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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study
Even in the 21st century, Indonesia is one of the countries that still believe in the supernatural life as a mystic and fantasy world. A supernatural life is a myth or legend from the story that is circulating in the community. It can be found in a television program and in traditional tribes such as Karonese, Javanese, Bali. They have the ability to see invisible life. The mystical life examples that have occurred on the television show "The Other World". It is an event that took place in an old building. At 11.59 pm, a mediator and ustad trying to find the truth as to why the building was very dangerous for society. The Ustad tries to bring a mediator into the subconscious so that mediators do not realize that he was in the unseen world. With ustad’s courage and capability, he is asking things that ever experienced by the occupants of the building through a mediator. Then, mediator revealed angrily that the reason why the old building become dangerous because the murder of sadistic conducted by one of the families from the building occupants. After learning of these ustad occupants attempting to restore the building to the place that makes it quiet and make the building does not harm surrounding communities. The courage and ability of an ustad for separating real life from community under control by certain creatures; its same as an existing character in the novel "The Giver".
The Giver is a novel by Lois lawry which tells about the life of a community is separated from the real world. These communities are under the control of the extreme and is controlled by an Elder of the head so that the
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community did not experience suffering, hunger, war, and also not feeling the color, music or love. The Head elder is someone thinking positive and determined the life of the citizens in their communities so that they do not have the freedom to choose. However, one of the children from the community that has the capability of seeing further so that elected a "Receiver of Memory". He is Jonas. Jonas is a child who has the attitude of a sensitive, thoughtful and intelligent. After being elected as the memory receiver, Jonas follows some training so that he realizes that the community world is a lie. Later, Jonas revolted and wished to restore the world community into the real world. With persistence and great effort that he did, he is able to returns to Earth real communities. A world full of color and happiness.
The story above is taken from the novel The Giver by Lois Lawry. The novel is one of human literature creation. Wellek and Warren (1987:1) say that the novel is a picture of real life and habits and of the time of writing. Some of them are fiction (not real) and not fiction (real). A good novel carries a message for readers who read it. There are two approaches in the intrinsic elements of fiction, and ecstrinsic elements. Nurgiyantoro (1995:11) says the intrinsic elements of the novel are elements – elements (directly) participate to build story. In the intrinsic elements include: the plot, characters, setting, theme, point of view and style of language. The author also uses the intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren which is the approach taken the data from the text itself. In writing this paper, the author uses the library method (Library Research) that collect data from books in the library and also get information from the internet.
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Based on the explanation above, the author is interested in discussing about the life of Jonas and his efforts to restore his community into the real world through its ability to look backwards and forwards.
1.2 Problem of the Study
Based on the background of the analysis , the problem of the study may be recognized as follows:
1) What does the effort of Jonas to restore his community become a real life? 2) How does the effort of Jonas to restore his community become a real life by his
abililty?
1.3 Scope of the Study
In this paper, the writer just limit about the characteristic of Jonas and the analysis Jonas’s effort to restore his community become a real life by his
abililty.
1.4 Purpose of the study The purpose of this study are:
1) To explain what the effort of Jonas to restore his community become a real life?
2) To explain how the effort of Jonas to restore his community become a real life by his abililty.
1.5 Method of the Study
In composing this paper the writer applies library method, it is a kind of method where researcher the data from related books in the library which has a relationship with the topic and applies information from internet such as data are
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collected, sorted and summarized. The writer also uses intrinsic approach by wellek and warren which is the approach taken the data from text itself.
1.6 Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer chooses to analyze Jonas because the writer interested with Jonas’s life. Jonas who has an ability to look back and the future . The writer
wants to inform to the reader about life of Jonas and how he does his stru ggle to restore his community become a real world. Beside that, the writer chooses this novel because this novel is never being analyzed before.
