Children Representation in the Rainbow Troops Novel
I. Introduction
The world of literature is a created world that often deals with the world of people and their everyday experiences. Most modern critics agree that whatever its apparent content, literature is finally to be regarded as a portrait or imitation of life (Pickering and Hoeper, 1981; 11-12). The portrait of people, their personalities and lives are portrayed through characters in the works of literature.
In addition, portrait which has always played a central role in understanding literature is closely related to the medium, suggesting that portrait functions through reproductions, or by possessing the likeness of an object (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/portrait_art). The portrait is considered as the topic of this paper to explore how the author shows the personalities of main characters in The Rainbow Troops. In addition, it is used to gain insight the ways these personalities are shaped that make each of the main characters come to life.
Concerning with the portrait of life, this paper is going to reveal children portrait in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops through psychoanalysis, an approach that concerns about personality and psychological world of human beings by Austrian Physician Sigmund Freud (Morgan, King and Robinson, 1979: 518). Freud is considered as one of the most important theories in the field of personality. He stated that people can develop defense mechanism to cope with the anxiety that occurs within themselves (Wortman, Lotfus, and Weaver, 1999: 433). Both psychoanalysis and literary works represent human life. The literary works even use some of the psychoanalysis aspects to liven up the characters in the story. Thus, psychoanalysis approach can be applied to analyze characters within a book (Stephen, 2000: 356-357).
In this paper, the writer focuses on children literature especially children portrait of the the main character, Lintang in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops. Children literature has received little
The world of literature is a created world that often deals with the world of people and their everyday experiences. Most modern critics agree that whatever its apparent content, literature is finally to be regarded as a portrait or imitation of life (Pickering and Hoeper, 1981; 11-12). The portrait of people, their personalities and lives are portrayed through characters in the works of literature.
In addition, portrait which has always played a central role in understanding literature is closely related to the medium, suggesting that portrait functions through reproductions, or by possessing the likeness of an object (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/portrait_art). The portrait is considered as the topic of this paper to explore how the author shows the personalities of main characters in The Rainbow Troops. In addition, it is used to gain insight the ways these personalities are shaped that make each of the main characters come to life.
Concerning with the portrait of life, this paper is going to reveal children portrait in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops through psychoanalysis, an approach that concerns about personality and psychological world of human beings by Austrian Physician Sigmund Freud (Morgan, King and Robinson, 1979: 518). Freud is considered as one of the most important theories in the field of personality. He stated that people can develop defense mechanism to cope with the anxiety that occurs within themselves (Wortman, Lotfus, and Weaver, 1999: 433). Both psychoanalysis and literary works represent human life. The literary works even use some of the psychoanalysis aspects to liven up the characters in the story. Thus, psychoanalysis approach can be applied to analyze characters within a book (Stephen, 2000: 356-357).
In this paper, the writer focuses on children literature especially children portrait of the the main character, Lintang in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops. Children literature has received little
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