Objective of the Study
role as a narrator and character has made the reader wary of the things that are going to happen next in the story.
Different from Hartanto and Kullenbok ‟s studies that focused more on the
narrator is the study by Tanja Dromnes which focused more on the narration and focalization of Sherman Alexie‟s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
In her study Dromnes tries to find a connection between narrative world and the real world though a connection called didactic. Dromnes also tries to
analyze the values found in the book she studies using a didactical approach and apply it in her class. More specifically the approaches used by Dromnes are
narratological didactics and didactical narratology. What I mean by narratological didactics and didactical narratology is that
understanding the world through literature may give the readers, and in this case the pupils, tools by which they can define and develop themselves.
Hence, this is the reason why literature in general and Alexie specifically should be included in the curriculum not separate from teaching language
structure, but as a part of a whole Dromnes, 2010.
Dromnes analyzed the narration and the focalization of Alexie‟s book and later found the theme of the book is applicable in the real life. She then tried to
channel these valuable themes to her students through a didactical approach. She claims that narratology, or storytelling, is a very powerful tool for people to
develop themselves because storytelling has a power to teach and bring forth information. Dromnes also proposed that the books by Alexie should be included
in the curriculum.
The last study to be reviewed is a narratological approach of a classic novel by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights. The researcher, Divya Thyagarajan,
tries to analyze the narrative systems and strategies in Wuthering Heights. Thyagarajan proposes the idea that the narrative structure of the novel is more
„layered‟ rather than „linear‟ because the story has been through several narrators before it reaches the reader.
The main narrators of the story, Nelly and Lockwood, are not the protagon
ist or the main characters of the story. Lockwood is viewed as the „frame‟ narrator and Nelly as the „interpolated‟ narrator. These two narrators then
considered fallible or unreliable because their view of the story, Lockwood‟s intellectual and pedantic v
iew and Nelly‟s sentimental and „Victorian‟ view, is virtually unstable and incapacitated to understand the psychological depth and the
character of the protagonist. In the end, Thyagarajan concluded that the narrative style and the
strategies employed by Bronte shows that she has a deeper understanding of the mechanics of fiction than many modern novelist have. Her narrators are motivated
and emotionally involved, which is more psychologically convincing despite their limited view of the real events. Her narrators are more natural and plausible.
What make this study different from the ones reviewed above is the focus and the scope of it. This study is focused on a wider scope of the narrative
structure of Cloud Atlas. A detailed analysis of how the story is arranged is done in order to find out the general theme of the six stories found inside the novel and
ultimately reveals the influence of the narrative structure towards the theme.