CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Novel as a Literary Work
There are some definitions about literature here; the writer quotes some of them. According to Cuddon, literature is a vague term, which usually denotes works, which
belong to the major genres: epic, drama, lyric, novel, short story and Ode. If we describe something as “literature” as opposed to anything else, the term carries with it qualitative
connotations which imply that work in question has superior qualities that it is well above the ordinary run of written works. Literary work is an application of feeling and language
toward real life one of the literary work form is a novel. In literary works, novel is a story in prose about imaginary people long enough to cover a book. Novel is a fictitious prose
narrative of considerable length, portraying characters, action, and scenes representative of real life in a plot of more or less intricacy.
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Novel as one of literary work According to Cuddon, novel derived from Italian novella “tale, piece of news”, and now applied to a wide variety of writings whose only
common attributes is that they are extended pieces of prose fiction. These seem to be fewer, and fewer rules, but it would probably be generally agreed that. In contemporary
practice, a novel will be between 60-70.000 words and say 200.000.
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The other definition of novel is from Merriam Webster’s Novel is a fictional prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively
with human experience through a connected source of events involving a group of person in a specific setting.
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Furthermore, Richard in his book explained that novel has been specially crafted and constructed. Any novel therefore can be described as a world specially made in
words by an author. Any novel exists in the way it does because an author has chosen to put it together in that particular way.
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Based on the definition above, it can be concluded that novel derived from Italian novella, a fictional prose narrative of considerable length that deals with human
experience, connected sequence of events that has been crafted and constructed. A novel will be between 60-70.000 words and say 200.000.
B. Character and Characterization
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