LIZ’S BALI JOURNEY ENDS IN LOVE IN ELIZABETH
GILBERT’S NOVEL “EAT PRAY LOVE”
A PAPER
BY
LENNI SIMANJUNTAK
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA
FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES
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ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank and praise Jesus Christ, for His amazing
grace, blessing and giving me health, strength and capability to accomplish this
paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English
Department Faculty of Letters, University of Sumatera Utara.
I would like to thank Dean of Faculty of Letters Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A,
for allowing me to study in Faculty of Letters and the secretary of English Study
Program, Dra. Persadanta boru Karo-Karo as the secretary. I would also like to
thank my supervisor Dra. Redita Lubis, Dip. Appl. Ling., M.Hum, for her
guidance, time, attention, critics and advice in the process of doing this paper for
completeness. I also thank to all beloved lecturers of the English Study
Department who have contributed their knowledge in teaching me and for every
supportive guidance during my academic years.
I am particularly grateful to my beloved family. My father R. Simanjuntak
and my mother B. Sirait for their love, support, patience, moral encouragement
and for the financial during my study. My gratitude also goes to my sister Rosenni
Simanjuntak for her love, attention and guidance in completing this paper. To my
lovely aunt Rosdiana Simanjuntak for helping me and being around me every time
I need.
all your support and prayers. Thanks for cheers me up.
Finally, I realize that this paper is still far from being perfect; therefore,
constructive suggestions from the readers will be pleasantly accepted. Hopefully
this paper can inspire and give advantages for anyone in the future.
Medan, June, 2011
The writer,
Lenni Simanjuntak
ABSTRAK
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material.
"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, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But, literature
is more important than just a historical or cultural artifact.
Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn about
books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories,
and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with
books. Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the
author says and how he/she says it. We may interpret the author's message. In
academic circles, this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of
literary theory, using a mythological, sociological, psychological, historical, or
other approach. Whatever critical paradigm we use to discuss and analyze
literature, there is still an artistic quality to the works. Literature is important to us
because it speaks to us, it is universal, and it affects us. Literature is one of the
most important things in life.
Literature attempts to make sense of all the experiences that we go through
in life. It is not easy to always understand why we go through certain experiences.
includes novels, short stories, poems, movies, song lyrics, and artwork.
Moreover, all types of literature contain various elements that the reader and
viewer should learn to analyze in order to heighten his or her understanding of
literature. Various types of literature such as story, novel and drama delight us
through the elements of literature. In literature, theme is important to reveal the
story. An author depicts the ups and downs of the protagonist with the help of
characterization.
The writer chooses this novel because Eat Pray Love Novel is the
masterpiece of Elizabeth Gilbert. The novel is the true story of Gilbert's journey to
Italy, India and Indonesia in its efforts to reinvent self. Eat Pray Love was
released on 2006 in United State of America. The novel was an international
bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies sold
worldwide. The novel became so popular that, in 2008, Time Magazine named
Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. This novel has a
common language that we can understand easily, simple plot and about true love
that ends in Bali and this novel showing the beauty and make us as an Indonesian
proud because taking a setting in our country.
The writer chooses the novel to improve in this paper. Therefore, by this
chance, the writer would like to describe the main characters in Elizabeth
Gilbert’s Novel Eat Pray Love because the writer really interested about this
1.2. Problem of the Study
This paper is telling about Liz doing her journey find her true love. Even
tough her journey is full of challenges, but she can make it happy in the end. Liz
finally finds her true love in Bali. This paper is also as one of the requirements to
get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of Culture Studies,
University of Sumatera Utara.
1.3. Scope of the Study
This paper is focused on describing the main characters, they are Elizabeth
Gilbert, Felipe, Ketut Liyer, how they play the story in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel
Eat Pray Love. This is obtained by the main character, another character the main
character and narrator description.
1.4. Purpose of the Study
The writer wants to know more in detail about Elizabeth Gilbert, Felipe
and Ketut Liyer of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel Eat Pray Love and the true love o
Elizabeth Gilbert finally find in Bali and they both got married and live together
in happiness.
1.5. Significance of Study
The Significance of the study is to give a clear understanding about the
characterization through Eat Pray Love’s novel especially for the study of literary
insights. Besides characters, like what the writer present those other important
elements are plot, setting, character, which are also interested to study. It is also to
enrich and add new vocabulary especially in literary study and to enrich English
more knowledge about novel. Especially to English Diploma Students of
University of Sumatra Utara who want to present literature as their final
2.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical
roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the
tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late
18th century. Further definition of the genre is historically difficult. The
construction of the narrative, the plot, the way reality is created in the works of
fiction, the fascination of the character study, and the use of language are usually
discussed to show a novel's artistic merits. Most of these requirements were
introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries in order to give fiction a justification
outside the field of factual history. The individualism of the presentation makes
the personal memoir and the autobiography the two closest relatives among the
genres of modern histories.
The fictional narrative, the novel's distinct "literary" prose, specific media
requirements the use of paper and print, a characteristic subject matter that creates
both intimacy and a typical epic depth can be seen as features that developed with
the Western and modern market of fiction. Novel has major elements in
developing the story Character and Setting.
Character is a person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions
within a story, poem, or other literature. Characters are extremely important
because they are the medium through which a reader interacts with a piece of
literature. Character refers to one of the persons in the story-the end result of the
author’s effort to create a fictional personality. Every character has his or her own
creating a mood. The different attitudes, mannerisms, and even appearances of
characters can greatly influence the other major elements in a literary work, such
as theme, setting, and tone. With this understanding of the character, a reader can
become more aware of other aspects of literature, such as symbolism, giving the
reader a more complete understanding of the work. The character is one of the
most important tools available to the author. According to Sandra Roy (1817:3),
Character are closely related but essentially different concepts. Character refers to
one of the person in the story the end result of the author’s effort to create a
fictional personality. Characterization, on the other hand, refers to the means by
which the writers creates the sum of the traits, thoughts, and actions which, taken
together, constitute a character.
The characters represent human nature and human condition. Every
character every book demonstrates the true capabilities of all humans. Every
character and every human being is capable of good, evil, happiness, sadness,
depression, laughter, love, losing, winning, and hurting. Furthermore, every
character, no matter how big or small of a part, has a purpose. Just like real life,
every character impacts another character one way or another. In real life, the
people we meet, even if we meet them for a short time, impact us. According to
Alan Kennedy (1979:2), Character in novels are not merely sentimental characters
educated into accepted or again passively a pre-defined position in established
Characters also make the audience more aware of human nature; they
make humans understand what other people are capable of doing, and they also
make humans more aware of making a better decision in life. When a reader sees
the outcome of some choices that characters make, it makes that reader want to
improve his or her own life.
Setting is the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a
situation occurs. Settings include the background, atmosphere or environment in
which character live and move, and usually include physical characteristics of the
surroundings. Settings enable the reader to better envision how a story unfolds by
relating necessary physical details of a piece of literature. A setting may be simple
or elaborate, used to create ambiance, lend credibility or realism, emphasize or
accentuate, organize, or even distract the reader. The setting of a story refers to the
geographical location, time period, climate and socioeconomic characteristics of
the characters' surroundings. The setting often provides social, historical or
cultural context for the plot and/or theme of the piece, and descriptions of setting
can sometimes symbolize a character's own emotional state. For some stories the
setting is very important, while for others it is not. Eudora Welty said, "Every
story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and
plot and happened somewhere else. Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is
the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, what happened? Who's
here? Who's coming? Writers describe the world they know. Sights, sounds,
colors, and textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints images on
or her mind. The location of a story's actions, along with the time in which it
occurs, is the setting. Setting is created by language. How many or how few
details we learn is up to the author. Many authors leave a lot of these details up to
the reader's imagination. There are three parts of setting: Setting of place, Time
and Society. According to Burhan (1998:13), Portrayal seen in quantitative
background story on the differences that stand out. Novels can only describe in
detail the background circumstances to give in order to provide a clearer picture,
concrete and definite. However, a good story is only just going to describe
specific details are deemed necessary and will not fall on the depiction of
prolonged so that it feels boring and reduce levels of tension
Setting of place is the locations where the story happen taking place.
Setting can take place in a house, school, castle, forest, hospital or anywhere that
the writers want to extend their scenes. According to R. S. Gwynn (2002:17),
Setting is simply the time and the place of a story, and in most cases the details of
description are given to the reader directly by the narrator. Description of place
important to give the impression to the readers and make them knows where the
story takes a place. This novel takes place in four different countries. They are
USA, Italy, India, and Indonesia. This place really makes the story very good and
makes the reader interest to read the novel. Setting of time is “when” the story
taking place. The time is usually like historical period, time of day, and year.
the society life, tradition, point of view of people, culture, way of thinking, and
believes. Over all the setting of society is connected with other different setting
3.
ANALYSIS
The analysis is to prove that Elizabeth Gilbert really found her true love in
Bali. This is done with physical descriptions, status, and morale in explaining
these three main characters. The three main characters in Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel
Eat Pray love are Elizabeth Gilbert, Felipe and Ketut Liyer . In other words, they
dominate the whole story. The main characters are as follows:
3.1.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Elizabeth Gilbert is a 31-year-old woman. She has a beautiful face with
long blond hair, oval face, sharp nose, blue eyes, white skin, and height about 170
cm and has a sweet smile across her face. Liz is a woman with a simple display,
never appears in an excessive. This can be seen from her daily appearance when
she is going to work, she always wears a shirt and skirt and a pair of shoes which
are very simple but elegant. She is also wearing simple clothes after working. Liz
is a very intelligent woman who lives in the United States. She is a rich and
modern woman. Liz is a rich and modern woman. She has a big house and a
bright career as a brilliant writer in New York. Liz has a very full life and is the
desire of each woman. Liz is a woman who is actively participating in shaping the
life of the household, she is making a living, cleaning the house, working as a
social coordinator; taking a walk with her dog, and also as a wife who must serve
medicines in his shop alone and treat patients directly in their homes. Armenia is a
dynamic girl, very nice, elegantly dressed, charismatic and sexy and alluring. Tuti
is a child aged 4 years. She’s Wayan’s daughter. She was very active, good,
cheerful and very smart in speak English. She was a bright child. All of her
friends are very nice to Liz, because Liz was very kind to them.
Liz was a very generous and kind woman. This occurs when Liz helped
Wayan families to buy a house in Indonesia for Wayan’s family. When Liz
contributed to Wayan, Tuti was very pleased and they were designed and started
building their house.
As quoted
“Wayan, it’s important that
we buy something. I’m leaving here in September, and I need to let my friends know before I
leave that their money actually went into a home for you. And you need to get a roof over your
head before you get evicted.” (Gilbert Elizabeth, 2006:103)
Liz can make people comfortable being around him because Liz is very
easy to get along with others. A good attitude makes it very comfortable and
polite friends with
Liz has a husband and they have been together for eight years, and have
been married for six years. They have built their whole life with the same hope,
but she is hoping for a well settled family and also dreaming of having children
after passing the age of thirty, she realized that her life seems meaningless. They
finally divorced because her husband is very busy with his school and Liz is bored
relationship. Liz was very down because of her divorce and feels disappointed.
These failures really affect her life aspects totally, until she decided to leave
everything she has, such as her house, job and all her wealthy. She was very
frustrated and does not believe in love again. As a widow Liz is very tough,
independent and mature. Liz has a lot of friends and keep socialize with every
people around her.
Liz is so depressed because of her divorce. Because of that she decided to
begin her journey and left her home for a period of one year. She is starts her
journey by going around one of the cities in America, that is California. In order
to calm down her heart which is in troubled and find out whom she was but that
she would get sad, frantic and increasingly desperate because she could not find
peace of heart. And at that moment she decided to leave America and start a trip
to circumnavigate the globe within a year. But Liz did not fine the peace that she
wants to. Because of that she decided to travel a round the world to recover her
self. She went to three countries which is Italy; India and Indonesia. Liz travels
began in Italy. Italy is one of the countries in Europe. Liz came to this country by
plane, Liz lives in an apartment that is a quiet studio in the historic building,
located a few blocks from the Spanish Steps, shielded by the shadow of the
elegant beautiful Borghese Park, right on the road that leads to the Piazza del
Appolo, where the Romans first entered the race buggy . Liz lived in Italy for four
meet someone. Because language is the introduction in knowing something of the
new place we have never known. Similarly, it is done by Liz; she studied Italian
language which is difficult to study. But she was determined to learn the language
and very patiently trying to master the language. And she was able to understand
even if only slightly. But it was enough to make her happy.
In Italy Liz also studied the art of enjoying life there by enjoying a variety
of Italian food which is very famous around the world for its delicious taste. Italy
is a country which is very famous for pizza and spaghetti. These foods are very
evocative to Liz appetite and she did not waste the chance to taste those foods.
She loved to eat spaghetti very much. Spaghetti really makes her appetite arise
highly. She eats spaghetti every day. This makes her gained weight for about 12
pounds and it did not make her aware of it. But ultimately this is enough to make
her happy and peaceful. She also rediscovered her long lost appetite due to the
complicated issues that she faces. Liz also made friends there. She is a type of
person who is very easy to get along with the Italians. Liz was really enjoying the
beauty of that country with all its beauty and its environmental friendliness
Liz
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continued her journey to India. Liz lived in the Ashram which is
situated in a village in the remote outback. In this country she finds something
new, too. She learned the art of devolution and self-surrenders at a Hindu ashram
or hermitage. She also met a Yoga teacher and she studied yoga and yoga in depth
which is very useful to soothe the soul and can get peace of mind. She also spent
four months in India to deepen and explore the spiritual side. And this also helps
Liz lived in Ubud
Ubud is located in the center of Bali, particularly located in the mountains
and surrounded by terraced rice paddies and innumerable Hindu temples, with
rivers that cut fast through deep canyons of jungle and volcanoes visible on the
horizon. Ubud has been considered as the cultural center of the island, the place
where traditional Balinese paint, dance, carve, and do the religious ceremonies.
Ubud is located far from any beaches, so the tourists who come to Ubud are a self
selecting and rather classy crowd. They would prefer to see an ancient temple
ceremony than to drink piña coladas in the surf. Regardless of what happens with
her medicine man prophecy, this could be a lovely place to live for a while. The in a small and pretty hotel. The hotel has a sweet swimming
pool and a garden crammed with tropical flowers with blossoms bigger than
volleyballs tended to by a highly organized team of hummingbirds and
butter-flies. The staff is Balinese, which means they automatically start adoring you and
complimenting you on your beauty as soon as you walk in. The room has a view
of the tropical treetops and there’s a breakfast included every morning with piles
of fresh tropical fruit. In short, it’s one of the nicest places she has ever stayed and
it’s costing less than ten dollars a day.
As quoted
“I am so free here in Bali, it’s almost ridiculous. I walk around and ride my
bike and sometimes talk to people and eat lunch. My new house is on a quiet road, surrounded in all directions by rice fields. It’s a little cottage”
good restaurant and bookstore, a nice little bookstore. Liz can easily spend all her
time in Ubud by following classes are held is batik, playing drums, making
jewelry, pottery, traditional Indonesian dance and cooking. There are good
restaurants and nice little bookstores. Liz can easily spend all her time in Ubud by
doing: batik, drumming, jewelry-making, pottery, traditional Indonesian dance
and cooking. Bali has a lot of famous tourist attractions, namely Kuta and Sanur
beach is famous for its beautiful beaches. The beauty of Bali is no doubt, starting
with its beautiful beaches which are famous around the world with its blue beach,
beautiful waves and white sand. In addition, the Balinese culture is very attractive
to anyone who comes there because of the diversity and uniqueness of its culture.
Cultural form of dance and traditional clothing that looks very unique. Dances
such as Kecak dance which is showing a typical Balinese.
Bali is a fairly simple place to navigate. It’s not like Liz has landed in the
middle of the Sudan with no idea of what to do next. This is an island
approximately the size of Delaware and it’s a popular tourist destination. The
whole place has arranged itself to help us, the Westerner with the credit cards, get
around with ease. English is spoken here widely and happily. Liz feels guiltily
relieved. Her brain synapses are so overloaded by her efforts to learn modern
Italian and ancient Sanskrit during these last few months that She just can’t take
on the task of trying to learn Indonesian or, even more difficult, Balinese—a
language more complex than Martian. It is really no trouble being here. We can
change your money at the airport, find a taxi with a nice driver who will suggest
industry collapsed in the wake of the terrorist bombing here two years ago (which
happened a few weeks after Liz had left Bali the first time), it’s even easier to get
around now; everyone is desperate to help us, desperate for work.
Bali is a tiny Hindu island located in the middle of the
two-thousand-mile-long Indonesian archipelago that constitutes the most populous Muslim nation on
earth. Bali is therefore a strange and wondrous thing; it should not even exist, yet
does. The island’s Hinduism was an export from India by way of Java. Indian
traders brought the religion east during the fourth century AD. The Javanese kings
founded a mighty Hindu dynasty, little of which remains today except the
impressive temple ruins at Borobudur. In the sixteenth century, a violent Islamic
uprising swept across the region and the Shiva-worshipping Hindu royalty
escaped Java, fleeing to Bali in droves during what would be remembered as the
Majapahit Exodus. The high-class, high-caste Javanese brought with them to Bali
only their royal families, their craftsmen and their priests—and so it is not a wild
exaggeration when people say that everyone in Bali is the descendent of either a
king, a priest or an artist, and that this is why the Balinese have such pride and
brilliance.
Balinese culture is one of the most methodical systems of social and
religious organization on earth, a magnificent beehive of tasks and roles and
ceremonies. The Balinese are lodged, completely held, within an elaborate lattice
operates, by necessity, with elaborate communal cooperation. Rice terraces
require an unbelievable amount of shared labor, maintenance and engineering in
order to prosper, so each Balinese village has a banjar—a united organization of
citizens who administer, through consensus, the village’s political and economic
and religious and agricultural decisions. In Bali, the collective is absolutely more
important than the individual, or nobody eats. Religious ceremonies are of
paramount importance here in Bali (an island, don’t forget, with seven
unpredictable volcanoes on it—you would pray, too). It has been estimated that a
typical Balinese woman spends one-third of her waking hours either preparing for
a ceremony, participating in a ceremony or cleaning up after a ceremony. Life
here is a constant cycle of offerings and rituals. You must perform them all, in
correct order and with the correct intention, or the entire universe will fall out of
balance. Margaret Mead wrote about “the incredible busy-ness” of the Balinese,
and it’s true—there is rarely an idle moment in a Balinese compound. There are
ceremonies here which must be performed five times a day and others that must
be performed once a day, once a week, once a month, once a year, once every ten
years, once every hundred years, once every thousand years. All these dates and
rituals are kept organized by the priests and holy men, who consult a Byzantine
system of three separate calendars.
There are thirteen major rites of passage for every human being in Bali,
each marked by a highly organized ceremony. Elaborate spiritual appeasement
ceremonies are conducted all throughout life, in order to protect the soul from the
violence, stealing, laziness and lying. Every Balinese child passes through a
momentous puberty ceremony in which the canine teeth, or “fangs,” are filed
down to a flat level, for aesthetic improvement. The worst thing you can be in Bali
is coarse and animalistic, and these fangs are considered to be reminders of our
more brutal natures and therefore must go. Liz is also a special visit to monkey
forest is very popular as a reserve which is maintained and preserved its existence.
Liz went to traditional markets of Bali, where she tried to taste the cuisine of
Indonesia and rambutan fruit is very tasty.
All these experiences become complete when she finds her soul mate, a
man named Felipe who is a Brazilian and who has settled in Bali. They met for
the first time at a Brazil themed party in Ubud. They also began to make such an
approach out to dinner and start to know each other deeper. Liz is a broken
hearted who is not easy to believe in a man. This was proven when Felipe
proposed her; Liz refused because she is still fragile and did not believe Felipe.
Felipe did not give up so easily, he continues struggling to convince Liz about his
love. And finally Liz was convinced and believed Felipe, after thinking over and
over and also because Liz’s friends supported her. Her friends convinced Liz that
Felipe is a man who is very kind and lovable. In the end Liz receives Felipe’s love
and they live happily. Finally Liz's life is full of happiness because of her efforts
succeeded in finding sobriety and her love and Bali was the place where truly
cm and has a sweet smile across her face. Liz is a woman with a simple display,
never appears in an excessive. She is very simple but elegant. He has bright career
as a brilliant writer in New York. Liz was a very generous and kind. This occurs
when Liz help Wayan families to buy a house in Indonesia for Wayan’s family.
Liz really loves her boyfriend, Felipe, wholeheartedly.
3.2 FELIPE
Felipe is an adult male aged fifty-two years. His hair was white and grey,
brown eyes and a warm, friendly face and aromatic, Felipe is a grown man and
very well established. Felipe is a widower. He worked with the Balinese
silversmiths to create jewelry of precious stones from Brazil to be exported to
America. Felipe has been living in Bali for about 5 years. Felipe is very
affectionate and friendly. Felipe is also very kind to his children. He raised his
children well, and they loved him. He is a parent who likes to take care of his
children himself when they were little. He saw his children growing up since they
were still very young to adults and devoted all affection to these children. He
treats his children lovingly and tenderly, even though his children as adult but
Felipe still treat them very well, by always kissing them if they want to come and
go for a vacation
Felipe is also very friendly to his friends. He has a friend named Armenia
who is also a Brazilian. They had been friends since they both lived in Bali and
through their friendship Liz and Felipe met when they both attended the party
other one another. They shared stories about their marriage. Not in the way of
petty, but just to sympathize. They compared about the depression that they
experienced during their post-divorce. They drank wine, ate together and
exchanged their wonderful stories they could remember about the former spouse,
to exclude from such pain. Felipe is also able to speak in four or more languages.
But he does not speak Indonesian. Felipe also has traveled to more than fifty
countries in his life, and that he sees the world as a place that is small and easy to
handle
Felipe is really serious with Liz. Felipe had twice led through the front
door Liz Liz's house to say good night, and now two times Liz has done the same,
Liz let themselves be drawn into his arms, but then lowered his head least not at
the last moment and put her cheek to his chest Felipe. Liz allowed herself a
moment in his arms. Liz kissed a nice linen shirt. Liz really pleased with his body
odor.
. Felipe is a man who desperately needs a woman in his life-but not so that
he can be considered, but for him to have people who can sees, someone who can
he gives his full attention. Since his marriage ended his life without a relationship,
life without purpose, but now he's set his life with good self around Liz.
As quoted
“Having lived without such a relationship ever since his marriage ended, he’s been adrift in life recently, but now he is organizing himself around me”
(Gilbert Elizabeth, 2006:155)
Felipe invites Liz to spend a day at the beach with him. And they went
conversation with a swim, nap and read, sometimes read aloud to each other. The
women of Bali with a cottage in the back of the beach to burn fresh fish caught,
and they see themselves bringing a cold beer and chilled fruit. They talked about
the things they have not told at the time they spent the night at a restaurant samadi
Ubud, by drinking bottles of wine. And at that moment Felipe said if Liz wants to
be his love. But Liz refused him. Felipe was able to receive Liz answer with a big
heart. He understands the circumstances that befell Liz and her trauma with a
man.
Felipe is really serious with Liz. Felipe had twice led through the front
door Liz Liz's house to say good night, and now two times Liz has done the same,
Liz let themselves be drawn into his arms, but then lowered his head least not at
the last moment and put her cheek to his chest Felipe. Liz allowed herself a
moment in his arms. Liz kissed a nice linen shirt. Liz really pleased with his body
odor.
As quoted
“Come and live with me now, let me take care of you forever.’ But you aren’t a lost
little girl. You’re a woman with a career, with ambition. You are a perfect snail: you carry your home on your back. You should hold on to that freedom for as long as possible”
(Gilbert Elizabeth, 2006:202)
Felipe always tries to convince Liz that he has sincere and serious love to
Liz. Liz was invited to dinner at his house. Felipe keep trying to impress her and
make her believe that he really love her. And finally Liz received Felipe’s love
because Liz was impressed and felt happy to bee with him. They were living
Felipe is an adult male aged fifty-two years old. His hair is white and grey.
He has brown eyes and a warm, friendly face and always smells good. Felipe is a
widower and a rich man. He is active and creative person. He works with the
Balinese silversmiths to create jewelry of precious stones from Brazil to be
exported to America. Felipe is a kind, friendly and
We both sit down. With no hesitation, he takes Liz palm in his hand—
assuming that, like most of his Western visitors, a palm-reading is what Liz come lovable person.
3.3 KETUT LIYER
Ketut liyer is a male aged a hundred and twelve year old. Ketut keeps his
chin lifted all the time, his head held a little bit back, sort of quizzical and elegant
at the same time. Like a curious old king, he looks at the whole world from above
his nose. His skin is lustrous, golden brown. He’s almost totally bald, but makes
up for it with exceptionally long and feathery eyebrows which look eager to take
flight. Except for his missing teeth and his burn-scarred right arm, he seems in
perfect health. He is wearing his sarong and his golf shirt. Ketut Liyer the elderly
medicine man and he is a married man.
Liz is going to Ketut’s house. Ketut really welcome Liz in his house. It can
be seen in this quotation:
“Come, come,” he says, and I’m ushered to the porch of his little house, where woven bamboo mats serve as furniture”.
the middle and a temple in the back. Several generations live out their lives
together in the various interconnected small homes within these walls.
Ketut told Liz that he was a dancer in his youth, for the temple
ceremonies, and that he was beautiful back then. Liz believes it. He eats only one
meal a day—a typically simple Balinese dish of rice mixed with either duck or
fish. He likes to drink one cup of coffee with sugar every day, mostly just to
celebrate the fact that he can afford coffee and sugar. He keeps his body strong by
meditating every night before sleep and by pulling the healthy energy of the
universe into his core. He says that the human body is made of nothing more or
less than the five elements of all creation—water (apa), fire (tejo), wind (bayu),
sky (akasa) and earth (pritiwi) and all we have to do is concentrate on this reality
during meditation and we will receive energy from all of these sources and we
will stay strong.
Ketut was so busy today, crowded with Balinese patients who were
stacked up all over his courtyard like cargo crates, all of them with babies or
offerings in their laps. He had farmers and businessmen there, fathers and
grandmothers. There were parents with babies who weren’t keeping food down,
and old men haunted by black magic curses. There were young men tossed by
aggression and lust, and young women looking for love matches while suffering
children complained about their rashes. Everyone out of balance; everyone
needing equilibrium restored. The mood of the courtyard of Ketut’s home is
always one of total patience, though. Sometimes people must wait for three hours
their feet or roll their eyes in exasperation. Extraordinary, too, is the way the
children wait, leaning up against their beautiful mothers, playing with their own
fingers to pass the time.
Ketut treated all the patients obligingly, one after another, seemingly
unconcerned by the passage of time, giving all exactly the attention they needed
regardless of who was waiting to be seen next. He was so busy he didn’t even get
his one meal at lunchtime, but stayed glued to his porch, obliged by his respect for
God and his ancestors to sit there for hours on end, healing everyone. By evening,
his eyes looked as tired as the eyes of a Civil War field surgeon. His last patient of
the day had been a deeply troubled middle-aged Balinese man complaining that he
had not slept well in weeks; he was being haunted, he said, by a nightmare of
“drowning in two rivers at the same time.
As quoted
“Ketut did his job well, and the baby did her job well, too. She was fully present for her transformation ceremony from god-status to human-status. She was handling the responsibilities marvelously” (Gilbert Elizabeth, 2006:268)
Ketut has never been off the island of Bali in his life. He has spent very
little time, actually, off this porch. He once went on a pilgrimage to Mount
Agung, the biggest and most spiritually important volcano on Bali, but he said the
energy was so powerful there he could scarcely meditate for fear he might be
consumed by sacred fire. He goes to the temples for the big important ceremonies
encyclopedias, taking care of people, mollifying demons and occasionally treating
himself to a cup of coffee with sugar.
Ketut Liyer has all these piles of old, lined notebooks and ledgers, filled
with tiny little handwriting, of ancient Balinese-Sanskrit mysteries about healing.
He copied these notes into these notebooks way back in the 1940s or 1950s,
sometime after his grandfather died, so he would have all the medical information
recorded. This stuff is beyond invaluable. There are volumes of data about rare
trees and leaves and plants and all their medicinal properties. He’s got some sixty
pages of diagrams about palm-reading, and more notebooks full of astrological
data, mantras, spells and cures. The only thing is, these notebooks had been
through decades of mildew and mice and they’re shredded almost to bits. Yellow
and crumbling and musty, they look like disintegrating piles of autumn leaves.
Every time he turns a page, he rips the page.
At the moment, the person Liz is enjoying the most is Ketut. The old
man—truly one of the happiest humans I’ve ever encountered—is giving Liz his
full access, the freedom to ask any lingering questions about divinity, about
human nature. Liz likes the meditations he has taught me, the comic simplicity of
“smile in your liver” and the reassuring presence of the four spirit brothers. The
other day the medicine man told Liz that he knows sixteen different meditation
techniques, and many mantras for all different purposes. Some of them are to
bring peace or happiness, some of them are for health, but some of them are
instance, he said, he knows one meditation that takes him “to up.” It can be seen
in this quotation:
“To up?” I asked. “What is to up?”
“To seven levels up,” he said. “To heaven.”
Hearing the familiar idea of “seven levels,” I asked him if he meant that his meditation took
Him up through the seven sacred chakras of the body, which are discussed in Yoga.
“Not chakras,” he said. “Places. This meditation takes me seven places in universe. Up
and up. Last place I go is heaven.” (Gilbert Elizabeth, 2006:280)
He goes on to say that he’s been very busy with his Balinese patients,
always a lot to do, have to give much magic for new babies, ceremonies for dead
people, healing for sick people, ceremonies for marriage. Next time he goes to
Balinese wedding. He has a lot of work to do and he never feels tried.
Ketut liyer is a male aged a hundred and twelve year old. Ketut keeps his
chin lifted all the time, his head held a little bit back, sort of quizzical and elegant
at the same time. Like a curious old king, he looks at the whole world from above
his nose. His skin is lustrous, golden brown. He’s almost totally bald, but makes
up for it with exceptionally long and feathery eyebrows which look eager to take
flight. Except for his missing teeth and his burn-scarred right arm, he seems in
perfect health. He is wearing his sarong and his golf shirt. Ketut Liyer the elderly
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
After doing some analysis, then proves that Elizabeth Gilbert truly found
her love in Bali. A Brazilian man makes her falling in love, and they got married
and live together as a happy family. And the writer would conclude the analyze of
the novel as following:
Eat Pray Love has three major character; they are Elizabeth Gilbert,
Felipe and Ketut Liyer. Elizabeth Gilbert is described a 31-year-old woman. She
has a beautiful face with long blond hair, oval face, sharp nose, blue eyes, white
skin, and height about 170 cm and has a sweet smile across her face. Liz is a
widower. Liz is a woman with a simple display, never appears in an excessive.
This can be seen from her daily appearance when she is going to work, she always
wears a shirt and skirt and a pair of shoes which are very simple but elegant. Liz
was a very generous and kind. Felipe is an adult male aged fifty-two years. His
hair was white and grey, brown eyes and a warm, friendly face and aromatic,
Felipe is a grown man and very well established. Felipe is a widower. He worked
with the Balinese silversmiths to create jewelry of precious stones from Brazil to
be exported to America. Felipe is very affectionate and friendly. Felipe is also
very kind to his children. He raised his children well, and they loved him. Felipe
is also very friendly to his friends. Ketut liyer is a male aged a hundred and twelve
year old. His skin is lustrous, golden brown, almost totally bald, missing teeth and
burn-scarred right arm. Ketut Liyer the elderly medicine man and he is a married
4.2 Suggestion
Eat Pray Love is a very good novel to read and best seller novel. The novel
tells the story of the struggle to find happiness in life. This novel also shows that
we should not give up in life and teach us to be kind to people, helping people in
need and to socialize with the new environment we are familiar. This novel also
invites us to know the culture of other countries and certainly add to our
knowledge of the country. And teach us to find our true love that will make us
happy because without love our lives will be meaningless.
We need to know about literary theory. Thus we are able to focus on the
elements of everything I want exposed and novel elements that have not yet
presented to the inspiration for the study. Hopefully this paper will give some
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APPENDICES
SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
This novel tells the story of a woman named Elizabeth Gilbert who entered
the age of thirty years and has been getting the entire desired modern American
woman. Besides a husband, a house, an ambition and education, Liz also had a
brilliant career as a writer. Previously, she also has foster home but later divorced.
Failure after failure in love life makes this rich and well-established career woman
decided to leave her home in California. She travels on the streets for a year, with
the aims of calming, finding self identity of herself, and finding meaning in life.
But she was unhappy, sad and felt uncertain to face her life. She was panicked in
facing her life. Liz felt the pain of divorce, depression, failure in love, and loss of
grip in his life.
To recover herself, Liz had taken a fairly extreme decision. In the way of
searching for her true identity, she sold all his possessions, left her job and the
people who loved and care for her. She started a one year trip around the world
alone. For a woman who looks attractive, it is clearly a solo travel adventure. Eat,
Pray, Love is a record of events in the search. Elizabeth Gilbert's desire to visit
three places where she could examine one aspect of life, with cultural
backgrounds that have traditionally been realizing these aspects of life very well.
From Italy, Liz leaves for India. In this country she learned the art of devotion or
surrender in a Hindu ashram, or hermitage, she met a yoga teacher, and she spent
four months to explore her spiritual side.
Finally, Bali becomes final destination. On the resort of this island resort,
this mature woman found her life goal, namely a balanced life between earthly joy
and peace of mind and she also fell in love with a very beautiful way without
being planned. She met a kind hearted widower who worked with the Balinese
silversmiths to create jewelry of precious stones which was imported from Brazil
and to be exported to the United States. He has stayed for a long time in Bali.
Gilbert who had been apathetic and felt would never be related to romantic
relationship with any other man, finally found her true love back on this man
named Felipe.
This novel is presented with clear, thoughtful, thrilling and funny. It is
about the search for identity. Eat Pray Love describes something that can happen
to someone who have responsibility for the happiness of their lives. This novel
particularly describes a journey of life that can occur when a woman does not live
her life according to the rules that exist in society, the complexities of human
relations which are not only about good or bad and right or wrong. This is a story
that touches anyone who is aware of the need for change. One thing that is
interesting is the background making Bali as one of the places visited during the
BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on July 18, 1969.
She is the daughter of John Gilbert, a chemical engineer, and Carole Gilbert, a
nurse; the family also farms Christmas trees at their isolated country home and as
a child Gilbert lived without conveniences such as television. She grew up on a
small family tree farm, with her sister, novelist and historian Catharine Gilbert
Murdock (author of Dairy Queen, the first in a series for teens). Elizabeth
attended New York University, where she studied political science by day and
worked on her short stories by night. After college, she spent several years
traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting
experiences to transform into fiction.
Liz explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book - a short
story collection calle
creative nonfiction, drama, and journalism--and the awards she has garnered
include several prizes for best new fiction writer, a National Magazine Award,
and a nomination for a National Book Award. Whatever the genre, however, there
is a consistency of theme and subject matter in almost all of Gilbert's writing: hers
is a distinctive voice in contemporary American letters, mixing antisocialist
working-class heroes with antiliberal frontier values, in service of a feminism that
is anything but antimale. Her 1997 GQ article, "The Muse of th
basis for the feature film
naturalist, The Last American Man. It received a nomination for the
by GQ in 2000, was included in Best American Magazine Writing 2001.
In addition to writing books, she has worked steadily as a journalist.
Throughout much of the 1990’s she was on staff at SPIN Magazine, where she
chronicled diverse individuals and subcultures, covering everything from rodeo's
Buckle Bunnies (reprinted in The KGB Bar Reader) to China’s headlong
construction of the Three Gorges Dam. In 1999, Elizabeth began working for GQ
magazine, where her profiles of extraordinary men – from singers Hank Williams
III and Tom Waits (reprinted in The Tom Waits Reader) to quadriplegic athlete
Jim Maclaren – earned her three National Magazine Award Nominations, as well
She has also written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine,
Real Simple, Allure, Travel and Leisure and O, the Oprah Magazine (where her
memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" was excerpted in March, 2006.) She has been a
contributor to the Public Radio show "This American Life", and -- perhaps most
proudly -- has several times shown up at John Hodgman's Little Gray Book
Lecture Series, most notably during Lecture Four on the subject "Hints for Public
Singing." She was a three-time finalist for The National Magazine work, and an
article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side
eventually became the basis for the movi
In 2000, Elizabeth published her first novel
brutal territory wars between two remote fishing islands off the coast of Maine)
which was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2002, Elizabeth publishe
Conway. This book, her first work of non-fiction, was a finalist for both the
National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Much of her
writing has been optioned by Hollywood. Her GQ memoir about her bartending
years became the Disney movie "Coyote Ugly"; and Paramount Pictures has
acquired screen rights to the Eat, Pray, Love. The memoir was on the
after 88 weeks, the book was still on the list at number
optioned for a
on August 13, 2010, wit
She is at work in 2006, Gilbert publishe
chronicle of her year of "spiritual and personal exploration" spent traveling
abroad. She financed her world travel for the book with a substantial publisher's
advance. Elizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir
after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into
over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies sold worldwide, and a movie
version in the making, starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that, in
2008, Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people
in the world. Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called
institution of marriage in 2010. The book immediately became a number one New
York Times bestseller, and was also received with warm critical praise.
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, was released by Viking in January 2010. The book is somewhat of a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love in that it takes
up Gilbert's life story where her bestseller left off. Committed also reveals
Elizabeth Gilbert's decision to marry a Brazilian man named Felip
a thorough examination of the institution of marriage from a multitude of
historical and modern perspectives — including that of people, particularly
Newsweek wrote, COMMITTE
Elizabeth Gilbert's decision to marry a Brazilian man named Felipe whom she met
in Indonesia. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in rural New Jersey with her husband, her
garden, and far too many beloved pets.
