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CHAPTER TWO: POTRTRAYAL OF THE PROTAGONIST IN JEANETTE WINTERSON’S ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT ...
CHAPTER THREE: CONCLUSION ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
APPENDICES:
Synopsis of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit ... Biography of Jeanette Winterson ...
ABSTRACT
Dalam penulisan tugas akhir ini saya memutuskan untuk menganalisis salah satu novel karya Jeanette Winterson yang berjudul Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Jeanette Winterson dikenal sebagai salah seorang penulis yang karya novelnya telah menerima beberapa penghargaan.
Novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit merupakan novel pertama Jeanette Winterson. Novel ini menceritakan sang protagonis yaitu Jeanette yang harus menghadapi berbagai masalah dalam kehidupannya. Jeanette diadopsi dan dibesarkan di sebuah keluarga Kristen fanatik yang mendoktrinasinya menjadi seorang penganut yang setia. Tapi tanpa disadari, Jeanette menjadi dikucilkan oleh teman-temannya karena kepercayaannya yang terlalu fanatis. Selain itu, Jeanette mulai menyadari bahwa pengalaman seksualitasnya tidak sesuai dengan kepercayaan yang dianutnya, sebagai akibatnya ia harus menghadapi berbagai cobaan yang akhirnya mengubah pandangannya terhadap ajaran yang telah membesarkannya dan ia mengambil keputusan untuk meninggalkan ajaran tersebut untuk hidup bebas sebagai seorang lesbian yang bebas.
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Itu menjadi nnya seorang wanita yang berdikari yang menarik untuk dianalisis. Penokohan tersebut dilakukan melalui berbagai teknik seperti kata-kata dari sang protagonis, tindakannya, pikirannya, reaksinya dan melalui gaya bercerita melalui orang pertama.
APPENDICES
Summary of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit tells the story of a growing up girl, named Jeanette, brought up by adoptive parents with an evangelical Christian community. She is educated at home, mostly learning to read the Bible. Jeanette's mother has adopted her because she want a child whom she will teach to serve God. As a child, Jeanette learns about the life of the church, its members and activities.
When Jeanette gets older, she becomes a successful evangelical preacher although she realizes that she sometimes disagrees with the teachings of her congregation. One day, she sees a compelling girl named Melanie, and they have a love affair. After her confession about her affair, the pastor publicly confronts Jeanette and Melanie about their affair. Melanie repents immediately but Jeanette does not. Because of Jeanette’s refusal to repent, the elders of the church attempt to exorcise the demons from her by pinning her down for fourteen hours.
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the church. Angry and unable to accept Jeanette’s lesbianism, her mother drives her away from home. Finally Jeanette decides to leave her family and the church. Jeanette sells ice cream and works in a funeral parlour. Not long afterwards, she gets a job in a psychiatry hospital and moves to another city.
Biography of Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959 and adopted by Pantecostal parents who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her father was a factory worker, her mother stay at home. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist background provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985.
She wrote her first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, when she was 23. Her comic book with picture, Boating for Beginners was published in 1985. She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC Television in 1990.
Winterson graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London, where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press before publishing The Passion in 1987. She published Sexing the Cherry in 1989, Written on the Body in 1992, Art & Lies 1994, Art Objects (essays) in 1995, Gut Symmetris in 1997, The World and Other Places (short stories) in 1998, books for children, The. Powerbook in 2000 and Tanglewreck in 2006, The King of Capri in 2004, and her latest novel, Lighthousekeeping in 2004. <http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth100>
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
I am interested in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Many critics and reviewers find her writing exciting, innovative, interesting, and intellectual. She is one of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s. She is a novelist who has won various awards around the world for her fiction. She received Whitbread First Novel Award in 1984. When she adapted one of her novels, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, for BBC television in 1990, she won the BAFTA award and Prix d’argent Best Script award in France. <http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth100>
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson’s most popular novel. It is about the experience of growing up and finding identity. Jeanette’s rebellion against her mother and church is seen as a typical confrontationbetween the younger and the older generations. Winterson introduces the reader to a new perspective of the world, especially on how one is supposed to go through one’s life.
Shaw, the protagonist is ‘the leading character of a drama, novel, or other literary works. The person is not always a hero of a work, but he is always the principal and central character’ (Shaw, 1972:305).
In discussing the portrayal of the protagonist, I look into the characterization techniques in order to know how the author portrays the character. The techniques are based on Murphy’s theory; they are speech, reaction, and thought.
By analysing this literary work, the present writer hopes to discover more about Jeanette Winterson’s portrayal of the protagonist of the novel and her purpose in portraying the protagonist.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
After reading the novel, I would like to discuss the following points: 1. What are the characteristics of the protagonist?
2. How does the novelist portray the protagonist?
1.3 Purpose of the Study
Based on the statement of the problem above, I would like to show: 1. The characteristics of the protagonist.
2. How the novelist portrays the protagonist.
1.4 Method of Research
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through other reference books and the Internet to obtain more relevant information about the topic. Finally, I analyse the primary text and draw the conclusion.
1.5 Organization of the thesis
CHAPTER THREE
CONCLUSION
After reading Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and analysing the characteristics of Jeanette, the protagonist, I come to the conclusion that the novelist is successful in portraying the protagonist.
At first, Winterson portrays the protagonist as an innocent and obedient girl who is very religious. She is also portrayed as a dependent girl. These characteristics are mostly found in Chapter One and Chapter Two of the novel. Her obedience can be seen through her action whereas her devotion to religion can be seen through her thought. Speech in revealing that the protagonist is dependent. The novelist also uses reaction to describe that the protagonist is obedient.
The fact that the novelist uses various techniques helps the reader understand the protagonist’s changes from an innocent, obedient, religious, and dependent girl into a critical, persistent, secular and independent woman.
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enable the reader to understand clearly the protagonist’s early characteristics as well as her changes inti a critical, persistent, secular, and independent.
Winterson has managed to present the characteristics of the protagonist very well; the presentation of Jeanette has given the readers a new perspective, particularly on the way one is supposed to go to one’s life.
Through the portrayal of the protagonist, the novelist succeed in showing that there are times when one’s way of life does not come up to one’s expectation. The novelist shows the reader reality through the novel that everyone is, at some time in their live, occasionally confronted with many choices. Sometimes one must choose whether to stay with ‘a ready-made’ world that maybe safe but which limits one’s freedom or to go beyond the conventional norms, which may sometimes be even beyond common sense.
Jeanette’s decision to leave home and live independently implicitly shows that one’s future lies in whatever decision one has made in one’s life. Although the novelist shows that the protagonist of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit wants to be independent, she never mentions explicitly that the reader should be independent like her protagonist, Jeanette.
Jeanette Winterson portrayal of the protagonist of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit gives the reader a clear understanding about how to deal with problems in life. It also contains a clue that one should be fully responsible for one’s own future. One needs a lot of courage, determination, and strong will to decide whatever path one wants to choose.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reference
• Murphy, M. J. Understanding Unseens: An Introduction to English Poetry
and the English Novel for Overseas Students. Oxford: Alden Press, 1972 • Shaw, Harry. Dictionary of Literary Terms. New York: McGraw Hill
Book Company, 1972.
Internet Sites
• British Council Arts. 2006. Jeanette Winterson. 11 September 2006
<http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth100> • Pedalo. Jeanette Winterson Page. 23 November 2005.
<http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID= 50>
• Sparknotes. Sparknotes: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. 23 November
2005.
<http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oranges/>
Primary Text
• Winterson, Jeanette. 1997. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. New York:
