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.