Plot and theme in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

ABTRACT

Literature appeals from our emotion, our imagination rather than our intelligence. Literature preserves the ideas of people about love, faith, duty, friendship, freedom, reverent and many others. However, literature cannot affect others unless it can be read, heard and shared. It takes reader or performer to bring these potential experiences in literature into active expression. As we know, literature has traditionally has been classified into three genres; prose, poetry and drama. Each of genres still can be divided into subgenre. One of the subgenre of prose is novel. The term of novel is now applied to a great variety of writings that have in common only the attribute of being extended work of prose fiction.

Plot and theme are part of novel that can not be separated. Without plot, we could not find out how the story begins, how the complication arise and then climax and finally ended. And theme is an important thing that has to be exist in a novel because there will be no impression left by the novel to the reader if the novel they read has no theme. So it is very important for a novel to have plot and theme.

Haroun and the sea of Stories is one of the novels created by Salman Rushdie. It was abut the adventure of Haroun and his father Rashid Khalifa to the Moon, Kahani to save the Ocean of Stream of Story that had poisoned, and Princess Batcheat who had been kidnapped by the Cultmaster Khattam Shud. This study will analyze the plot and the theme in Haroun and the Sea of Storie by Salman Rushdie. The result of this study is that the plot of Haroun and the Sea of Stories was organized well, and it was a closed plot actually where the major character had a happy ending. And the theme in this novel was about happiness, ،،How bad the situation is, happiness will come after it”.

Based on the finding above, it is recommended to next researchers who are interested in analyzing the same data that is Haroun and the of Stories, to analyze other aspects of such as character, setting, and conflict, etc. because this novel has many interesting aspects to be analyzed.