INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Literature
is a common term of imaginative work. Literature sprang up from the imaginative mind of the writter. But
literature also portrays the condition of the society as the writter is the member of
the society. Literature is a creative expression
of human imagination or wishes, which is hardly ever reflected in our actual life, and will exist detached from the
individual life. Richard Taylor in his book
Understanding the Element of Literature (1997: 15) says that literature, like other arts, is essentially an imaginative act
of the writer’s imagination in selecting,
oredering, and interpreting life-experiences.
Literature according to Edgar V. Roberts and
Henry E. Jacobs in their book Literature:
An Introduction to Reading and Writing(1995:2) is classified into four categories or genres: (1) prose fiction, (2)
poetry, (3) drama, and (4) nonfiction prose.
From the various types of imaginative literature, my choise falls on prose fiction , exactly on novel, which is a
fictitiouss prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters
and presenting an organized sequence of
events and scenes.
Some of novels are fiction and some based on
true stories. Both of those not only
entertain but also give meaning messages and impression to readers. Most people are concerned with ordinary people and
their problems in the societies in which
they find themselves (John Peck and Martin Coyle in their book Literary Term and Critism, 1998:102).
Sidney
Sheldon is one of wonderful author. Morning, Noon and Night is the most famous and the best novel. Most people in
all over the world have read it, or heard
a radio version of it, or seen it in the cinema or on television. The author is
really creative so that messages of the
story can be sent to the readers. I hope by discussing the novel, the young authors who be
the next novelist can make the mutual
story. I really hope to the novelist of Indonesia can make the best seller novel 1.2
Objective of the study To describe the main characters in novel Morning, Noon
ang Night; Harry Stanford, Harry
Stanford, Tyler Stanford, Kendall Stanford, Woody Stanford, and Julia Stanford; whether it is bad or good,
negative or positive that shown by their attitude in facing the problems.
1.3 Scope of the study There are so many
aspects in this novel that can be described, but I am more interested in describing the characters
especially main characters; Harry Stanford, Harry Stanford, Tyler Stanford, Kendall
Stanford, Woody Stanford, and Julia Stanford.
So, the scope of the study is limited only on describing the main character viewed from Morning, Noon and
Night’s novel.
1.4 Method of the study The source of this
paper analysisi is novel. The novel discussed in this paper is Morning, Noon and Night. The focus of analysis
is the main characters.
So, the method used in analysis this report
writing is reading the novel more and
more is the absolute choice in order to understand the story. After having read
it completely, the next step is to
select the quotations. The quotations become the data of the analysis. These quotations are
made as supporting ideas to strengthen the
analysis especially about the description of characters.
Beside that the method used in writting this
report is library research and internet
research. In this research, all the data and information related to the analyses are taken from books and aother
sources.
1.5. Significance of the study The
significance of the study are : • To enrich the literatury study especially
about the characters in Morning, Noon
and Night’s novel.
• To
give a clear understanding about the characterization through novel Morning, Noon and Night specially for
the study of literary insights.
• To
give a references to anyone who is interested about Morning, Noon and Night’s novel.
2. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR Sidney sheldon was
born on February 11, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, of Russian Jewish ancestry, were
Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894–1967), manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie
Marcus. At 10, Sidney made his first sale, $5 for a poem. During the Depression, he
worked at a variety of jobs, and after graduating
from Denver East High School, he attended Northwestern University and contributed short plays to
drama groups. Graduating in 1937, he moved
to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and worked on a number of B-movies plots, developing his
writing talent. When World War II broke
out, he joined the Army Air Force, serving as a pilot, but returned to civilian life as soon as the military would
release him near the end of the war.
Moving to New York City, he began writing
musicals for the Broadway stage, while
still writing screenplays for both MGM and Paramount Studios. In 1947, he won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for
the movie, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"
(1947).
When
television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his hand in it. "I suppose I needed
money," he remembered. "I met Patty Dukeone day at lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke
Show, and I did something nobody else in
TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series." Sheldon created, produced and wrote I Dream of
Jeannie in his coproduction capacity with Screen Gems. He wrote all but two
dozen scripts in five years, sometimes
using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan Devon, Christopher Golato) while
simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty Duke Show. He also used the same pseudonyms in
writing all seventeen episodes of Nancy.
He later admitted that he did this because he felt his name was appearing too often in the credits as creator,
producer, copyright owner and writer of
these series. He also wrote for the series Hart to Hart.
Production
for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. It was "During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie,
I decided to try a novel," he said in 1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I
had a secretary at the studio take all calls.
I mean every single call. I wrote each morning or rather, dictated and then I faced the TV business." In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The
Naked Face, which earned him a
nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best First Novel.
His next novel, The Other Side of Midnight,
climbed to 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list as did several ensuing novels, a number of which were also
made into motion pictures or TV miniseries.
His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile men. The novels contained
a lot of suspense and devices to keep
the reader turning the page: “I try to
write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained in a 1982 interview.
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