from him.

‘A parting gift,’ said Leonardo, handling him a bag. ‘Bullets and powder for your little pistola, and a nice big phial of poison for that useful dagger of yours. I hope you won’t need them, but it’s important to me to know that you’re as well protected as possible’ (Bowden, 2009 : 397)


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Leonardo has confidence in the ability of Ezio.

‘Buona fortuna, my friend. You are – I hope – about to make history.’ (Bowden, 2009 : 306)

3.4

Rodrigo Borgia

Rodrigo Borgia is the man that Ezio seek in this novel. He is the one who slender Ezio’s family and execute his father and his brother. Rodrigo is an arrogant person.

‘And yet here you are. Do you not see the prophet? He is already present! I am the prophet!’ (Bowden, 2009 : 383)

Rodrigo is a person who did everything to get what he wants. ‘His eyes glowing like coals. “You have the apple! How convenient! Give it to me now!” he swung his staff again and the crozier’s hook smashed against the scar on the back of Ezio’s left hand. “You will give it to me! (Bowden, 2009 : 366)

Rodrigo is a conclave that very ambitious to ruled the Vatican and Rome as the supreme pontiff. He elected as a pope in 1492. He is one of the most powerful men in all Europe, and leader of the templar.


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Rodrigo is a person that really loves a power. He became a pope just for his own sake.

“I become a pope because the position gives me access. It gave me power!” (Bowden, 2009 : 491)

He doesn’t believe a religion even he is a pope.

“Do you think I believed a single goddamned word of that ridiculous book? It’s all lies and superstition. Just like every other religious tract that’s been written since people learned how to put pen to paper!” (Bowden, 2009 : 491)

Rodrigo also feel really confident with his own ability.

“I don’t need their help to deal with you” (Bowden, 2009 : 384)

Rodrigo has no mercy for those who let him down.

‘He raised his blade and thrust it through Jacopo’s neck with such force that the point emerged at the nape, seeming to sever the spinal cord.’ (Bowden, 2009 : 236)

Rodrigo has a mission to change human behaviour to be more responsible for themselves, but he got a wrong way to do that.

“I think my first order of business will be dismantling the church, so that men and women may finally be forced to assume responsibility for their actions, and at last be properly judged! It will be a thing of beauty, the new templar world – governed by reason and order.” (Bowden, 2009 : 492)


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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION 4.1Conclusions

After having analyzed the main characters of the novel, the writer would like to conclude, as follows:

1. Four main characters in this novel has a major role in the story, it makes the novel not interesting if all of those characters didn’t appear in this novel, especially Ezio.

2. The writer of this paper found that Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cristina Calfucci, and Leonardo da Vinci role as the protagonist character and Rodrigo Borgia as the antagonist character in this novel.

3. The author of the novel is uses the second person point of view as the technique to tell the story.


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4.2Suggestion

Assassin’s Creed is a good novel to read. Oliver Bowden really knows how to tell a story. The reader can feel and imagine the situation of the story, because the words that Oliver Bowden’s choose really well to give a direct perception of the novel. Beside this novel interrelated some realty person in the story, such as Leonardo da Vinci. It makes the novel being really interesting to follow.

Actually, there are still many elements of fiction beside character that are also interesting to be studied. We can talk about point of view, theme, plot, setting, etc. that’s why, the writer wants to suggest the readers, especially for English Diploma Student to have a better study than what he has does.


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REFERENCES

Abrams,M.H.1981. A Glossary of Literary Term. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Bowden, Oliver. 2009. Assassin’s Creed Renaissance. London: Penguin Books

Fananie, Zainuddin. 2001. Telaah Sastra. Surakarta: Muhammadiyah Univerisity Press

Foster. E.M. 1993. Aspect of the novel. Cambridge: Penguin Classics

Nurgiyantoro, Burhan. 1998. Teori Pengkajian Fiksi. Yogyakarta: Gajah Mada University Press

Perrine, Laurence. 1985. Literature: structure, sound and sense. Riverview: Motor city books

Roberts, Edgar V. And Henry E.Jacobs. 1993. Literature: An introduction to reading and writing. New York: Prentice Hall, inc


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SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL

Assassin’s Creed, by Oliver Bowden, is about 17 years old Ezio Auditore da Firenze’s vengeance. A quite handsome boy who’s still struggling to find his own identity. This book opens with Ezio Auditore da Firenze gathered with his closest allies to ask their aid after their enemy, Vieri de’ Pazzi slandering his family with his pathetic way to demean Ezio’s family. Unexpectedly Vieri came with his friends and fight is inevitable. The battle was hard and grim, brutal kicks and punches connected with the sickening sound of crunching bone. With a help from his older brother, Federico, Ezio succeed to make Vieri shouted “fall back” to his friends. Vieri’s family and Ezio’s family has already being an enemy since a long time.

Then Ezio met Cristina Vespucci in their way to going home. Ezio realize that he had feeling to Cristina since their first met and so does Cristina to Ezio. Cristina starting to like Ezio when she saved by him from Vieri who already flirted her, but she won’t. Then they start their love stories in the cristina’s bedroom.

In the next morning, Ezio back at home with a sarcastic greet from Federico about their father who knew about what’s Ezio doing last night. Giovanni Auditore, Ezio’s father, is the chairman of the biggest bank in the town. Its normal if he got a few enemy, in fact he got a lot enemy because of his success. Giovanni called Ezio to his office to scold his second son. All Ezio can do just stand and listening the roar of his father, but he shock when his father


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knew that he have a night at Cristina’s house. And he even more shock when even his father roar at Ezio but it just made his father remembered about him in the old days, just like Ezio, but Giovanni wants Ezio knew that he have a big responsibilities about his family name, an Auditore, the owner of the biggest bank in the town. His father ask Ezio’s help to deliver some document to his friend and Ezio think that it is the time to pleased his father after his all trouble that he make.

After helping his father in the previous day, today Ezio wants to spent more time with the rest of his family. Ezio had such a great mother who always loving him although Ezio was rarely at home. His mother ask a favour to Ezio to accompany her on an errand that she has to run. Apparently his mother wants to meet Leonardo da Vinci, an very talented artist. After a little chat with Leonardo, Ezio carried a heavy box that his mother ordered to Leonardo. It contains of a few painting. In the future Leonardo and Ezio became a great friend. In fact its Leonardo who fix and create many equipment for Ezio.

Then Ezio met his father at the office. It’s another document that he must delivery and from this thing Ezio realized that his father had a big problem. After he delivered the document and running to his house, it seems already chaos happen in the house. His father, Federico, and his young brother Petruccio has been kidnapped by the city guards. Fortunately his mother and his sister Claudia was saved by Annetta, his family housekeeper. His mother was heavily shock and Claudia was bleeding after she interrogated by the city guard about Ezio. Then Ezio asked Annetta to hide his rest of family into the safe place, Ezio try to find a way to see his father. He knew that they arrest at the Palazzo Vecchio. After he


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succeed to meet his father, Giovanni ordered Ezio to back to their house to take everything that he see in the secret chamber in his office. And Ezio return to his house and get all that his father told him. Here Ezio get everything that he needed to make him become the assassin.

Then that day was coming. His father and his brothers, Federico and Petruccio have been executed by the city guard. They were accused of treason. He witnesses his family being killed. Then he meet Paola, Annetta’s sister. Paola teach Ezio lot of skills to help Ezio survive, such as how to blend with the crowd, how to pickpocket. After he learn from Paola, Ezio go to Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo fix the strange mechanism that Ezio get from the box that he take from the secret chamber of his father which is the important tools to be a great assassin. Then Ezio ready to find who is behind all of his misery.


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Appendices

Biography of Oliver Bowden

Anton Gil or known as Oliver Bowden was born in Ilford, Essex, the only child of an English mother and a German father. Both parents died in 1995. His mother taught English, Russian and Drama and his father was an engineer. His early infancy was spent in

Bamberg, Germany. He speaks good French and German, and sketchy Italian and Spanish. He was educated at Chigwell School, Essex, (1960-1966), where he did a lot of acting and decided that he would go into the theatre. At Clare College, Cambridge, (1967-1970), he did more acting, and directing, ending up as President of the CU ADC (Amateur Dramatic Club) and several other drama clubs, as well as running his college’s Fine Art Society. He left with a 2:1 in English Literature with French and German subsidiary subjects. BA Hons. 1970; MA Hons. (Cantab.) 1973. While at Cambridge, he was taught to punt by Salman Rushdie, who became a great friend, and also worked in Cambridge theatre with David Hare.

From 1970 - 1976 he worked professionally in the theatre, principally as an Assistant Director at the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, where he worked with, among others, Lindsay Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Ronald Eyre, Athol Fugard, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw,


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John Osborne and Anthony Page. He also wrote plays, one of which was performed at the Theatre Upstairs in 1973. He ran an Experimental Theatre in Geneva for a season in 1973 and did a ‘collective creation’ play about François Villon there, which he later re-wrote as a formal play. This was directed at the Cologne City Theatre by Hansgünther Heyme in 1975. Gill also worked with John Osborne on a season of his plays at Greenwich, 1974/1975, and on the premiere of Samuel Beckett’s NOT I at the Royal Court, 1973. Anton Gill’s one-woman play "Waiting" was put on by LA MAMA in New York in 1976.

From 1976-1978 he was a Drama Officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, with special responsibility for new plays and trainee directors. He started to write for radio, and contributed a number of arts features and plays, including "The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare", a comedy starring Roy Kinnear and Peter Woodthorpe, and "Dandolo", starring Carleton Hobbs in his last role, a play about the Fourth Crusade. "The Berlin Resurrection" was a black comedy set in the Berlin Natural History Museum in the last days of the Second World War. Radio Features included a documentary about whales and whaling, "For the Whales", and a biography of Alexander Pope told through his letters, "The Spider's Touch. In 1976 Gill worked as a script editor for BBC Radio Drama, and from 1978-1980 he was a Senior Drama Producer with the BBC with special responsibility for the Radio 2 soap opera, Waggoners’ Walk". During 1981 he ran "The Archers" in Birmingham before resigning from the BBC in January 1982.


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In 1981 and 1982 he directed radio plays for Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg; one of them was "The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare", which was also produced by Norwegian Radio, and elsewhere in Germany, and in New Zealand and Canada. In May 1982 Gill met Nicola Browne while on holiday in Egypt, and they married that November. The marriage ended in 1998. No children. Nicola and Anton have since both remarried, and remain the best of friends. After a brief period of freelancing, mainly writing and directing radio plays, adaptations and TV scripts ("Angels", "Crossroads" and "Emmerdale), he joined the TV-am breakfast television company in November 1982 and spent 18 months with them as a features producer, where among many other things he set up and produced their soap-opera, "The World of Melanie Parker". Gill resigned in May 1984 to become a full-time writer. The decision to do so was part accident and part design. Most of Gill’s work has been in the field of contemporary European history, but he has also written a series of thrillers set in Ancient Egypt, whose history has always interested him. What he enjoys most in his contemporary history work is tracking down and interviewing people who lived through and participated in the experiences his writing about. Conversations with them have formed the hub of much of his work.

When Gill is not writing his main occupation has, until recently, been travelling as much and as far as he can. He first travelled overland to India in 1967. In the 1980s, Gill travelled widely in India, Nepal, Thailand and Burma, as well as visiting Israel, Tunisia and Morocco, and the Seychelles. Before that


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he spent some time in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. In 1992 he was in Australia, and in 1993 he visited Mustang, an ethnic Tibetan ‘kingdom’ (it actually has a king, but is effectively under Nepali rule) in Northern Nepal, which had only been open to tourists since 1991, and about which he wrote for the adventure and travel magazine, "Outdoors Illustrated". The following year he and his wife took part in the first expedition to Nar-Phu, also in Northern Nepal, but unvisited by Europeans (and then only once) for 40 years, on which he also wrote for "Outdoors". One feature of that trip was attending a sky burial (the body is stripped and chopped up for the vultures). During the later 1990s, he travelled in Ecuador, Tanzania and Cuba; and in 2001 he spent some time on the Upper Amazon in Peru. Between 1998 and 2008, he travelled extensively in France and Spain. For his work, he’s been everywhere in Europe except Finland, and he’s also travelled in the USA (especially when researching two of his books, The Journey Back From Hell and "Peggy Guggenheim - Art Lover".

In 2007, he visited Ethiopia, and also spent some time during the period 2002-2009 making frequent visits to Venice. In recent years he has spent more and more time in France, a country he has been fond of since his first visit to Paris forty years ago. Gill has also written for SKI MAGAZINE about the Zen of skiing, on women’s life in dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu’s Romania, for "Woman", and about croquet for "Country Living". He has also contributed features (on subjects ranging from seventeenth-century explorers to the anti-Nazi resistance) to "The Times Higher Education Supplement".


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He’s interested in whale conservation, and has been since long before it became fashionable – he has worked for Friends of the Earth as a volunteer, and remains a member of Greenpeace.

Outside work and travel, he enjoys are cooking, looking at paintings (from Giotto to Jackson Pollock and beyond), and playing the clarinet (badly). He paints a bit and draws cartoons, but only for his own amusement, as he’s pretty bad at them too. Gill currently lives in London and Paris, and, from March 2003 until recently, has spent most of his time in the French capital. His wife (since January 2005) is the actress, Marji Campi. The sons of her first marriage both live in Barcelona with their families, and Marji and he are frequent visitors there.


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succeed to meet his father, Giovanni ordered Ezio to back to their house to take everything that he see in the secret chamber in his office. And Ezio return to his house and get all that his father told him. Here Ezio get everything that he needed to make him become the assassin.

Then that day was coming. His father and his brothers, Federico and Petruccio have been executed by the city guard. They were accused of treason. He witnesses his family being killed. Then he meet Paola, Annetta’s sister. Paola teach Ezio lot of skills to help Ezio survive, such as how to blend with the crowd, how to pickpocket. After he learn from Paola, Ezio go to Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo fix the strange mechanism that Ezio get from the box that he take from the secret chamber of his father which is the important tools to be a great assassin. Then Ezio ready to find who is behind all of his misery.


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Appendices

Biography of Oliver Bowden

Anton Gil or known as Oliver Bowden was born in Ilford, Essex, the only child of an English mother and a German father. Both parents died in 1995. His mother taught English, Russian and Drama and his father was an engineer. His early infancy was spent in

Bamberg, Germany. He speaks good French and German, and sketchy Italian and Spanish. He was educated at Chigwell School, Essex, (1960-1966), where he did a lot of acting and decided that he would go into the theatre. At Clare College, Cambridge, (1967-1970), he did more acting, and directing, ending up as President of the CU ADC (Amateur Dramatic Club) and several other drama clubs, as well as running his college’s Fine Art Society. He left with a 2:1 in English Literature with French and German subsidiary subjects. BA Hons. 1970; MA Hons. (Cantab.) 1973. While at Cambridge, he was taught to punt by Salman Rushdie, who became a great friend, and also worked in Cambridge theatre with David Hare.

From 1970 - 1976 he worked professionally in the theatre, principally as an Assistant Director at the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, where he worked with, among others, Lindsay Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Ronald Eyre, Athol Fugard, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw,


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John Osborne and Anthony Page. He also wrote plays, one of which was performed at the Theatre Upstairs in 1973. He ran an Experimental Theatre in Geneva for a season in 1973 and did a ‘collective creation’ play about François Villon there, which he later re-wrote as a formal play. This was directed at the Cologne City Theatre by Hansgünther Heyme in 1975. Gill also worked with John Osborne on a season of his plays at Greenwich, 1974/1975, and on the premiere of Samuel Beckett’s NOT I at the Royal Court, 1973. Anton Gill’s one-woman play "Waiting" was put on by LA MAMA in New York in 1976.

From 1976-1978 he was a Drama Officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, with special responsibility for new plays and trainee directors. He started to write for radio, and contributed a number of arts features and plays, including "The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare", a comedy starring Roy Kinnear and Peter Woodthorpe, and "Dandolo", starring Carleton Hobbs in his last role, a play about the Fourth Crusade. "The Berlin Resurrection" was a black comedy set in the Berlin Natural History Museum in the last days of the Second World War. Radio Features included a documentary about whales and whaling, "For the Whales", and a biography of Alexander Pope told through his letters, "The Spider's Touch. In 1976 Gill worked as a script editor for BBC Radio Drama, and from 1978-1980 he was a Senior Drama Producer with the BBC with special responsibility for the Radio 2 soap opera, Waggoners’ Walk". During 1981 he ran "The Archers" in Birmingham before resigning from the BBC in January 1982.


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In 1981 and 1982 he directed radio plays for Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg; one of them was "The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare", which was also produced by Norwegian Radio, and elsewhere in Germany, and in New Zealand and Canada. In May 1982 Gill met Nicola Browne while on holiday in Egypt, and they married that November. The marriage ended in 1998. No children. Nicola and Anton have since both remarried, and remain the best of friends. After a brief period of freelancing, mainly writing and directing radio plays, adaptations and TV scripts ("Angels", "Crossroads" and "Emmerdale), he joined the TV-am breakfast television company in November 1982 and spent 18 months with them as a features producer, where among many other things he set up and produced their soap-opera, "The World of Melanie Parker". Gill resigned in May 1984 to become a full-time writer. The decision to do so was part accident and part design. Most of Gill’s work has been in the field of contemporary European history, but he has also written a series of thrillers set in Ancient Egypt, whose history has always interested him. What he enjoys most in his contemporary history work is tracking down and interviewing people who lived through and participated in the experiences his writing about. Conversations with them have formed the hub of much of his work.

When Gill is not writing his main occupation has, until recently, been travelling as much and as far as he can. He first travelled overland to India in 1967. In the 1980s, Gill travelled widely in India, Nepal, Thailand and Burma, as well as visiting Israel, Tunisia and Morocco, and the Seychelles. Before that


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he spent some time in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. In 1992 he was in Australia, and in 1993 he visited Mustang, an ethnic Tibetan ‘kingdom’ (it actually has a king, but is effectively under Nepali rule) in Northern Nepal, which had only been open to tourists since 1991, and about which he wrote for the adventure and travel magazine, "Outdoors Illustrated". The following year he and his wife took part in the first expedition to Nar-Phu, also in Northern Nepal, but unvisited by Europeans (and then only once) for 40 years, on which he also wrote for "Outdoors". One feature of that trip was attending a sky burial (the body is stripped and chopped up for the vultures). During the later 1990s, he travelled in Ecuador, Tanzania and Cuba; and in 2001 he spent some time on the Upper Amazon in Peru. Between 1998 and 2008, he travelled extensively in France and Spain. For his work, he’s been everywhere in Europe except Finland, and he’s also travelled in the USA (especially when researching two of his books, The Journey Back From Hell and "Peggy Guggenheim - Art Lover".

In 2007, he visited Ethiopia, and also spent some time during the period 2002-2009 making frequent visits to Venice. In recent years he has spent more and more time in France, a country he has been fond of since his first visit to Paris forty years ago. Gill has also written for SKI MAGAZINE about the Zen of skiing, on women’s life in dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu’s Romania, for "Woman", and about croquet for "Country Living". He has also contributed features (on subjects ranging from seventeenth-century explorers to the anti-Nazi resistance) to "The Times Higher Education Supplement".


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He’s interested in whale conservation, and has been since long before it became fashionable – he has worked for Friends of the Earth as a volunteer, and remains a member of Greenpeace.

Outside work and travel, he enjoys are cooking, looking at paintings (from Giotto to Jackson Pollock and beyond), and playing the clarinet (badly). He paints a bit and draws cartoons, but only for his own amusement, as he’s pretty bad at them too. Gill currently lives in London and Paris, and, from March 2003 until recently, has spent most of his time in the French capital. His wife (since January 2005) is the actress, Marji Campi. The sons of her first marriage both live in Barcelona with their families, and Marji and he are frequent visitors there.