THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE LAND OF FIVE TOWERS NOVEL.

THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN
THE LAND OF FIVE TOWERS NOVEL

A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department,
Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan,
In Partial Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Sastra

By:

EKO EF FERI
Registration Number 2102220003

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2014

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Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni
Universitas Negeri Medan

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Universitas Negeri Medan

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks ALLAH SWT for His blessing, mercy, and guidance in giving the
writer full strength and patience to complete this thesis. This thesis is aimed to
fulfill one of the requirements to obtain the S1 degree of Sarjana Sastra at English
Department in Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
In accomplishing this thesis, the writer has been helped by a lot of beloved
people especially for the loyal supporters. Therefore, the writer would like to
express her sincere and greatest gratitude to:


Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State Universityof



Medan.



andArts.


Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages

Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Headof English Department, Rika
S.Pd, M.Hum., Secretary of English Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the
Head of English Literature Department, as Academic Adviser and as
Examiner., and Dra. Masitowarni, M.Ed., the Head of English Education



Department.



Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S., his Thesis Adviser.



M.Hum, his Examiner.




and guided the writer during academic years.



writer.

Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M.Pd and Dr. Anni Holila Pulungan,

All beloved lecturers in English and Literature Department who advised

Mam Euisfor her kind help in providing academic administrations to the

The best family of the author, hisbelovedMom, Mrs. Fariany, his beloved
Dad,Mr. Mulyono, his beloved sisters Sri Lestary and Sity Rahmawaty,
and his beloved brother Tigo Dyan Fahry, for their endless love, support,
encouragement, motivation, prayers, and laughter shared during the

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writer’s life. He loves them so much. Also his great family for the support



during the completion of this thesis.
The writer`s best colleagues: for the friendship, love, helps, laugh and
tears, and for all the sweet and happy memories shared. And all the rebels
of ELITE (English Literature) A and B 2010 : Okky, Budi, Quin,
Luthfi, Audra, Adrian, Hatoropan, Mikael, Tary, Uze, Nia, Indah,
Detya, Nanda , Monic, Ayu, Vivien, David, Fathur, Afdi, Jaka, for all



the togetherness in fun, and all of my friends in State University of Medan.
All Students of English Department in Applied Linguistics A and B
Reg’10, that could not be mentioned one by one. Thanks for their support,






info, assistance, and best moment ever during the academic years.
All friends in My Village (Bentar Kersik). Thanks for their support,
Spirit, and best moment during the years.
Special thanks to Okky for supporting the writer because he has lent a
laptop during the writer does this thesis.
Everyone who has been involved directly or indirectly in the writing of
this thesis that cannot be mentioned one by one, and thanks forall the
memories that thewriter got during his study at his beloved campus. Thank
you very much.
Without their deep and sympathetic understanding, this thesis could not

complete, may all the assistance can be their charity.

Medan, September 2014
The writer,

Eko EfFeri
Reg. Number: 210 222 0003


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ABSTRACT
Eko Ef Feri. 2014. The Characterization of the Main Character in the Land
of Five Towers Novel. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State
University of Medan.
This research was focused on the method that was used by the author to develop
the characterization of the main character in “the Land of Five Towers “Novel.
The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data
were collected from the narrations and the dialogues in the novel. The findings of
the thesis were 75 occurrences which telling method presented through the use of
names (1), appearance (2), the author (29). And showing method presented
through conversation (4), the location and the situation of the event or
conversation (0), what character does (13), the intonation of sound and the
vocabulary (4), and the mental quality of the character (22).The most dominant
method was showing method (57,8%) because the future of the main character
was unpredictable so the author develops his character by using showing method
in order the readers understand how the main character become a success person
with his half-decision.
Keywords : Characterization, The Land of Five Towers, Novel.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks ALLAH SWT for His blessing, mercy, and guidance in giving the
writer full strength and patience to complete this thesis. This thesis is aimed to
fulfill one of the requirements to obtain the S1 degree of Sarjana Sastra at English
Department in Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
In accomplishing this thesis, the writer has been helped by a lot of beloved
people especially for the loyal supporters. Therefore, the writer would like to
express her sincere and greatest gratitude to:


Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State Universityof



Medan.



andArts.

Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages

Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Headof English Department, Rika
S.Pd, M.Hum., Secretary of English Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the
Head of English Literature Department, as Academic Adviser and as
Examiner., and Dra. Masitowarni, M.Ed., the Head of English Education





Department.
Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S., his Thesis Adviser.
Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M.Pd and Dr. Anni Holila Pulungan,



M.Hum, his Examiner.



and guided the writer during academic years.



writer.

All beloved lecturers in English and Literature Department who advised

Mam Euisfor her kind help in providing academic administrations to the

The best family of the author, hisbelovedMom, Mrs. Fariany, his beloved
Dad,Mr. Mulyono, his beloved sisters Sri Lestary and Sity Rahmawaty,
and his beloved brother Tigo Dyan Fahry, for their endless love, support,
encouragement, motivation, prayers, and laughter shared during the

ii

writer’s life. He loves them so much. Also his great family for the support



during the completion of this thesis.
The writer`s best colleagues: for the friendship, love, helps, laugh and
tears, and for all the sweet and happy memories shared. And all the rebels
of ELITE (English Literature) A and B 2010 : Okky, Budi, Quin,
Luthfi, Audra, Adrian, Hatoropan, Mikael, Tary, Uze, Nia, Indah,
Detya, Nanda , Monic, Ayu, Vivien, David, Fathur, Afdi, Jaka, for all



the togetherness in fun, and all of my friends in State University of Medan.
All Students of English Department in Applied Linguistics A and B
Reg’10, that could not be mentioned one by one. Thanks for their support,





info, assistance, and best moment ever during the academic years.
All friends in My Village (Bentar Kersik). Thanks for their support,
Spirit, and best moment during the years.
Special thanks to Okky for supporting the writer because he has lent a
laptop during the writer does this thesis.
Everyone who has been involved directly or indirectly in the writing of
this thesis that cannot be mentioned one by one, and thanks forall the
memories that thewriter got during his study at his beloved campus. Thank
you very much.
Without their deep and sympathetic understanding, this thesis could not

complete, may all the assistance can be their charity.

Medan, September 2014
The writer,

Eko EfFeri
Reg. Number: 210 222 0003

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LIST OF APPENDICES
Pages
APPENDIX I

The Analysis of the characterization of the main
Character ..............................................................................

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
Language is very important in our life, because language is used to express
our inner thoughts and emotion, to learn to communicate with others, to fulfill our
wants and needs, etc. In general, Languages can be exposed into two ways,
namely written language and spoken language. Written language can be found in
novel, newspaper, poetry, comic, etc, while spoken language can be found in
speech, dialogue, song, etc.
Nowadays, novel becomes very popular in society. People enjoy novel not
only as an entertainment, but also as a media in transferring information and
culture. Novel itself is a visual medium used to express ideas. The text in novel
indicates the dialogue, narration and other information. The characterization of the
main character in the novel cannot be separated from the novel because most of
the people read the novel because they want to know how the characterization of
the main character is.
A novel has an intrinsic element, however not all of the readers know
about it. Sometime the reader read the novel because they just want to know how
the story is, just because they want to refresh their mind by reading the novel.
In terms of studying literature on the reflection of human experience, the
writer deals with intrinsic elements of the work. Nurgiyantoro (2003:23) states
that intrinsic element such as theme, character and characterization, setting, plot,
style and point of view.

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The characterization of the character is very often drives the readers to be
interested to read the novel. However, sometime the readers find it difficult to
appreciate the technique of the characterizations in literary works especially in the
novel. Minderop (2005:6) says that there are two methods in developing a
characterization in a novel, they are: a) telling or direct method; and b) showing or
indirect method. She explains that telling method is when the author tells about
the characterization of a character directly but in showing method the author tells
it indirectly. So in showingmethod, we have to try to know it hardly.
With those explanations above, the writer is interested in analyzing the
characterization of The Land of Five Towers novel by Faudy based on intrinsic
element of the novel. The writer does this study because the writer is interested to
know more about the intrinsic element of this novel especially with the method
that is used by the author of the novel to develop the characterization of the main
character. It is interested because the writer realizes in our daily life, sometime
when we read a novel we do not know about how the author develops the
characterization of the main character because the author of the novel does not
describe the intrinsic novel and the characterization clearly.
The writer chose The Land of Five Towers novel as source data because
this novel is the one of the best seller novel in Indonesian, it also has won several
awards, including the 2010 Khatulistiwa Literary Award and the 2010 favorite
fiction and book from the Indonesian Readers Awards. The author of the novel
also was awarded The Liputan 6 Award SCTV for the education and motivation
category. So, this novel is interesting to be analyzed.

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B. The Problems of the Study
1. What methods were used by the author to develop the characterization of the
main character?
2. Which was the dominant method that used the author to develop the
characterization of the main character in novel?
3. Why was it dominantly used in the novel?

C. The Scope of the Study
There were many things to be discussed in the Ahmad Faudi’s novel the
land of five towers, such as analyzing the moral lesson of the novel, the intrinsic
and extrinsic value of the novel, the insanity of the main character, the
presupposition of the main character, etc. But the discussion will be focused on
the telling and showing method in novel.The source of data will be taken from
all the pages of novel entitle The Land of Five Towers.

D. The Objectives of the Study
Related to the problems of the study formulated above, the objectives of
the study were:
1. find out the methods found to develop the characterization of the main
character in Faudi’s novel The Land Of Five Towers
2. find out the dominantly method that used the author to develop the
characterization of the main character in Faudy’s Novel The Land of Five
Towers

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3. describe the dominant method that was used by the author to develop the
characterization of the main character in the Faudy’s novel The Land of
Five Towers

E. The Significance of the Study
The findings of the study were expected to:
1. help the readers especially to literature student in order to increase the
quality of mastery appreciation of the literary works.
2. arouse reader’s interest in this novel and continue to find pleasure in reading
literary work.
3. this study also useful to understand the human characterizations in facing
and solving the problem in the real life.

CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
After analyzing the using of the methods that is used by author in
developing the characterization of the characters in the Land of Five Towers
novel, the conclusions can be drawn as follows:
1. There are two methods that is used by author in developing the
characterization of the characters in the Land of Five Towers novel which
are telling method (characterization through the use of names,
characterization through appearance, and characterization by the author).
And

showing

method

(characterization

through

conversation;,

characterization through the location and the situation of the event or
conversation, characterization through what characters do, the intonation of
sound and the vocabulary, and characterization through the mental quality
of the character).
2. The dominant method that is used the author to develop the characterization
of the main character is showing method in the Land of Five Towers novel is
showing method with the 43 occurrences (57,8%).
3. The showing method is the dominant method in developing the
characterization of the main character in the Land of Five Towers novel.
This happens because the journey of main character’s life is unpredictable,
so the author of the novel tries to make the reader’s perception by the

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showing the main character does, though the conversation, etc. so that the
readers can know how the main character can be a success man . The main
character is never ever gives up in finding her future life. He has a magic
word “Man Jaddah wa Jaddah” means he who gives his all will surely
succeed.
4. The characterization through the location and situation hasn’t percentage.

B. Suggestions
Related to the conclusions, it is well to suggest:
1. For the readers, it is better to understand the methods that is used by author
in developing the characterization of the characters in the Land of Five
Towers novel, so they will know how the way of the author in developing a
characterization of the characters.
2. For other researches, this thesis can be used as reference when they decide
to discuss the same topic for their thesis.

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