INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study Literature is a term
used to describe written or spoken material.
"Literature" is used to describe
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, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
Literature represents a language or a people:
culture and tradition. But, literature is
more important than just a historical or cultural artifact.
Literature introduces us to new worlds of
experience. We learn about books and
literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve
through our literary journey with books.
Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author says and how he/she says it. We may
interpret the author's message. In academic
circles, this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of literary theory, using a mythological,
sociological, psychological, historical, or other approach. Whatever critical paradigm we
use to discuss and analyze literature,
there is still an artistic quality to the works. Literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it is universal, and
it affects us. Literature is one of the most
important things in life.
Literature attempts to make sense of all the
experiences that we go through in life.
It is not easy to always understand why we go through certain experiences.
Every author helps readers articulate various
life experiences. In fact, literature includes
novels, short stories, poems, movies, song lyrics, and artwork.
Moreover, all types of literature contain
various elements that the reader and viewer
should learn to analyze in order to heighten his or her understanding of literature. Various types of literature such
as story, novel and drama delight us through
the elements of literature. In literature, theme is important to reveal the story. An author depicts the ups and downs of
the protagonist with the help of characterization.
The writer chooses this novel because Eat Pray
Love Novel is the masterpiece of
Elizabeth Gilbert. The novel is the true story of Gilbert's journey to Italy, India and Indonesia in its efforts to
reinvent self. Eat Pray Love was released on 2006 in United State of America.
The novel was an international bestseller,
translated into over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. The novel became so popular that,
in 2008, Time Magazine named Elizabeth
as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. This novel has a common language that we can understand easily,
simple plot and about true love that
ends in Bali and this novel showing the beauty and make us as an Indonesian proud because taking a setting in our country.
The writer chooses the novel to improve in
this paper. Therefore, by this chance,
the writer would like to describe the main characters in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel Eat Pray Love because the
writer really interested about this novel.
That is why the writer chooses this topic to be presented in her paper.
1.2. Problem of the Study This paper is telling
about Liz doing her journey find her true love. Even tough her journey is full of challenges, but
she can make it happy in the end. Liz finally
finds her true love in Bali. This paper is also as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English
Department Faculty of Culture Studies, University
of Sumatera Utara.
1.3. Scope of the Study This paper is focused
on describing the main characters, they are Elizabeth Gilbert, Felipe, Ketut Liyer, how they play
the story in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel Eat
Pray Love. This is obtained by the main character, another character the main character and narrator description.
1.4. Purpose of the Study The writer wants to
know more in detail about Elizabeth Gilbert, Felipe and Ketut Liyer of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel
Eat Pray Love and the true love o Elizabeth
Gilbert finally find in Bali and they both got married and live together in happiness.
1.5. Significance of Study The Significance of
the study is to give a clear understanding about the characterization through Eat Pray Love’s novel
especially for the study of literary insights.
Besides characters, like what the writer present those other important elements are plot, setting, character, which
are also interested to study. It is also to enrich and add new vocabulary especially in
literary study and to enrich English comprehension
through English literary text. The writer hopes this paper will give more knowledge about novel. Especially to
English Diploma Students of University
of Sumatra Utara who want to present literature as their final assignment later.
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