English Literature:The Analysis Of Plot Used In Life Of Pi

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1  Background of the Study Literature is a term use to describe written or spoken material. The term  is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including  works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Robert and Jacobs (1995:2) say  that Literature is classified into four genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and  nonfiction prose.

 In this paper novel is chosen as the material of analysis in which is also  considered in literary work. Reader (1987:6) says that Novel is fictitious prose  narrative of volume length portraying characters and actions representative of real  life in continuous plot. Novel is human literature creations. In which that, novel  doesn’t present documentary picture life. The story is written in certain plot to  illustrate actions of the characters.

 Plot is one of the most important elements in making a fiction literary  work. Aristotle considered plot (mythos) the most important element of drama— more important than character, for example. Aristotle says, a plot must have a  beginning, a middle, and an end, and the events of the plot must casually related  to one another as being either necessary or probable. By this, means that plot also  plays a big role as actors take part to illustrate the actions. In another book,  Fananie (2001:93) says that plot is the construction which is made to read on of a   sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or  experienced by actors.

 The writer is interested in analyzing a novel which entitled Life of Pi by  Yann Martel. This fascinating yet miserable adventurous novel has many  interesting points of religions and mostly about life. It is a story of a 16-year-old  Indian boy, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi), surviving on a lifeboat for 227 days with a  carnivorous Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, floating in the Pacific Ocean. The  author, Yann Martel, is Canadian author whose first language is French, but he  always writes in English. He published his most successful work, Life of Pi in  2001 and in 2012 Life of Pi was adapted to a movie.

 As the focus of this paper, the writer will analyze the plot used in the  novel Life of Piby Yann Martel.

 1.2  Problem of the Study The problem is to identify the plot used in Yann Martel’s novel Life of  Pias referred in the background of the study above.

 1.3   Scope of the Study There are many interesting aspects can be discussed in this novel,  nevertheless the writer is interested to focus on the plot used in Life of Pi.

 Moreover, this paper is restricted to discuss the elements of plot as well especially  used in the novel.

  1.4  Objective of the Study The purposes of this paper are to find how the plot is used in the novel  Life of Pi and the elements of plot. Therefore, this paper can be functional for  the reader in order to enrich our knowledge on literature.

 1.5  Method of the study In writing this paper, the writer uses library research as the method of  study. As the first step, the writer reads the novel to understand the story. Then,  the writer reads literature books and browses data from the internet to support the  writer’s idea of the related topic of this paper. The final steps are sorting out the  data that have been collected and analyze them.

  

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