The Plot Analysis in the Landlady

(by Ganjar Maulana, Nurrizal Ramdani, Ali Topan)

Landlady is a short story by Roald Dahl. The story is about the young successful businessman man, Billy Weaver, who went to the small city called Bath to do his job. Unfortunately, he gets into the wrong place and that make him getting into trouble. The protagonist in this story is Billy Weaver, and the antagonist is the landlady.

Based on event sequences, this story can be categorized as progressive because the author tells the story from the beginning to the end chronologically. This story hasn’t any flashback, Medias res, and foreshadowing.

Based on quantity, this story is used a parallel plot because the author made the storyline linked each other from the beginning of the story until the end of it.

Based on quantity, this story is dense because the main plot doesn’t have a gap to imply another plot.

Point of View in Miss Brill

(by Ginanjar Wiji W., Diki Miharja)

What is Point of View?

Point of view is the vantage point from which a writer tells a story.

Kinds of Point of View

1. First person

2. Third person

a. Third person omniscient point of view

b. Third person limited point of view

As a writer, we must think strategically to choose the point of view that will allow you to most effectively develop your characters and tell your story. We may choose our story in:

Analyzing Setting in Story ‘Once Upon a Time”

(by Hary Pratama, Donna Pradana, Imam M. Iqbal) 

1. Introduction

In Nadine Gordimer`s ”Once Upon a Time”, The story begins with the author that was asked to write a children story “ every writer ought to write at least one story for children” but she refused. Then she felt paranoid because she woke up and hearing voice. The setting in this story is in suburb area in which they were a rich family with their son. They love the son very much. Their live seemed perfect with their own swimming pool, trustworthy housemaid. Unfortunately, there were riots where people of another color were quartered. This is the main clue to analyze the theme and setting of this story.

2. Theme
   1. Definition of theme

Theme is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Along with plot, character, setting, and style, theme is considered as one of the fundamental components of fiction (Obstfeld, 2002). Therefore, we attempt to discuss about theme in Nadine Gordimer`s Once Upon A Time.

2. Analyzing theme

In analyzing this story, we found connection between theme and setting in this short story. The theme of this story is about colonization, the writer tried to tell us the situation of a family living in a colony. There were many riots, so the colonizer (the family) built extra-security for their family such as, fence, dog, security guard, and insurance for accidents. Is can be seen from the line there were riots where people of another color were quartered, the words another color suggested that there were conflict between the native of African and white men.

Style, Tone & Mood in The Landlady

1. STYLE

Style is the use of literary devices, tone, and mood in a particular way that makes author’s writing recognizable. In another word, the style of writing is the style of author who writes it. The author’s style can be recognized by the following components:

• Personal word choice or vocabulary
• Types of sentences
• Point of view from which the text is told
• Organization of the text

To analyze an author style, we need to consider the point of view, formal or informal writing, structure of text, level of complexity in the writing, and overall tone. By using these features in writing, different meaning of the content are shown to the audience.

Analyzing Point of View in The Landlady

(by Meslina Rajagukguk, Rizkia Lestari, Rian Andini Nurhasanah)

Point of view is the vantage point from which a writer tells a story. A writer tells a story through the voice of a narrator. Everything you learn about the characters, events, and place in a story depends on the narrator point of view. There are three most common of point of view.
Kinds of point of views:
Omniscient
In the omniscient point of view, the narrator plays on part on the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening in other places.
It may comment on the story’s meaning, character, or events.

Analyzing Theme in The Storm

(by Lania Ermawati, Rina Watini, Susilawati )

Theme is prime element of literature, which contains the central idea of all literary forms such as a novel, drama and short story. It reflects innocence, experience, life, death, reality, fate, madness, sanity, love, society, individual, etc. Thus, it reflects the society as a whole. Likewise, in a drama, theme represents the brief idea of the drama. Theme is a statement, or series of related observations, about some aspect of the human condition, interpreted from the unique viewpoint of the author.

Sometimes the theme can be discovered by reading through the work and looking for topics that show up again and again. Analysis of theme involves working the concept, thought, opinion or belief that the author expresses. It is very common (and helpful) to consider theme when analyzing another aspect of literature rather than on its own. The theme of a work is the main message, insight, or observation the writer offers.

Characterization of The Landlady

(by Ronny Gumilar, Hendri Sukma I., Bayu Tri Azie)

In this paper, we will analyze the characters in short story called landlady by Roald Dahl. Before that, we will summarize the story first. The short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl is a great example of a horror story that you don’t realize that this is a horror story until very end.

“The landlady” is a story about a young man called Billy Weaver who travelled from London to Bath in a business trip aiming to work. He was recommended by a porter in the train station to stay in The Bell and Dragon as a cheap hotel. On his way, he was hypnotized by a bed and breakfast sign in a boardinghouse. He pressed the doorbell, and before he could lift his finger from the bell-button, the door opened and a middle-aged landlady appeared. She treated him generously, giving him a floor of his own to stay on, and charging him much less than he expected. She was somehow creepy, which Billy didn't notice at all. In the inn's guestbook, he sees that only two other guests have stayed there-one older, the other younger, and both having arrived earlier than 2 years prior.

Istilah-istilah itu...

Minatku selalu berbeda dengan orang-orang kebanyakan dimana aku dulu biasa bergabung. Aku yang liar dan sulit di atur, kemudian aku semakin menyadari betapa aku sangat "anti kemapanan" alias kurang betah dengan zona aman. Minatku pada dunia sastra dan budaya membuatku semakin "berbeda" dengan mereka. Kawan-kawanku lebih memilih dunia sains sebagai fokus akademiknya. Sangat bagus dan tidaklah salah, tetapi bukan berarti duniaku itu salah dan tidak berguna dibanding mereka. Aku yakin ilmu berasal dari akar yang sama, dan yang membedakannya hanya objek konsentrasinya saja. Berilmu untuk kebaikan apa yang salah?

Beberapa kali aku mendengar mereka mengutip suatu istilah dan salah mendefinisikannya. Aku tidak banyak bicara, pada awalnya, tetapi lama kelamaan semua semakin tidak jelas karena mereka hanya mengetahui istilah tersebut dari permukaan saja, itu pun salah pada beberapa bagian.

Tumpukan Bukuku yang Pertama

Huuft, empat belas buku masih kurang? Tenang saja kawan, aku masih punya sepuluh lagi yang bisa kau pakai. 0_o

Ini baru tumpukan buku pertama yang harus aku tuntaskan untuk satu mata kuliah saja, bayangkan cuma satu mata kuliah kawan, karena mata kuliahku yang lain punya tumpukan tersendiri di sepanjang ruang baca di kamarku. Setiap tumpukan harus aku lahap sampai habis, mengunyahnya perlahan supaya mudah bagiku menelan dan mencernanya.

Becak: Transportasi Alternatif

Alat transportasi menjadi suatu kebutuhan primer bagi masyarakat perkotaan  maupun pedalaman karena fungsinya yang mampu memindahkan, menggerakkan, mengangkut baik barang maupun orang dari satu tempat ke tempat lainnya. Berbagai pilihan alat transportasi muncul demi keamanan, kenyamanan, kecepatan serta murah, dan salah satu diantaranya adalah becak.

Becak merupakan alat transportasi khas Asia, artinya tidak hanya ada di Indonesia tetapi juga di sebagian negara Asia dengan beragam bentuknya. Jika mengamati sejarah kemunculannya, becak telah banyak dikenal masyarakat Jepang dan China dengan nama yang berbeda. Jinrikishi dan ricksaw adalah dua sebutan untuk alat transportasi yang pada masanya ditarik oleh manusia. Akan tetapi keberadaannya di dua negara tersebut sudah tidak terlihat lagi. India, Pakistan dan Bangladesh masih menggunakan becak dengan bayak ragamnya, sebagai alat transportasi sebagaimana di Indonesia.

Paradoks

Beberapa orang kawan sering mengeluh mengenai perilaku perempuan yang berjilbab, aku berjilbab dan aku mengerti apa maksud mereka.

Ada hal yang menarik sejak pertama aku mengenal seorang teman perempuan di kampus. Semua orang pasti sepakat bahwa dengan penampilan seperti yang dia miliki--berjilbab sangat rapi--pasti juga memiliki perilaku yang sopan, setidaknya pada orang asing. Setelah hampir empat bulan, aku memperhatikan ada keganjilan dengan sikapnya. Aku dan seorang teman perempuanku yang lain mulai mengamati sikapnya pada setiap teman-teman perempuan di kampus, sikapnya begitu tidak ramah. Seringkali kami berpapasan dan aku atau temanku yang lain menyapanya dia bahkan tidak menoleh ataupun tersenyum. Berkali-kali kami menganggap dia tidak mendengar sapaan atau panggilan kami sehingga kami berlalu sambil tersenyum tanpa ambil pusing.