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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
A. The Characters Characterization in Is it possible?
The analysis of this study is meant to explain the characterization of the characters that appears in the story of Is it possible?. Since the narration of the
novel spans through several generations, the writer will take three characters that represent different generations. The writer will analyze the two features in a
literary text due to the correlation they share.
1. Characteristics of Lerionka
Lerionka is the main character in the novel Is it possible?. He is the only son of Kariankei Ole Sururu. He can be describe as a clever, brave and
responsible. As a Maasai, he is brave, it is a customary for a Maasai to be brave and fierce. He lives in a Mayatta also known as a Maasai warrior village. He stays
in a hut, which were plastered with cow dung on their sides and roofs. Between the close huts, cut thorn branches were placed to ensure intruders be they people
or animals could not find a way through p.4. The writer will use Barnet‟s theory from the book Literature for
Composition:Essays, Fiction, Poetry and Drama to explain the characterisitc of Lerionka.
a. Intelligent
The author delivers Lerionka‟s characterization as a primary school
teacher and a teacher of adult literacy later in the epilogue. The author illustrates
this by the character‟s action who convinced his father that Maasai can get education and at the same time be a warrior.
“My son, „my father said one day as we dipped our cattle, „i am now very happy that you went to school.”
„why, father?‟ I asked, without really meaning the question seriously. „Forgive me, my son, for refusing to let you go to school. You acted like
a man to take the best course, and you tried to hide from your then ignorant father what you wanted to do. Your mother and I now depend
on you. I can now see clearly that it is possible to hold a book in one hand and a spear in the other
” p. 150. It was Lerionka‟s intelliegence that convices his father about Maasai
being educated. By being a Primary teacher as proof to his father that a Maasai can hold a book in one hand and a spear in the other. That Maasai can still be a
warrior and the same time get education. Though Lerionka has gone against the Maasai rule about education and what its doing to the Maasai youths. His father
has accepted the fact that he is ignorant, and appologises from tring to stop his son from getting education. Lerionka‟s father now came to realize how important
education is for children. Before Lerionka has no interest in getting education. When he was forced
to go to school, he changes he began to enjoys learning. When he was finally given the second chance to go to school, he came to realize where his potential
are. I was not very good at sports, even though I tried. But as the weeks went
by, I came to know where my talents lay. I was a good talker, and could argue in debates. So I became the first chairman of the debating society
p. 131. In the above statement Lerionka found out that he is good in talking. He
became the first chairman of the debating society at his school, this prove that he
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