1.1 LATAR BELAKANG

The main character is a central figure

Character or characters in literature have some kind of identity, where the environment or setting in life was instrumental in building character. The main character can be present in any event and can be encountered in every page of the book the main character on the story.But also can not appear in every scene in the story, but it turns out the incident or story remains closely related or can be linked with the main character. The main character in a novel could have been more than one person.

 According to some opinions on the figure, Abrams (in Nurgiyantoro 1995:165) characters are the people who appear in a work of narrative or drama. The main character other opinion from Sudjiman (1988:17-18) based functions can be distinguished figures in the story's central figure and subordinate leaders. People who hold leadership roles referred to the main character or protagonist. The protagonist has always been a central figure in the story.

 

Mitchell David Albom, a journalist, screen writer and novelist male from American. He has been awarded national recognition for sports book.beside be a novelist he is also a jounalist and musician. Novel Tuesday with Morrie is one of the greatest works of Mitchell David Albom, and also he first novel,which is the best-selling novel in the list new york times on october 1997 sold more than 14 million copy and translated into 14 languages. Success in Tuesday with Morrie followed by other works such as the five people you meet in heaven, for one more day, and have a little faith is his last novel on 29 sept 2009.

In the novel tuesday with Morrie tells about the meaning of life, a professor Morrie Schwartz who fight against the deadly disease in misery diseases taken everything in her life, pleasure dancing, his ability teaching, even a moment will bring him to the point where he was very dependent on others.ASL or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurological disease will paralyze all muscles little by little.

The main character in the novel Tuesday with Morrie is morrie a professor of several universities in the america. This figure is the main element that forms the storyline and plot. He became a central figure in this story. with set in 1995 in West Newton, Massachusetts. The main character in the novel Tuesday with Morrie visible change after a difficult illness to be cured, it does not necessarily change but occurred after he was in a difficult disease diagnosis has healed and waiting for death that will soon pick him up.