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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1Background of the Study

Literature is considered as the reflection of human imagination. It is

commonly known as a written of art. Literature is writing which expresses and

communicates thoughts, feelings, and attitudes to life. Literature may consist of texts

based on factual information (journalists or non -fiction), as well as an original

imagination. In literature, there are three branches of literature such as drama, poetry,

and prose. Prose is a type of literature that is written expression without rhyme

scheme or lyrical structure. Meanwhile, prose can also divided into novel, short story,

romance, etc.

In this thesis, the object to be discussed is a novel. Richard (1981-46) says,

“novel is a normally a prose work with a quiet length complexity which attempts to

reflect an express something of the quality of value of human experience.” In other

words, novels are long prose works with a great amount of detail on every page. The

effect of this detail is that the readers can recognize the complex reality of a character

or event in the story. Novels, however, are long works with great amount of detail on

every page. They present all the complicating facts that need to be taken into account

before we can reach any sort of judgment. The effect of this detail is that we come to

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Novel is a long prose contains a series of stories of one’s life with the people

around him by accentuating the character and nature of each actor. Novel tells of an

amazing event of the characters, the events which made something different that

change the fate of the characters. Novel tends to expand and emphasizes complexity.

Expand and complexity means is dispositive in this case, the problems experienced

by the character, and the expansion of the background story. So, novel is a fiction

depicting the life story of characters through a complex series of events and changes

the fate of the character.

Novel presents characters and actions as representation of real life condition

and situation of the human. The characters or the people in the real have ambition,

desire, joy, sadness, egoism, feeling, thought, and many things that deal with fact of

human life. In other words, the novel is the combination of the real life experiences

and the imagination of the author. Therefore, literature may offer life lessons that the

novel teaches. Novel contains many aspects that reflected based on the human real

life. This aspects commonly concern with emotion, feeling, problems, etc. The

elements that build up novel are character, setting, plot, and theme. Character is

people in a story are referred to as characters and also representative of real life.

Setting is the place and time in a work of narrative. Plot is a literary term defined as

the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern.

Theme is one of the big components of literature along with things like the plot and

characters. The theme can be the meaning or lesson that a story is trying to convey.

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Character is one of the important parts of novel. The people in a novel are

referred to as characters. Characters are representative of real life, such as human life,

hope, sadness, happy, and others which deal with real life.

From the description above, I sympathize with the main character in the novel

that I discuss, the character Mary Faber. Because of the character of Mary in the

novel is very interesting to be discussed, as well as other characters. In the novel, the

character of Mary is described as a very nice girl, smart, and strong in the face of

problems in her life.

Character is very important in real-made creation of literary works such as

novel, drama or even some of poems. The nature of character presentation gives a

positive impact for readers to find out what is going on and what is it for. Character,

disposition, and character, referring to the attitude and the nature of the figures as

interpreted by the reader, it refers to the personal qualities of a leader. Personalities

and characterization often equated meaning with character and disposition refers to

the placement of certain figures with a certain character in a story.

In this thesis, I will analyze the main characters in L.A. Meyer’s novel

“Bloody Jack”. There are many characters in the novel, but here I just want to

analyze Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber and James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson Fletcher as main characters

and also there are some of minor characters. The reason why the middle name of

Mary is Jacky because she followed the UK ship as a lackey and on that ship there is

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follow the ship to survive her life. And also the reason of middle name of James is

Jamie because he didn’t want if everybody called him as James, because it just made

him remembered with his father who made James work on that ship. The reason to

choose this topic I based on the recognition of the main characters as human being

who have their own personality which is concerned with moral and mental qualities.

Some facts of the moral life are such that everyone has to make decision continuously

in a world where there are right and wrong ways of doing this. Our actions and

decisions affect others as well as ourselves. Moral practices and standards depend on

the stage of social development. Morality grows out of life itself and is an attempt to

discover and live the good life. But in this thesis I examine the character through their

behavior, like main character behavior.

In the discussion to find a character in a novel we need to use an intrinsic

theory. Because the character is one of the building elements literature included in

intrinsic. And also to find a character in a novel we need to use qualitative research

method. Because the type of analysis is words that will take a sentences to prove how

the character is described.

Having read the novel, the characters portrayed are important to analysis.

Finally, I want to explain about the main characters portrayed and a little about the

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1.2Problem of the Study

The problems of the study in this thesis are:

• How are the main characters personal behavior portrayed?

• How are mental of the main characters portrayed in the novel?

1.3The Objectives of the Study

• To identify the main characters behavior through their behavior

• To explain the mental of the main characters behavior through their

behavior

1.4The Scope of the Study

In this thesis, I would like to focus the main characters portrayed in L.A.

Meyer’s novel Bloody Jack; they are Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber, James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson

Fletcher. I was interested by the courage and effort in maintaining Marry Jacky life

by following the UK Ship as lackey. Her personality grows and changes from day to

day, but the other characters remain the same from figures the beginning. There are

many characters portrayed in the novel Bloody Jack. Such as character portrayed of

Mary ‘Jacky’ who very brave girl in her life, James which is very close himself from

the others, Liam Delaney who always help Mary if she get trouble with someone and

there are also some characters that are wicked, greedy and others. But in this thesis I

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1.5The Significance of the Study

Theoretically, this analysis to add the literary understanding of literature

works and also characters through the novel. This analysis is supposed to enrich the

material study of literature academically.

Practically, this thesis can be applied to know about character portrayed

through the novel “Bloody Jack”. It also can be used for everyone who wants to

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