MULTI-POTENTIALITY IN MICHAEL AVALLONE’S NOVEL KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA

Alimsyah Alimsyah ,Jumino Suhadi,M Manugeren

doi:10.30743/ll.v1i1.177

Abstract

Abstract The research is about the protagonist’s multi-potentiality with three points of analysis: multi-potentiality in career, in self-discipline and making friend. Multi-potentiality exists when strong genetics and a desire to practice come together to create superior ability. Discipline means order or code of behaviour. Self-discipline refers to the ability to control one’s own feeling is very important. Self-Discipline leads to overcome one’s own weaknesses. Life without Self-discipline is no life. There are many valuable things in life, but friendship may be one of the most important. To live life without the experience of friendship is life without living. Human interaction is a necessity to survival, but developed friendships are essential to the successful well being of anyone. True friendship is a feeling of love, sharing and caring. The theory of multi-potentiality is proposed by Timoty (2008) stating that from knowledge and skills comes multi-potentiality, a set of personal characteristics that enhance one’s ability to achieve expertise in an accelerated manner. These traits allow one to improve at quicker rates than others in their field that are at the same level of expertise. Descriptive qualitative method by Bickman (2010) is applied to analyze all the data concerning multi-potentiality and conducted to demonstrate association or relationships between things in the world around us in this matter, significant events in the novel and how all the events are molded into a story. The result shows that the protagonist has multi-potentiality in the forms of ability in career, self-discipline and making friends. Keywords: self-discipline, potentiality, career

Highlights

"Fastest Typewriter in the East" and "The King of the Paperbacks," who claims to have written over a thousand works, almost all paperback originals, including three dozen mystery novels
From the research it is seen that multi-potentiality possessed by the protagonist, Chris Hanson emerges from the result of the research
He has three significant talents: in his career as the captain of the ship, his self-discipline to support his work and his ability to make friends, and this becomes his success in maintaining a social relationship

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Michale Avallone is a remarkably rapid and prolific writer, the self-proclaimed "Fastest Typewriter in the East" and "The King of the Paperbacks," who claims to have written over a thousand works, almost all paperback originals, including three dozen mystery novels. For Hanson friendship is important especially in supporting his work as a captain He makes friends with everyone on the ship. Multi-potentiality exists when strong genetics and a desire to practice come together to create superior ability for a specific activity such as public speaking, self-discipline, making friends and multi-potentiality can be found in one‟s career, where the person could perform various types of works. If one is a diabetic and the doctor instructs one to avoid taking sugar one needs to display self-discipline to stick to his instructions It helps in organizing people better as it makes them to get up from sleep at regular times and do things in systematic and focused manner. The discussions in the analysis are multi-potentiality in career, self-discipline and making friend. Descriptive studies are conducted to demonstrate association or relationships between things in the world around us. (Bickman, 2010: 34)

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