INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background Of The Study Literature is
concerned with all aspects of human and universe in their entirety. There are three important branches
of literature; novel, drama and poetry.
One of important branches is
novel. On the other hand, novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which
character and action representative of real
life are portrayed in a lot of more or less complexity.
Characters are the persons
presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed
with moral and dispositional qualities
that are expressed in what they say- the dialogue-and by what they dothe
action. The grounds in a character’s temperament and moral nature for his speech and action constitute his motivations’
(Nurgyantoro, Burhan, 1981: 20).
Based on explanation, the
character’s expression through the dialogue and expression has a moral value. If character has
a good bad or negative side, so does the
moral. On the other hand, if in the expression character has a good or positive
side, the moral will be positive.
The writer is very interested to
describing main character in the novel Carry
Me Down because this novel of fiction story that describe about the talent of an al 11 years old, John Egan his name. The
most interesting of this novel is when
John believes that he can identifying somebody who lying him. He believes that his talent can make him be famous,
because he want to put his name in a record
at Guinness Book Of Record. He live with his father and mother in his grandmother cottage. Carry Me Down is a tour
de force character study. Beyond this,
it is a portrait of a child in Ireland at a particular time, the Sixties or
perhaps Seventies, oppressed by a lack
of opportunity. It's also an attempt to track the mental damage done by misunderstanding, by
neediness that is not met with affection.
The language is easy to understanding for the reader.
1.2 Scope Of The Study Based on background of
study, this study focused on The John Egan talent in M.J. Hyland’s novel, Carry Me Down. In
those short stories so many topics can be
discussed. It is important to limit the topic in order to make the paper easily
and
clearly understood for the readers. And this chapter, the writer only description about main character, including
physic status and moral. The infor m from
that characters is taken by the character itself, the people commented and from the description of narrator.
1.3 Purpose Of The Study.
The purpose of the study is
describe clearly about main character of novel Carry Me Down. The main character in this
novel is John Egan, an eleven years old
boys who have talent as a lying detector. He have a good attitude, but he’s a lazy boy. It can shown by his attitudes in
facing the problem from their habitual action
of this novel.
1.4 Significance Of The Study.
This paper is used to know of
literature especially about main character, John Egan who has talent as a lying detector.
In this story, John has good attitude, but
he’s a lazy boy, especially in studying Irish. He has an ambition that he want put his name in a record at Guinness book of
record with his talent. The writer believed
that reading novel not only bring us pleasure or as hobby in spending our time. It also increase our knowledge about our
habitual action.
1.5 The Method Of Research.
Method of the research in this
paper is a library research. The writer collects some data to support the research, finding the
related data to the research then narrowing
the collecting data of the library research to the related element which are about main characters.
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