out for the myth of Japans atomic bomb. Its an inspiring book and it will be wonderful if young people read it.
http:www.amazon.cagpcdpmember-reviewsAJ8UX2AWXM45QRaymond G. Wilson 28 January 2008
Asima Yuliana Hutajulu 2005, in her undergraduate thesis, analyzes about the influence of family towards Button Franzon’s personality development
in Thyra Ferre Bjorn’s Papa’s Daughter. Her thesis has similar topic with the writer, but it is on the different novel. She says that personality development
especially Button Franzon’s is influenced by her family’s background. Button is described as an introvert and melancholic person, but after she experiences
personality development because of her family background, Button becomes an extrovert and sanguine person.
This study will try to find out that there are many aspects that can influence someone’s personality. In other word, this study is meant to reveal Bill
Macneil’s personality development and the factors which influence his personality development. Since the novel is about the story of some Macneil descendants
especially Bill Macneil, his participation in World War II, and how he sees Japanese after his past experiences that happened to him in Nanking. Bill Macneil
is a unique character; his personality develops after facing several events in his life. There are many factors which can influence someone’s personality; one of
them is through environmental determinant. In this study, the writer wants to show the aspects of environmental determinant which influence Bill Macneil’s
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B. Review on Related Theories 1. Theory on Character and Characterization
In his book, A Glossary of Literary Terms, M.H. Abrams defines that as the person presented in a dramatic or narrative work who is interpreted by the
readers as being endowed with a moral and disposition quality that are expressed in what they say through dialogue, and by what they do through actions
1981:20. From the definition, the writer’s intention is to see the character’s quality through his speech and actions towards the other characters in the novel.
The author sometimes do not simply tell the readers what the characters in the work of art really are, but they give the reader chances to observe it by
themselves. According to Little is his book Approach of Literature, states that there are
three steps to study character. First is from a person’s basic characteristics. These can be seen from physical condition of the character including a person age, social
relationship that means the personal relationship with other characters, and the mental qualities, which is the typical ways of thinking, feeling, and acting 1981:
93. Second is from a person’s appearance from various points of view. These
include how a character sees himself, how various other characters see him, and how a person develops or fails to develop during the course of the story.
Third is from a person’s place in the works. It means the treatment of the author sketched or fully rounded, a portrayed descriptively or dramatically,
treated sympathetically or unsympathetically, a person’s place in the story a leading character or minor one, and a person’s relationship to theme.
Perrine in his book Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry divides character based on their development or changes. There are some characters that
are capable to grow or develop they are called dynamic characters. The developments of these characters include personalities or outlooks from the
beginning to the end of the story. The change maybe for better or worse, large or small, but it is something important or basic. There are also some stories in which
the characters remain stable and have the same role at the end of the story as the beginning. They are described without any details and they are not changed by
circumstances. They are called static characters 1974:71. While characterization, according to Mary Rohrberger and Samuel H.
Woods in Reading and Writing about Literature is a character which has particular personalities and physical attributes that differs them from other
characters, that is shaped by the process of an author creates a characters
themselves 1971:20
M.J. Murphy, in his book Understanding Unseen: An Introduction to English Poetry and Novel for Overseas Students describes some examples of a
few of the ways in which the author attempts to make his characters more understandable, and come alive, for readers, so that the readers know and
understand what sort of people they are 1972:161-173: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
