1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study There
have been various ways to define what literature is. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken
material. Broadly, "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.
Literature introduces us to new
worlds of experience. It provides an objective base for knowledge and understanding. It also
exercises our emotion through interest, concern,
excitement, hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy.
Roberts and Jacobs (1995:2) say,
“literature may be classified into four categories
or genre: (1) prose fiction, (2) poetry, (3) drama, (4) nonfiction prose.” From the four categories of literature, the
writer chooses to discuss the prose fiction,
especially on novel. Fiction is a name for stories not entirely factual, but at
least partially shaped, made up, imagined.
Novel is one of the prose fictions. It reflects
a move away from an essentially religious view of life towards a new interest in the complexities of everyday
experience. Sometimes, novels present a documentary
picture of life. In fact, novels look at people, individual, society in which they live, and presenting characters who
are at odds with the society.
Peck and Coyle (1998:102) say,
“Most novels are concerned with ordinary people and their problems in the societies in
which they find themselves.” Some of
novels are fiction (unreal) and some of them are nonfiction (real) based on
true stories. Novels are about people,
and the role of things there is always likely to be a secondary one. And yet many readers like
being told about them. The novel informs
about something more than human nature: it explains how to deal with a shipwrecked vessel if cast away on a desert
islands, cook a meal or hunt whales.
Today, novel has attracted
interest and attention for many people, especially in teenagers, and other young generation. Novel
is very entertaining to read.
The novel which discuss in this
paper is written by Khaled Hosseini with title A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry
relocated the Hosseini family to Paris.
They were ready to return to
Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the
invasion of the Soviet Army.
Hosseini sought and were granted
political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California.
Hosseini graduated from high school in
1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988. The
following year he entered the University
of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his
residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center
in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004. In March 2001, while practicing medicine,
Hosseini began writing his first novel, The
Kite Runner. And a thousand splendid suns is his second novel that success to be one of international best seller novel in
the world In a fiction novel, the
readers will able to know more about character.
Character is the fictional people
who are part of the action of a literary work.
Character can be good people or
bad people. The good one is remembered in terms of the good they do, their achievements
or sacrifices. The bad one is ally extraordinary
evil and is remembered for the terrible things to do. Character has an important role in a story. Character make a
story become interesting and real.
In novel, we can know whether a
novel deserve to read or no is from character.
Without character, the novel is
not special and nothing.
This novel tells about the
sufferings experienced by Maryam and Laila.
Mariam is the scorned
illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age fifteen into marrying Rasheed, who grows
increasingly brutal when she fails to
produce a child. Eighteen years later, Rasheed takes another wife, fourteen year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl who
only other options, after her parents are
killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Mariam and Laila become allies in a battle with Rasheed, whose violent
abuse is endorsed by custom and law.
This novel gives a forceful portrait of despotism where women are dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the
bearing of male children being their only
path to an accepted social status. Each woman in the end is forced to accept a path that will never be completely happy for
them: Mariam will have to sacrifice her
life to save Laila after she murders their husband while Laila, even though marrying her childhood love, must find a way
to keep the sacrifice Mariam has made
from not becoming an act done in vain.
Finally, the research of this
paper focuses on the suffering in the novel written by Khaled Hosseini entitle A Thousand
Splendid Suns. This is the background as well as the reason as why this
paper focuses on describing the suffering
in this paper.
1.2 Problems of the Study In a novel, the
author tries to write the events on each plot rapidly and clearly. The events can be happily or sadness.
In this paper, the writer wants to see any
sufferings experienced by Maryam and Laila. The main problems: What kinds of sufferings are experienced by Maryam and
Laila.
1.3 Scope of the Study When we want to talk about the analysis or
description of a novel, there can be
many aspects to discussed, therefore, the writer of this paper wants to give
the limitation of the writing. The
sufferings will describe on this paper is the sufferings that experienced by Maryam and
Laila two victimized women that give battered
heart even physic.
1.4 Purpose of Study The purpose
of writing this paper is to give any sufferings experienced by Maryam and Laila.
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