Book Review

Tittle of the Novel	BRIDA
Introduction	Brida is one of the Paulo Coelho's work after The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, The Fifth Mountain, Warrior of the Light, Eleven Minutes, etc. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasure. It is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality.
What is the book about?	This novel is about a young Irish girl and her search for knowledge, her name is Brida. She has interested in various aspects of magic and she want to looking for something more. So she search someone who can teach her about magic. Magus, one of the characters that dominate the tradition of sun. He is the first Brida's teacher. Magus has meaning "Master", until the end of the story called that. He is the middle-aged man in exile in the forest. By Magus, Brida directed to other teachers, Wicca, a woman. Wicca was the one who drove Brida treading slowly gates esoteric understanding to find potential and hidden mysteries. And the search for self that will not find its fulfillment if someone does not find her soul mate.
How many characters are in that novel?	There are four chatacter in this novel. They are: > Brida, as main character. > Magus, as Brida's teacher. > Wicca, as Brida's teacher too. > Lorens, as the man who loved by Brida.
What was your favourite part or character?	My Favourite part in this novel is when Brida realized that her soulmate isn't the man whom she loved,
How is the plot?	Brida is the young girl who curious about magic. Her first teacher is Magus. He is the middle-aged man in exile in the forest. Magus, one of the characters that dominate the tradition of the sun. Magus asked her 'if you fall in love, and on the day I teach the wisdom of the cosmos and in the evening he teaches the wisdom of love. What if you had to choose one of the two? Study or love?' And Brida answer that she would choose her love. Because Brida said the truth, Magus agreed to teach her. But this part of the story makes us all think, how many times in life we come across a situation where we have to choose, rather than what we do is a fun thing certain people, but not for us. Here Brida think if she says she's going to move, Magus may not teach him, but she agreed. Brida did not think about what will happen, but she says what she feels, and how many times we do it in our lives? Finally Magus become Brida's teacher. Brida took the important lessons of life and move back from where she came back for more knowledge about the mysterious world. In the city Brida meet Wicca which follow the tradition of the Moon. Brida visited her for knowing more knowledge. They talked about the tarot cards, they talk about Soulmate, the tradition of the Sun and Moon. The story moved, Brida, eventually finding a bitter fact that the parts of the soulmate is not Lorens, but Magus! Brida asked to Wicca, "What if in a lifetime, a person finds more than one soul mate?" Wicca answered, "Sadness, tears, and grief that very painful." So, in this part is the conflic in this novel, that Brida loved Lorens that he isn't her soulmate. Magus love Wiccans that isn't his soulmate.
Who would you recommend the book to?	After I read this novel, and knowing the story's about, I recommend this book for adult. Because the this novel tells about passion, mystery, spirituality, and more about love.

Sim Sim Khumaeroh

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introduction	Title of the book	An Introduction to fiction
	Author's name	Robert Stanton
	Publisher	Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.
	City	New York, Chicago, Saan Francisco, Toronto, London.
	Year of publication	1965
Summary of content	Propotional summary weight of the important points of each section (chapter/unit)	Chapter 1 surveys generally the purpose and nature of serious fiction. Chapter 2 defines the basic elements of fiction, such as plot, character, theme, and setting. Chapter 3 deals specifically with methods and problems of the short stories. Chapter 4 related with those novel. Chapter 5 defines various philosophical, technical, and subject-matter chategories such as romanticism, tealism, the novel of manners, allegory, and existentialism. Chapter 6 describes the process of writing an analitical or evaluative critical paper.
	Correlation between the overall structure and content (book structure and organization)	Correlation between the overall structure and content is good. All the chapter is related. All of the data in that is in the content is right, and there are no errors in the writing pages.
Analysis of the text	Author's writing style	The author's writing style is descriptive, Because he describe all the materials in the book. Actually the writing style is good. He use formal language, but its simple, so we can understend it well.
	Author's point of view	The author's point of view is first person
	Author's major hypothesis	There are some reason why a student need a teacher or textbook to "introduce" him to serious fiction. First reason is that they expose him to it, to enjoy or understand good writing, one must read it. A second reason is that the teacher or textbook can call the reader's attention to the author's purposes and techniques. And third reason is that the teacher or textbook can correct misconceptions that interfere with the reader's pleasure and understanding.
Evaluation of the text	A brief summary of all the weakness and strengths	The strengths of this book is eassy to understandby the readers. It use some example to make the readers more understand what the author write. And the weakness of this book is the author gives some example that may be unfamiliar by the some readers. So it can be confuse, and we cannot accept the information.
	Usefulness to the audience	I think this book is very useful. It was a good book to read and it give us many knowledge.
	Reason why you like/dislike the book	I like this book. And the reason why I like this book is because I am the literary student in Semarang State of University. As the literary student, I need to know a lot about fiction. Because of that, I want to explore things about fiction. In reading fiction, we have to understand the story, and also the parts of the story.