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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.