JESSICA’S MANIPULATIVE BEHAVIOUR

IN WRONG KIND OF GIRL

A NOVEL BY FRANCINE PASCAL

By
Bima Adi Nugraha
5190511086

ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND HUMANITY
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY YOGYAKARTA
 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

►Horror Setting in The Novel

Setting is the time, place, and atmosphere in a story. Setting is a literary element used in novels, short stories,
plays, films, etc., and is usually introduced during the exposition (beginning) of the story, along with the
characters
►Children Horror Stories and Novel
The horror phenomena in this novel can be said to be very interesting because this novel is a
children's novel which is able to depict the horror events well. not too extreme as is the case with
adult horror novels.
►Horror Phenomena In The Novel
There are many interesting horror phenomena in the story, for example like a doll that can talk to itself
 Scope of the study
► 1. How can the palaces be used to create horror settings?
► 2. How can time be used to create a horror setting?
METHOD OF THE STUDY
►Descriptive qualitative
method
Data source & Analysing technique According to Arikunto (1998, p.245) a qualitative research means
the data in form or word or sentence that separated according to
the category to reach the conclusion. It is the observations and
interpretations of people’s perception of different events, and it
takes the snapshot of the people’s perception in a natural setting.
Novel journal (1998, p.245).

Described the data in

the finding and
Relevant Data Identifying data related to
discussion section
the scope of the study
THEORETICAL REVIEW
► Definition of Novel
A novel is a work of narrative fiction printed in the form of a book, a novel contains a series of
stories from the life of a character or a person with the people around him and retold into writing
and printed in book form. As stated by Nurgiyantoro (2012: 4), a novel is a work of fiction that
presents a world - a world that embodies an idealized model of life.
●Intrinsic Element of Novel
The building blocks of a novel are known as intrinsic elements. These include character, conflict,
setting, and figurative language, as outlined by Semi (1988; 35). Intrinsic elements are the
fundamental components that form the very essence of a literary work. They are the essential
building blocks that every piece of literature relies upon.
THEME
According to Rusyana (1988:67), theme is the basis or meaning of a story, theme
is a certain view of life or a certain feeling that forms or builds the basis of the
main idea of a literary work, and all fiction must have a basis or theme which is
the target goal.
SETTING
According to Meyer (1990:107), Setting is where a certain part of the story takes
place. It may be detailed in describing the exact place and the exact time. .
PLOT
According to Caserio's book "Plot, Story, and the Novel" (1979), story
and plot become valuable when they are not just about action, but also
about quietism, purposelessness, inhibition or suspension of will, passive
or static states of mind and feeling, and speculation free of connection
with deeds. .
 Character and Characterization

DiBattista (2010). “Novel Characters is a study of this "new emphasis" on the

distinctness and value of novelistic "people" as they are in themselves and as
they appear to others”.
Characterization is a description of the character in the novel that can be
seen through the words that describe the form of the figure, the nature of the
figure, the name of the character, and the relationship with other characters.
 Point of View

According to Janayce (1994), “A language understander must

determine the current psychological point of view in order to
distinguish the beliefs of the characters from the facts of the
story, to correctly attribute beliefs and other attitudes to their
sources, and to understand the discourse relations among
sentences”.
 Language Style
According to Llamas (2007:95) “language style is dimension of language where
individual speakers have a choice”
Language style is a uniqueness of the novelist that can be an attraction in a
novel. Language style can be influenced by the era in which the author lives and the
character of the author.
 MANDATE
Mandate is a message that a novelist will convey to novel readers through events that
occur in a novel.
RELEVANT THEORY
►Objective Theory
In conducting his research, the author received the help of Objective Theory.
Abrams's Objective Theory was applied because the author based his study on
the text, especially by examining the horror setting and also the influence of the
horror setting which can support the horror atmosphere in the novel.
RELATED STUDY
►The Analysis of the Intrinsic Element Setting of the Novel Badut
Malaka Written By R. Fahik (2020) by Yonathas Seran Suri, This
study found that the setting can be several aspects related to the
environment where events occur in the novel. The result obtained from
this research is that the author can determine what settings are used in
the novel Badut Malaka By R. Fahik.
RELATED STUDY 2

►A Comparative Study of Horror Elements in Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

and Stephen King (2016) by More Jogan Ganesh M.A. From this research, it can be
seen that the horror genre represents many things that can be said to make people
scared. To build a sense of horror in the novel, authors will use techniques to build
dramatic tension by incorporating several aspects as mentioned in the quote above to
add to the feel of horror in the novel and hopefully make readers afraid or feel the
horror of the novel.
 FINDING AND DISCUSSION
► Horror Setting in Deadtime Stories Grave Secret

Setting of place Setting of time

SETTING OF Peeking through the crack in the fence
PLACE was like peeking through a crack in time.
The property at 704 Shadow Lane was so
The first evidence can be strange and eerie that it seemed like a
seen in the atmosphere of horrible hallucination. Even in the middle
the house of a character of the day, it was dark there. The
named Mrs. Barns. The enormous old trees in the back of the yard
courtyard of Mrs. Barns' blocked out the sun completely. And the
house looks very unkempt ancient gray stone house loomed in the
and many trees around the shadows, gloomy and foreboding. All of
house also make the the windows were hung with heavy
atmosphere of Mrs. Barns' draperies that were always closed.
house even more tense (chapter 1, p 6).
Second evidence showing
that Mrs. Barns' house was
very tense can be seen from
the shape of the window
from the basement of Mrs. Except the basement windows, which
Barns' house which is were covered with grime and thick iron
shaped like a thick iron bars. It was easy to imagine that it wasn’t a
fence which, would be basement at all, but a dungeon. The only
more appropriate to be thing scarier than the house at 704
called the gate to the Shadow Lane was the old woman who
dungeon compared to the lived inside it. (chapter 1, p.6-7).
entrance window to the
basement

Third evidence added to
the horror of Mrs. Barns'
house was when Amanda's
ball fell into a pile, at first
the pile was only thought
to be a pile of ordinary
trash, but when they
approached, the pile
turned out to be a pile of
dead rats without a head.
No way your ball is lying in Barnsey’s dead
rat pile!”
Laura cried. “You'd just better hope those
rats are all dead,” Kevin told Amanda.
“Of course they're all dead,” Laura
snapped. “They don't have any heads!’
“Maybe the ones in the pile are dead,”
Kevin informed them. “But their brothers
and sisters are still running around that
yard. Listen,” he added, “you can probably
hear them squeaking.”
Amanda couldn't hear anything but the
sound of her own heart beating.
“if i were you,” Jared finally spoke up, ‘I'd
forget about going in there after that ball.”
(chapter 1, p.7)
Sixth evidence shows that
the friends of the main
characters are very afraid if
they are caught by Barnsey,
because they get news that
Barnsey has a dungeon
located in the basement of
his house.
Just don’t let her catch you,” Kevin
warned, “or you'll end up in her dungeon
with that other little girl.’ The dungeon
was Barnsey’s basement. It was where she
tortured all of her victims—before she
finally buried them. ( ch 1, p.10 )
 Ninth evidence shows that
the shades of horror can
also be found in this
evidence where Amanda
heard the sound of a girl
crying very softly. and on a
more focused listen,
Amanda realized that the
sound was coming from
the back of Barnsey's
property
But Amanda didn’t answer her. She was
listening to something else, a sound she'd
heard even before her mother went into
the house. “Shh,” she whispered to Laura.
“Listen.” Then Laura heard it too. A deep,
heart-wrenching sound that sent chills
right through Amanda. The unmistakable
sound of a little girl crying was ‘coming
from Barnsey’s backyard. (ch 9, p. 44)

SETTING OF
TIME
First evidence show that
the feel of horror emitted
from the backyard of the
Barnsey house can be said
to be very dense, even
when viewed from
daylight, this house made
of ancient gray stone has a
haunted and dark feel.
Peeking through the crack in the fence was like
peek- ing through a crack in time. The property
at 704 Shadow Lane was so strange and eerie that
it seemed like a horrible hallucination. Even in
the middle of the day, it was dark there. The
enormous old trees in the back of the yard
blocked out the sun completely. And the ancient
gray stone house loomed in the shadows, gloomy
and foreboding. All of the windows were hung
with heavy draperies that were always closed.
Except the basement windows, which were
covered with grime and thick iron bars. It was
easy to imagine that it wasn’t a basement at all,
but a dungeon. The only thing scarier than the
house at 704 Shadow Lane was the old woman
who lived inside it. ( Ch 1, p.6 )
 The doll was gone, Amanda ran out of her room,
Second evidence of horror down the stairs, and out the back door of the
nuance is shown in the house, still dressed in her pajamas. She was
novel when Amanda's doll hoping that somehow the doll had been knocked
disappears from her home off the table during the night. And that it was
just lying on the ground somewhere she couldn’t
see from her bedroom window. ( Ch 7, p.51 )
 Barnsey was just about to throw the doll at
Amanda when something stopped her. "Emily."
Anna's voice was gentle and pleading. "Please
In this sixth evidence, we give her back to me."
can see a very unique and Barnsey closed her eyes tight. And when she
also terrifying horror opened them again, she wasn't looking at
phenomenon, where Amanda. She was looking straight at Anna, a
usually ghosts only appear ghostly figure that appeared in the middle of the
at night, but from this day who was standing in front of her "Anna,"
evidence we can see that Barnsey managed to say before she burst into
Anna's ghost can appear tears. "Oh, Anna, is it really you?" "Yes, Emily."
during the day Anna smiled. "It's really me."
Then Barnsey knelt down in front of the little girl
so that they were face-to-face. "Oh, Anna," she
cried. "I'm so sorry.. ( Ch 16, p.10)
 CONCLUSION
After learning about the horror settings that exist and influence the story,
the author comes to a conclusion. The first conclusion is that many of the
horror sets used are still closely related to what young children fear. Many
of the horror incidents that occur in the novel are set in places that children
are afraid of, for example horror incidents that occur in bathrooms,
backyards, and also in dark places. The second conclusion is that the time
setting used is still related to the time experienced by many young children,
such as night time when they are going to bed, and also day time when they
are playing with their friends