THE PLOT OF THE “ANNA THE KING FILM”

I.                   Introduction

According to Haryono (2009: 3), culture is everyday life style of ordinary citizens and the value belief  and prejudices they share with their  fellow within  their linguistic and social groups with due attention to the intragroup  differences. (of social class, for example).

Culture in an activity and experiences of human being taken from guidance in behavior studied, made by customs and that represent the result from the nature, and made as a means of communication and interaction and also represent the way of the make- up of idea. Behavior of human being is from exercise and experience.

Culture is the “way of people”. These ways might be highly commended by several people who share that culture, while for others these might be repulsive, or even barbaric. There are many cultures in the world, almost every place have an culture. Based on the condition, many places have an differentiations, examples the different about their behavior, attitude, style, custom, etc.

Anna and the King is one of the film That shows the phenomena difference culture between Anna’s culture and Siam’s culture. Anna and the King is a 1999 motion picture loosely based on Anna and the King of Siam, the story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th century. The film is a remake of Anna and the King of Siam, but differs in many respects from that picture and also from the related musical. In this study, the writer will present about the plot of Anna The King’s Film.

II.                Plot

The film begins by following the story of Anna Leonowens and Rama IV as it is usually told; Anna is a widow who has come to Siam with her son Louis to teach English to the 58 royal children. She is a strong-willed, intelligent woman and this pleases the King, who wants to modernize his country to keep it safe from the threat of colonialism, while protecting many of the ancient traditions that give Siam its unique identity.

                                                        

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She is greeted, but told she will stay in the palace, although the king promised her she will have a house. She demands to see the King and does see him. The King is pleased with her, and takes her to meet his wives and his fifteen children that live in the palace (he has sixty-seven more).

She is charmed by the children, and agrees to stay and teach them. Here she meets a new, young wife - a Burmese girl named Tuptim, who arrived shortly before Anna did.

She is unhappy living at the castle, because she is in love with Lun Tha, the man who had brought her to Siam from Burma.

The King's wives come to help Anna settle in to her new home, and discover a photo of her husband. Anna reminisces about her days with Tom, and gives her blessing to other young lovers, who are like they used to be, ("Hello Young Lovers").

The King is troubled - he craves truth, but how can he learn the truth when different cultures say different things? ("Is A Puzzlement")

As Anna teaches her lesson to the children, she explains that getting to know people is her favorite thing to "teach" ("Getting to Know You"). The lesson goes on and the children start to not believe in the things she is teaching them, such as snow and Siam's small size. The King intervenes and scolds his children for not believing her.

Late one night, the King summons Anna to talk to her about the Bible, and how Moses says the world was created in six days. The King of Siam thinks Moses is a fool - he thinks that the world took many centuries to create. They have a small argument about the Bible in which Anna stands above the King. Due to the Siamese custom that no one's head should be higher than the King's, Anna is forced to sit on the floor as the King has her write a letter to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, telling him he will send male elephants to America to help with the Civil War. Anna tries to tell him that the elephants will not last long if only male elephants are sent, but the King loses interest and tells her to finish the letter herself. Before this, Anna has to have her head lowered than the king, which she first refuses, until the king loses his temper, forcing to to kneel and lie on the floor.

Anna goes outside, where she meets Lun Tha and learns that he and Tuptim have been meeting in secret. He asks Anna to fetch Tuptim. Anna refuses at first, afraid of the consequences if the lovers are caught, but, remembering her own happy days with her husband, Tom, she relents. The lovers meet ("We Kiss In A Shadow"), and Lun Tha promises that when he comes again, he and Tuptim will escape from Siam.

Later, the King is told that England thinks him a barbaric leader, so he and Anna plan an English style feast for many European officials. Anna helps to make some of the ladies' European dresses, and also orders food and teaches the orchestra European music. She is appalled to find that she only has one week to do this in, but the King reminds her that according to Moses, the whole world was created in one week. The king and this people all pray to Buddah in a ridiculous fashion, grantint a house for Anna, as well as his wishes for those good things.

Anna dresses the ladies up in English clothes, but forgets to give them undergarments. She is horrified on discovering her mistake, and entreats the ladies to keep their backs to the wall when presented to the Ambassador. But at the sight of the Ambassador's spyglass, the ladies flee in panic, exclaiming that he has the head of a goat. The Ambassador arrives, along with his aide Sir Edward Ramsey, with whom Anna was in love before she met Tom - in fact, Edward did once ask for her hand in marriage.

He waylays Anna as she goes to help the King with the seating, and they reminisce and dance together, which the King walks in on and is highly jealous. The King offers his arm to her and leads her to dinner, where the guest are entertained by the King's intellectual observations, and Tuptim's theatrical version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which she narrates.

When the play is over, however, she escapes with her lover. Anna and the King talk after the feast, and he gives her one of his rings as a present. Anna is quite taken by this gesture. It is here that the movie seems to show that they have fallen in love with each other, even though the King rejects the idea. The king recites a poem, known as the "Song of the King" where he states that women are "blossoms" and that men are "like Honeybees", and declares that "honey bees must be free" to "Fly from Blossom to Blossom", however, "blossoms must not ever fly from bee,to bee to bee". Anna laughs at the poem, however, She then teaches him how to dance the polka ("Shall We Dance"). However, they are interrupted by the Kralahome, who explains that Tuptim has been found and the King is told of her lover. He decides to whip her, but Anna calls him a barbarian, and says that he has no heart. He is unable to beat Tuptim and runs off in humiliation, and Anna gives back the ring and decides to leave Siam. Tuptim is led off in tears after an official announces that the corpse of Lun Tha has been discovered in the river. She is not seen again in the film.

Anna, thinking that she can no longer be of any use, is just about to leave Siam when she is told that the King is dying. His health has steadily declined ever since Anna called him a barbarian, and he has refused any help. She goes to his bedside and he gives her back the ring, pleading with her to wear it and saying that she has always spoken the truth to him.

She decides to stay in order to help his young son, the Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, rule the people. As the prince is making his first statements as King, declaring the end of slavery in Siam, and stating that the King's subjects will no longer bow down to him but rather stand at attention, the King dies, only Anna and the Kralahome noticing. The film ends with Anna laying her head on his hand.

At the end of the movie, the King has one last dance with Anna, and realizes that it is conceivable for one man to be pleased by only one woman. Anna returns to England with Louis. The King's son takes over, and abolishes slavery.

Note: This Task is present as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Semester Test of Literary Appreciation Lesson in English Education Study Program / Bertin Wijayanti "10

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FAV SONG "KITA" SO7

 KITA

Intro : C Em Dm G 

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Disaat kita bersama
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Diwaktu kita tertawa, menangis
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Merenung oleh cinta
 
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Kau coba hapuskan rasa
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Rasa dimana kau melayang Jauh dari jiwaku
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Juga mimpiku
 
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  Biarlah, biarlah
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  Hariku dan harimu
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  Terbelenggu satu
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  Oleh ucapan manismu

Reff : 
              F        C
Dan kau bisikan kata cinta
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Kau t'lah percikan rasa sayang
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Pastikan kita seirama
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Walau terikat rasa hina
 
Interlude : C Em Dm G
 
C                        Em
Sekilas kau tampak layu
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Jika kau rindukan gelak tawa yang
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Warnai lembar jalan kita
 
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  Reguk dan teguklah
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Balik ke Reff
 
Interlude : F C Dm Am 2X
            D  C#m  B#m  E
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Balik ke Reff

THE ELEMENT OF PROSE OF “MISS HERRIET” NOVEL

         

THE ELEMENT OF PROSE OF “MISS HERRIET”


I. PLOT

A.    INTRODUCTION

The author try to tell about his real life as a free painter who loved the wandering life, moved from one place to another to make studies and sketches from nature.

B.     RISING ACTION

He tells us about his experience for having rendezvous. One upon day when he met the other major character, MISS HERRIET. He began to observe and analyze who exactly miss Herriet was, and he interested to know about her. He called her as a ‘DEMONIAC’ because of her bad and strange attitude.

C.     CLIMAX

The author finally involved the conversation with miss herriet and try to know each other deeper. She began to feel comfortable in such way, and she started to get her visible happiness, she had a desire to live happily from the painter. Her life very hopeful then, but unfortunately when she rose all of her hopes, her adoration would leave her soon and the most tragic thing was when she saw him gave a kiss for a servant. She was very upset and she was suicide by fallen into the well.

D.     FALLING ACTION

After finding miss herriet’s death body, the author wanted to give his last honour. He knew that he was the only closest person of her, and he regretted of being disappointed.

E.      SOLUTION 

The author took a pity and felt very sorry for her. He then understood that miss Herriet was not like what he thought before, he regretted everything especially when he knew her good side.

  II.           SETTING

a.      SETTING OF PLACE                  : Etretat, Tancarville.

SETTING OF TIME                   : At daybreak and early rising of sun on autumn.

SETTING OF ATMOSPHERE     : The air was very fresh, it was a sunny and beautiful day.

b.      SETTING OF PLACE                  : Coast of Normandy,from inn to inn.

SETTING OF TIME                   : Day and night.

SETTING OF ATMOSPHERE     : Enjoyable, happy-go-lucky, wandering life, perfectly free.

c.       SETTING OF PLACE                  : Village of Benouville, at the same country where   they are.

SETTING OF TIME                   : At the sunny morning.

SETTING OF ATMOSPHERE     : It was on the beautiful place that could be seen from the cliff. It was the day of liberty and freedom for the author.

d.      SETTING OF PLACE                  : Mother Lecacheur’s house.

SETTING OF TIME                   : It was the month of May.

SETTING OF ATMOSPHERE     : It was full of apple flowers in the court, with the real country situation.

     III.      POINT OF VIEW

                The story used the first person point of view, because the author took a part in the story and became the main figure.

     IV.        THEME

             Love could change anyone, to be better or worse. Made everything impossible to- be possible. Love also can make person who pure of morals to be familiar, can love other person tenderly and passionately. 

VI.     STYLE

           The author used a humble language when he explained the story and easy to understand, he explained very detail, especially for the character and their manner.

     

                                        

VII.                   CHARACTER

A.      COMTE  D’ETRAILLE : a timid person and always panic in such way.

B.      RENE LEMANOAR     : funny and care to each other.

C.      BARONESS DE SERENNES : faithful to her husband.

D.     LEON CHENAL: he is a handsome, strong, proud of physique, very popular painter.

E.      DUC DE RICHELIEU: very romantic and poetical.

F.       CALESTE: fat, rosy, fresh, strong, loyal, patient.

G.     SAPEUR: loyal, funny.

H.     MOTHER LECACHEUR: an old country lady, wrinkled and austere, very kind, and she is a widow.

I.        MISS HERRIET: thin, tall, have a red cheeks, have a mummy face and grey hair.

THE MAJOR CHARACTER

1.      LEON CHENAL as a protagonist from the beginning until the end of the story.

2.      MISS HERRIET at the beginning as an antagonist but she became the protagonist at last.

THE MINOR CHARACTER

The others character are the minor character.

VIII.            TECHNIQUE OF WRITING

                  The technique of writing of this story is full of love to nature and person. And a tragic life inside it.

IX.          SYNOPSYS

Leon chenal is a painter who loved wandering life, to feel free, having honeymoon trips with nature. One day, he was following at a walking pace with his friends. They asked him to tell a love-story which he involved .

Then he started to tell the story, at that time he was twenty- five years old, he was daubing a long the coast of Normandy, with a knapsack on one’s back, from inn to inn. In wandering trough the same country where they are that year, he came one day to the little village of Benouville, on the rocky coast between  Yport and Etretat. He had walked since morning on the close-clipped grass, as smooth and yielding as a carpet, which grows along the edge of chalk falling sheer down into sea. He had passed a happy day, a day of liberty and freedom from care. Then he reach the hamlet , he presented himself at the house of mother Lecacheur. The old country woman, he hired the room there. Mother Lecacheur told that she had an English lady who occupied the other room.

Suddenly the wooden gate which opened on the highway was opened. And a strange person walked toward the house, with a strange appearance too, she passed quickly and enter the house. He knew her name Miss Herriet at last. He knew that she appeared so singular that she did not displease him. Everybody called her: heretic, atheis,demoniac. She never talked to others.

One day when he painted, miss Herriet saw his painting and surprisingly

She was admire on his picture and became friendly and familiar.

Since that day she was a good creature who had a kind of soul on springs, which became enthusiastic at a bound. She accompanied him everyday with visible pleasure. She had changed somewhat in her manner. after staying for a few day he decided that his only course was to leave the place, he said to mother Lecacheur about his plan to leave and the woman surprised and troubled. He glanced at miss Herriet out of the corner of his eye, her countenance did not change in the least. And the dinner being at length over, he went outside to smoke, and caleste, the servant gave him a trickling sensation of kisses on the lips. It was Miss Herriet, who had come upon them, who had seen them and who stood in front of them motionless as a specter. Then she disappeared in the darkness. Toward morning no one had seem her, she did not appear for breakfast. Nobody seemed surprised at this, though mother lecacheur went to her room, but the English woman had gone out, she must have set out at break of day, as she often did to see the sun rise. Until the time had came, he begged the servant to bring a pitcher of cold water. But the servant returned announcing that the well was dry and it was unusual, there must be something in the well.

The other servant claimed ”it was a horse fallen in the well” but when chenal recognized the woman who was down there was Miss Herriet. After they pulled up her death body, they carried her into the room. And as a woman did not appearance, he, with the assistance of the lad, dressed a corpse for burial.

Then he went to fetch some flowers, poppies, corn-flowers, marguerites, and fresh, sweet-smelling grass, with which to strew her funeral couch. Being the only person near her, it was necessary for him to fulfill the usual formalities.

What unhappy being there were! He felt that upon that human creature weighed the eternal injustice of implacable nature. Life was over with her without her ever having experiences, perhaps, that which sustains the most miserable of us all—the hope of being once loved. Why did she love everything so tenderly and passionately, everything living that was not a man?

She suffered no longer, she had changed her life for that of others yet to be born. Hours passed away in the silent and sinister communion with the dead.

He opened the window wide, he drew back the curtains, so that the whole heavens might look in upon them. The bending toward the glassy corpse, he took in his hands the mutilated head, and slowly, without terror or disgust,  imprinted a long, long kiss upon those lips, which had never before received the salute of love.

From the story above we can learn that love can change everything in our life // BRTJAYA"09