A Description of The Leading Character in Haruki Murakami’s Novel What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Abstract

Literature is a form of art that depict human life. The novel is one of the artworks. In the novel, the author can tell something different and others. One of the most important elements of novel is characters. The characters of a literary work means talking about their quality of mind, behaviors, or personalities. The writer decided to chose the title "A Description of The Leading Character In Haruki Murakami’s Novel What I Talk About When I Talk About Runnning" . The objective of this paper is to describe about character. The method of the writer used in this paper is library method. In order to get the needed result, the data are taken from the story of novel and other books especially about literature. From the study, it is to find out the physical description, behaviour and attitude of the character.

Sastra merupakan suatu bentuk karya seni yang menggambarkan kehidupan manusia. Novel adalah salah satu dari karya seni tersebut. Di dalam novel penulis dapat menceritakan sesuatu yang berbeda dan lain. Salah satu elemen terpenting dari novel adalah karakter. Karakter dari karya sastra berarti berbicara tentang kualitas pikiran, perilaku, atau kepribadian mereka. Penulis memutuskan untuk memilih judul "A Description of The Leading Character In Haruki Murakami’s Novel What I Talk About When I Talk About Runnning”. Tujuan dari kertas karya ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan tentang karakter. Metode yang digunakan penulis didalam paper ini adalah metode pustaka. Untuk mendapatkan hasil, data diambil dari novel dan buku lainnya khususnya tentang sastra. Dari penelitian ini, untuk mengetahui deskripsi fisik, perilaku dan sikap karakter.