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INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Background of Study

Literature is a kind of art, usually written offer pleasure and illumination. Literature is also composition that tells us stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze advocate ideas. Literature can help us to grow both personally and intellectually. Literature enables us to recognize human dreams and struggle in different places and times that would never know. Roberts 1993:68 According to Jacobs 1993:1-3 literature provides the comparative basic from which we can see worthiness in the aims of all people, and it helps us to see the beauty of the world around us. Literature may be classified into four categories or genres 1 prose fiction, 2 poetry, 3 drama, 4 non fiction. Among the forms of prose fiction, in completing her study the writer chose novel to be description. Prose fiction is narration, relating or recounting of a sequence of events or action. Work of fiction usually focuses on one or a few major characters who and deal with problems. While fiction like an imaginative literature may introduce true historical details, it is not real history. Novel is a story that communicates silently at whatever moment and whatever pace whether quickly or slowly and meditative the readers desire. Stanford 2003:35 was stated that a novel is a picture of real life and manners and of the time in which it was written. To create a fictional world that seems real to the reader the novels contain elements of literature they are: theme, Universitas Sumatera Utara plot, character, and setting. In this paper the writer would like to explain about these elements in the novel entitled Man on Fire by Brian Helgeland.

1.2 The Objective of Study

The writer has purposes when the writer decided to write this paper. The writer wants to explain about the elements of literature that consist of: theme, plot, character, and setting.

1.3 The Scope of Study

To avoid the readers getting confused in writing this paper, the writer would like to limit the study only in description of the elements of literature in Man on Fire novel that contain of theme, plot, character, and setting.

1.4 The Significance of Study

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