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Roland Barthes' Narrative Codes Potrayed in John Green's Turtles All the Way Down

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The Roland Barthes narrative codes are excellent in deciphering any narrative story which challenge the readers to go beyond its significance of meaning. This study analyzes one of John Green's novels entitled Turtles All the Way Down which was first published in 2017. This study aims to scrutinize the narrative codes dwelt within the said novel by using Roland Barthes's five narrative codes theory. In collecting the sources, the researcher uses descriptive gualitative method. The analysis is done by carefully read the story to choose data that contain important meaning. Furthermore, they were analyzed using Roland Barthes theory to show how the narrative codes represented in the novel. The result of this study shows from the five narrative codes in Roland Barthes' theory, there are three codes that are found and represented in the novel. Those are, proairetic code, semantic code, and cultural code. The researcher concluded that the writer of Turtles All the Way Down uses Roland Barthes' Narrative Codes theory in his novel to decode the hidden messages and meanings which are inherent in the novel.

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BSI 2022 NUR r

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Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

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x, 45 hlm.: ilus; 30 cm.

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English

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BSI 2022 NUR r

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Narrative codes
Novel, Roland Barthes

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