THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE NOVEL “THE KITE RUNNER” BY KHALED HOSSEINI

Nur Hikmah Dianatin: THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE NOVEL “THE KITE RUNNER” BY KHALED HOSSEINI. Literature is the expression of feeling, passion and emotion caused by a sensation of the interestingness of life. It grows from imaginative mind of the writer. There are three genres of literature, they are : poetry, drama, and prose. Prose is the ordinary form of written language. There are two classifies of prose, namely fiction prose and nonfiction prose. Fiction, the prose based on the author’s creation and imagination. A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. Every work are absolutely has certain value, and the readers have to take values especially moral values, which are extended by the author through his or her messages. Khaled Hosseini stands as of The Kite runner’s author most popular novel, and has had a major influence on the genre of historical fiction. In this thesis the writer tries to explore the intrinsic, moral values, and figurative language by using some theoretical foundation to make it strong research.The field of the research in this thesis is literature. The approach used in this thesis are library research and book survey. This research is figurative language analysis in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini have great impact in human life, especially from the moral values. The novel is interesting in being discussed because the story set in Kabul Afghanistan and Freemont California. It also because the Kite Runner spent more than two years on The New York Time bestseller list, and return to the list, five years after its initial appearance. From the research which is done the writer conclude that in the novel The Kite Runner are many moral values. So the writer hopes that the thesis gives some values in improving the teaching and learning English as a foreign language, particularly the teaching and learning of literature. Constructive criticism and suggestion are expected for the improvement of this thesis