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I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of Study
Literature is a kind of art, usually written offer pleasure and illumination. Literature is also composition that tells us stories, dramatize situations, express
emotions, and analyze advocate ideas. Roberts 1993:68 stated that literature can help us to grow both personally and intellectually. Literature provides an adjective
base for knowledge and understanding. Literature enables us to recognize human dreams and struggle in different places and times that would never know.
According to Jacobs 1993:1-3 literature provides the comparative basic from which we can see worthiness in the aims of all people, and it helps us to see
the beauty of the world around us. Literature may be classified into four categories or genres 1 prose fiction,2 poetry, 3 drama, 4 non fiction.
Among the forms of prose fiction, in completing her study the writer chose novel to be analyzed. Prose fiction is narration, relating or recounting of a
sequence of events or action. Work of fiction usually focuses on one or a few major characters who and deal with problems. While fiction like an imaginative
literature may introduce true historical details, it is not real history. Novel is a story that communicates silently at whatever moment and
whatever pace whether quickly or slowly and meditative the readers desire. Stanford 2003:35 was stated that a novel is a picture of real life and
manners and of the time in which it was written. To create a fictional world that seems real to the reader the novels contains 5 main intrinsic elements they are:
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2 theme, plot, character, setting, point of view. In this paper the writer would like to
explain about these five elements in the novel entitled Monday’s Child by Linda Chaikin.
1.2 The Objective of Study
The writer has her own purposes when she decided to write this paper. She wants to explain about the intrinsic elements that consist of : theme, plot,
character, setting, and point of view.
1.3 The Scope of Study
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