2 theme, plot, character, setting, point of view. In this paper the writer would like to
explain about these five elements in the novel entitled Monday’s Child by Linda Chaikin.
1.2 The Objective of Study
The writer has her own purposes when she decided to write this paper. She wants to explain about the intrinsic elements that consist of : theme, plot,
character, setting, and point of view.
1.3 The Scope of Study
To avoid the readers getting confused in writing this paper , the writer would like to limit her study only in analyzing 5 intrinsic elements in Monday’s
Child Novel that contain of theme, Plot, character, setting, and point of view.
1.4 The Significance of the Study
Obviously , the significance of the study in this paper is to improve the research in literary works, especially in novel. The writer also expects that this
paper will be significant to the readers of literature, and helps the readers know
and understand about the intrinsic elements that occurred in a novel.
1.5 The Method of Study
In writing this paper, the writer read the Novel Monday’s Child for several times. Having understood the story of novel, she focused on analyzing the
intrinsic elements of the novel. The writer also read some literary books and
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are treated as data of analysis to support the ideas. Thus, the data are interrupted and then data are interpreted and then analyzed for proper description.
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THE INTRINSIC ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
In order to complete this paper, in this chapter the writer would like to give a brief definition and explanation about the intrinsic elements in a novel
theoretically, because they are crucial to support the analysis. The intrinsic elements that consist of Theme, plot, character, setting and point of view are the
elements that are participating in forming a story in literary work.
2.1 Theme.
According to Burton Goodman, theme is the main idea or the main point in a story. A theme must represent the whole part of the story, because theme is a
basic development of a whole story. Actually it is not easy to find out the theme in a novel. The reader has to read the novel and understand what the story tells
about. Staton 2007:7 was stated that theme gives a strong explained about the
unity of what is happening in the story, and tell about the story of life in a common context. The purpose of theme is to give a shape and effect in our mind,
so make the story easy to remember. A good theme has to represent the entire story in the novel. Sometimes the theme shapes in to the fact that comes from the
human experience. It is explored by the story and then gives impression for each of event in life.
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5 The theme of the novel is more than its subject matter, because an author’s
technique can play as strong a rule in developing a theme as the action of the characters do. Sometimes because of the length of novels and the various
characters, conflicts, and scenes, found within them, reader can look at different aspects of the work to uncover different interpretations of the meaning of the tale.
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2.2 PLOT.
