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2. The Narrator’s Characteristic
Characterization is important for the researcher to understand the character more deeply. Characterization is a process which the character is described as a
real being in reality. In other words, characterization can be a tool for the readers to believe as a person to be compared in real life condition Rohrberger Woods,
1971. In order to understand more on narrator‟s characterization, the discussion
of the narrator‟s characterization will be analyzed using the method by Murphy. The researcher can know the characteristic of the character by looking at the
personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation of others, reactions, direct comment, and a thought.
a. Dreamy
Based on the illustrations and dialogs in the novel, the narrator is a dreamy person. His dreamy personality is in the form of positive meaning. It is beyond
from being an imaginative person because he can seek beyond the surface that no one ever thought. It is just the same as dreaming the reality. It is shown when he
was a child, he drew a boa constrictor swallowed an elephant. The grown-ups could not interpret
the narrator‟s drawing of a boa that had swallowed an elephant. They thought it was a drawing of a hat. The narrator has to draw it again for their
boring understanding, showing the inside of the boa constrictor with an elephant. Here, the evidence in The Little Prince novel 1943.
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Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a
boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole,
without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My
Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered:
Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor
digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that
the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: pp. 9-10
It is showed that his way of thinking is somehow unique and very different from the others. However, that is exactly how the children think.
Figure 2. Narrator’s Drawing 1 p. 10
Figure 3. Narrator’s Drawing 2 p. 10
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The dreamy personality is also supported by narrator‟s imagination. His imagination is showed when he could tell the readers about the details that the
Little Prince told him. He can illustrate vividly even he has not been to the place or situation that the Little Prince told him. He can imagine something that never
happened to himself. It is showed by the author in The Little Prince novel. “At
that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly: Do you come from another planet
? p. 18” and “I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the
Little Prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house ” p. 20.
b. Lonesome
The narrator is a lonesome man. He became that kind of person because he cannot really find someone who has the same thought as him. He was an
imaginative person who loved to draw. He abandoned art for the grown-up profession of pilot, and he lives a lonely life until he encounters the Little Prince
Antoine, 1943.
So, because of that, he could not really make a friend. He could not share his imagination with others because they are growing up to someone that most
grown-ups want. Although he finally found his job to become a pilot, it was never
his passion.
Thus I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago.
Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI