A Discordant Story from Kulon

Please, lead me away to Cinangka, Abadi’s grocery. Would you?

“Okay, take on my bike and we go right now, dude”, said a man.

“Here we go”, said Jony with pleasure.   

We have been on the location, dude.

“Thank you sir and this is the cost for my favorite man who always be loyal to wait me in front of his Motorcycle every my coming home,” Jony accosted. He is so friendly to everyone whom he meets, especially in his village.

First he arrived in home, he always go to his parents’ grocery before coming in home, it is intended for greeting. His parents more often stay in the grocery than in home, because they are a merchant. The grocery is near their home.

There is somebody wanted to buy five boxes of Indomie and Kapal Api, and take them in the back of stockroom, shouted Mrs. Bachtiar to Iyan.

“I copy mom, I’ll be back in two minutes with picking up them so fast” said Iyan loudly with a joke while being smoking a cigarette and drinking a last drop of coffee. He picked up the orders very late more than in two minutes

“Are you okay? This is order, and I’ll stop you smoking cigarette if you are slow” said Mrs. Bachtiar

“Yes mom, I am okay and I still keep my smile even these unfriendly things attach me” Walking with his burden feet and panic expression.

When iyan walked with his panic face, he looked Jony stood with laughing at him beside an iceboox, he just had awared of Jony’s appearance. So Jony give him a big hug because he is happy that Jony worked in Mrs’s Bachtiar’s grocery, not being unemployment again after graduating from his senior high school. Iyan himself is so close with Jony. They had been friend since they were children till now.

Iyan has a sad childhood with his family. His parents get divorce when he was a young child. Actually Iyan’s childhood is only grown up with his mother even it is most terrible for his own life.

Iyan never wants to stay for long at home. He feels like If he was at home, he just gets a hostility because of his abhorance toward his father who has asked his mother responsible of family’s burden alone. But, his dislikeness to the family because he really loves his mother too much. Therefor Mrs. Bachtiar has regarded him as her own son, he is so close with Jony’s family.

“Iyan, this is time to close the grocary” said Mrs. Bachtiar. Iyan Immadiately closed the grocary, helped by Jony.

After Isya Praying, Jony and Iyan met in Warung Mak Entin, with an old habit, drinking a cup of cofee for togerther with telling eachother stories. Jony called it as a ritual in the village with his friends to share informations about what’s heppening in the village. Actually, the ritual is often held with Iyan and Hafidz. The ritual has been initiated since they sit in senior high school.

“How is your study in university?” suddenly asked Iyan.

“my study?, yup, certainly I am still in doing the research, and it is so boring and really surfeited for me.” Said Iyan clearly. Jony asked Hafidz to Iyan “anyway where is Hafidz?, actually such this time he has appeared and came to this place”. Jony tried to phone Hafidz but before it worked, Hafidz came with a depressed face and sit silently with us.

“what happened with you, hafidz?” asked Iyan.

Hafidz replied “no, there is no matters, maybe I am just tired after working in Posko corporation”

“your eyes can lie to o me, and I don’t see the truth on your face” Jony tried to find out the main problems.  “what wrong with you, Hafidz?” asked Jony.   

“okay,I will tell you the truth about me, actually I am really confused with my position as a youngest son in my family” said Hafidz.

“what are you confused of?” asked Iyan.

“I try to help my family’s economy to increase my parents’s burden. I have given the apllication to all coorporations in Cilegon and Serang but it doesn’t work out. Certainly, I decide to keep helping my father in his repairshop and sometime I work in Hawai hotel and Posko Corporation project as a project worker. However,sometime I want to look for the job  in another regions. Unfotunately my parents don’t let me to do my intention for work. What must I do if you in my position?, I try to help my parents and look for new experiences , but they don’t support me.” Hafidz explained clearly.

“So, how about your story, Iyan” asked Jony.

“my mother is not in home again for two years. She decide to become a foreign worker in Saudi. And I have to survive for my own self and my little brother” replaid Iyan.

“I observe this village has changed, not like really our village as we live in a strange place. I recoganize the farmer is not rich of his rice again, the childeren don’t have a traditional game again in their life, there is no youth activity, such celebration of Nabi Muhammad saw days, mutual aid, and praying activity for the children in the mosque”

Jony realized that the racial culture, and the modernism changed the people identity of this village. Jony thought the bad situation happened because the new system of new culture, modernism, industrialist, and the social institution had contaminated our people. Jony explained his observation to Iyan and Hafidz.   

Reference:

- the short prose based on my friends’s experience in my village

-Accros The Universe’ film

Review to Survey of English Literature, Elizabethan

Social conflict in European people gives a massive effect to the English language, social culture, politic, and human history. They are a common point that becomes human document through a history and story in European people. The Anglo-Saxon period is the predecessor of English literature as identifying the Romans leaves and comes to England. The Anglo-Saxon is the old English language impressed the English novel literacy. One of their works is the story of Beowulf as a firstly famous story in poetry. It tells the glory of Danish knight and the strong king who eliminate the darkness in the Britain kingdom.   

            The war between nations in England impacted the revolution and development in old English period to the Middle English period against the science of literacy in English language. It impacts the method of writing the story in the novel and how is the story written, so both can make the improvement to the artistic literacy of English. Style of the story, language, and the storyline is very different with the works in Middle English. The literatures in the Anglo Saxon period rather write the heroic story in human life and human sacrifice as the historian art, than writing the romance in that time.

            Firstly, the Anglo Saxon people come from Denmark and East Germany. This people have own belief to their ancestor. Their ancestors are from Scandinavia. Therefore, they have the cultural mix, Scandinavia culture and because they stayed in Germany that is the Romanian authority, so that the Romanian impacts included their culture “Anglo-Saxon”. They have their own traditional beliefs (heathen belief). They worship goddess before the Christian religion mostly intervened them. In their mythology, goddess is affecting their lives, such as life, death, war, and natural.

            Characterization, social or individual identity, and history is the underlying emphasis within many eighteenth century novels is their emphasis on the individual, and the extent to which they portray the inner life of the individual as distinct from his or her social class, rank, status. This remained a continual tension within the novel throughout the nineteenth century, culminating in the divorce of the late 19th C. when individual/ society are seen to be antagonistic rather than self-supporting.

The impact and significance of the novel form may be especially obvious in the case of the English novel. Through the period that gave rise to the novel, England experienced a convulsive social transformation one that produced the world's first modern, capitalist economy. Along the way, traditional social values often appeared to be outdated, and so did traditional narrative forms

 It is no surprise, then, that the great English novelists were eager to create something new and different. Breaking from traditions in which stories were usually centered on aristocrats and nobles, they focused on the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people, taking pains to capture the rhythms of everyday life. At the same time, they also reacted to a number of larger developments: industrialization and urbanization, democratization and globalization.

Birth of the "Novel", with its associations of newness and originality, occurs in the eighteenth century. Before that there had been forms of long and continuous narrative prose, but it was only in the 1720s that we begin to see the emergence of a recognizable "Novel" form, example, concerned with the realistic depiction of middle class life, values and experience, showing the development of individual and individuated characters, over time. Contrast with the forms of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (concerned either with the Aristocracy, or with gratuitous investigation of low-life). In terms of the subsequent development of the novel, example, the Realist 19th Century novel, the period of the eighteenth century is a mixture of consolidation and experimentation, either establishing foundations, or of experimenting with new possibilities. Epistolary form, confession, rogues biography, anti-romance, picaresque, moral tract, etc return to this in Contexts of the Rise of the Novel.

Shape and form are working against this was the need to shape experience into narrative order. Part of the answer, in Defoe's case, was to produce a loose baggy monster of a novel, without clear sense of narrative order and progression the episodic technique. By the time we get to Fielding he is already self-consciously using Chapters and Books (see Book II, Ch. 1 of Joseph Andrews.) This conflict between realistic intention and aesthetic narrative order is most clearly evident in Sterne's anti-novel Tristram Shandy, in which the conventions of the Novel are exploded before the novel has had a chance to become a settled form.

Related also was the issue of moral purpose. Eighteenth century novel torn between the demand not to offend (bring a blush to the maidenliness of cheeks), to teach, and yet also to be realistic. Novel writing from this point onwards tied to the moral demands of a middle class readership, (pleasurable instruction or to teach and to delight, Sidney and Elizabethan aesthetics) or to offer salacious or gratuitous accounts of low life. The moral demands on writers exploded at the end of the nineteenth century (Hardy, James, George Moore), but present here in the degree to which novelists deal with sex, adultery, passion and desire. Novel is a morally uptight form from the start. Same constraints apply to political issues.