AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLE USED BY THE PRESENTER OF OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
AN ANALYSIS OF PERCY JACKSON’S ANGER IN RICK
RIORDAN’S NOVEL “ PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS :
THE LIGHTNING THIEF ”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
ERVIRA ROSANA ROSALIA
09360165
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHING TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMADIYAH MALANG
2013
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrohmanirrokhim
In the name of Allah the beneficent and merciful, praised to be Allah
which Him only we worship and which Him only we ask for help. Thanks to
Allah the Lord of the world who has provided me the mercies and blessing
until the writer able to finish my thesis. Peace be up on to our prophet
Muhammad SAW, who was become the messenger of Allah who has brought
the human from the darkness into the brightness.
The writer of this thesis would not have been completed without some
contributions and supports from many people. The writer deeply thanks to
Dra. Thathit Manon Andini, M. Hum, her first advisor and Drs. Imam
Mahfudz, her second advisor who has spent their time in correcting, guiding
and giving their idea also suggestion
and criticism
to this thesis with
patience.
Then, the writer also would like to convey great thanks to my beloved
mother (Indah Yani) and father (Ir. Endan Sundana) for your endless love and
pray affection, prays precious advice and everything. without you I am
nothing. May Allah bless you. Amen. Then, thanks to my beloved brother
(Erick Hemawan, AMF.), sister(Nur Fitria Sari, Amd. Farm) for the advice,
the cheerfulness. My beloved friends thanks for supporting and making me
smiles. And, thanks to my solace in out of sight for endless love, support and
nice memories when we are together. Thanks for always stand by me and for
being the part of my life.
Finally, the writer realizes that thesis still needs the constructive
criticisms and suggestion from the readers in order to make it perfect and
hopefully it can be useful for the readers, especially for the English
Department students.
Malang, July 2013
Ervira Rosana Rosalia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL .........................................................................................
i
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................
ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION .............................................................
iii
ABSTRACT ...........................................................................................
iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................
v
TABEL OF CONTENTS ......................................................................
vii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study ...................................................................
1
1.2 Statement of the problem ..................................................................
3
1.3 Purpose of the study ..........................................................................
3
1.4 Significance of the study ...................................................................
3
1.5 Scope and limitation..........................................................................
4
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms .............................................................
4
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Literature ...........................................................................................
6
2.2 Novel .................................................................................................
7
2.3 Elements of Novel .............................................................................
7
2.3.1 Character ........................................................................................
8
2.3.2 Plot .................................................................................................
9
2.3.3 Conflict...........................................................................................
10
vii
2.3.4 Theme.............................................................................................
10
2.3.5 Setting ............................................................................................
10
2.4 The meaning of anger........................................................................
11
2.5Types of anger expression..................................................................
11
2.6 Cause of anger ...................................................................................
12
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research design .................................................................................
14
3.2 Approach ...........................................................................................
15
3.2.1 Objective Approach .......................................................................
15
3.2.2 Mimetic Approach ........................................................................
15
3.2.3 Expressive Approach .....................................................................
15
3.2.4 Pragmatic Approach .......................................................................
15
3.3 The object of study ............................................................................
16
3.4 Data Collection..................................................................................
16
3.5 Data Analysis ...................................................................................
16
CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Finding...............................................................................
18
4.1.1 Cause of Percy Jackson’s anger ....................................................
18
4.1.1.1 Nancy disturbed Grover ..............................................................
19
4.1.1.2 Nancy disturbed in the Museum .........................................
20
4.1.1.3 Percy was stressed after visiting Museum ..........................
21
4.1.1.4 The bull monster(Minotaur) killed Sally ............................
22
4.1.1.5 Clarisse and her friends’ attacked Percy .............................
23
4.1.2 The expression of Percy Jackson’s anger.......................................
24
4.1.2.1 Percy pushed Nancy to the fountain...................................
26
4.1.2.2 Percy called Mr.Nicoll as an old sot ..................................
26
4.1.2.3 Percy attacked Minotaur bravely .......................................
27
4.1.2.4 Percy attacked Clarisse and her friends’ ............................
28
4.1.3 The effect of Percy Jackson’s anger on himself.............................
28
4.1.3.1 Percy got confused .............................................................
29
4.1.3.2 Percy dropped out from Yancy Academy ..........................
30
4.1.3.3 Percy was safe from Minotaur ...........................................
30
4.1.3.4 Percy was admitted by Poseidon ........................................
31
4.2 Discussions........................................................................................
32
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion ........................................................................................
34
5.2 Suggestion ........................................................................................
35
REFRENCES
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
REFERENCES
Abrams, M. H. 1999.A Glossary of Literary Terms, Seventh Edition. New York: Earl
McPeek.
Ary,Donald., et al. 2006. Introduction to Research in Education.United States:
Thomson Wadsworth.
Jones Jr, Edward H. 1968. Outline of literature. New York. Macmillan Company.
Kearns, George. 1984. American Literature. New York: Macmilan Publishing
Company.
Kennedy,X.J. 1983. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama.USA:Little, Brown and Company.
Koesnosoebroto, Basuki. 1988.The Anathomy of Prose Fiction. Jakarta: Departemen
Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi.
Meyer, Michael. 1990. The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Second Edition.
Bedford Ba : Martin’s Press.
Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary.2000. New York: Oxford University Press.
Özyeşil, Zümra. 2012. Five Factor Personality Traits as Predictor of Trait Anger and
Anger Expression. (online), (
) on
26/12/12 at 01:00 A.M.
Quin, Edward. 2006.A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms,Second
Edition.USA: An imprint of Infobase Publishing.
Webster’s, Meriam. 1995.Encyclopedia of Literature.USA: Meriam-Webster, Inc.
William, V. 1981. A History of English Literature. Great Britain: Basil Blackwell
Publisher Limited.
Bhave and Saini. 2009. Anger Management. India: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the aspects dealing with introduction. These aspects are
background of study, statement of problems, purpose of study, significance of study,
scope and limitation and definition of key term.
1.1
Background of study
Nowsdays most people spend their time and get pleasure by reading a
literary work. They assume that literary work is really enjoyable and comforting;
however, it is hard to understand. Actually, the purposes of reading literary works are
to increase an insight and new experience for the reader about value, culture,
language, and knowledge.
Literary work is a branch of literature. According to Merriam Webster’s
(1995:686), “Literature is writings in prose or verse; expecially, writings having
excellence of from or expression and presenting ideas of permanent or universal
interest”. Therefore literature is an imaginative words that express the feelings and
experiences of human aspect.
Reading literature is really enjoyable, comforting but not easy to understand
because the concepts of the content is packed by an imaginative words. Then reading
literature needs a long time to understand the meaning.
Moreover, the author provides human problems and solution. The purpose is
to increase an insight and new experience for the reader. There are many kinds of
literature. One of them is prose.
Prose is the work of the author's imagination, which contains about life
experiences or interesting things that sometimes it is difficult to predict. There are
some important things to study a prose, they are reading the whole story and also
undesrtand about the elements of the novel such as plot, setting, theme, character,
point of view and conflicts in order to know what the author tells about.
In this thesis the writer focuses on analyzing a novel. Therefore, the writer
chose thenovel “Percy Jackson &the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ” because of
two reasons. The first reason is that novel is ablockbuster bestseller in 2005 for
children and adolescent. The second is the author’s success in making the fiction
story a real life story. Rick Riordan as the author describes about the Greek God
mythology in modern way. He used his own version about the Greek Gods
mythology. He describedthe main character, Percy,as a demigod. Demigod is a child
of the God and a human being. And, Percy is the child of Poseidon and a human
being.
The story began with the misunderstanding between Zeus and Poseidon.
Zeus accused Poseidon to have stolen the lightning bolt and gave it to Percy. The
lightning bolt was the symbol of Zeus’s power. Then Zeus asked that Poseidon
return the bolt by the summer solstice. Therefore Zeus always disturbed Percy
wherever he was. Because of it, Percy had problems in his life which made him
angry.
Therefore, in this thesis the writer examined Percy Jackson’s anger because
of the problems which involved him. Anger is an act done by a person because of
being hurt, oppressed and under pressure.
Based on the explanation above, the writer focused on Percy Jackson’s
anger. It is supported by the fact that there are a lot of conflicts that are influenced by
the anger in this novel. So this study is entitled An Analysis of Percy Jackson’s
Anger in Rick Riordan’s Novel “Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The
Lightning Thief”
1.2
Statement of the problems
Based on the background above, the writer formulated the problems as
follows :
1.
What are the causes of Percy Jackson’s anger in the novel of “ Percy
Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ” ?
1.3
2.
How does Percy Jackson express his anger in the novel ?
3.
What is the effect of Percy Jackson’s anger on himself ?
Purpose of the study
The purposes are formulated as follows :
1.
To know the causes of Percy’s anger in the novel of “ Percy Jackson
&the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ”
1.4
2.
To describe Percy’s ways to express his anger in the novel
3.
To know the effect of Percy’s anger on himself
Significance of study
The writer hopes that the result of this analysis will motivate the readers to
have interest in analyzing literary works, especially novels. Then, this analysis is also
expected to be useful for the students who want to analayze the same subject as
guidance of how to do a similar research. Besides, this study may also be useful for
English Department students of Muhammadiyah University of Malang to have
desirability in reading novels so that they get more knowledge and enrich the
vocabulary. This study is hoped to give information to those who study literary
works, especially about novel. It is also expected to the able to encourage the students
of Muhammadiyah University of Malang to give more attention on literature, so the
teaching learing process can run well.
1.5
Scope and limitation
This study has a scope of discussion of the novel written by Rick Riordans “
Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ”. There are many topics that
can be analyzed in this novel such as character, conflict, theme, plot, point of view
but in this thesis the writer only focuses on Percy Jackson’s anger.
1.6
Definition of key terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation, it is necessary for
the writer to provide the following definition of key terms:
1.6.1
Analysisis study of something by examining its parts (Oxford
Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, 2000:13).
1.6.2
Anger is one of the five basic emotions of any individual and it
is also a feeling that most experience in their daily life
(Cenkseven in Education and Science,2012:322)
1.6.3
Novel is is an extended piece of narrative prose fiction which
usually expresses the large value of segments of society.
RIORDAN’S NOVEL “ PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS :
THE LIGHTNING THIEF ”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
ERVIRA ROSANA ROSALIA
09360165
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHING TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMADIYAH MALANG
2013
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrohmanirrokhim
In the name of Allah the beneficent and merciful, praised to be Allah
which Him only we worship and which Him only we ask for help. Thanks to
Allah the Lord of the world who has provided me the mercies and blessing
until the writer able to finish my thesis. Peace be up on to our prophet
Muhammad SAW, who was become the messenger of Allah who has brought
the human from the darkness into the brightness.
The writer of this thesis would not have been completed without some
contributions and supports from many people. The writer deeply thanks to
Dra. Thathit Manon Andini, M. Hum, her first advisor and Drs. Imam
Mahfudz, her second advisor who has spent their time in correcting, guiding
and giving their idea also suggestion
and criticism
to this thesis with
patience.
Then, the writer also would like to convey great thanks to my beloved
mother (Indah Yani) and father (Ir. Endan Sundana) for your endless love and
pray affection, prays precious advice and everything. without you I am
nothing. May Allah bless you. Amen. Then, thanks to my beloved brother
(Erick Hemawan, AMF.), sister(Nur Fitria Sari, Amd. Farm) for the advice,
the cheerfulness. My beloved friends thanks for supporting and making me
smiles. And, thanks to my solace in out of sight for endless love, support and
nice memories when we are together. Thanks for always stand by me and for
being the part of my life.
Finally, the writer realizes that thesis still needs the constructive
criticisms and suggestion from the readers in order to make it perfect and
hopefully it can be useful for the readers, especially for the English
Department students.
Malang, July 2013
Ervira Rosana Rosalia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL .........................................................................................
i
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................
ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION .............................................................
iii
ABSTRACT ...........................................................................................
iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................
v
TABEL OF CONTENTS ......................................................................
vii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study ...................................................................
1
1.2 Statement of the problem ..................................................................
3
1.3 Purpose of the study ..........................................................................
3
1.4 Significance of the study ...................................................................
3
1.5 Scope and limitation..........................................................................
4
1.6 Definition of the Key Terms .............................................................
4
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Literature ...........................................................................................
6
2.2 Novel .................................................................................................
7
2.3 Elements of Novel .............................................................................
7
2.3.1 Character ........................................................................................
8
2.3.2 Plot .................................................................................................
9
2.3.3 Conflict...........................................................................................
10
vii
2.3.4 Theme.............................................................................................
10
2.3.5 Setting ............................................................................................
10
2.4 The meaning of anger........................................................................
11
2.5Types of anger expression..................................................................
11
2.6 Cause of anger ...................................................................................
12
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research design .................................................................................
14
3.2 Approach ...........................................................................................
15
3.2.1 Objective Approach .......................................................................
15
3.2.2 Mimetic Approach ........................................................................
15
3.2.3 Expressive Approach .....................................................................
15
3.2.4 Pragmatic Approach .......................................................................
15
3.3 The object of study ............................................................................
16
3.4 Data Collection..................................................................................
16
3.5 Data Analysis ...................................................................................
16
CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Finding...............................................................................
18
4.1.1 Cause of Percy Jackson’s anger ....................................................
18
4.1.1.1 Nancy disturbed Grover ..............................................................
19
4.1.1.2 Nancy disturbed in the Museum .........................................
20
4.1.1.3 Percy was stressed after visiting Museum ..........................
21
4.1.1.4 The bull monster(Minotaur) killed Sally ............................
22
4.1.1.5 Clarisse and her friends’ attacked Percy .............................
23
4.1.2 The expression of Percy Jackson’s anger.......................................
24
4.1.2.1 Percy pushed Nancy to the fountain...................................
26
4.1.2.2 Percy called Mr.Nicoll as an old sot ..................................
26
4.1.2.3 Percy attacked Minotaur bravely .......................................
27
4.1.2.4 Percy attacked Clarisse and her friends’ ............................
28
4.1.3 The effect of Percy Jackson’s anger on himself.............................
28
4.1.3.1 Percy got confused .............................................................
29
4.1.3.2 Percy dropped out from Yancy Academy ..........................
30
4.1.3.3 Percy was safe from Minotaur ...........................................
30
4.1.3.4 Percy was admitted by Poseidon ........................................
31
4.2 Discussions........................................................................................
32
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion ........................................................................................
34
5.2 Suggestion ........................................................................................
35
REFRENCES
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
REFERENCES
Abrams, M. H. 1999.A Glossary of Literary Terms, Seventh Edition. New York: Earl
McPeek.
Ary,Donald., et al. 2006. Introduction to Research in Education.United States:
Thomson Wadsworth.
Jones Jr, Edward H. 1968. Outline of literature. New York. Macmillan Company.
Kearns, George. 1984. American Literature. New York: Macmilan Publishing
Company.
Kennedy,X.J. 1983. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama.USA:Little, Brown and Company.
Koesnosoebroto, Basuki. 1988.The Anathomy of Prose Fiction. Jakarta: Departemen
Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi.
Meyer, Michael. 1990. The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Second Edition.
Bedford Ba : Martin’s Press.
Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary.2000. New York: Oxford University Press.
Özyeşil, Zümra. 2012. Five Factor Personality Traits as Predictor of Trait Anger and
Anger Expression. (online), (
) on
26/12/12 at 01:00 A.M.
Quin, Edward. 2006.A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms,Second
Edition.USA: An imprint of Infobase Publishing.
Webster’s, Meriam. 1995.Encyclopedia of Literature.USA: Meriam-Webster, Inc.
William, V. 1981. A History of English Literature. Great Britain: Basil Blackwell
Publisher Limited.
Bhave and Saini. 2009. Anger Management. India: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the aspects dealing with introduction. These aspects are
background of study, statement of problems, purpose of study, significance of study,
scope and limitation and definition of key term.
1.1
Background of study
Nowsdays most people spend their time and get pleasure by reading a
literary work. They assume that literary work is really enjoyable and comforting;
however, it is hard to understand. Actually, the purposes of reading literary works are
to increase an insight and new experience for the reader about value, culture,
language, and knowledge.
Literary work is a branch of literature. According to Merriam Webster’s
(1995:686), “Literature is writings in prose or verse; expecially, writings having
excellence of from or expression and presenting ideas of permanent or universal
interest”. Therefore literature is an imaginative words that express the feelings and
experiences of human aspect.
Reading literature is really enjoyable, comforting but not easy to understand
because the concepts of the content is packed by an imaginative words. Then reading
literature needs a long time to understand the meaning.
Moreover, the author provides human problems and solution. The purpose is
to increase an insight and new experience for the reader. There are many kinds of
literature. One of them is prose.
Prose is the work of the author's imagination, which contains about life
experiences or interesting things that sometimes it is difficult to predict. There are
some important things to study a prose, they are reading the whole story and also
undesrtand about the elements of the novel such as plot, setting, theme, character,
point of view and conflicts in order to know what the author tells about.
In this thesis the writer focuses on analyzing a novel. Therefore, the writer
chose thenovel “Percy Jackson &the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ” because of
two reasons. The first reason is that novel is ablockbuster bestseller in 2005 for
children and adolescent. The second is the author’s success in making the fiction
story a real life story. Rick Riordan as the author describes about the Greek God
mythology in modern way. He used his own version about the Greek Gods
mythology. He describedthe main character, Percy,as a demigod. Demigod is a child
of the God and a human being. And, Percy is the child of Poseidon and a human
being.
The story began with the misunderstanding between Zeus and Poseidon.
Zeus accused Poseidon to have stolen the lightning bolt and gave it to Percy. The
lightning bolt was the symbol of Zeus’s power. Then Zeus asked that Poseidon
return the bolt by the summer solstice. Therefore Zeus always disturbed Percy
wherever he was. Because of it, Percy had problems in his life which made him
angry.
Therefore, in this thesis the writer examined Percy Jackson’s anger because
of the problems which involved him. Anger is an act done by a person because of
being hurt, oppressed and under pressure.
Based on the explanation above, the writer focused on Percy Jackson’s
anger. It is supported by the fact that there are a lot of conflicts that are influenced by
the anger in this novel. So this study is entitled An Analysis of Percy Jackson’s
Anger in Rick Riordan’s Novel “Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The
Lightning Thief”
1.2
Statement of the problems
Based on the background above, the writer formulated the problems as
follows :
1.
What are the causes of Percy Jackson’s anger in the novel of “ Percy
Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ” ?
1.3
2.
How does Percy Jackson express his anger in the novel ?
3.
What is the effect of Percy Jackson’s anger on himself ?
Purpose of the study
The purposes are formulated as follows :
1.
To know the causes of Percy’s anger in the novel of “ Percy Jackson
&the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ”
1.4
2.
To describe Percy’s ways to express his anger in the novel
3.
To know the effect of Percy’s anger on himself
Significance of study
The writer hopes that the result of this analysis will motivate the readers to
have interest in analyzing literary works, especially novels. Then, this analysis is also
expected to be useful for the students who want to analayze the same subject as
guidance of how to do a similar research. Besides, this study may also be useful for
English Department students of Muhammadiyah University of Malang to have
desirability in reading novels so that they get more knowledge and enrich the
vocabulary. This study is hoped to give information to those who study literary
works, especially about novel. It is also expected to the able to encourage the students
of Muhammadiyah University of Malang to give more attention on literature, so the
teaching learing process can run well.
1.5
Scope and limitation
This study has a scope of discussion of the novel written by Rick Riordans “
Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief ”. There are many topics that
can be analyzed in this novel such as character, conflict, theme, plot, point of view
but in this thesis the writer only focuses on Percy Jackson’s anger.
1.6
Definition of key terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation, it is necessary for
the writer to provide the following definition of key terms:
1.6.1
Analysisis study of something by examining its parts (Oxford
Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, 2000:13).
1.6.2
Anger is one of the five basic emotions of any individual and it
is also a feeling that most experience in their daily life
(Cenkseven in Education and Science,2012:322)
1.6.3
Novel is is an extended piece of narrative prose fiction which
usually expresses the large value of segments of society.