pilih mana ....

pas gw berada di posisi ini .. ada beberapa hal yang pengen gw lakuin :

1. nelp dexter .. #hi dex, u know what .. i have good news for u .. u have a special gift for u .. feel free to do what ever you want to do with it .. #human body

2. bbm abby scuito - nya ncis .. ngerayu dia buat ngilangin tuh orang .. coz abby pernah bilang kalo dia 1 diantara sedikit orang yang bisa "ngilangin" orang tanpa jejak sedikit pun .. #like it abby .. yeyy yeyyy ...

3. telp paman gober .. ngasih tau .. klo si donald bakalan punya temen di timbuktu #masukin niy orang ke dalem kotak .. trus .. kirim ke timbuktu .. one way trip

4. telp j.k rowling or langsung harry potter or hermione .. nanya mantra yang tepat buat ngilangin niy orang di awali dengan penyiksaan tiada tara ..

5. telp boris bokir - stand up comedy .. biar bsk nya tuh orang dah di piring nya "lapo" ...

6. any idea ??

The Pearl

1

Kino lived in a modest brush house by the sea with Juana, his wife and Coyotito, his infant son. Across the brush fence were other brush houses. In Kino’s head there was a song, clear and soft, and if he had been able to speak of it, he would have called it the Song of the Family.

Kino went outside to watch the dawn, while Juana prepared their simple breakfast, a hot corn-cake with sauce. In the company of a goat and a dog, Kino stared “with the detachment of God” at a group of industrious ants underfoot. Kino heard his wife routine activities. She was sang an ancient song when she nursed Coyotito. This was her habit, and Kino could see these things without looking at them. Her song was simple, and it moved Kino to contemplation.

They ate their simple breakfast, without conversation between them, only a contented sigh from Kino. Suddenly, Kino and Juana froze in their position. They saw a scorpion moved slowly down the rope towards Coyotito’s hanging box. Frightened, Juana recited an ancient magic to protect Coyotito, while Kino moves forward to catch the scorpion very slowly. Coyotito laughed and reached up his hands to grab it, then Coyotito shook the rope of the hanging box, and the scorpion fell and landed on the baby’s shoulder and stung him. Kino immediately had scorpion in fingers then threw it down and beat it into the earth floor with his fist, and at the same time Coyotito screamed with pain in his box.

Juana grabbed Coyotito, and she sucked hard the puncture with her lips and spat, for several times. The scream of the baby brought the neighbours, including Kino’s brother, Juan Tomás, and Juan Tomás’s wife, Apolonia. They knew that baby could easily die from the poison. Juana asked Kino to call the doctor, impossible. And she decided to take Coyotito to the doctor, their neighbors followed them.

Kino talked about the situation to the servant of the doctor who was the same race with him but refuse to talk in their old language. As they already estimated before, the doctor refused to cure the baby for free. They only had little pearls that were worthless for the doctor.  Angry, Kino struck the gate with his fist and the blood flowed down between his fingers.

2

The town lay on a broad estuary, its old yellow plastered building hugging the beach and a set of blue and white canoes sits in the sand. Kino and Juana came slowly down the beach to Kino’s old canoe. It’s the only precious thing he had and it was the heritage from his paternal grandfather.

Juana laid Coyotito on the blanket and covered him from the hot sun with her shawl. He was calm now,  but the swelling on his shoulder had continued up his neck and under his ear and his face was puffed and feverish. She then wades into the water and collects some seaweed, which she applies gently to Coyotito’s wound. They are going to search for big pearls, Juana had prayed that they might find such a pearl that valued enough to hire the doctor to treat the poisoned Coyotito.

Kino and Juana slid the canoe into the water, Juana climbs in, and Kino pushes the boat away from shore. Once Kino boards, they begin paddling out to sea in search of pearls. In a few moment Kino could see the other pearlers clustered the haze around the oyster bed. This was the bed that had raised the King of Spain to be a great power in Europe in past years, had helped to pay for his wars and had decorated the churches for them. Kino made a dive into the water to collect oysters, while Juana stayed in the canoe, prayed for luck. Kino could remained under water for over two minutes. He moved next to the hummock and he saw a very large oyster lying by itself, not covered with its clinging brothers.

Climbing back into the canoe, his eyes were shining with excitement and Juana sensed it but pretended to look away, because it’s not good to want a thing too much, might drove the luck away. Kino was reluctant to open the big one. But Juana could not wait, she asked him softly to open it while she put her hand on Coyotito’s head. Kino cuts the shell and there it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. It was as large as a seagull’s egg and it was the greatest pearl in the world. He picked the pearl from the dying flesh and held it in his palm and Juana came near to stare it. Then Juana went to Coyotito to see the swelling, it was going out of the baby’s shoulder, the poison was receding from its body. Kino, overcome with emotion, he screamed and his body was rigid. The men in the other canoes were curious and they raced towards Kino’s canoe.  

3

News goes so fast about “the Pearl of the World.”, even before Kino returns to his brush house. Like everyone else, the doctor who refused to cure Coyotito, desires the pearl too. Buyers in the town waited that pearl so one of them could get a new start of life. They didn’t realize that everyone were jealous with the fortune. Kino planed a proper marriage in the church, new clothing, a harpoon, and a rifle, and also school for Coyotito. But he a little bit afraid with his feeling.

Closed to the dark, the priest came. He spoke softly sound like a benediction.  He blessed the household then asked to see the pearl. He gasped and reminded him always thanking and praying. Juana announced the plans and the priest left them with a kind word. The evils song was in his ears after the priest left.

The neighbors slipped away to their houses, the doctor and his servant came to cure Coyotito’s wound. At first Kino refused it, but frightened with the bad effect, he allowed the doctor to examine the baby. And the doctor was right, he gave the baby a capsule and promised to come back in an hour to check on Coyotito’s progress.

Suddenly, Coyotito becomes visibly ill, an evil feeling fills Kino once again. Hurried, the doctor cured the baby. Coyotito sighed deeply and went to sleep. Then he asked for his payment. Kino explain about selling the pearl for the payment, the doctor pretended to be surprise about the pearl, but he offered to keep it in his safe and Kino declined the offer, the doctor knew where he kept it.

Kino was in fear. In a fit of precaution, he dug up the pearl and reburied it beneath his sleeping mat. Then he fall asleep, sweet dream at first, ended with the bad one. He sensed an evil, there were intruders.  He took his knife and struggled with the dark thing in the corner. The intruders escaped.

While Juana cured Kino, she asked Kino to throw the pearl, because it was a sin, an evil that would destroy them. But Kino hushed her and told her that the pearl was for their better and would be sold in the morning.

4

In La Paz, it was the day to sell the pearl. There was excitement among the pearl buyers, the one who bought the lowest price would be the happiest. The fishermen did not go out to dive for pearls, they wanted to be the witness of the transaction.

Over breakfast that morning, Kino, Juana, and Coyotito wore their best clothes for the occasion. From their house, the neighbours watched and dressed, ready too. Juan Tomás walked at the front with Kino and warned him about the cheating buyers. Kino acknowledged this problem but had no idea to solve it.

The first buyer said that the pearl is worthless, like fool’s god. The man made an offhand bid of one thousand pesos. Kino reacts angrily to this lowball offer and insists that the pearl is worth fifty thousand. Then he invited others buyers for others opinion. There were three buyers. Two of the buyers had the same opinion with the first one, and the last one made an offer for only five hundred pesos. Angry, Kino took the pearl and announced them to sell it in the capital. Worried, one of the buyers, offer fifteen thousand. Dead locked, Kino went home. 

There were pro and contra opinion among the situation. Meanwhile, in his brush house, Kino has buried the pearl under his sleeping mat and Juana watched it while he cleaned Coyotito and nursed him, later she made the corncakes for supper.. He was afraid of the capital

Juan Tomás came to warn him of the dangers in  the capital, but Kino insisted to sell it at capital for Coyotito’s better future. Unable to convince Kino to heed his warning, Juan Tomás went home.

Kino passed his supper. He sat awake to protect the pearl, suddenly, he sensed an evil presence. He moved toward the doorway, went out. There was a fight. Juana seized a stone to help him but it was over. Alone, Kino lay on the ground, struggling to rise. She helped Kino and cured him. Again, Juana asked to destroy the evil pearl or throw it back in the sea where it belongs. Kino rejected, he insist to keep the fortune and in the morning they will set out in the canoe for the capital. Juana dutifully submits to her husband’s plan, and they both go to sleep.

5

Before dawn, Kino opened his eyes in the darkness, but did not move. He saw Juana woke up  silently towards the fireplace then the door. And she was gone towards the shore. Kino followed her in silent. Getting caught, she run and prepared to throw the pearl, but Kino caught her arm and took the pearl from her. Angrily, he struck her in the face and he kicked her in the side, then he hissed her and left her without a word.

Toward the brush house, a group of men assaulted him. Struggling, Kino and the other man sprawled on the ground. Meanwhile, Juana got up and walked toward the brush house. Midway, she saw the pearl lying in the path then picked it up and considered to finish her job. But she saw two dark figures lying in the path and one of them was Kino. Kino has killed a man. She dragged the dead body into the brush and then helped Kino, who moaned about losing his pearl. Juana showed the pearl and asked him to escape because of the murder.

They prepared to escape, but the canoe was being broken. He went back to his house but his house was burning. The neighbours tried to control the fire and to save their own houses while Kino, Juana, and Coyotito toward into Juan Tomás’s house.

Inside Juan Tomás’s house, they listened to the speculation about their dead. Apolonia returned to her house to change her head shawls, and surprised to see them. Kino asked her to bring Juan Tomás to them and to be silent about them. Juan Tomás arrived moments later, and asked Apolonia to watch the door while he talked with Kino. Kino explained the story in detail.  He asked Juan Tomás to hide them in his house for a night, until it safe for them to go. Juan Tomás hesitated to bring danger upon himself but finally agreed to shelter them and keep silent about it.

They left quietly in the dark before the moon had risen. Kino planed to travel to north and Juan Tomás suggested just avoid the shore so that no one seen them.

6

The wind blew fierce and strong when they went into the north. They walked carefully and avoided the centre of town so that no one seen them. They walked hour after hour and made camp in a roadside shelter at sunrise. After eating a small breakfast, Juana rested until midday.

Juana asked if they being followed. Juana then started to doubt Kino’s conviction the pearl value, but Kino pointed out that his attackers would not have tried to steal the pearl were it worth nothing. Kino looked into the pearl to find his vision. He lied to Juana, about what he saw with the pearl, about a rifle, a marriage in a church, and an education for Coyotito. All he saw just a body bleeding on the ground, Juana making her way home through the night after being beaten, and Coyotito’s face swollen as though he were sick.

Kino slept soundly, while Juana was restless. Suddenly Kino awake and asked them to keep quiet. He crept forward and spots a trio of trackers pursuing their trail. The trackers grew nearer, and he was ready to attack them if necessary. The trackers scuttled along, stopping, looking and hurrying on and they would be back, Kino knew that.

Panic with the situation, they were frightened to be killed because of the pearl. Kino took them to the mountains. As they climb, Kino realized that was only a temporary fixed to their problem. Then Kino found a series of caves that they could not be seen from the outside. Kino made a fake tracks up the cliff and hoped that the trackers would follow the tracks and when they past them, they would climb down the hill and out of range. Kino instructs Juana to keep Coyotito quiet, and they lie silently in the cave as twilight settles over the land.

By evening, the trackers arrived at the pool, where they made camp and eat. In the cave, Coyotito grew restless, and Juana quieted him. Kino noticed that two of the men have settled in to sleep, while the third kept watch. Kino realized that if he could manage to stifle the lookout, they would have a chance to escape. Juana scared for Kino’s life, but Kino explained that they have no other choice. He instructed her to run to the nearest town should he be killed, and they part reluctantly.

Kino stripped naked to avoid being seen by the watchman, and, after a moment surveying his route, he moved forward and Juana prayed for him. He stopped a moment to ponder his next move, but he knew he must be quickly before the moon rises. He prepared his knife to attack. Just then, the moon appeared, and he realized that his opportunity was lost. Waiting for a moment when the watchman’s head is turned, Kino got ready to take a much riskier approach.

Suddenly, Coyotito cried and awoke one of the sleeping trackers. At first, they confused whether that’s a baby or the cry of a coyote. The watchman decided to silence the noise by directing the gun to the cave. The gun crashed, the bullet hit and killed Coyotito. As the watchman shot, Kino attacked the trackers, stabbing the watchman and seizing the rifle. He moved fast and brave. The third man scrabbled away like a crab and began to climb frantically. Kino became as cold and deadly as steel, so he raised the gun and aimed deliberately and fired. Gathered his consciousness, Kino noticed the silence of the surrounding and finally heard the hysterical cry from his wife, mourning the death of Coyotito.

Later the next day, it was late in the golden afternoon, when the first little boy ran hysterically into the town and spread the word that Kino and Juana were coming back. Everyone hurried to see them. Kino ahead, and Juana behind, as usual but side by side. Kino had a rifle, and Juana carried a heavy dead bundle over her shoulder. The shawl was crusted with dried blood. Their face was hard and lined and leathery with fatigue.

Juan Tomás raised his hands in greeting and did not say the greeting and left his hand in the air for a moment uncertainly. They kept move towards to the sea. When they came to the water’s edge they stopped and stared out over the Gulf. Then he pulled out the pearl from his pocket. The pearl was ugly, it was grey, like malignant growth. Then Kino flung the pearl with all his might. They saw the little splash in the distance, and they stood side by side watching the place for a long time.

CHARACTERS

Kino -  The protagonist character who is a Mexican-Indian man, dignified, hardworking, impoverished native who works as a pearl diver. He is a simple man who lives in a brush house with his wife, Juana, and their infant son, Coyotito. He loves them very much. After Kino finds a great pearl, he becomes increasingly ambitious and desperate in his mission to make a better future. His ambition brings him to a state of animalistic violence, and his life is reduced to a basic fight for survival and at the end he lost his baby.

Juana -  Kino’s wife. Her baby is being stung by a scorpion. Need a bunch of money to cure the baby, she prays for good fortune and a giant pearl is the answer. Juana slowly becomes convinced that the pearl is in fact an agent of evil. His husband being insult previous time and at the end she has to lose her baby.

Coyotito -  Kino and Juana’s only son, who is stung by a scorpion while resting in hanging box one morning. His parents doesn’t have enough money to pay the doctor. His parent’s efforts to cure him by owning a big pearl, ended with his death.

Juan Tomás -  Kino’s older brother. Deeply loyal to his family, he supports Kino with warns him several time related with the pearl.

Apolonia -  Juan Tomás’s wife and the mother of four children. Like her husband, Apolonia is sympathetic to Kino and Juana’s plight, and she agrees to give them shelter in their time of need.

The doctor -  A fat, arrogant, inhuman doctor that doesn’t want to cure coyotito. Ones he wants to cure the baby just to own the big pearl.

The priest -  The local village priest that just interested in exploiting Kino’s wealth as everyone else, hoping that he can find a way to persuade Kino to give him some of the money he will make from the pearl.

The dealers -  The extremely well-organized and corrupt pearl dealers in La Paz systematically cheat and exploit the Indian pearl divers who sell them their goods. They desperately long to cheat Kino out of his pearl.

The trackers -  The group of violent and corrupt men that follows Kino and Juana when they leave the village, hoping to waylay Kino and steal his pearl.

SETTING

The setting is in and around La Paz, Mexico. At the brush house, the beach, the mountain, the gulf.

The Death of Salesman

ACT ONE

The story begins one day evening at the Loman family in Brooklyn. Willy Loman, a sixty years old travelling salesman, returns home early from a trip, exhausted. His wife Linda welcomes him in worries, since he had an accident several times ago. But nothing happened, he just so exhausted to drive so far. Then her wife suggests him to ask for non-travelling job in New York City.

Their two adult sons, Biff and Happy, are visiting. Actually Willy adores Biff and so biff, he declares that Biff is anything but lazy. And so Willy thinks that his thirty-four-year-old son is a lazy bum. Willy criticized Biff for working at manual labor on farms and horse ranches in the West. Then this couple is stuck in an argument. 

Upstairs, the two brothers are on a conversation. Downstairs, Willy’s makes a loud talking.  Biff and Happy think that he had another accident. Linda returns to bed while Willy goes to the kitchen for cheese. Happy and Biff are remembering about the good old days when they were young. Although Happy, thirty-two, is younger than Biff, he is more confident and more successful. Biff seems unstable, confuse. Happy is worried about their father’s habit of talking to himself. Happy observes that their father focus on Biff failure for job. Willy feel failed raising him to be a success man. Differs with his brother, Happy has a steady job in New York, but the rat race does not satisfy him. Biff fantasize briefly about going out west together. However, Happy still try to become an important executive.

Biff plans to ask Bill Oliver, an old employer, for a loan to buy a ranch. He remembers that Oliver thought highly of him and offered to help him anytime. He wonders if Oliver still thinks that he stole a carton of basketballs while he was working at his store. Happy encourages his brother, commenting that Biff is “well liked”—a sure predictor of success in the Loman household. The boys are disgusted to hear Willy talking to himself downstairs. He’s back to the memories of the past when the boys were still teens. And it’s so obvious that Willy is so proud of Biff, Happy tries to get his father’s attention, but Willy’s preference for Biff is obvious. He also underestimates Bernard, Biff’s friend and also their neighbour. Willy whispers that he will soon open a bigger business than his successful neighbour, because Charley is not as “well liked” as he is. Charley is Bernard’s father. Bernard asked Biff to study together so that he would pass the exam. But he refused it by showing him that he printed the insignia of the University of Virginia on his sneakers, impressing Willy. Bernard states that the sneakers do not mean Biff will graduate. Willy tells them that Bernard may make good grades, but Happy and Biff will be more successful in business because they are “well liked.”

Still in his daydream of fifteen years ago, Willy brags to Linda that he made $1200 in sales that week and Linda quickly figures his commission Willy moans that he cannot move ahead because people do not seem to like him. Linda tells him that he is successful enough. Willy complains that he talks and jokes too much. He compare himself with Charley that Charley earns respect because he is a man of few words. His jealousy of his neighbor becomes painfully clear.

Still in daydream, Willy figured his mistress and they sat in a hotel room, cuddling The Woman fades into the darkness as Willy returns to the present, he is on a conversation with Linda. He notices Linda old stockings and angrily with proud asks to throw them out. Back  to the past, Bernard returned to the Loman house to beg Biff to study math, but Willy asked him to give Biff the answers. Bernard replied that he cannot do so during a state exam. Linda asked Willy to do something with Biff, but Willy thought that he is a fine boy.

Back to present, Willy comes inside the house, continue drinking milk. Happy goes downstairs, and looks that his father talking with himself. Then Willy stops talking when he figures Happy, staring at him. Happy asks his father to come up. Then Willy continues scolded about the floor that being waxed. He regrets that he didn’t go to Alaska with his brother, Ben, to be a successful man. The conversation begin worst, Willy yells again. Suddenly, Charley, the neighbour come, checks whether everything is fine. Again, Happy asks his father to come upstairs, but Willy refuses it. Then there is a conversation between this two neighbours. They play card. Concerned about Willy, he offers him a job, but Willy is insulted by the offer. The conversation between them become worst and Charley left the house in anger.

Again, Willy take his memory to the past. Ben appears, he asked Willy when did mother dead. . Willy was so excited seeing Ben. Their father abandoned the family when Willy was three or four years old and Ben was seventeen. Ben left home to look for their father in Alaska but never found him, because instead of being in Alaska, Ben landed in Africa. Willy got more excited, called his sons and introduced their Uncle Ben. Willy asked him to say something to his sons, then Ben replied about his success. The Willy asked him to tell a story about the grandfather of Biff and Happy. After a little story about the grandfather, Ben asked Biff to punch him. Actually it was a joke, so Biff didn’t really punched him. Smiling, Ben asked for shake hand and he push Biff to the earth and give a lesson “not to fight fair with strangers, cause you’ll never get out from the jungle with that way”. Willy begs Ben to stay longer, but Ben hurries to catch his train.

Back to the present, Willy’s shouts wake Linda and she asks Willy to sleep, but Willy refuses and chooses to take a walk in his slippers. Biff and Happy goes down, and Biff asks his mother how long he has been like this, talking to himself. Biff regrets that his mother never told about this with him. Linda explains that Willy’s mental is not balance because their father lost his salary (only works on commission). Linda also knows that Willy borrows fifty dollars a week from Charley and pretends it is his salary. Linda claims that Biff and Happy are ungrateful. She calls Happy a “philandering bum.” Angry and feels quilt, Biff offers to stay home and get a job to help with expenses. Linda says that he cannot fight with Willy all the time. Then she explains that his father attempt to do a suicide in a car accident. Willy comes inside the house, overhears Biff, Happy, and Linda arguing about him. When Biff jokes with his father to snap him out of his trance, Willy misunderstands and thinks that Biff is calling him crazy. Willy thinks that he is a great salesman that everyone honors him that he is a “big shot” in the sales world.

Happy takes the speech, he mentions that Biff plans to ask Bill Oliver for a business loan. Willy is so happy to hear that. They are going to sell sporting goods and they will do the business together. Everyone likes the idea of Happy and Biff going into business together. Willy begins to say unhelpful advice for Biff’s loan interview. Linda shows her excitement, but Willy tells her several times to be quiet. Seeing this scene, Biff asks his father not to yell to his mother. Then another argument among them. Linda asks Biff to be nice to their father, and start it with a good night speech. Again, before they fall asleep, Linda begs Willy to ask his boss for a non-traveling job.

ACT TWO

The next morning, when Willy awakes the next morning, Biff and Happy have already left. So exciting with the situation, Willy mentions that he would like to get some seeds and plant a small garden in the yard. Linda, pleased with her husband’s hopeful mood, points out that there is not enough sun. Willy replies that they will have to get a house in the country. Linda reminds Willy to ask his boss, Howard, for a non-traveling job as well as an advance to pay the insurance premium. They have one last payment on both the refrigerator and the house, and they have just finished paying for the car. Linda informs Willy that Biff and Happy want to take him to dinner at Frank’s Chop House at six o’clock. As Willy departs, moved and excited by his sons’ dinner invitation, he notices a stocking that Linda is mending and, guilt-ridden with the latent memory of his adultery with The Woman, admonishes her to throw the stocking away.

Entering Howard’s office, Willy tries to tell him that he likes to have a non-traveling job. But Howard’s doesn’t recognize it, because he is excited with his new recorder. He shows Willy how it works. Then they start the talking. Willy then asks Howard to give him a non-travelling job and that he’s willing to accept a modest salary. The end of this conversation goes worst, Willy get fired. He reminds him that he is the one who gave his name “Howard” and how kind his father to him. But Howard stays with his decision and he asked Willy to tell it to his sons about it, so that they have to take the responsibility. Willy cries and then begins to hallucinate and back to the past, talking to himself, yelling while walking towards Charley’s office.

He meets Bernard at Charley’s office. He is a successful young man. They have a conversation about Biff. Bernard is so concern about Biff, how he wasted his time and chance at school. He wonders why he dismissed it. He asks about what happened in New England, because after that, it’s so obvious Biff is ruining himself. Then Charley come out, he meets them, calm down Willy and tells Bernard that he might be missed the train if he isn’t hurried. And then, Charley offers him a job, but Willy refuses it then he gives Willy some money to support him.

Meanwhile, Biff, who has agreed to ask Bill Oliver for a job, fails even to get an interview with Oliver. He already waited Oliver for hours and he didn’t even recognize him. Desperately, Biff comes to the bar to have dinner with Happy and their father. But he cannot hide miserable face. Happy asks Biff to keep it away from their father, but Biff insists to tell the truth. Finally, Happy agree but he asks Biff to say it softly so it won’t hurt him. Again, meet another failure, Willy enters hallucinating. Before that, Willy tells their son that he was fired. It was a bad surprise. Again, Willy starts to talk with himself, entered the rest room. Being rude, those two sons just left their father at the bar and went with two young beautiful women for a date.

Inside the rest room, Willy was on the past, dreams about his mistress, and how Biff caught him with a women inside a hotel room. Biff was so upset, he was cried. But Willy was convinced him that the woman just a buyer, nothing more, Biff didn’t belief it. The scene back to the bar and Willy backs to present by knocking on the door from the bar guy.

When Biff and Hap arrive home, Happy gives his mother flowers and tells her that he and Biff were out with two girls. She angrily puts away the flowers to the floor, upset because her sons seems don’t care whether their father lives or dies. She tells them to leave the house. But Biff insists on seeing his father. Willy is in the back yard planting seeds. Biff goes out towards his father and he tells him that he is leaving never to return. He is realizes that all the problems are because of him, he is a bum so he decides to leave. He asks for Willy’s bless. They go inside and Biff asks to shake his father’s hand. Willy refuses, he doesn’t want his son leave the house. They argue violently. However, still holding out hopes for Biff, Willy says, “The door of your life is wide open!”

Biff breaks down and hugs his father, and Willy so glad and say to Linda that Biff is loves him and that is remarkable. Linda and Happy assure Willy that his observation is true. Everyone goes to bed except Willy, he begins to hallucinate, talk to himself actually he thinks he talks to Ben and tells Linda that he will come upstairs in two minutes. Moments later, there is the sound of a car starting up and driving off. There is a crash. Willy dies.

Requiem

At the funeral, there are no one else beside Willy’s family, Charley, and Bernard. They are the only mourners who attend Willy’s funeral. She wonders why anybody didn’t come. Where are they, the people he knew? Where are all his friends, his buyers? Happy is almost attacks Biff when he said that his father had a wrong dream. But Charley stop him. Charley replies that a salesman has to dream or he is lost. Happy becomes increasingly angry with Biff’s observations. He resolves to stay in the city and carry out his father’s dream by becoming a top businessman, convinced he can still “beat this racket.” Linda requests some privacy. She reports to Willy that she made the last payment on the house. She apologizes for her inability to cry and she still doesn’t understand the reason. She begins to sob, repeating, “We’re free and clear” Biff helps her up.

CHARACTERS

.Willy Loman: a sixty years old salesman haunted by a feeling that his life has been a failure. He loves his son, Biff very much. He adores him and he feels that he is failed to raise him become a man. He often hallucinates, enters the past events. He often talks to himself, speaks to unseen figure that only him could see the figure. He enters his previous happy times.  He often says that he is a great salesman that everybody knows him, but at the end of his life, at his funeral, no one comes except his family and his neighbour, Charley and Bernard.

Linda: adorable wife who loves his husband very much. She accepts her role as a devoted and subservient housewife.

Biff: Willy’s older son, who can’t be a man. Always meet the failure of life since he was at school. At first he is quite nice, but after he saw his father’s mistress, he begin to ruin his life. He is trouble getting along with his father.

Hap: Willy’s younger son, who has a steady job. Their parents seems take to much focus on his brother than him, but he never seems to be jealous. He always try to calm his brother, or father or mother whenever they are upset. At the funeral, he promises to make his father dreams come true.

Charley: Willy’s neighbour who is a successful businessman. He cares about Willy, even though Willy, for several times, underestimates him. Nevertheless, Charley is the one who helps him when Willy’s boss fired him by lending Willy money and even offers him a job.

Bernard: Charley’s son. Intelligent, hard-working, and successful young man, everything that Biff Loman is not. But he cares enough to Biff.

Ben: Willy’s deceased older brother, who appears only in Willy’s hallucinations. He struck it rich at an early age in South African diamond mines.

Howard Wagner: Willy’s boss, the son of his previous boss whom Willy admired. He fires Willy because of his inability to perform satisfactorily.

Stanley: A waiter at a bar/restaurant where they about to have a dinner.

The Woman: The mistress of Willy. An employee of a Boston company. She is one of the subjects of his hallucinations. And she is the one of the reason why Biff ruins his life.

Miss Forsythe and Letta:  Attractive young women whom Hap and Biff meet in the bar/restaurant

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The Great Gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBY

Oleh F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Setiap kali kamu ingin mengkritik seseorang, ingatlah bahwa semua orang di dunia ini tidak memiliki kelebihan seperti yang kamu miliki.”

Kalimat diatas merupakan nasihat dari ayah dari Nick Carraway, sang narator dari novel The Great Gatsby. Nick merupakan seorang pemuda dari keluarga terpandang, orang kaya di kota Middle Western. Nick memulai novel ini dengan mengomentari dirinya, menyatakan bahwa ia terus mengingat nasihat ayahnya agar tidak seenaknya dalam menilai orang lain. Nick beberapa kali melakukan lompatan pikiran dalam alur cerita The Great Gatsby ini. Setelah menyelesaikan kuliah di Yale, Universitas Favorit di New Heaven, melihat Middle West yang menjadi acak-acakan,  dia memutuskan untuk pindah ke New York untuk mencari peruntungan di bidang obligasi.

Tiba di New York pada musim panas tahun 1922, ia menyewa sebuah rumah sederhan di Long Island, disebut West Egg. Diseberang rumahnya, dipisahkan oleh sebuah teluk yang indah, terdapat istana-istana indah, disebut East Egg, yang juga tempat tinggal Daisy, sepupu Nick.

Nick tinggal persis di sebelah rumah mewah milik Jay Gatsby yang secara rutin melakukan pesta-pesta yang hingar-bingar. Walau Gatsby sering mengundang banyak kalangan atas di pesta-pestanya namun sosoknya tetap menjadi misteri bagi banyak orang sehingga banyak beredar gossip bahwa Gatsby adalah seorang panyeludup minuman keras, pernah membunuh orang, dan sebagainya.

Suatu hari Nick berkunjung ke rumah Daisy di East Egg. Kedatangan Nick disambut oleh Tom Buchanan, suami Daisy, yang juga merupakan teman Nick sewaktu di Yale. Di rumah itu, Nick dikenalkan dengan Jordan Baker, seorang golfer terkenal yang cantik dan sempat menjalin hubungan romantis dengannya. Dari Jordan, Nick mengetahui tentang kekasih gelap Tom, Myrtle Wilson, dan ditegaskan oleh Tom pada suatu hari dengan memperkenalkan Nick dengan Ny. Wilson. Jordan juga sempat menyatakan bahwa dia mengenal seseorang yang tinggal di West Egg, yang ternyata adalah Gatsby, tetangga Nick. Namun sebelum sempat Nick menjelaskan tentang hal itu, obrolan mereka yang sempat didengar oleh Daisy terputus oleh panggilan makan malam.

Nick terkejut menerima undangan pesta dari orang suruhan Gatsby. Akhirnya Nick berdiri di pesta meriah tetangganya yang penuh dengan makanan lezat, minuman memabukkan serta musik Jazz yang menghentak, tidak hanya menjadi penonton dari beranda rumahnya seperti yang biasa dilakukannya. Tidak banyak orang yang dia kenal, namun dia bertemu dengan Jordan Baker. Nick pun akhirnya dapat bertatapan langsung dan sempat berbincang dengan Gatsby, selama ini dia hanya bisa mengamati Gatsby berdiri sendiri memandangi teluk sambil bertanya dalam hati apa yang dilihatnya. Gatsby merupakan tuan rumah yang ramah, bahkan Nick diajak untuk mencoba hydroplane yang baru dibelinya. Pada suatu saat, Gatsby sempat meminta Jordan untuk menemuinya di ruangan pribadinya seorang diri.

 Nick kemudian terus mempelajari tetangganya yang misterius. Gatsby sempat bercerita tentang masa lalunya bahwa dia orang kaya dan semua keluarganya telah meninggal serta dia sempat kuliah di Oxford. Jordan menceritakan sesuatu yang mengagetkan Nick yaitu tentang perkenalan Jordan dengan Daisy, masa  lalu Daisy, serta kisah cinta Daisy dan Gatsby. Dia juga menyampaikan keinginan Gatsby agar Nick mengatur pertemuannya  dengan Daisy dengan mengundang sepupunya ke rumah kecilnya. Nick mengabulkan keinginan Gatsby, dan pertemuan pertama itu pun berlanjut dengan pertemuan-pertemuan romantis lainnya.

Nick kedatangan tamu seorang reporter yang ingin mendengar gosip miring tentang tetangganya. Gatsby memiliki nama asli James Gatz dan merupakan anak dari seorang petani miskin. Nasib mengombang-ambingkan Gatsby hingga bertemu dengan jutawan Dan Cody,pemilik yatch yang berumur lima puluh tahun, yang memiliki bisnis perak dan peleburan logam. Selama lima tahun dia mengikuti Cody berlayar mengelilingi dunia. Hingga suatu waktu Cody meninggal dan mewarisi uang dua puluh lima ribu dolar, namun muslihat hukum malahan membuat Ella Kaye, jurnalis perempuan, mendapatkan sebagian besar warisan itu.

Dalam waktu yang singkat, Tom menjadi curiga akan hubungan istrinya dengan Gatsby. Pada acara makan siang di rumah Buchanan, tatapan Gatsby ke Daisy dan ucapan Daisy yang dengan gairah ditujukan ke Gatsby membuat Tom sadar bahwa mereka pernah dekat di masa lalu. Meskipun Tom sendiri juga selingkuh, ia sangat marah dengan kenyataan perselingkuhan istrinya. Tom akhirnya menyetujui ajakan istrinya agar mereka – Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Nick dan Gatsby-  untuk jalan-jalan ke kota. Untuk pergi ke kota, mereka bertukar mobil, Tom, Jordan dan Nick mengendarai mobil Gatsby, sedangkan Gatsby dan Daisy mengendarai coupe Tom. Awalnya Gatsby menolak dan mengajak mereka untuk menggunakan mobilnya saja, namun Tom memaksa sambil menyuruh Daisy untuk segera masuk ke mobil Gatsby. Bingung dengan situasi tersebut, Gatsby sempat berdalih bahwa bensin di mobilnya tidak akan cukup, namun Tom bilang cukup, dan jikapun tidak, mereka akan mampir ke di salah satu toko, yaitu toko Wilson, untuk mengisi bensin. Wilson saat itu sedang sakit, karena sebenarnya ia sudah mengetahui kehidupan ganda istrinya, namun ia tidak menyadari bahwa orang ketiga itu adalah Tom. Wilson menceritakan keinginannya pindah membuat shock Tom. Pada waktu mengisi bensin, Myrtle, kekasih gelap Tom melihat dengan tatapan cemburu ke arah Jordan yang duduk diantara Nick dan Tom, ia menyangka Jordan adalah istri Tom. Tom tidak menggubrisnya dan segera tancap gas menyusul istrinya yang satu mobil dengan Gatsby.

Tiba di suite Hotel Plaza, pertengkaran pun akhirnya tidak dapat dihindarkan. Gatsby menyatakan bahwa Daisy tidak pernah mencintai Tom. Kenyataan Daisy bersedia menikah dengan Tom adalah karena Gatsby dulu miskin, sedangkan Daisy merupakan gadis kaya yang popular. Daisy kalut, begitu juga dengan Gatsby yang mendapatkan kesan asing terhadap Daisy. Tom menyuruh Gatsby dan Daisy untuk pulang terlebih dahulu. Waktu sudah menunjukkan pukul tujuh malam ketika Nick, Tom dan Jordan memasuki coupe biru untuk pulang. Dalam perjalanan ke East Egg, suatu kecelakaan baru terjadi yang membuat Tom semakin tersungkur karena ia kehilangan kekasih gelapnya. George Wilson shock melihat mayat istrinya dan polisi sibuk mencatat pernyataan para saksi tentang kronologis kejadian. Akhirnya salah seorang menyatakan ada mobil besar berwarna kuning dengan kecepatan tinggi menyalip mobilnya. Tom langsung menyadari siapa yang telah menabrak kekasih gelapnya. Saat Nick sedang berjalan untuk pulang di pekarangan rumah Daisy, tiba-tiba Gatsby muncul dari balik semak-semak dan menanyakan apakah melihat kecelakaan di tempat berdebu itu. Nick. Ternyata mobil itu dikendarai Daisy. Gatsby juga menceritakan bahwa perempuan itu seperti mengenal mobilnya dan ingin berbicara dengan mereka.

Wilson yang bingung akan kematian istrinya, menatap papan iklan “mata Dokter T.J. Eckleburg” dan mengatakan  “Tuhan melihat segalanya”. Tetangganya, Michelis, yang sempat menemaninya dan karena kelelahan memutuskan pulang ke rumahnya untuk tidur sejenak, mendapatkan Wilson telah menghilang empat jam kemudian. Wilson berjalan kaki untuk menemui supir yang membunuh istrinya. ketika Aksi ini kemudian beralih kembali ke Wilson yang, bingung atas kematian istrinya, menyelinap keluar dan pergi mencari sopir yang tewas Myrtle. Nick retraces perjalanan Wilson, yang menempatkan dia, dengan sore hari, di rumah Gatsby itu. Pembunuhan Wilson Gatsby dan kemudian berubah menembak dirinya sendiri. Dalam keadaan shock, Wilson mengarahkan pistol ke arah Gatsby yang sedang berbaring telungkup di atas matras di kolam renang. Setelah tubuh Gatsby hilang disertai warna kemerahan di kolam renang, Wilson pun mengarahkan pistol itu kearah dirinya sendiri.

Setelah kematian Gatsby, Nick mengatur untuk penguburannya. Dia bingung karena nampaknya tak seorang pun peduli dengan kematian Gatsby, bahkan Daisy sekalipun. Meyer Wolfshiem, mitra bisnis Gatsby, hanya menulis surat dengan kalimat yang datar. Sebuah telegram dari Henry C. Gatz, ayah Gatsby, membuat Nick sedikit lega. Ia akan datang dari Minnesota untuk mengubur anaknya. Nick menawarkan pemakaman Gatsby di West, namun Mr. Gatz menolak dan menyatakan anaknya lebih menyukai East. Meskipun selama hidupnya Gatsby popular, namun dalam kematiannya, Gatsby benar-benar terlupakan.

Tema :

Beberapa tema yang diangkat dalam novel ini adalah kehidupan cinta, kelas sosial, kehidupan hedon, pasca Perang Dunia I, gender. 

Latar :

Novel ini mengambil latar di kota New York pada tahun 1920-an (Jaman Jazz / Jazz Edge)

Sudut Pandang :

First Person (Narrator)

Konflik :

Ada beberapa konflik dalam novel ini, konflik antara Gatsby dan Tom, Daisy dan Tom, Myrtle dan George Wilson, George dan Tom.

Karakter :

-          Nick Carraway – Narator novel, pemuda dari Minnesota,  pernah bertempur dalam perang dunia I, dan lulusan dari Yale. Pindah ke New York untuk bekerja dalam bidang obligasi. Jujur, toleran dan dapat dipercaya, karena banyak yang memberikan rahasia pribadi mereka ke Nick.

-          Jay Gatsby – seorang pemuda kaya yang tinggal di istana besar di wilayahWest Egg. Perfeksionis, romantis, misterius, lembut dan dermawan adalah sosok Jay Gatsby. 

-          Daisy Buchanan – wanita yang dicintai Jay Gatsby dan juga sepupu Nick si narrator. Wanita yang popular di masa mudanya, sosialita cantik berasal dari keluarga kaya. Wanita yang menyukai kemewahan dan cukup mahir dalam berperan untuk menyembunyikan perasaannya. Bukan sosok ibu yang baik, namun tetap terlihat sayang terhadap putrinya.

-          Tom Buchanan – suami Daisy yang juga memiliki kekasih gelap. Laki-laki kaya yang kasar, rasis,seksis/gender, sombong, temperamental.

-          Jordan Baker – teman Daisy, kekasih Nick walau hanya sesaat. Golfer terkenal yang sinis, kekanak-kanakan, egois, pembohong dan selalu ingin tahu urusan orang.

-          Myrtle Wilson – kekasih Tom, wanita miskin yang matrealisme, memiliki obsesi menjadi kaya secara instan, sehingga memilih menjadi kekasih gelap laki-laki kaya yang kasar.

-          George Wilson – suami Myrtle, laki-laki miskin pesimis yang tidak memiliki sikap, namun memiliki cinta yang besar terhadap istrinya.

-          Meyer Wolfsheim – teman bisnis Gatsby, seorang tokoh dari dunia kejahatan yang terorganisir rapih.

-          Catherine – adik Myrtle yang sifatnya tidak jauh berbeda dari kakaknya. Kemunculannya hanya sekali yaitu diawal saja.

Unsur Ekstrinsik :

Novel ini menggambarkan situasi kelas sosial pada jaman setelah perang dunia I di tahun 1920-an. Situasi sosial kalangan atas yang sepertinya tidak jauh berbeda dengan saat ini. Hari-hari kaum hedon yang dilewati dengan pesta-pesta yang penuh dengan tarian-tarian, percintaan semu, dan pemborosan. Budaya pada jaman itu yang sepertinya juga masih terjadi hingga saat ini, yaitu si miskin tidak bisa menikah dengan si kaya. Materi masih menjadi topik yang sama dari dulu hingga saat ini. Status sosial dianggap dewa yang bisa membuat banyak orang menghalalkan segala cara untuk mendapatkan tempat. Situasi politik tidak terlalu jelas, namun dari cerita tergambar jelas situasi tersebut adalah setelah perang dunia I.

Pendapat :

Sepertinya The Great Gatsby secara garis besar kisahnya sederhana, tentang bagaimana Gatsby berusaha memperoleh kembali cinta Daisy, namun jika kita kita akan dapati bagaimana rumitnya sebuah hubungan cinta dan uniknya pergaulan antar kelas sosial masyarakat Amerika era di tahun 1920-an yang dikenal sebagai era “Jazz Age”.

Novel ini juga mengungkap bahwa pada masa itu banyak bermunculan orang kaya baru yang hidup dalam dalam gelimang kemewahannya. Hari-hari mereka yang dipenuhi dengan pesta-pesta yang meriah. Kehidupan mewah yang membuat lunturnya nilai-nilai moral terlebih lagi dalam hal menjaga kesetiaan terhadap pasangan hidup. Selain tokoh Gatsby, Daisy, dan Nick, novel ini juga menghadirkan tokoh-tokoh lain dengan karakter-karakter yang unik yang sebagian besar menganggap bahwa perselingkuhan adalah hal yang biasa dan sepertinya telah menjadi rahasia umum dan sebuah gaya hidup baru bagi kalangan atas.

Novel ini cukup mendeskripsikan apa yang terjadi di era tahun 1920-an dengan lebih detail. Banyak hal seperti situasi, peristiwa, benda, sastra, teater, dan sebagainya yang disinggung di novel ini sehingga bagi kita akan jadi sebuah hal asing yang menyenangkan karena untungnya novel ini menyertakan catatan kaki yang mencoba menjelaskan semuanya itu.

Namun, entah ini hanya saya yang merasakan atau kebanyakan pembaca lainnya, saya menemukan kebosanan yang amat sangat pada awal-awal membaca novel ini, karena hingga masuk ke chapter 2, cerita novelnya masih berkesan kesana kemari tidak jelas. Nick, karakter yang juga sebagai narrator, cukup membuat saya harus membolak-balik halaman berulang-ulang untuk mendapatkan alur cerita yang jelas. Saya baru agak mulai bersemangat ketika mulai memasuki chapter 3. Secara keseluruhan, novel yang menurut beberapa referensi dinyatakan sebagai novel terbaik abad 20, memang tidak diragukan lagi. Namun, bagi pembaca umum, seperti saya memang harus ada effort lebih untuk meng-khatam-kan novel ini.