INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Humans
have a tremendous power to create a masterpiece. Having greatest power in human beings, we rarely
prove it, because we often get stuck in a
comfort zone or a particular habit. So it is not always possible to find a
better or a significant change of
fortune. Therefore a higher target stimulates
the power of the mind. New
targets would move us to carry out the action. Moreover, if the target is believed to be achieved, we are
ready to face the challenge.
Similarly to the story of “Mini Shopaholic”
found in Sophie Kinsella’s novel, Becky
Brandon, a woman who has a dream. She wants
to be a wise mom to her daughter, Minnieand be a good wife for her
husband,Luke. She is also as a
shopaholic. To make her dream come true. She makes surprise party for Luke, She could control herself hardly. Although,
she has alienation to buy something everyday. Withhaving people to cut back, Becky
decides to throw the surprise party for Luke to cheer everyone up.
The writer chooses “The Dream” because Becky’s
dream is so nice. She wants everybody to
keep spirit although having crisis of money in their country at the time. Becky wants to make a surprisebirthday
party forLuke. Shekeeps the secret
fromLuke. It is not easy. toinvolve his friendsand Luke’s colleagues.
In the story of Mini Shopaholic written by
Spohie Kinsella, the main character
Becky, works as a personal shopping assistant. Her whole career is based upon fashion. She focuses on what is
new, hot and "in". This created a bit of a shopping monster in herself and her
daughter. An event involving the financial world causes Becky to create a special
surprise party for her husband. She goes through all sorts of imaginable ins and outs
that cause her husband to be concerned.
In the midst of planning the party, she must plan her finances around the party but events come and create a lack of funds. Suddenly, out of
an unexpected shadow of this book, an
unexpected twist helps Becky get things right.
The secret plan will never be exposed. He
mustered all the energy and mind to keep it till Luke birthday. This novel
tells about love, life, be a mother, and strong woman. It is an interesting story that makes
the writer excites to analyze it.
Art and literature have the strong relation.
Those are two great things.
Literature is the art of telling to story to
the someone, either orally or written. By reading literary works, we can read the art of
language it’s the beautiful thing if wecan
recognize such things when we read the
works.
Shaw (1977: 162) says that Literature is the
writings in which expression and form,
in connection with ideas and concerns of universal and apparently permanent interest, are essential features. “
Literature is frequentl, but unwisely, applied
to any kind of printed material, such as circulars, leaflest, and handbills.
The term is correctly reserved for prose and
verse of acknowledged excellence, the
value of which lies in its intense, personal, and superb expression of life in
its varied meanings.
Novel, according to X.J Kennedy in his book An
Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama (1991:7) says that there are six aspects of novel, they are: plot (the
development and organization of stories), character (the people in novel), setting (the background of place and time),
theme (the meaning and message in novel),
point of view (the position or stance of the narrator), and stytle (the words that tell the story).
The writer uses “intrinsic approaches” by
Wellek and Warren (1924:24) which take
all the informations from the text, the steps are: (a) Reading the text carefully, (b) Sequencing informations of :
plot, character, background, theme and actions,
(c) Summarizing from that informations.
The writer uses “library research” method, by
collecting the informations from
books and searching the informations
from internet by collecting, sequencing and
summarizing the data.
1.2 Problem of the Study Based on above
description, the problem of the study can be formulated as follows : •
How Becky controls her hobby of shopping? • How
Becky keeps her secret of making surprise party for Luke for long time and how can it be realized? 1.3 Scope of the Study In this novel, the
writer finds that the dream of Becky Brandon is very fantastic and interesting to be analyzed.
However, she just limits on the process of
how Becky makes her dream come true.
1.4
Purpose of the Study The purposes of the
study are as in the following : • To find out the process of Becky’s dream to
control herself for shopping.
• To
find out how Becky makes a surprise birthday party come true for Luke.
1.5 Method of the Study Research on literary
work has long been ally carried out by using library research. By using this research, the
writer has to read some books to collect
the neededdata. It is also needed to
search internet to get addition
data.
After the data have been collected, they are
interpreted and analyzed. Thismethod is
known as descriptive method. The writer uses library research in doing this paper.
1.6 Reason of choosing the topic The writer has chosen Sophie Kinsella’s novel
Mini Shopaholic as the topic of her
paper because she thinks that the novel is very interesting. In the novel we get the moral teachniqs, about
control our carnality to shopping, having commitment in life ,and keep controlling
something.
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