Man From a South is one of short story created by Reald Dahl, who was the best writer of English language for children and adult in his era, and also popular with his characterization by unexpected conclusions. This prose talked about the narrator experience with a man who likes to bet, an American cadet, and English girl. Here, I try to analyze the elements of prose that used in this prose and give my opinions about them. It is about setting, characters, characteristic, plot, characterization, and point of view of this prose. The first element is setting. Setting is the way in which something is positioned or the environment or surroundings. The setting of this prose is in the South-American or African country probably, where there are palem trees. It starts in outside hotel, under the yellow umbrella where there are four empty seats and it is around six o'clock. Then, it moves to a man's room in the hotel where the bet is going to take place.
The second and third element is characters and characterization. Character means a person who appears or depicted in narrative or drama. There are five major main characters and one minor character in this prose. The major characters are 'me' as the narrator, a man who likes to bet, an American cadet, English girl, and lady who appears in last of story and the minor character is a maid girl. While, characteristic means characteristics that characterize the characters in narrative or drama. These are some my opinions why I decided those characters as the major and minor characters and also the characteristics of the characters.
- 'Me' as the narrator is very important here, because it is used first person as its point of view. Then, 'me' does not know everything, just talks all what he knows. 'Me' also tries to think out the story, because the teller of the story. 'Me' is a character who is curious. He always want to know and predict something and also characteristic of other characters. 'Me' does not come from America and I am not sure about his origin, English probably. Is 'me' Reald Dahl ...?? It depends on the reader.
- A little man who likes to bet, Carlos. He is one of characters who dominated this story. He is mysterious, small, in white-suit and panama hat. He is probably from a South America. He is mysterious because he does not tell about himself, but all of secrets will be talked by the little lady in the last story.
- An American cadet. He is also the important character. He become a little man's partner for bet. He has long freckled face, pointed nose, and bared body <except for a pair of faded brown bathing shorts>. He is a serious man, but little nervous before he agree the bet.
- An English girl who wears pale blue bathing dress. She does not talk much, but she always there <in the story> to accompany an American cadet from the beginning to the end. her attendance made her to become one of main characters in this story. I think she does not agree with this bet.
- A little lady who appears in the last story. She is a nice woman. She has only one finger and a thumb in her hand. She does not attend from the beginning to the end of story, but her attendance is very important. Because she stories about everything behind the little man.
- A maid girl in the hotel. She just appears when she is called by a little man. Therefore, I choose her to become a minor character in this story.
I have already told about setting, characters, and characteristic. Next is about plot. Plot is the careful arrangement by an author of incident in a narrative to achieve a desired effect. Plot has two types; open plot and close plot. This prose includes into close plot. Plot also has a basic elements, they are; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. I would like to explain each basic elements and the plot of this short story here,
- Exposition is the opening of the story. The exposition of Man From a South is when 'I' <the narrator> starts to act by sitting on the chair till an American cadet and his girl sit in 'I' zone. I said like that because these are actions that begin to introduce/know each other.
- Rising action is series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead the climax. The rising action here is when the little man and American cadet discuss about the bet till they agree each other. I think this action starts to have a problem, as when the American cadet does not like to give his finger if he does not win the bet.
- Climax is the most intense moment either mentally or action. The climax of this prose is when a little man and American cadet start to bet by lighting ten times till the little lady comes and talk to the little man in unknown language. I think this is the climax of this story, because I fell nervous when I read this round. I will be sad if an American cadet loss his finger.
- Falling action is the action that falls down from the climax. The falling action in this story is when she slowed down and the little man came into view again, till the lady express her regret and hope to the narrator, an American cadet, and English girl to forgive them.
- Resolution is the conclusion or the tying of all the threads. The resolution here is when the little lady explore that the little man is gambling addicted and that the little woman won everything from him a while ago, then they cancel their bet. Here, all of problem and background of little man is explored well by the little lady. Therefore, I think this action is the resolution of this story.
The fifth element is characterization. Characterization is the way of the author gives characteristics to characters of narrative or drama. Reald Dahl characterize the characters in this story by dramatic/indirect method. Means that he does not tell us about the characteristics of the characters, as the reader we have to look for the characteristics by ourselves.
The last is point of view. The story is written by first person, so it has first person point of view. We get to see the plot of the story through the eyes of a person, the narrator. Therefore, we can be closer with the story and it will be different if the story written in different way.
Those are elements of prose and I try to analyze them in this short story by the tittle, 'Man From a South' in order to complete my English Prose project. Thank you for having read this article and hopefully it will be useful for us. Amin.
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