Background of the Study

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

There are several ways for people to entertain themselves. One of the most common ways is through readings such as poem, short story, novel and drama. Nowadays novels are chosen by most people to be the means of fulfilling their needs of entertainment. Fiction novel is one of the examples. It is usually based on the full imagination of the author in order to create an interesting novel. Although authors can be different from one to others, they put their work in an unusual technique in specific words to achieve their purpose. Fiction novels use the variation of certain linguistic features. Fiction novel is a popular work of art to the reader because of its ability to make the readers experience the fantasy life that they cannot have in the real life situation. Barnes in Greaney says that “Novel comes out of life not theories about either life or literature ” 2006: 1. It is often written in several series with a connecting storyline. A novel can be considered as the medium for many authors to enhance their creativity in their writing skills. It can also be the perfect medium source for many criticisms and interpretations of people. It is obvious that many linguistic units are found in the novel. In addition, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones tells us about an alternative world of a demon hunter to battle the evil on that world. One of the characters shown in this novel is Jace Wayland. He is an orphan demon hunter whose parents are killed by a demon. Clare often uses some of the linguistic features in order to enhance the atmosphere or the situation in the novel. The descriptions of the characters are also influenced by the existence of noun phrase. The conversation of the characters can also provide many noun phrases to be found such as in Jace Wayland’s utterances throughout the story. The author may write the specific noun phrases to indicate some information related to the characters and the story of the novel. Jace Wayland or Jonathan Christopher Wayland is one of the significant major characters in the novel Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The writer’s reason to focus on the character of Jace Wayland is because of some aspects. Although he is not the main character in the story, the length of Jace’s utterances throughout the story is mainly longer than the main character. Most of his dialogs contain the explanation that contribute to the story line. Jace’s character in the novel also has a special value to be examined because he is the key of the mysteries in the story. Furthermore, his character also creates a plot twist to the story that makes him important in the story of the novel. A literary work can be affected by the authors in terms of their style of writing the story of the novel. This study will discuss a novel that was written by Cassandra Clare entitled Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The reason why the writer analyzes this novel is because Cassandra Clare is best known for her bestselling series of Mortal Instruments. She has her own style of writing her works that differs from other best-known authors. Mentioning about styles, what is best to analyze the literary work is by using the stylistic approach. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Stylistics is a critical approach of analysis of literary text using the methods and findings of the science of linguistics Barry, 2002: 203. The approach gives the attention of the scientific study of the language and its structure in order to show how the linguistic features contribute to the meaning and influence of a literary work. According to Simpson, doing a stylistics is like exploring a language and specifically exploring the creativity in using the language 2004: 3. The writer focuses on the noun phrases found in one of the character’s utterances in the novel. There is at least one noun phrase found in a sentence. It can have more than one different functions according to its forms. To be able to comprehend a sentence, there must be an adequate knowledge about the structure of verbs, adjectives, and noun. Noun phrase comes in different forms and structures depending on its function in a sentence. Every noun phrase has the head that is modified and the central element in the phrase. Looking at structure of the noun phrase, it differs two kinds of noun phrase such as simple e.g. jewel, corn, and trouble and complex noun phrase e.g. the colorful balloon. According to Maestre 1998: 3 the term simple is used because of the head of noun phrase is not modified by other phrases, whereas the term complex is used because the head is modified by other phrases as the pre-modifiers and post-modifiers. Therefore, this study will be beneficial in order to help the readers to understand about noun phrase and its function in a sentence. Moreover, this study will also conjure the specific information and relation that are supported by the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI distribution of noun phrases in their different types and function through the analysis of the character’s utterances.

B. Problem Formulation