Characterization in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Sirkus Pohon

Asnani, Pardi, Devy Pratiwy, Safitri Hariani, Sri Wulan

2018

Abstract

This research aims at revealing characterization in Andrea Hirata’s novel Sirkus Pohon by applying Stanford’s theory. Characterization is a literary tool that is used to focus and explain the details about a character in a certain literary work. The elements included in characterization are physical description, action, inner thoughts, reactions, and speech. Characterization is exposed to invite interest of the readers to get a good understanding of the plot.The protagonist in the novel is Sobri, twenty-eight-year-old, an innocent man from Ketumbi village, only a graduate of elementary school. Sobri works as an unskilled native laborer or collie. One day, he meets a girl, Dinda, whom he loves so much, and he wants to have a permanent job to be able to propose her. There are two other important characters, Tara and Tegar who love each other. Tara meets Tegar when they accompany their mothers in religious court for their parents’ divorce. During the course of the plot, Taripol, all the time stands in opposite side. This research is conducted by means of descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the characterization based on Moleong (2006). Descriptive method is done to make the description of facts, characteristics, and relationship between phenomena that are investigated systematically, faculatively, and accurately (Nazir, 2005). The data are collected, identified and categorized related to characterization in the novel. The results show that Sobri is the protagonist, Dinda, a static character, Tara and Tegar, dynamic characters, and Taripol, the antagonist

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Asnani., Pardi., Pratiwy D., Hariani S. and Wulan S. (2018). Characterization in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Sirkus Pohon.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR, ISBN 978-989-758-437-4, pages 297-303. DOI: 10.5220/0008884202970303

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmr18,
author={Asnani and Pardi and Devy Pratiwy and Safitri Hariani and Sri Wulan},
title={Characterization in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Sirkus Pohon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,},
year={2018},
pages={297-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008884202970303},
isbn={978-989-758-437-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,
TI - Characterization in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Sirkus Pohon
SN - 978-989-758-437-4
AU - Asnani.
AU - Pardi.
AU - Pratiwy D.
AU - Hariani S.
AU - Wulan S.
PY - 2018
SP - 297
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0008884202970303