BOOK ANALYSIS

Alsyira Adhwa Meidia

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 Table of Contents

Table of Contents.....................................................................................................................2
Chapter I…………………………………………………………………………………...…3
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………3
Chapter II…………………………………………………………………………………….4
Theory and Discussion………………………………………………………………..4
Chapter III………………………………………………………………………………..…6
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….6
References……………………………………………………………………………………7

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 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Book synopsis
Bumi, is the starting book of ‘Bumi Series’ or ‘Parallel world series’ written by Tere
Liye and the book series itself has 11 volumes until this year. Its telling us about a high
school student, Raib. On her adventures together with her friends, Seli who the ever brave,
fiery young girl and Ali, the brain of the group during their journey and finding the truth
about another world other than they’re lived in.
Bumi itself are the first book ever released and the prologue of the story, where we
get to know at first about the protagonist, Raib and her very supportive yet warm family plus
with two cats as her pet named si Putih and si Hitam, the said family doing usual activities on
morning time with Raib came along with her father to take her to her school. But, little did
they know, Raib hides a little secret where she actually possessing unique supernatural power
to able made herself vanished by covering her face with her hands.
With that after she arrive to school, only to get punished on Math class together with
the troublemaker but genius of the school, Ali. They have quite the debate to each other until
Ali notices that Raib have supernatural ability to disappear and hide herself, which leads to
Ali asks plenty out-of-curiosity question that made Raib mad to him. And by the time when
Raib return home, she finds for her cat names si Hitam but instead she encountered a strange
man, in her room carrying her cat si Hitam. Revealing himself to be Tamus and telling Raib
that she’s no ordinary young girl, revealing that she’s the descendant princess from ‘Bulan’
clan and not an ordinary human that lived in the ‘Bumi’ clan that she resides in now. With the
proof of her Math book, is actually a relic from the ‘Bulan’ clan named ‘Book of Life’ and
Raib is the only person who able to use said relic.
By next day, both Raib and Seli leaves school late due to bad weather happen, and
suddenly something struck down nearby electric power pole and it falls on top of the two
girls, but very surprisingly, Seli capable to held the severed electric cables with her bare
hands while Raib uses her power out of consciousness and made the pole disappears in blink
of eyes. What they did was witnessed by Ali, who immediately took the two girls away but to
get chased by Tamus and other ‘Pasukan Bayangan’ to capture all of them then took the trio
away to ‘Bulan’ clan. Luckily, the three got saved by their Math teacher named miss Selena
who apparently is human who came from ‘Bulan’ clan, took Raib and friends back to Raib’s
room with her teleportation ability.
The trio, who worried very much about their teacher, argues on how they going to do
and save their teacher back. With Raib possession of the ‘Book of Life’ that apparently have
the ability to opening portal to ‘Bulan’ clan, the three decided to go on an adventure to save
their teacher and uses the said relic. And their adventure starting off inside an house from
Bulan clan, where they landed on room belongs to child named Ou, and his famous father for
his fashion design, Ilo along with his wife, Vey.

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 CHAPTER II
THEORY AND DISCUSSION

Analysis on the book cover

Illustration, color and typography

The base color that ‘Bumi’ used is dark green, which usually represents peace,
ambition, refreshment, security and wealth, along with taints of pale gold that means
knowledge, magic and wisdom. Fitting perfectly for the richness on the story, where
we got introduce by plenty of varies character and story background itself in first
prologue and starting story of the ‘Bumi series’
And the illustration of two cats with black and white color. It’s Raib’s pet cat, si Putih
and si Hitam. Which apparently have quite major appearance in the series, especially
for si Putih who have his own book with the same title in ‘Bumi series’
Underneath the cats, we can see a person in train and a book, the train represent a
scene where Raib, along with her two friends and the famous designer, Ilo, helped
them escaping the main city of ‘Bulan’ clan during an immediate emergency change
of it’s government and the soldiers where after Raib and friends. And the book
representing Raib’s ‘Book of Life’ that she’s possess and the important object during
the series adventures, specifically used to teleporting Raib and her friends to various
location on the story.

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You can see also there’s slight pattern of weird housing with round shape, that’s the
‘Bulan’ clan building design in their environments on the book that where described
as ‘houses that are build high underground and have round shape on it.’ And the last,
a huge bear on the top left corner, the bear actually represents Ali’s capability to
transforms into a bear if he’s under emotional pressure. Making him also very
exceptionally strong among Raib and Seli with his mysterious capability.
And last, typography used for the title, it seems that the font used for ‘Bumi’ are
exclusively made only for this book series. And as seen despite it looks almost
calligraphic-ish, the main base of the font used are sans-serif and a little touch of
decorative style on it. Giving the series title aesthetic-ish feels along with modern
approach thanks to the font. And for the writer title name, it uses serif type of font,
very stylish and classic feelings came from it, along with it’s easy to be read with.

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 CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION

Within this paper and the analysis that have been done, it’s proofed that book cover
design are mostly inspired heavily to what the said books offers in it, in the form of little
hints on the design that later becomes the plot point inside the story, especially for novels.
Book designing is very important in order to attract the readers to be curious about
what the book offers just by looking into its cover design, that’s why designing a good book
cover are important. Other than it looks attractive and aesthetic to whoever buys the book, it
also gave easter egg for the story in it by showing some key plot hints onto the covers, that
alone will made the readers also fascinated and appreciates the book cover even more.

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 REFERENCES
Wikipedia, Bumi Tere Liye
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumi_(novel)
idseducation.com, yuk! Berkenalan dengan berbagai jenis font desain
https://idseducation.com/yuk-kenalan-dengan-berbagai-jenis-font-desain/
My own collection of ‘Bumi’, ‘Bulan’ and ‘Matahari’ series, by Tere Liye