2.6.1 The omniscient point of view
In which the author himself tells the story in the third person. The narrator knows everything about everyone in the story and can bring into plays as
much of that knowledge as he chooses.
2.6.2 The first of point of view
The writer must whether the “I” is to be major or minor character, protagonist or observer, or someone merely repeating a narrative he has heard at
second hand.
2.6.3 Observer’s point of view
In a modification of omniscient point of view, there is the narrative related from the vision of the single character used by the author as a central
observer or central intelligence through whom anything cleared.
2.6.4 The objective point of view
Though it is the third person narrative, like the omniscient point of view, the author using this technique refrains from making a sides, commenting on the
action, or addressing the reader. The author becomes a seeing eye that reports but does not interpret.
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3. THE ANALYSIS 3.1
The Analysis of the Theme
If I Stay novel tells about how Mia Hall who has an out of body experience and catches between life and death has to choose between a happy past
and an unknowable future. The main character is Mia Hall. Mia is a teenager who is very musically
gifted, kind and quiet girl. She loves her family, her cello, her boyfriend Adam, and friends.
Mia has a boyfriend who loves rock music, Adam Wilde. He is a vocalist of his band, “Shooting Star” and he adores Mia and Mia’s family. So, the theme
of this novel is about love. When Adam showed up in a sharkskin suit and Creepers an ensemble
that wholly impressed Dad, I realized that this really was a date. Of course, Adam would choose dress up for the symphony and a 1960s
sharkskin suit could have just been his cool take on formal, but I knew there was more to it than that. He seemed nervous as he shook hands with
my dad and told him that he had his band’s old CDs. “To use as coasters, I hope,” Dad said. Adam looked surprised, unused to the parent being
more sarcastic than the child, I imagine. “Your parents are so cool,” Adam said, opening the car door for me. “I know,” I replied. If I Stay,
page 37 I’d never expected to fall in love. I was never the kind of girl who had
crushes on rock stars or fantasies about marrying Brad Pitt. I sort of vaguely knew that one day I’d probably have boyfriends in college, if
Kim’s prediction was anything to go by and get married. I wasn’t totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn’t one of those
romantic, swoony girl who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love. If I Stay, page 198
2.3 The Analysis of Plot
The novel If I Stay uses the flashback plot mixed plot because the author tells the story chronologically while displays the events in the past. The
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