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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which is written. The romance, in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen. 1 Novel as story in prose about imaginary people long enough to cover a book, or as an imaginative story book, novel was a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length, portraying character, action, and scene representative of real life in a plot of more or less intrigue. Fiction is formed from Greek language fiction, victim that means to form, to make, to told and to create, the shot story as a part of novel which has the element in its form, that is the narration, presentation of point of view, the aim of the narration, the correlation between the writer also the work, and metaphysic qualification. 2 “A novel is a long work of fiction. A mayor novel often has a complicated plot, many mayors and minor characters a significant theme and several a complicated settings” 3 A novel analyzed by the writer is the Strangers on a Train created By Patricia Highsmith because the writer saw that Charles Anthony Bruno turned out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulated Guy into swapping murders with him, “some people are better off dead, Bruno remarks, like your wife and my father”, Bruno said. As Bruno carried out his twisted plan, Guy was trapped in 1 Rene Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature, London: 1997, p. 280. 2 Nyoman Kuthe Ratna, Teori, Metode, dan Teknik Penulisan Sastra Yogyakarta, 2004, p. 298. 3 Ellen Bowler, literature, New Jersey, Hall, Inc, 1994, p. 166. 11 Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody was capable of murder. In this novel, the writer will consider observing that problem by looking on the character’s characterization. The writer chooses this novel because it is a story about murder, which is taken from the reality or mimesis of reality world. Literary work is a picture of reality world that is pictured on the canvas of author’s fictional world. Author is a person who has the authority in writing a literary work. It can be seen from the world ‘author’ that means a man with authority. Environment factors such as culture, social, politic, economic, history and author’s life have some important role in the process of literary work creating that has been created by the author’s imagination. Every literary work has an ideology. Therefore, in every single literary work there are some points that need to be investigated because every literary work has something that cannot be seen by lot of people. For example; ideology, is the thing has created a lot of literary work, which investigated variety of literary work to find the ideas or the message that to be revealed from literary works.

B. Focus of the Study