An Analysis of Jill’s Character Development through Plot in C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair

Abstract

Character is any individual in a literary work, a story, novel or narrative poem, which is one of the basic elements of narrative writing, especially fiction. In order to identify character’s characteristics or personalities thus can be seen or analyzed from what characters themselves say and think, what the characters do, what about other characters say about them, and what the author says about them. This paper would like to identify and analyze Jill Pole characteristics and character development. By aplying the theory of characterization, the writer choose plot as one of the literary element in where the writer could found out the character and also his/her characteristics. The first analysis will be done by analysing Jill characteristics in the story which is consist of six stages of plot; exposition, narrative hook, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. The second analysis will be done by analysing the first analysis finding to know Jill character development in C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair.