SECRET

This novel entitled 'Secret' is written by Marian Thum. It has been analysed by Bambang Sutaryo and Supriyono. The synopsis of the novel is presented as follows: 

 

SECRET

BY Marian Thurm

Synopsis 

This story tells us about the two married couples. They are Eric, who is married to my younger sister, Lauren and William and I. These two couples lived apart.  Eric and Lauren lived in a rented house in Vermant town, meanwhile, William and I lived in New York. Eric works part time job, he design and build table, chair, and lamb in a lumber store. William works for an advertising agency.

One night, they held a barbeque in front of the Eric’s house. While enjoying the barbeque, Lauren frowns, she seems to be about to say something, but then walks off to the house. It puzzles me, “What is actually happen to Lauren”? I tried to make her speak, but she doesn’t want.

After hard effort had been done, and Lauren still keeps the secret, then I call some of Lauren’s friends, hoping for clarity. But her friends said” I don’t know any more than you do”.

            Actually, Eric is suffered from disease which becomes worst and worst. Twice a week, Eric receives chemotherapy treatments for his small tumors that have appeared periodically on one leg and foot since the year before their marriage. Because of this disease, this family doesn’t live happily.

One night in September, I called them. Lauren answered the phone. She tells me that Eric has moved out, to live in a cabin at the edge of a nearby woods; that he quit his job from the lumber store and leads nature tours for Parks Department. Lauren herself lives with a former high –school English teacher who breeds show dogs for a living now. It means they are separated now.

           

1.      Setting                                    

Setting of place           : Small Vermont Town and  New York City.

Setting of Time           : in the evening

Socio Cultural Setting : Family life, husband and wife relationship

2.      Character                   

Main Character          : Eric and Lauren

Minor Character           : William, the writer (the William’s wife), the writer’s mother, the  writer’s father.

3.      Plot

Exposition                       : from paragraph 1 until paragraph 6 or from page 71 until page 73.

Complication                : starting from paragraph 7 ( The barbeque is not going well….)   until paragraph 25 or page 76 (William and I give Eric  ……..)

Crisis                           :paragraph 26 or page 76  (The private manner in which my sister……..)

Falling Action              : Paragraph 28 or page 77 until paragraph 37 or page 78.

Resolution                   : Paragraph 38  or page 78 until the end.

4.      Point of View               : first person point of view (Limited omniscient)

5.      Symbol                                    : barbeque, disease (cancer)

6.      Tone                            : curiosity, puzzle, confusing.

7.      Theme                         : Care.

8.      Message                      : people should tell the problem to other people except it is a secret or privacy for us.