event of the story, when the author is participant. It is divided into two; author as a major character, and author as minor character. Then, non-
participant can be divided into three sorts. First is omnicient, the author sees into the minds of all character, and can tell the reader the thoughts of
any character. The last is objective, the author does not enter the mind of any character but describes event from the outside.
4. Style
Style is the particular ways of managing and arranging words into sentences. There are some parts of style such as grammatical structure,
sentence construction, diction, figurative language, imagery, and symbolism.
5. Theme
Kennedy illustrates that “the theme needs not to be moral or message, it may be what the story is about” Kennedy 1983: 103. The viewers can
take a moral message from a story by knowing a theme.
E. Theoretical Application
This research employs the individual psychology theory by Alfred Adler to analyze the novel. It focuses on the Rie-Omura
’s strategy to be successful in running
sake
business in Joyce Lebra’s
The Scent of Sake
. There are some steps in analyzing the novel.
Firstly
, the analysis begins from the structural elements of the novel which consists of character and
characterization, setting, plot, point of view, style, theme.
Secondly
, the writer applies theory of individual psychology that is appropriate to analyze the
personality and her struggle to manage the strategy of successful
sake
business. It can be done toward the narration and the thought of the character. Those steps will answer the research objective.
CHAPTER III STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL
This chapter contains the structural analysis of Joyce Lebra’s
The Scent of Sake
novel. In this chapter the researcher gives a brief explanation of the structural elements of the novel. This chapter is divided into two parts
that is the structural elements and the discussion. The structural elements of the novel include character and characterization, setting, plot, point of view,
style and theme.
A. Structure Elements of
The Scent of Sake
Novel 1.
Character and Characterization
Character is a part of fiction. Character is someone who plays in a show or story. Kennedy defines character as “an imagined person who
inhabits a story therefore they cannot be expected to have all attribute of real human beings” Kennedy, 1983: 45. Meanwhile, Characterization
is the process by which the researcher reveals the personality of a character. Character can be divided into two types, namely major
character and minor character. The major character belong the familiar as well as important character in the novel that takes part of the story.
Thus, the minor character consists of character that supports the major character to make them more alive. Kennedy states that “minor
characters are the characters which exist to support the major character
and make the story more convincing and life like Kennedy, 1983: 45.
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