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This article aims to analyze strange characters of tremendous character in the novel Tell Me Your Dream by Sidney Sheldon. Like any other Sheldon's previous novel, this novel tells an interesting, strange story with a woman as the main character. The writer also employs the knowledge about the strange character which apply in the novel that can be used to convey information. And last but not least, the writer can give a contribution to teaching prose. Based on the background of the topic, the writer states the exact problems of this study as follows: 1) how is the definition of mysterious characters generally? 2) What are the multitudinous characters of the main character shown in the novel? 3) What is the benefit of Tell me your Dream in teaching Prose? Based on the problem the writer states, the objectives of this study are as follows: 1) To describe the definition of the multitudinous character. 2) To give an explanation of the multitudinous characters of the main character that occurred in the novel. 3). This research applied data collection method with Content-analysis: The method of data analysis through some ways such as reading the novel, books and international journal, international thesis, classifying the data, and analyzing the novel's content. Based on the analysis, the writer summarized that Tell Me Your Dreams, a novel written by Sidney Sheldon in 1998, is one of the media of teaching prose, for example, analyzing a novel. The benefit of analyzing novels for Teaching Proses is an alternative fun way of studying prose.

Highlights

  • Literary work can be defined as a branch of literature dealing with the word as raw material to create a picture, an idea or a story in a meaningful pattern

  • Based on the background of the topic, the writer states the exact problems of this study as follows: 1) how is the definition of mysterious characters generally? 2) What are the multitudinous characters of the main character shown in the novel? 3) What is the benefit of Tell me your Dream in teaching Prose? Based on the problem the writer states, the objectives of this study are as follows: 1) To describe the definition of the multitudinous character

  • The writer summarized that Tell Me Your Dreams, a novel written by Sidney Sheldon in 1998, is one of the media of teaching prose, for example, analyzing a novel

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Literary work can be defined as a branch of literature dealing with the word as raw material to create a picture, an idea or a story in a meaningful pattern. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren in Theory of Literature give their opinion about literature and its relation with real-life that is: "Literature is a social institution, using as its medium language, a social creation – But literature "represents" "life"; and "life" is, in large measure, a social reality, even though the natural world and the inner or subjective world of the individual have been objects of literary imitation. Novels tell stories, which are typically defined as a series of events described in a sequence. It has plot, character, point of view, theme and setting.

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