1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Literature is a term used to describewritten
or spoken material. Literature describes
anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to
works of the creative imagination.
Literature represents a language
or a people : culture and tradition. But, literature is more important than just a historical or
cultural artifact. According to Roberts and
Hendry E. Jacobs and Robert Edgar V (1995:1)
An Introduction to Reading and Writing stated, that literature refers
tocompositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, analyze and
advocate ideas. Literature enables us to recognize human morality, dream, and struggle
in difference ways, time and situations
that we would never otherwise know.Three important branches of
literature: novel, poetry and drama. One of the important will be discussed is Novel.The
term of novel can be defined as a literary
composition. Some novels are fiction and some are based on true stories.
In Rees’ (1973:106) English
Literature, The Shorter Oxford Dictionary stated that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of
considerate length in which characters and action representative of real life are
portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity..
Nowadays, there are a lot of
novel are published to the public. Novel is literary work that very popular in the world.
As reading material, novel can be divided
into two groups, namely, work seriously and entertainment work. The novel can give the meaning and readers can
find the message from the novel “Sang
Pemimpi” by Andrea Hirata is a novel continuation of Laskar Pelangi Novel because on the front of the cover
iswritten that “Sang Pemimpi” is the “Second
Book of Laskar Pelangi Tetralogy”. So, it is not impossible, Laskar Pelangi readers will think that Andrea’s
Second book still tells the life of Ikal and his friends. Unfortunately, in this second
book, Andrea no tells about Ikal and his all of his friends when they in primary school
and lower secondary school. But, in upper
secondary school, mentioned he friends with Arai and Jimbron. “Sang Pemimpi” tells about the live of children in
Kampung Melayu who are really innocent,
simple, but has the power of love, friendship, sacrifice, and hard determination getting their dreams. Sang
Pemimpi comes with modest story. From this
modestly story, readers will be realize that poverty and all of obstacle which obscure the dreams or hope are not a reason to
stopped get a dream.
1.2 Scope of Study Basically, a lot of aspects in building a
novel. But,important to limit the topic
in order to make the paper easily and clearly understood. Based on title of this paper is concentrated on describing the
characters especially main characters.
They are Ikal, Arai and Jimbron.
1.3 Purpose of Study The writer explain about all elements of the
novel, especially about main characters
in Novel Sang Pemimpi. They are Ikal, Arai and Jimbron. So that the readers will get understanding about literary
insight the novel.
1.4 Significance of Study The significances of this study are toinform
the readers to know more about novel,
characterization in Sang Pemimpi and the story who tell about The poor children even in poverty life, they never
stopped to dream and will do all the ways
to make their dream be real. The other significance are increase and add new vocabulary, and encrich English Comprehension
through English Literary text.
1.5 Method of Study In writing this paper, I apply libraryresearch
and browsing internet. I collect some
data by reading several booksand from the internet. The writer processes the data are reading the novel and I
Classify.
I also asked people who had read
the novel to have more opinion. I also watched
the movie Sang Pemimpi to ease explaining the content of the novel that I choose as object of my paper.
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