Literature is a creative work that contains the intent and purpose

of the author. Literature describes what human being has

experienced in their lives. As in another kind of art, there are
emotional expressions that are created in the literature.
According to Esten (1987:9), literature is a form of creative
work art of which its object is a human being and which uses
languages as a medium. In another words, literature can’t be
separated from language because language is a medium of
literature.
Literature can be divided into two types: fiction and non-
fiction. Novel is one of prose fictions which can be defined as
invented story as result of the author’s imagination. It usually
tells about life that happens in society and a real picture of real
life and manner of the time in which it is written. It can be
analyzed from the view point of its intrinsic elements. Intrinsic
elements of a novel are plot, theme, setting, character, point of
view and style. Those elements are important and related to one
another in forming the characteristics of literary work.
Everything that happens somewhere at some time that element
of fiction that reveals to us where and when of events we call
setting. In other words, the term “setting” refers to the point in
time and space at which the events of the plot occurs (Kenney,
1966:38). A setting is able to build up atmosphere creating the
particular quality and effect of the story.