Sabtu, 01 November 2014

English Literature: The Description of Telekinesis in Stephen Kings 's Novel Carrie



1. INTRODUCTION  
1.1. Background of the Study   Roberts
and Jacobs (1995:2) say, “Literature is classified into four genres :  prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction
prose.” From the four genres, the  writer
decided to discuss the prose fiction, exactly on novel. Fiction isa literary  term that means unreal. Rees (1973:106) says,
“Novel is a fictious narrative prose  of
considerable lenght in which characters and actions representative of real life
 are portrayed in a plot of more or less
complexity.” It means that novel is a work  of fiction in the form of stories that
describe the unreal characters or events,  although it may be fictional, they have a
resemblance to real life. Novel is an  extended
work of prose fiction, longer  than a
short story or a medium length  fiction,
called a novelette ornovella. Novel is one of human literature creation.
 Peck and Coyle (1984:102) say, “The novel
reflects a moveaway from an  essentially
religious view of life towards a new interest in the complexities of  everyday experience. Most novels are concerned
with ordinary people and their  problems
in the societies in which they find themselves.” That novels are  entertained and also give messages to the
readers. It can also impress the readers.
 The type of this novel is epistoraly novel. An
epistolary novel is a novel  written as a
series documents. The al form is letters, newspaper clippings and  other documents are sometimes used as
storytelling. Recently, electronic  documents
such as blogs and e-mails have also come into use. The epistolary form  can add greater realism to a story, because it
mimics the workings of real life.
 2     Telekinesis is an ability to influence objects
with the power of mind.The  term of
telekinesis was coined in 1890 by a researcher from Russia named  Alexander N. Aksakof from the Greek tele and
kines. Tele means distance and  kinesis
means movement. In the early 1900 the term of telekinesis abused and gets  a bad reputation because it related to the a
mystical. After that comes the term  psychokinesis
was coined in 1914 by American author Henry Holt in His book On  the Cosmic Relations and was adopted by
American parapsychologist J.B. Rhine  in
1934 in connection with experiments that were conducted to determine if a  person could influence the outcome of falling
dice.
 Some people tend to use the term psychokinesis
to refer to the various  kind of ability
of the mind, such as moving objects, softening the metal,  controlling magnetism, controling of light
particles, relieving pain and others.
While the term telekinesis only
refers to the movement of objects with the power  of the mind such as moving, shaking, swaying,
spinning, rupture, and cause hot or  cold
an object by speeding up or slowing down the movement of the atoms of the  object. Psychokinesis and telekinesis commonly
abbreviated PK and TK. While  the term
Micro PK is psychokinesis to small things like influence the atoms and  Macro PK is psychokinesis to big things like
bending metal and so forth. And  now,
most people use the term psychokinesis and telekinesis are likely the same  which influence the objects with mentalpower
without physically touching it.
Carrieis a novel that was
published on April 1974 by Stephen King.
Carrieis the first novel was
published by stephen king. Carrieis an American  epistolary novel. Carrienovel is the horror
genre. The first adaption of Carrie  3    was a feature film of the same name, realesed
in 1976. In 2013, Re-adaptation  film
also with the same name was released . Most people in all over the world  have read it or seen in the cinema.
 This novel tells about a shy teenagerwho has
the telekinesis power, she  can move
things with her mind like door lock or candles fall. This is her power  and her problem. Carrie always becomes the
subject of her classmates’ ridicule.
Then, at the prom night Carrie
and Tommy are elected prom king and queen.
Once on stage, Carrie and Tommy
are drenched with the pig blood by Chrish. One  of the buckets falls on Tommy’s head, fatally
wounding him. Carrie very angry  and
decides to use her power to exactrevenge upon Ewen High. She locks the  gym’s doors and turns on the sprinkler system,
electrocuting two students, she  then
sets fire to the gym, leaving everyone inside to die. Carrie walks home, and  destroy a portion of the town. Carrie
alsokills her mother with telekinesis.
 The writer has chosen Stephen King’s novel
Carrieas the subject of this  paper
because this story brings the writer analyses the telekinesis in this paper.
The writer is interested in
describingtelekinesis ability of this novel.
1.2 The Problem of the Study  The problem of the study is how telekinesis
ability abused to kill?  1.3 The Scope of
the Study  Based on the problem, the
scope of the study is revenge. Revenge is a  reaction of bad attitude to kill.
 4    5. The
Purpose of the Study  The purpose of this
study is to explain the murder because of revenge.
6. The Significance of the Study  The significance of the study is divideinto
two sections, they are :    Theoretically Significance,
the significance of the study isto enrich in  terms of novel.
  Practically Significance, the reader will
understand about telekinesis in  this
novel and the reader will know the story in the Carrienovel  7. The Method of the Study   The
writer uses qualitative descriptive method in doing this paper. There  are many books must be read to completethis
paper, the writer uses library  research.
The data sources divide into two kinds they are, the primary data , which  is the novel as the sources and the secondary
data, which is the reference books  and
internet as the data sources. The first step is the writer reads the text from  novel to understand the story. After having
understood, the writer reads reference  books
and browsing from internet to get more information. The second step is the  writer selecting the quotation from data
sources. After that, the writer interprets  the data that have been collected. And the
last step is the writer analyzing the data  to get the conclusion.

English Literature: The Description of Telekinesis in Stephen Kings 's Novel Carrie

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