CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Literature is a term use to describe written or spoken material. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including
works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Robert and Jacobs 1995:2 say that Literature is classified into four genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and
nonfiction prose. In this paper novel is chosen as the material of analysis in which is also
considered in literary work. Reader 1987:6 says that Novel is fictitious prose narrative of volume length portraying characters and actions representative of real
life in continuous plot. Novel is human literature creations. In which that, novel doesn’t present documentary picture life. The story is written in certain plot to
illustrate actions of the characters. Plot is one of the most important elements in making a fiction literary
work. Aristotle considered plot mythos the most important element of drama— more important than character, for example. Aristotle says, a plot must have a
beginning, a middle, and an end, and the events of the plot must casually related to one another as being either necessary or probable. By this, means that plot also
plays a big role as actors take part to illustrate the actions. In another book, Fananie 2001:93 says that plot is the construction which is made to read on of a
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sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or experienced by actors.
The writer is interested in analyzing a novel which entitled Life of Pi by Yann Martel. This fascinating yet miserable adventurous novel has many
interesting points of religions and mostly about life. It is a story of a 16-year-old Indian boy, Piscine Molitor Patel Pi, surviving on a lifeboat for 227 days with a
carnivorous Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, floating in the Pacific Ocean. The author, Yann Martel, is Canadian author whose first language is French, but he
always writes in English. He published his most successful work, Life of Pi in 2001 and in 2012 Life of Pi was adapted to a movie.
As the focus of this paper, the writer will analyze the plot used in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
1.2 Problem of the Study
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