Definition of Character Kinds of Character

aspects of the character: personalities, ways of thinking, or outlook from the beginning until the end of the story. Likewise, Forster 1981: 20-21 differentiates two kinds of character. They are flat and round characters. A flat character never changes until the end of the story. “A single idea or quality” usually represents a flat character. In a flat character, there are no much individualizing details. The personality of a flat character is not described in details. A round character is complex in temperament and motivation and is represented with subtle particularly. It means that the character may change in significant ways, usually in dealing with its conflict. Round character makes the readers hard to guess and often surprise the readers. Not different from what has been stated by Forster, Holman and Harmon 1986: 81 divide the characters into static and dynamic. A static character is a character that has little changes or does not change at all when a thing happens to herhim. Not like the static character, a round character changes whenever a thing happens. We can say that the changes are the consequences of the action. Here, the theories of character such as flat and round character, dynamic and static character, etc are needed to analyze how Sister Regina serves as a character in the novel Then Came Heaven. 2.2.2 Theory of Characterization 2.2.2.1 Meaning of Characterization One character is different from one to another. Every character has its particular personality. Here, the way to understand each character is through characterization. Characterization, according to Rohrberger and Woods 1971: 20, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI is the process by which an author creates a character. Through characterization, the author uses some methods to show what the character looks like in the story.

2.2.2.2 Methods of Characterization

Murphy states nine methods of characterization 1972: 161-173. These methods describe how an author conveys to the readers about the characters and the personalities so that the characters understand them. Those are: a. Personal description The author describes a person’s appearances and clothes. It tells the details; build, skin, hair, eyes, and face, in accurate description 1972: 161. b. Characters as seen by another character The author describes a character through the eyes and opinions of another. The reader gets it, as it were, a reflected image 1972: 162. c. Speech The author can give us an insight into the character of one of the persons in the book through what the person says. Whenever a person speaks, whenever he is in conversation with another, whenever he puts forward an opinion, he is giving us some clues to his character 1972: 164. d. Past life By letting the reader learn something about a person’s past life the author can give us a clue to events that have helped to shape a person’s character. This can be done by direct comment by the author through the person’s thought, through his conversation or through medium of another person 1972: 166. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI