The Moral Values as Reflected By Gump’s Character in Winston Groom’s

13 Characterization therefore is central to the factional experience, and the principle objective of the creation of characters in novels is to enable us to understand and to experience people. Characterization also appears to loose sight of fact. Henkle, 1977: 86-87. Murphy in Understanding Unseen: An Introduction to English Poetry and The English Novel for Overseas Student also has classification that differ the representation of the character. There are nine ways in which the author presents the character. Those are: 1. Personal Description The author can describe a person’s appearance and clothes 1972: 161. This characterization deals with physical appearance such as face, body, the facial expressions or the outfits she or he wears. It is important because each character has speifi appearance in the novel or play. 2. Speech A person’s character is known through her style in speaking or the way she talks to other people or the way she gives an opinion. The author an give insight to the character of one of the person in the story through what the person says 1972: 164. Here the author gives the reader some clues in analyzing the character through the character’s conversation or opinion. 3. Conversation as seen by another. Through this characterization, the author can describe the character through the eyes and opinion of another. The author also gives the reader the impressions or the sense such as impression of shape, cleanliness, firmness, smoothness, and color, 14 also the sense of strangeness and mystery. 4. Reaction It is the way to understand a person’s character by seeing at how the person in the reacts to various situations and events in his life. It gives some views to the reader to watch the character closely. The author can also give us a clue to a person’s character by letting us to know how that person reacts to various situations and events. 5. Direct Comments The author can describe or comment on a person’s character directly 1972: 170. This method gives direct explanation of the character briefly and clearly. 6. Thought It is the way to know a person’s character through what a character is thinking about 1972: 171. The author guides reader to know what the person’s mind is and what the person’s feeling is. And sometimes he can tell about the mind of different character in the novel. 7. Conversation of others, the conversation of other people can be the way of the author to tell the reader on the persons character by showing the dialogue among other characters and other utterance on that person. 8. The past life, the author uses to tell the characters past life, by commenting out directly, describing the persons mind, persons dialogue, and the medium among another person. 9. Mannerism, we can understand the character through the way heshe behaves,