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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 TheBackground of Study
Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material.
Broadlyspeaking, "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 is writing or studying of books, valued as works of art. Roberts
(1995:1) says, “literature refers to composition that tell stories, dramatize
situation, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas”. Taylor (1981:1)
says that literature is like other arts, it essentially an imaginative act, that is an act
of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.
Literature helps us grow, both personally and intellectually. It provides
an objective base for knowledge and understanding. It links us with the broader
cultural, philosophic, and religious world of which we are a part. It enables us to
recognize human dreams and struggles in difference places and times that we
would never otherwise to know. It exercises our emotion through interest,
concern, tension, excitement, hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy. It
encourages us to assist creative, talented people who need recognition and
support.
Novel reflects the transformation of the relationship between literature
and art.Novel is an invented prose narrative of considerable a length and acertain
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complexitythat deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a
connected sequence of events involving group of persons in a specific setting.
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:1) says, “Literature refers to compositions that
tellstories, dramatize situation, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas.
It commons used in poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.”
Carter and McRae (1997:3) says, “Literature is as old as human
language, and asnew as tomorrow’s sunrise. And literature is everywhere, not
only in books, but in videos, television, radio, CDs, computers, newspapers in all
the media of communication where a story is told or an image created.”
. The writer chooses Jhon Green’s novel Paper Towns as the subject
matter in this paper. The writer impressed with the adventure and struggle of
Quentin to find Margo. Paper Towns is the third novel written by Jhon Green that
having interested and good story. The novel explores the coming of age and
search of the protagonist, Quentin Jacobsen, for Margo Roth Spiegelman, his
neighbor childhood friends. Along his search, Quentin and his friends, Radar,
Ben, and Lacey, discover more about the real Margo.
1.2The Problem of Study
Based on the background mentioned above, the problem is:
1) Why didMargo run away?
2) How does Quentin find Margo in Jhon Green’s novel Paper Towns?
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The writer is very interesting about the novel, and wants to tell the
readers the adventure of Quentin to find Margo in the novel and want to fulfill one
of requirement in order to complete the writer education in D-III English
Diploma.
1.4 The Scope Of Study
When someone is eager to write a criticism of a novel or a descriptions of
a novel there are many glasses can be used to see inside, but on opportunity the
writer of this paper wants to see inside the novel just deals with the character and
the plot how the main character (Quentin) to find his friend (Margo).
1.5 The Reason for Choosing Topic
The writer decides to choose Jhon Green’s novel Paper Towns as the
subject of this paper because the writer thinks that the story of the novel is very
interesting with their own personalities to read, and then the novel is including the
idea that story is quite interesting and included in the review of literature.
1.6 The Method of Study
In order to write a scientific writing there will be somemethods to be
used. For examples, experimental approach, field research, or library research. On
this occasion, to write this paper the writer is using the library research. In writing
this paper deal with the method applied of course the writer takes all the required
data for further analysis from written text. The main data is taken from the
original novel and the other needs take from other written texts such as from
internet.
