Prose Presentation Saki: ADRIAN Short Story Faculty of Humanity Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang- Indonesia

1. A Youth Irresponsibility represented by Adrian
based on the story Adrian
by Hector Hugo Munro (Saki)
By:
Ayu Monita (C11.2010.01185)
Thoriq Hidayat (C11.2010.01153)
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2. Synopsis
Adrian is a boy who lived in a roomlet and aparts away from his mother lived in Bethnal Green
and works in a laundry.
He usually gets occasions to be Lucas Croyden’s guest, a Socialist, at the Ritz Carlton, where
he works.
After his Adrian evenings have dinner with Lucas, he becomes an object conversation between
Lucas and his aunt, Susan Mebberley.
Susan wants to take Adrian go to Homburg with her. Lucas warnings his aunt before his aunt
still in her way to bring Adrian.
Adrian is carried abroad by Susan to the best hotel in Switzerland, at Dohledorf.
Adrian feels unusual because of the dreadful situation he never felt before.
However, Adrian makes Susan in a disaster one night and they should move to another hotel.
Then, when they have moved, Adrian gets a fit of insomnia and he makes the situation on his
corridor floor
becomes so panic and anxiety because of the changing of all bedroom numbers who is done
by him.
At the end of this story who is written by Clovis to send to Lucas, Susan is beginning to look a
little worried and
sends a telegram to Lucas because she wants to send Adrian back to his people.
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3. Adrian as the main character
1. Good looking
2. Has delightful hair and a weak mouth
3. Rude and Irresponsible
4. Naughty
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4. Character and Characterization
• Adrian as the main character has round and
dynamic character since he feels unusual when
Susan takes him to go to Dohledarf, although
actually he comes from the lower class and
stays in the best hotel named Victoria in
Switzerland, there he makes a problem who
makes them should move to another hotel.
Then, he also makes some people in Hotel
Steinbock panic and anxiety because of his
naughtiness.
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5. Conflicts experienced by Adrian
as the main character
• Internal Conflict : Adrian feels unusual
when Susan takes him to the best hotel in
Switzerland
• External conflict :
– Adrian >< Susan and Adrian >< The
Grobmayer child
– Adrian >< the environment
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6. Point of View
Adrian short story is using omniscient point
of view.
As evident, in this example, an omniscient
narrator posses information about different
figures of the novel (“His baptismal
register ... His mother ... His friends ...”).
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7. Setting of place
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At the Ritz Carlton
At a fashionable tea shop
Homburg
At Dohledorf, Switzerland
Hotel Victoria
Hotel Steinbock
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8. Setting of Time
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Night
At five o’clock
The summer season
Early part of the evening
Night
In the Morning
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9. Setting of Social
• The setting of the social based in Adrian
short story is lower class. It can be seen
from Adrian’s life and Adrian traits when
he stays in the Hotel.
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10. Plot
Exposition :
Adrian works at the Ritz Carlton as he emerges from the
struggle to dine there and on those occasions he is usually
the guest of Lucas Croyden, who is a Socialist.
Complication :
Adrian becomes an object conversation between Lucas and
his aunt, Susan Mebberley at the fashionable tea shop after
Lucas and Adrian had dinner a night before. His appearance
and his life background makes Susan decides to take him
with her to Homburg, although Lucas has warned his aunt
about Adrian.
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11. Plot
Climax :
Adrian is duly carried abroad under by Susan to Homburg
and he makes Susan in disaster, because he kidnappes the
Grobmayer child when it is going to sleep during the
interval. He introduces it during the second half of the
entertainment and pinched it too hard, it makes the
Grobmayers get angry, so that they should move to
another hotel.
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12. Plot
Falling action :
After Adrian and Susan move to another hotel, Adrian gets
an insomnia and makes a mess during the night by
unscrewing and transposing all the bedroom numbers on
his floor. He is also transferring the bathroom label to the
adjoining bedroom door. It makes the situation in next
morning filled panic from the guests who look for their
respective rooms.
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13. Plot
Resolution :
Adrian can’t be turned well by Susan, as Adrian doesn’t get
any money. So that, Susan wants to send him back home,
but she doesn’t know his mother’s address, then she sends
a telegram to Lucas.
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14. Theme
• The theme of this story is
An Youth Irresponsibility represented by
Adrian as the main character based on the
story Adrian by Hector Hugh Munro.
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15. Conclusion
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Based on the previous chapters it can be concluded that the main character
of Adrian by Hector Hugh Munro is Adrian. He is described as a boy who is
goodlooking, naughty, rude and irresponsible. He is also described as a
dynamic and round character, since he has a lot of ways / efforts to show
his trait as a young boy who feels unusual when he is brought up by Susan
to Homburg. Besides that, he also changes from the beginning to the end,
because there are a lot of ways he showed to the reader and make us can’t
predict what will happen next. Adrian also experienced the external and
internal conflicts. Adrian against Susan, The Grobmayer child, the
environment and Adrian against himself. Plot in this story is divided into
exposition, complication, climax, turning point and resolution. The point of
view is omniscient point of view.
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