Abstract
This study aims to analyze plot structure in Collins’ The Hunger Games. There are several questions that researcher wants to find, what the elements of plot are, how do the elements of plot compose the plot structure of the story, and what kind of plot is applied in the novel. This study is a qualitative analysis by applying A.J. Greimas approach. The data were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting and analyzed using the approach and theories which used in this study by using actants. The result of this study were the elements of plot consist of beginning, problem of the story, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. To find out the main plot structure, this study classifies the function of each character into six actants, they are sender, receiver, subject, object, helper and opponent. Finally, the researcher concluded what kind of plot and how the ending of the novel is. The plot of the novel is dramatic or cronological plot because the story through in chronological order. In addition, the novel is closed plot because the problem of the story is solved.
 Keywords: Actant, Greimas, Plot, Sructuralism
Highlights
In the past few years, literary world has been swarmed with numerous science-fiction novels
One of them is the best-selling young adult series called The Hunger Games trilogy consisting of three books each titled The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, written by an American novelist Suzanne Collins, which is set in a dystopian future of North America
The data were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting andanalyzed using the approach and theories which used in this study by using actants.The result of this study were the elements of plot consist of beginning, problem of the story, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
Summary
In the past few years, literary world has been swarmed with numerous science-fiction novels. By learning literature people do get pleasure and experience and knowledge about life. Siswanto (2008) says that “things revealed by authors through their literary works are the product of their experiences and knowledge by their imagination” (p.79). People might express their experience though many ways, including literary work. Literary work is the representation of our life. It is a work of art which contains many humanity aspect, especially feeling, such as faith, spirit, etc. The material of literary work usually deal with human activity and experience. People can express their ideas, emotions, feeling, and attitudes
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