Based on the title, here I am gonna talk about the body of a literary work.
Well, hi peeps! Welcome.
Actually,
there are a lot of aspects that have an important role in literary work. All
those aspects should be related each other, because that is the characteristic
of a good work. And now I will share what I have got from my lecturer and
how its work. We need this in case of analysing a literary work. Every piece of
literature there must be a structural that played some roles in order to make
the story more alive. That structural must related and supporting each other.
So,
first, we have plot. A plot has big role in a literature work like novel. One
of the essential elements in the plot is event. This element shows the reader
how an event grows from the beginning to the end. Plot also guides the reader
to feel a transition from one situation to the other situation. It encourages the
reader to know the next events. Plot is also known as the foundation of a novel
or story which the characters and settings are built around. It is meant to
organize information and events in a logical manner.
Generally,
plot can be divided into three categories. Those are forward plot, flash back
plot, and jumping plot. A forward plot is a plot which incidents are arranged
in order. And in forward plot, the story is goes from time by time, past to the
present. Flash back plot is a story told from the end back to the event that
happened previously. Further, a jumping plot is a plot that retold story that
in quite some time is cut and revealed back to the situation just happened.
Ah
ya, one of the essential elements in the plot is event. The event can be defined
as a transition from one situation to the other situations. So, mostly, to
analyze a literary work, the first step we have to do is analyze the events one
by one from the beginning of the story. We can collect all the event that we
think it is the cause of the case that we want to answer. Moreover, in order to
get it, we need to pay attention more and read carefully.
Beside
plot, there is a literature structure that has an important role in the novel.
It is called setting. Event in fiction is always motivates by sort of place,
time or certain situation which could make it seem so real.
Setting
is a whole environment of the story, including the custom and tradition, habits
and the characters way of life. Some experts stated that the setting is place,
times relationship, and social environment where the event happen. In the other
words, setting which also called by fulcrum point, suggest the definition of
place, time relations and social environment where the occurrence of event is
told. Setting elements actually can be divided into three main element,
they are setting place, time setting and social setting.
The
background depict in a novel has an important role in supporting the fact of
the story. Background makes the story seem real capably living in the reader's
mind. The background of the story is always associated with the plot in the
story. So I say that background refers to the point of time and space from the
events in the plot occurs. However, the background of a story is not absolutely
only describe the place where the character in a story.
Setting
in this form is only as the place and time of occurrence, nothing more nothing
less. Spiritual background is a background that not only physical, but also
bring certain values. Rural background, for example, not only brings physical
settings such as dirt roads, grass, trees, etc. But also bring the value of
simplicity, friendliness, adherence to religion and so forth.
The
author will probably develop their idea in order to create a good literary
work. Of course in this process of writing, the author will seriously found the
suitable setting provides the historical and cultural context for characters.
Setting also impacts physical and psychology. So, it is good when we read a
story we can identify where the setting is, and when it happen. Because
sometime it includes a history value.
Then,
next are Character and Characterization. A character is the subject who acts on
fiction to establish a story. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary, character is a person appears in novel, play, and other genres of
literary work. So, character is the person who appears in a narrative work or
drama that will be interpreted by readers. Their appearance must bring a
message, or at least a sign in the story. Of course because play an important
role to make the story more alive. It also has a moral quality and certain
preference.
A
character in fiction can be conveniently classified as major and minor. A major
character is an important figure at the center of the story’s action or theme.
The major character is sometimes called a protagonist whose conflict with an
antagonist may spark the story’s conflict. Minor character is people whose
function is partly to illuminate and support the major character. Sometimes,
the character shows a value one of the aspect in human. Changes. Yes, a
character develops and changes, to the good or bad, the character undergoes
during the course events in the story. So all depend on what conflict they have
faced.
The
character is one of the tools to identify the main messages of the story.
Reader is able to interpret the feeling of each character, to strengthen the
messages that the author want to deliver. Thus, the reader will
comprehend the main messages of the novel. Commonly the message was brought by
the main character while another characters just supporting the story. And to
identify the main character in a story, we can use Nurgiyantoro’s theory which
said that main character Main character much appears and almost involved in all
of scene in the story. So, we can collect first all of the characters, then we
count how many the characters appear in the story.
Next
is characterization. A characterization is the means by which writers present
and reveal character. The method of characterization is narrative description
with explicit judgment. Characterization can be revealed any ways, by
psychological description. It means how the narrator or another character describe
it. By physical description, it is easy for the reader to know the character
doing this way. It is because sometimes the author describe the character
clearly. From what she or he says, the reader would know how she or he doing
the conversation. From how she or he says it, the reader would know the
character body language when say something in the novel.
By
what she or he does it, the reader would know how the character act in the
story. It also can be revealed by what others say about him or her, by her
reaction to others, and also by his reaction to himself. Besides explaining
about the physical characteristics of the characters, characterization is also
trying to analyze all of the character name which also affect the attitude of
the character. And the characterization of a character in the story usually
caused by the background of the character itself, maybe the family, place of
birth, what year, friends, job, the environment.
And,
the last one is name. Name in a novel is often neglected in the analysis.
Although for some of the possibilities name that is given by author help to
describe characters. Sometimes, the author also has his or her reason in naming
the character. It is because the name itself sometime is a symbol that
gives great effect on its own way for the storyline.
Based
on the explanation above, the name that is given by the authors has sizable
influence on the formation. The author is not just randomly giving name to a
character. For me, naming the character in the story is one of the difficult
parts while creating a literary work.
