A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MYSTIC IN KAMI GARCIA & MARGARET STHOL’S NOVEL “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ……… i
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ..……….. ii
ABSTRAK ………..…….. iii
ABSTRACT ……… iv
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ……… v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ……… vii
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of study ………. 1
1.2 Problem of Study ...……….. 3
1.3 Scope of Study ………. 3
1.4 Method of Study ..………... 3
1.5 Reason of Study ….………. 4
1.6 Purpose of Study ..………... 4
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Character ……….,. 5
2.2 Characterization ………... 8
2.3 Mystic ………... 8
3. THE DESCRIPTION 3.1 A Brief description of mystic ..………. 11
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1 Conclusions ……….……….. 14
4.2 Suggestions ……….……….. 15
REFERENCES ……….……….………... 16
APENDICES ……….……….………. 18 Bibliography
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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study
There are some ways to express ideas, especially in the literary works. There is a literary work that brings us to the world of dreams and takes us away from a reality. It has to be contrasted with a literary work that needs the interpretation. Literature is a personal expression of feeling including experience, idea, motivation and confidence in a concrete description by using the language. Novel is a part of prose form beside the short story. The most of people read novels and short stories. A novel expresses some aspects of human’s love and existences. Because a novel talks about the human activities and describes what has been happened in surrounding, so it is written in a long composition.
Kenney (1966; 103) says, “Novel is generally thought of as containing about forty five thousand words or more”. So a novel is longer narrative than a short story and a novella.
Novel, as a literary work has been known since eighteenth century in England. Beside novel, we also can find others literary works; there are poem, poetry, drama, and prose. A prose is often as a specific term for all discouraged spoken or written which is not patterned into recurrent matrix united that we call verse. Prose has longer meaning because it covers everything that is written as literary work but it includes some of nonfiction works.
language is secret (geheim), secretive (geheimzinnig), hidden (verborgen), dark (donker) or shrouded in thick darkness (in het duister gehuld).
There are a lot of understanding about the mystical, both based dictionary, anthropology and philosophy itself. Here's some understanding of the mystical:
The Department of Language ( 2002:5) says, “Mystic is highly believed to supernatural cannot be explained by an ordinary human reason it is a sub- system that exists in almost all religions and religious systems to satisfy the human desire to experience and feel the emotion united with God”.
Koentjaraningrat (1980:132) says, “A form of religion that is based on belief in one God who is considered encompasses all things in nature and the religious system itself from the ceremonies aimed at achieving unity with god”.
When we combined the mystic with culture, then in truth is a mystical irrational knowledge or could not understand the ratio, meaning that a causal relationship cannot be understood that occur ratios and have the forms of thought and expression of absolute truth in a society. Expression and irrational thoughts have formed a behavior in public life and became a culture.
1.2 Problem of the Study
After reading the story of the novel, there are two problems which are going to be described as below:
1. What mystic that exist in the novel Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl’s Novel Beautiful Creatures?
2. What is the meaning of the mystic? 1.3 Scope of the Study
As there are many aspects in the Beautiful Creatures, the writer makes a limitation of discussion to make sure that the theme of this paper’s analysis, namely The Description of Mystic and meaning of the mystic in Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl’s Novel Beautiful Creatures.
1.4 Method of the Study
1.5 Reason for Choosing The Topic The writer chooses the topic, for:
• The novel is the best seller.
• The novel talks about a mystic which cannot happen in every person life. • The writer tries to know the types and meaning of mystic in the novel. 1.6 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of this study are to describe what type of mystic which exist
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The understanding of literary elements can be very helpful in analyzing literary work, for example, novel, drama and poetry. Literary elements can be classified into two categories. They are intrinsic and extrinsic elements.
Semi (1998:31) says, “the intrinsic element of a literary work includes elements which establish a literary work inside. The elements are theme, plot, setting character and characterization and figure of speech.” Extrinsic element refers to social condition in a society and psychological condition. In this paper the writer employs one of literary works especially novel to be analyzed. And she will employ several extrinsic elements to analyze the novel, namely mystic.
2.1 CHARACTERS
Character is a human being in the fiction who plays action in the novel. The character does the action like making conversations or doing activities. By understanding there would have been required as a manifestation of the human figure and his life to be told.
Karl (1967:238) defines that a character is interest in the very personal reason that we want to see how other people live, how they make decision and react to responsibility, how they pursue their goal.
Roberts (1983:54) says, “Character in a literary work is a representation of a human. Specifically, the quality was in him and that determine how humans act in a variety of conditions or attempt to deal with the surrounding environment”.
doubtful, very brave or scared, noisy or quiet, can be trusted or liked to lie, conscientious or careless, unreasonable or irritable, biased or unfair, or fraudulent blunt, "winner" or "loser" and so on.
The British novelist and critic E.M Forster, in his critical work Aspects of the Novel, calls the two major types “round” and “flat”.
The basic trait of round character is that it recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances. The round character is usually the main figure in a stories profits from experience and undergoes a change or alteration, which may be shown in (1) an action and actions, (2) the realization of new strength and therefore the affirmation of previous decision, (3) the acceptance of a new condition, or (4) the discovery of unrecognized truth. ( Roberts,1995: 133).
Flat characters are minor (e.g. relative, acquaintance, functionaries), although not all minor character are necessarily flat. (Edgar,1995:134).
The Character (5) and (6) has informal meaning, while number (7) has formal meaning. Maxwell (2001) says, “Character is more than just words, but a choice that brings success. It is not a boon, but built little by little, with our thoughts, words, actions, habits, courage endeavor, and even formed from the difficulties of life”.
In National Conference on Character Building, Jakarta (2005), “Character has been defined as the inner disposition conductive to right conduct. It is a person’s collection of attitudes and habits which enable and facilitate moral action.
It is the foundation for all activity in the world; every task and every achievement bears the imprint of one character. Moreover, as we shall see, one result of attaining good character is that individuals are able to love others well and become more productive citizens. Good character is thus the foundation for all human endeavors.
bertanggung jawab, menghormati hak orang lain, kerja keras, dan sebagainya (Thomas Lickona, 1991).
2.2 CHARACTEROZATION
Every story has characterization which describes all about person or people character. There are many kinds of character and these all are different with each other. Collins Dictionary defines that characterization is the way how an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like. Characterization also describes about the act of creating and developing a character.
Characterization consists of two types: Direct and Indirect Characterization. Direct characterization tells the reader what the personality of the character is. While, Indirect characterization shows the things that reveal what the personality is of the characters look like, does, and says as well as.
Characterization is often called disposition, it is a depiction of the characters. This depiction includes a state of physical and spiritual leaders. The situation is a form of birth figures and who the characters, circumstances of birth includes the way of life of the characters, character attitudes, beliefs, customs, etc. 2.3 MYSTIC
Observing about mystics is a fun thing because it promises a new one for anyone who explores. For hundreds of years, the world has been widely mystic stir interest in academics to explore and reveal diverse facts and competence levels. Reason who encouraged me, among other things: first, desire ecumenical or good and bad reasons, is to find something that is common in that.
Mystical is basically a religious experience that can be introversive (the tendency of a person who is more emphasis on inner aspect) and extroversive (the tendency of a person who is more emphasis on outward). The experience is not related to time, there is a connection to something transcendent, creates a feeling of tranquility and happiness followed self-control ability ourselves.
In terms there are meaning about mystic, include:
a. The means a belief that the final truth about reality cannot be obtained through ordinary experience, and not through intellectual experience (mind), but it can be obtained through a mystical experience or non-mystical rational intuition.
b. Unusual non-rational experience of reality that includes all realitas transenden (something that goes beyond the mundane) which allow ourselves united with the reality that is usually considered as a source or basis of the existence of all things.
W.R. Inge in mysticism in religion says:
• Mystic is a feeling of merging with God (Attopfleiaener).
• Mystic is an attitude of mind in which all relations aimed to establish the relationship of the soul with God (Edward Caird).
• Mystic is the realization that whatever we experience in reality is just a mere element of the existence says "Something else" (Ricard Nettleship). A. TYPES OF MYSTIC
a. Union Mystic
Mystical union comes from the Latin language that is “inua mystica” which has a meaning or a union of the human soul experiences with a higher reality that occurs without intermediaries.
b. Personal Mystic
The second type is derived from the term mysticism of personality and more known as the mystic personality, which means the relationship between man and God.
c. Al-Junun
This mystic makes a person forget about their affection and love for someone they love.
d. Al-Hawatif
3. THE DESCRIPTION 3.1A Brief Description of The Mystic
Center of Education and the Department of Language ( 2002) say “Mystic is highly believed to supernatural cannot be explained by ordinary human reason Is a sub- system that exists in almost all religions and religious systems to satisfy the human desire to experience and feel the emotion united with God”.
Types and models in this novel is witchcraft. In this novel that witchcraft is Lena Duchannes. Lena uses her magic with her eyes and hands. Witchcraft is a deed which can draw closer to the devil, because Lena has a mystical, she often calls a freak woman. Such a picture can be seen in the following statement:
“Shut up, I whispered, a little too loudly. You know that’s not her name. It may as well be. She’s livin’ with that freak, Charlotte said”. (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl,2013 : 58)
With her magic, Lena can destroy everything she wants to destroy. In one day, her friends are mocking her, they shout Lena some un polite words, they also say that Lena is a freaking girl who has a bad magic. Her friends also say that she comes from a black magic family. That makes her become angry, then, she pulls out her magic. All things have broken, such glass flying, the window shatters out of nowhere. People who are around her are screaming frighten, even some of them jump up from their seats. And finally, they go out from the room. We can see in the following statements:
dove out of their seats. That’s when I realized what that creaking sound had been. Pressure. Tiny cracks in the glass, spreading out like fingers, until the window collapsed inward like it had been pulled by a thread. It was chaos. The girls were screaming. Everyone in the class was scrambling out of their seats. Even I jumped. Lena wasn't. She was standing by the broken windows, surrounded by glass, looking panic-stricken. Her face was even paler than usual, her eyes even bigger and greener. Like last night in the rain. but they looked different. They looked frightened. She didn't seem so brave anymore”. (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl,2013 : 59)
A. Types of magic in this novel is Al-Hawatif and Al-Junun. a. Al-Hawatif
This kind of magic makes a person get nightmare whole his life. When he’s in sleeping, he feels that there is a sound that calls and then he wakes up, he hears the sound of conversation when they are exposed to the magic will be dreaming of the loved ones.
This witchcraft exists in the novel, before Ethan met with Lena in school, Ethan often dreams figure. Almost every night Ethan is awakened by dreams of the same mysterious figure, on his first day back to school Ethan meets with Lena Dunchannes, Lena likes a women in his dreams. Such a picture can be seen in the following statement:
Lena Duchannes. It was you in the dreams. And the song. The weird song on my iPod. (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl,2013 : 44) b. Al-Junun
This mystic makes a person forget about their affection and love for someone they love. This mystic makes people feel something like amnesia.
This witchcraft exists in the novel when Lena’s birth day in 16th years. In 16th years old the witch can decide her fate, whether she becomes a good or bad witch. When she is 16th years old, she will get a great power. However, to get the power, she has to lose the people who love her. She does not want to lose Ethan because she knows Ethan love her so much, therefore she makes a mystic so that Ethan loses all of love feeling about her.
Such a picture can be seen in the following statements:
“I was almost relieved it was Saturday. There was something comforting about spending the day with women whose only magical powers were forgetting their own name.” (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl,2013 : 332)
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1Conclusions
After description of the Mystic in Beautiful Creatures, the writer concludes that all mystics are important to be studied, because we can know all about mystic.
The writer found, there are two types of mystic in this novel include:
1. Al-Hawatif
This kind of magic makes a person get nightmare whole his life. When he’s in sleeping, he feels that there is a sound that calls and then he wakes up, he hears the sound of conversation when they are exposed to the magic will be dreaming of the loved ones.
This witchcraft exists in the novel, before Ethan met with Lena in school, Ethan often dream figure. Almost every night Ethan awakened by dreams of the same mysterious figure Until finally, on his first day back to school Ethan met with Lena Dunchannes, Lena like a women in his dreams.
2. Al-Junun
power, she has to lose the people who love her. She does not want to lose Ethan because she knows Ethan love her so much, therefore she makes a mystic so that Ethan loses all of love feeling about her.
The mystics of the novel revolve around love. Lena is a magician, while Ethane is a normal human, they are in love. First, Lena refused Ethan to be her boyfriend, but persistence and attitude of Ethan make Lena falling in love.
To being a witch is not easy for Lena, but she has confidence with Ethan, she can finish the problems experienced.
4.2Suggestions
After writing the paper, the writer suggests that it’s very important for reader and writer to know the type and mean of mystic. The mystic which is found in the novel Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl support to each other. Writer knows this paper has many mistakes, therefore writer hopes any advices from all the readers to make this paper perfect.
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APPENDICES
The Biography of Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Kami Garcia
Kami Garcia is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Indiebound & international bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Series (BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS, BEAUTIFUL CHAOS & BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION) — and the author of UNBREAKABLE, the first book in The Legion Series, releasing on October 1, 2013 (from Little, Brown).
LaGravenese and starring: Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenrich.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was a finalist for the ALA’s William C. Morris Debut Award in 2010, a SCIBA Award Finalist in 2010, a New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” selection, and a YALSA “Teen Top Ten” Pick. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was named Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009, and #5 on the Editor’s Top 100 List.
Kami was a 2012 recipient of the Bold Ink Award, and her short story “Red Run” was featured in The Guardian, after it was selected for the UK’s National Short Story Month in 2012. She is a member of PEN West, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and works with WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring non-profit organization for girls. Kami has participated in the LA Times Festival of Books, Texas Book Festival, the Paris Book Fair, Roma Cinemafest in Rome, ALA’s Annual Conference, Decatur Book Festival, Austin Teen Book Festival, Southern Book Festival, and Comic-Con International. Kami was a founding member of the Young Adult Capitol Bookfest in Charleston, SC, and continues as a Director of Programming for the festival. She was also a founding member of the Smart Chicks Tour.
“13? on the door. When she is not writing, Kami can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke.
Margaret Stohl
Margaret Stohl is the author of Icons, the first book in the Icons series, forthcoming from Little, Brown in spring 2013, as well as the coauthor of the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, IndieBound, and internationally bestselling Beautiful Creatures Novels (with Kami Garcia.)
Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, an NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teens’ Top Ten pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the Amazon Editors’ Picks #1 Teen Best Book of the Year and #5 Best Book of the Year overall for 2009.
Margaret is a veteran of the video-game industry, and after working with Activision (now Activision Blizzard) and Westwood Studios (now Electronic Arts), Margaret became a cofounder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for Most Innovative Game Design at the Game Developers Conference.
A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Margaret earned a master’s degree in English from Stanford University and completed coursework for a doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.
Summary of Beautiful Creatures
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Wate lives in Gatlin, S.C., but dislikes his small town and would like to move away. He lives with his father and a housekeeper/grandmother to Ethan; his mother has passed away.
On the first day of his sophomore year of high school, Ethan again has a dream about falling through trees with a girl whose face he can't see. This dream has been recurring for months, and it troubles Ethan because in the dream he loves the girl he is falling with, though he does not know who she is. When Ethan wakes, he finds a new song by an unknown artist on his iPod. The song is called "Sixteen Moons," and the lyrics seem eerie to Ethan. When he checks his music player later, the song is missing.
In English class the next day, Ethan begins to hear Lena communicating with him telepathically. The girls in class insult Lena's reclusive uncle, Macon Ravenwood, and Lena's anger affects the classroom, shattering the glass in the windows. Lena runs home to Ravenwood Manor, and Ethan follows her. Lena is crying in a garden full of lemon trees, and she begins to talk with Ethan. She says that sometimes unexplainable things happen around her. Suddenly, Ethan touches an old locket that is sitting on the ground, and he begins to see a vision of the past. In the vision, a girl named Genevieve is watching her mother's plantation, Greenbrier, burn down. This happens during the time period surrounding the Civil War. Lena is interested in Ethan's vision, but she cryptically warns him that her life is complicated and that he should not try to interact with her again.
does not want to give Ethan additional information about the locket, and Ethan notices that the interior of Ravenwood Manor seems to be magical, because the interior decoration can change and entire meals can appear and vanish, seemingly according to Macon's will.
That night, Lena comes to Ethan's house and sneaks into his room to explain her unusual family. She says that all the people in her family are Casters (spell casters) who have special powers. Despite this revelation, Ethan's attraction to Lena grows, and he asks her to go on a movie date with him. They hold hands at the movie theater, which sparks rumors about Ethan and Lena at their high school.
Ethan soon meets Lena's older cousin Ridley, a seductively dressed and very persuasive girl. Ridley invites Ethan to the Gathering, a holiday dinner held by Lena's extended family every year. Ridley reveals that in five months, Lena will turn 16, and on 16th birthdays, all members of the Duchannes family are Claimed as either Light Casters or Dark Casters. After the dinner, Ethan sits in Lena's bedroom as Lena explains that Ridley is a Siren, a Dark Caster with the ability to persuade people to do anything she wants. Lena is afraid that she will become evil as Ridley is and be claimed as Dark on her upcoming birthday. Ethan assures her that will not happen, and he kisses Lena for the first time.
Amma has not stopped Ethan from meeting with Lena, as it could be dangerous for both teenagers. Amma and Macon have questions they want to ask the ghosts of Amma's relatives, whom she refers to as the Greats. The ghosts are uncommunicative, and Macon and Amma are unaware of Ethan's presence at their meeting.
The next day, Lena and Ethan skip school and touch the locket again. This time, they see a vision of Genevieve Duchannes tending Ethan Carter Wate's bullet wound just before he dies. They go to the Gatlin County Library to get information from Marian Ashcroft, a librarian who was Ethan's mother's best friend. At the library, they have one more vision of Genevieve trying to bring Ethan Carter Wate back to life by using a magical text called the Book of Moons. Marian Ashcroft reveals herself to be a Keeper, a mortal who knows about the Light and Dark Casters and keeps a record of their doings. There is a secret part of the Gatlin Library known as the Caster Library, and Lena thinks this place may contain the Book of Moons. However, in order to search for the book, Lena and Ethan must wait for the Caster Library to open, according to its own magical schedule.
Arelia, concludes that Ethan's love is the only force that can protect Lena from the schemes of Sarafine.
On Thanksgiving, Amma invites Lena to Thanksgiving dinner with the Wate family. Amma uses magic to suspend time so she and Lena can talk to each other while the family sits by, frozen and unaware. Ethan can overhear their conversation, as Amma tells Lena that Sarafine is actually her mother.
Ethan and Lena go to the Caster Library. In the library, they touch Genevieve's locket again and discover the source of the curse on the Duchannes family of Casters. Genevieve used the Book of Moons to work dark magic and bring Ethan Carter Wate back to life, and the Book gained the power to choose which of the Duchannes children would go Dark or Light in the future. In the library, Lena faints and is again spiritually attacked by Sarafine, but she wakes up when Ethan kisses her. Ethan and Lena need to find the Book of Moons, and they think it might have been buried with Genevieve. They go to Genevieve's grave and dig up the book. Then they study it to see if they can find a way to keep Lena from becoming Dark.
school principal holds a hearing and is about to expel Lena when Macon arrives to protest the hearing. Lena is allowed to return to school.
Over Christmas break, Ethan discovers that his reclusive father, Mitchell Wate, has not been working on his novel for the past several months. He has been sitting in his study, grieving for his dead wife. In Mitchell's study, Ethan and Lena notice that several books are open to certain pages, and the pages refuse to be turned. Some magical influence is spelling out a code in the books, and the message tells Lena, Claim yourself. Lena and Ethan continue to search through the Book of Moons, looking for a magical option that will allow Lena to choose her own fate.
to release Mitchell from her spell. Ridley reveals that this was a plot to lure Ethan away from Lena, since his love is her main protection from Sarafine. Ethan and Link head back to Ravenwood Manor and meet Link's mother, Mrs. Lincoln, on the way. Ethan discovers that the woman is not Mrs. Lincoln, but the Dark Caster Sarafine in disguise.
Sarafine tells Lena that she will be able to Claim her own self for the Dark or Light at midnight. Lena's choice is a complicated one: If she chooses to go Dark, all the Light Casters in her family will die, but she would be able to have a physical relationship with Ethan, something that was barred to them. If she chooses to go Light, all the Dark Casters in her family will die, including Uncle Macon. Ethan is unable to get into Ravenwood Manor to get the help of the other Light Casters, so runs to the Caster Library to get help from Marian, who is able to let him into Ravenwood Manor through the Library tunnels. After gathering the Light Casters, Ethan runs to find Lena in the woods, but instead meets Sarafine, who stabs him in the stomach with a knife.
