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Journal of Critical Reading Activity

Name : Yustika wahyu Riani

Number : 170110101060
Class : Reading 04 C

Title, Author, Year of The result of analysis
Publication (the concept/theory/thesis, supporting
points, technique of persuasion,
rhetorical strategy)
Title : Character 1. Theory
Discuss about the about
Author : Andrew
how the character makes
Bennett And Nicholas
literary text alive
Royle
Supporting points :
Year of Publication :
2004
a. It mention in the
text that Aristotle
argued that
character is
‘secondary’ to what
he calls the ‘first
essential’ or
‘lifeblood’ of tragedy
– the plot – and that
characters are
included ‘for the
sake of the action’
The result of interpretation The result of evaluation
(the context of debate within discipline, kind of (the strength and weakness of the
reasoning, important and critical points based article)
on your reading)
- Context Strength :
- This article include some
The theoretical contents of this
example that makes us
article is discussing about how
understand easier
important character in literary text
- This article included some
is.
theories
. - This article uses a simple
language
- Reasoning
- This article not too long.
a. As a readers we used to
remember the Character Weakness:
whatever his is an
- There’s no division of
antagonist or
chapter.
protagonist.
b. How do writers
construct characters and
produce the illusion of
living beings.
c. What is the relationship
 (Aristotle 1965, 40). between a person in a
b. In the other side it literary text and a
also mentions that person outside it? As we
we used to call shall try to demonstrate,
character is object these are questions that
and they can books themselves.
become part of how d. character whereby
we conceive people in books are like
ourselves, a part of ‘real’ people who are, in
who we are. turn, like people in
c. There is also books, is suggested by
statement in the text the words ‘person’ and
that our memory of ‘character’ themselves.
a particular novel or - Important and critical points
play often depends
as much on our a. Character : is a person who take
sense of a particular an action in literary works
character as on the example novel, or movie.
ingenuities of the b. Objects : a person or thing to
plot. which a specified action or
feeling is directed.
c. Fiction : literature in the form
of prose, especially short stories
and novels, that describes
imaginary events and people
d. Characterization : the creation
or construction of a fictional
character.