Yulianti, Ira (2009) An Analysis on The Characters and Characterization of The Novel “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie in Enriching Vocabulary. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Ira Yulianti. 2009. An Analysis on The Characters and Characterization of The Novel “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie in Enriching Vocabulary. Thesis, English Department, Islamic Education Faculty. Advisors: (I) Drs. Sa’adillah (II) Dra. Andi Irlina, M.Hum. This research is conducted based on the consideration that reading a novel as one kind of literary works in literature, gives the readers more knowledge about the country, people, culture and language; and also it gives them knowledge about component of the language itself, especially about vocabulary. This research is purposed to understand the content of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and to describe about analysis on the characters and characterization of the novel in enriching vocabulary. The problem of this research are who are the characters and what are their characterization in the novel and what is the level of the vocabularies used in characterization description; and also how it can enrich vocabulary for readers. The subjects of this research is a novel written by Agatha Christie. The object of this research is the characters and its characterization of the novel and the vocabularies which are used in the characterization description. This research is done by using library research which the writer takes a survey to library to get and gather all of written information that relevant with the researched problem. Some techniques of data collecting used are reading the novel, comprehend it then choose the data dealing with the problem. Then the writer conducts a survey on the next paragraphs and dialogues in the novel. After that, the writer takes evidence related to the selected data. Data processing in this research are divided into three stages, they are editing, clarifying and listing. Then all the data are analyzed descriptive qualitatively and concluded inductively. The result of this research denoted that this novel talks about human which sometimes has the hidden dark personality. It also narrates about secrecy and morality. Dr. Sheppard who plays as the main character, the central story and also as the narrator can tell this story smoothly and cannot be guessed. There are 23 characters in this novel. And there are 108 statements about their characterization descriptions. From those 108 statements, it uses 461 words from high frequency words and 249 words from low frequency words. By knowing this words, readers get knowledge which words often occur in reading (high frequency words) so they can minimize difficulties in understanding the reading, and also readers get knowledge about new words (low frequency words) which enrich their vocabularies and later can be used in reading other materials.

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