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Muhib,fathul.2010.An Analysis Conflict on the Main Character “Straight”, a

thesis English Education Program, Department of Islamic Education, State Islamic
College (STAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Dra.Hj.Dwi Ima H.M.Hum.
Key word: conflict, main character
Literature is portrait of life, and it describes a true picture of human’s life. A
form literature is a literary work that presents fictional and real world. There are
many kinds of literary works such as novel, poetry, drama. Novel can be real and
unreal human’s experience. Meanwhile, human life is very complex with many
conflicts and challenges. They are also depicted with in novel.
The formulation of the study: 1) What are internal conflicts faced by the main
character? 2) What are external conflicts faced by the main character? 3) How is the
plot in the novel?
The purpose of the study: 1) To explain internal conflicts faced by the main
character,2) To explain external conflicts faced by the main character,3) To explain
the plot in Steve Knickmeyer’s “straight”.
The research design used in this study is descriptive qualitative method based
on its purposes and the types of data. He also used psychological approach. The data
collecting method is documentation.
The procedures of collecting data are: reading the Steve Knickmeyer’ Straight
repeatedly, reading critic literature on Steve Knickmeyer, finding out the conflicts,
selecting and picking the data up which relate the problems. Then, the writer used the
instrument of collecting data that is the writer him self.
Based on the research findings and discussion, the writer gets to know the
character in Steve knickmeyer’s straight, the characterization on straight, the main
character conflict, they are external conflict and internal conflict. The external
conflicts happen to some the characters. Such as straight and August
McEachern(straight wants complaints him to give another choice ) straight and Coady
(straight wants to take revenge on Coady who have kill his wife, Jill) straight and Mr.
Rope (straight wants Mr. Rope to tell what he done when was in Taber’s house)
straight and Steve Cranmer (straight wants to kill Cranmer who is investigate behind
Taber’s death)