"Othello"

Book report

Lina hidayatus sholihah

 

1. Book Title

Othello

2. Theme

A dramatic story, love, jealousy, and betrayal.

3. Plot Summary

The story was begun with Roderigo who upsets to Othello, a noble Moor in the military service of Venice because Othello woulld secretly marry Desdemona, Brabantio’s daughter. Besides Iago, a villain, felt the same as Roderigo’s feeling. Iago upset because Othello picked Michael Cassio instead whereas he’s never proved himself in the battle. And they decided to report those cases to Brabantio, a senator and Desdemona’s father. Meantime Brabantio was shocked about his daughter’s news. After all, Casio and the Duke carried the letter to Othello from Cyprus. Iago told Cassio the truth about Othello’s marriage and instantly made him shock. When Brabantio come into the room he angered to Othello and asked where he hid his daughter.

In the council, The duke, senators, cassio, Othello, and Iago would actually discuss about The Turkish fleet but the topic had changed yet Brabantio, gentle segnior, come. He told his anger to all senators that at last Othello admitted what Brabantio said. They needed a proof with waiting for Desdemona. She was on his husband’s side. It made his father and all attendants relieved instead Othello was asked for defending The Turkish. He would do it if Desdemona has a proper place nor with him or her father. Because Othello really trusted to Imago, he decided that Desdemona would stay with Imago’s wife, Emilia. However Rodrigo was confused with what he should do the next. And Iago easily fooled him with his promises.

At last, the war was won by Cassio, lieutenant to the warlike Moor. They made a party to celebrate their victory. At the castle, when Cassio come into he bravely kissed Emilia and desdemona’s hand. Iago made a plan again to destroy Othello and Cassio’s relationship so that Cassio will not be trusted by Othello anymore. And he passed to make Cassio to be a drunkard at that night. It absolutely has made Cassio has already lost his reputation in front of Othello. The only way to make it clear was using Desdemona’s help. It was revenge from Iago to Cassio. Iago has arranged their meeting and the Othello’s jealousy was begun here. Desdemona surely would help Cassio as hard as she could. Othello has already been burned by jealousy with the worst words from Iago made him sure that Desdemona has made affair behind him. The condition was no longer being good. The soul of Othello’s jealousy has more flaming when he knew that the handkerchief given by him was in Cassio. Desdemona felt desperate of his husband’s suspicion. Someone who only knew her truly faithful was Emilia.

Othello’s anger was on Cassio because he gave the handkerchief to the harlot, Bianca. Othello told to Iago and he said that he wanted to kill cassio and Desdemona. He has no love and jealousy to her anymore after he knew all. Iago gave suggestion to kill her with strangled her in a bed. When the trumpet blows offstage Lodovico brought letter from Venice. Lodovico finally knew what has happened there. Othello asked Desdemona to go into their room first and he would come afterwards. Desdemona felt happy and told to Emilia. She asked Emilia her most beautiful dress. On the other case, Roderigo felt being fooled by Iago because as long as he has spent much money for him so that he could get Desmona’s love but he got nothing. Iago fooled him for twice to kill Cassio in the dark night. When they did the mission, suddenly Iago changed his mind to stab Roderigo. When Lodovica and grationa come, Iago pretended didn’t know him. At the same time in their chamber, both Othello and Desdemona has been great fight that finally Othello smothered Desdemona. Suddenly Emilia came to the room and told to him that there was a murderer outside. He heard Desdemona’s voice and Othello admitted that he’s killed her. He said that she was unfaithful. He knew all was from Iago. Emilia shocked directly and cried. He told Othello that Iago has been laying him. Iago came into that room with angered to Emilia and he killed her even finally he admitted all things that he has done. Othello felt a thousand regrets and he killed himself beside his wife, Desdemona. Lodovico led the end of this story with giving Othello’s home along with whole furnitures to the Gratiano and being Cassio as a Governoor of Venice and punishing Iago to the prison.

4. characters and Characterization
• Round Characters
• Othello was a noble Moor in the military service of Venice. He was capable, mature, loyal, but he has high jealousy.

“Come, be a man! Drown yourself? Drown cats and blind puppies! I am speaking as your friend. Put your purse.”

• Iago was Othello’s ensign, a villain, full trip person,  and

“You can not count on it. Go make money! I’ve told you often, and I tell you again-I hate the Moor. I hate him from the bottom of my heart. You have no less reason to hate him. Let us help each other get revenge against him”.

• Flat Characters
• Desdemona was Brabantio’s daughter and Othello’s fair young bride. She was beautiful, self-possessed, loyal, and patient to face Othello’s jealousy.

“No, I swear by my life and soul! I never wronged you in my life! I love Cassio only as a friend. I never gave him a token of love.”

• Brabantio was Desdemona’s father and Othello’s friend. He was 
• Emilia was Iago’s wife. She has high loyalty, kind, motherhood and religious.

“Why, that wrong is just one of many in the world! And if you get the whole world for your trouble, then it’s wrong in your own world. You can make everything right again.”

• Bianca was a prostitute. She’s flirtatious and sexy. She like much with Cassio.

“”Oh Cassio! My dear Cassio! Oh Cassio, Cassio!”

• Lodovico was a relative of Brabantio and a noble Venetian.

“My lord, no one would believe this in Venice, even if I swore I saw it. Apologize to her. She’s weeping.”

• Montano was the governor of Cyprus before Othello. He was kind.

“It’s pity that the noble Moor should have a weak man in such an important position.”

• Protagonist
• Desdemona
• Brabantio
• Emilia
• Lodovico
• Montano
• Gratiano
• Antagonist 
• Iago
• Roderigo
• Casio

5. Setting

Time          the early 1600’s

Place          the place is set in Venice, Italia and the Island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.

6. Style

The style of this novel is middle level because it’s not too difficult to be understood.

7. Point of View

This point of view used A first-person narrative. such as the dialogue “I could spend nine years killing him! A fine women! A lovely women!”

8. Moral value

Belief is the most important part in the relationship. Once you abuse someone’s belief that has been given to you, he or she will not believe you anymore.

"Treasure Island"

Book report

Lina Hidayatus Sholihah

1. Book Title

Treasure Island

2. Theme

The flame of ambition from pirates to find a treasure in the Treasure Island. 

3. Plot Summary

The story was told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and who shared in the adventures from start to finish. Billy bones, the old se man, come to this peaceful inn one day, apparently intending to finish his life there. He asked Jim to keep a watch out for other a man with one leg, but despite all prevention action, he was hunted out and served with the black spot that meant death. Jim and his mother barely escaped when Blind Pew, Black Dog, and other pirates descended on the inn in search of the sea dog’s papers. Jim took up a packet of papers to square the sailor’s debt, when they were forced to retreat from the inn. The packet contains a map showing the location of the pirate Flint’s buried treasure, which Jim, Doctor Livesey, and Squire Trelawney determine to find. Fitting out a ship, they hired hands and set out on their adventure. Unfortunately, their crew included one-legged Long John Silver, a pirate also in search of the treasure, and a number of his confederates. Jim, hidden in an apple barrel, overhears the plans of the crew to mutiny, and he warns his comrades. The battle between the pirates and Jim’s regiment was an exciting and bloody one, taking place both on the island and aboard ship. Jim escaped from the ship, discovered the marooned sailor, Ben Gunn, who has already found and hided the treasure, and finally the victors get safely aboard the ship with the treasure. Gunn spent his treasure for 19 days and he also kept it on his lodge where he stayed. Long John Silver has no heard no more and it was only his cried: peace of eight, peace of eight, peace of eight.

4. characters and Characterization

o   Round Characters

·         Jim Hawkins was a son of Admiral Banbow Inn owner. He was eager and enthusiastic to go to sea and hunt for treasure. Jim is a timid child, but by the end he has matured incredibly.

“If she drifted up to the island, the mutineers, after the fierce fight this morning, might take off to sea. I wanted to stop them if I could.”

·         Long John Silver was a one-legged man, a clever man, deceitful and disloyal, greedy and visceral, and does not care about human relations

“Well, here it is –you give us the map to the treasure, and we’ll divide it with you, man for man.”

o   Flat Characters

·         Squire Trelawney was a noble and a good captain who has high ambition to find treasure.

“We haveour pistols ready. If any one of you makes a signal to the men on the island, that man’s dead.”

·         Captain Smollet was a serious, a real professional figure and he has sharp-eyed man.

“I better speak plain, sir. I don’t like your plans, and I don’t like the man on the ship.

·         Black Dog was a stranger, bringing black spot means death.

“Yes, it’s Black Dog to see his old shipmate, Billy Bones.”

·         Billy Bones was a seaman who brings sea chest. He was a fainthearted.

“Thunder, I can’t do that. They will have Block Spot on me by then.”

·         Israel Hands was a gunner of captain flint.

“Gray said: ”Israel Hands was the gunner of Flint’s ship.”

·         Captain Flint was a good captain who murdered.

·         Abraham Gray was one of six men on finding treasure.

“I’am with you, sir” said to Captain Smollet.

·         Ben Gunn was a marooned. He was kind.

“You put your trust in me. I were in Flint’s ship.”

o   Protagonist

·         Jim Hawkins

·         Squire Trelawney

·         Jim’s Mother

·         Dr. Livesey

·         Squire Trelawney’s servant (hunter, joyce, and redruth)

o   Antagonist

·         Long Jhon silver

·         Pew

5. Setting

Time          in the 1700’s

Place          in the island which there the hill was named “Spyglass”.

6. Style

The style of this novel used high level because I found many unfamiliar words so that I was rather difficult to understand.

7. Point of View

The point of view of this novel is in a first-person narrative Such as the dialogue: ”He promised to pay me a silver coin every month if I could keep an eye out for “a man with one leg.” I was to tell him at once if I saw such a man.”

8. Moral value

The struggle of determination through adventure on the middle of pirates who led to success is the moral value of this novel. Even they fight each other but they never give up to struggle what they want to get. I didn’t take the negative side of this story which put much blood with rough fight but I prefer to their struggle to get something that they though it’s really precious.

" The Advanture of Tom Sawyer"

Book report

Lina hidayatus sholihah

1. Book Title

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

2. Theme

A mischievous boy with his many adventures.

3. Plot Summary

An imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lived with his Aunt Polly and his cousin, Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. One day he was playing hooky that finally he got punishment from his aunty to whitewash the fence. He was actually disappointed with this but he used benefit of this moment to his companions.

Tom fell in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get “engaged” to him. Their romance collapses when she knows that Tom has been “engaged” before—to a girl named Amy Lawrence. Even though Tom has been clarified to her but she has already heartbreak. The day after at the midnight Tom and Huck went to graveyard and suddenly they saw three figures from the gloom. They are Injun Joe, Muff Potter and Dr. Robinson. They wanted to rob the grave under the guidance of Dr. Robinson. They leave the writing saying that they won’t tell to others about this secret.

To forget the accident that he found, he left school and decided to be a pirate with his pals, Huck and Joe to go to Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi. They fully enjoyed their journey besides the whole people in his house worried about them. They began feel homesick but Tom convinced them and made a plan that they would stay at that Island after all. In the village there were three funerals of them because they thing that three of them have disappeared but finally they come to their own funeral and made Aunt Polly and rest of people there relieved.

Back to school, Tom decide to forget Becky as if he didn’t meet her and back to Amy Lawrence. Becky invited her friends but Tom and Amy. She has a special relation with Alfred who was smart and perfect boy in that school. Becky accidentally tore a book with ink in the schoolmaster’s book, but Tom, out of love, pretends he did it and takes the punishment for her. She is grateful and their fighting stops.

After all, he remembered Muff potter’s case, he tried to tell the truth that the murder was not Potter but Injon joe. Potter has freed after Injon Joe escaped. Tom and Huck go looking for buried treasure. Instead, they find Injun Joe again. Becky returns to town, and all the children (except Huck) go on a picnic to McDougal's Cave. While exploring, Tom and Becky get lost and left behind. When they finally saved and found Injun Joe was dead the family felt happy. Luckily they found Injun Joe’s treasure. Huck has a hard time living under Widow Douglas's roof and runs away. Tom convinces him to return and become a part of respectable society with the promise that they will start a dangerous gang of robbers. Huck agrees, and they go back to the village.

4. characters and Characterization

o Round Characters

· Tom Sawyer was a tricky boy who always made a trouble around his environment but sometimes he behaved kindly. It’s proven from his aunt’s statement s “Hasn’t Tom sawyer play tricks enough on me?” and “Tom wasn’t really a bad boy. He never meant no harm and he was the best-hearted child that ever was!”

o Flat Characters

· Muff Potter was a hopeless drunk and friend of Injun Joe. It’s proven in the dialogue “

· Joe harper was Tom’s pal who would have an adventure together which becomes a pirate in the Jackson’s Island with Tom and Huck. It’s proven in the dialogue

· Huckelberry finn was the son of town drunk who always used bad language and wasted his days away and also he was a pal of tom who always accompany his adventure. It’s proven in the dialogue :

Tom : “I’m scared, Huck. What do you reckon will come of all this?”

Huck : “we better keep still, “ “Tom we got to swear to keep mum!”

· Amy Lawrence was Tom’s old love who actually wanted to be married and she was a faithful girl. It’s proven in the statement : Amy Lawrence looked proud and glad for Tom but he wouldn’t look at her.

· Aunt Polly was Tom’s aunt and his guardian. She was a simple, kindhearted woman who struggles to balance her love for her nephew with her duty to discipline him. It’s proven in the dialogue “I ’am afraid I’ve spoiled him, but he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing. I just ain’t got the heart to lash him.”

· Becky Thatcher was Tom’s lovely girl, blue-eyed creature and she has two long, yellow braids but she was cool with tom’s flatteries. Its proven when tom showed off himself in front of Becky but she was just said “nothing”.

· Dr. Robinson was a doctor who hires Injun Joe and Muff Potter to dig up Hoss Williams’s grave because he wants to use the corpse for medical experiments. It’s proven in the dialogue “we’ll need more money to finish this job,” Injun Joe said to Dr. Robinson.

· Injun Joe was a violent, villainous man who commits murder and becomes a robber. He was leaned by Dr. Robinson to rob the grave. It’s proven in the dialogue ““we’ll need more money to finish this job,” Injun Joe said to Dr. Robinson.

· The Widow Douglas was a kind widow who has more attention to Huck because she thinks of poor Huck whom no one beside him furthermore, she wants to care of him sincerely. It’s proven in the dialogue “Widow Douglas had been worried about poor Huck. She was thinking how he didn’t have anybody and neither did she. Now she announced that she wanted to give Huck a home.”

o Protagonist

· Aunt Polly

· Sid

· Muff Potter

· Becky Thatcher

o Antagonist

· Injun Joe

· Dr. Robinson

5. Setting

Time in his youth

Place in the cave and graveyard in a small town Mississippi river

6. Style

The style of this novel is using a middle level because the language of this story is easy to understand.

7. Point of View

The point of view of this novel is a third-person narrative. Because the narrator use pronoun “He” when represent to “Tom”.

8. Moral value

When a boy or teens has felt many adventures, he will feel satisfied with what he did or perhaps he would behave differently than before. To find many treasure, to be a pirate with doing great journey in the Jackson’s Island and to witness a murder in the graveyard are not normally experienced by boy at those ages. Tom, who has gotten many adventures in his age, He may take good side by caring more to others than to himself. In other hand, He finds himself in predicaments in which he must put his concern for others above his concern for himself, such as when he takes Becky’s punishment and when he testifies at Injun Joe’s trial. As Tom begins to take initiative to help others instead of himself, he shows his increasing maturity, competence, and moral integrity.