Drama Task (The Zoo Story)

Drama ( The Zoo Story)
Name : Ratna Adi Tejaningrum
NIM : A 320 080 148
Class : G

1. The Characters
a. Peter
Peter is in early forty, married, a middle-class publishing executive, embarrassed, childish, serious person. he has two daughters, two cats and two parakeets, and he lives in ignorance of the world outside his settled life.
b. Jerry
Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man who lives in a boarding house and is very troubled. He is in his late 30s, carelessly dressed, once muscular and handsome. He is weary.

2. Plot
Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets who lives in ignorance of the world outside his settled life. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man who lives in a boarding house and is very troubled. These men meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Jerry is desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being. He intrudes on Peter’s peaceful state by interrogating him and forcing him to listen to stories from his life, including "THE STORY OF JERRY AND THE DOG", and the reason behind his visit to the zoo. The action is linear, unfolding in front of the audience in “real time”. The elements of ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level.
The catalyst for the shocking ending transpires when Peter announces, "I really must be going home;..." Jerry, in response, begins to tickle Peter. Peter giggles, laughs and agrees to listen to Jerry finish telling "what happened at the zoo." At the same time Jerry begins pushing Peter off the bench. Peter decides to fight for his territory on the bench and becomes angry. Unexpectedly, Jerry pulls a knife on Peter, and then drops it as initiative for Peter to grab. When Peter holds the knife defensively, Jerry charges him and impales himself on the knife. Bleeding on the park bench, Jerry finishes his zoo story by bringing it into the immediate present, "Could I have planned all this. No... no, I couldn't have. But I think I did." Horrified, Peter runs away from Jerry whose dying words, "Oh...my...God", are a combination of scornful mimicry and supplication.

3. Setting
a. Setting of time: on a sunny afternoon.
b. Setting of place: Mostly, setting of place happened in New York's Central Park Zoo.

4. Style
- Grammatical structure is informal both in narration and dialogue the point of his style and using the easy word. So it is easy to get understanding.
- Sentence construction; long and short sentence. The author usually used language sentence construction in narration, when he describes some detailed information.
- Diction: the choice of words are easy to understand. Mostly used as dialogues form.

5. Theme
The theme used within this story is isolation.

6. Conclusion
The kind of drama can be related to “man versus society”. This reason is because the story told about human and society especially in conflict that happened between Peter and Jerry.

The Proposal (Drama Task)

The Proposal

Name : Ratna Adi Tejaningrum
Nim : A 320080148
Class : G

1. Character and Characterization
a. Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov
Chubukov is a landowner. Perhaps he is 70 years old. He is a kind-man and polite, for instance to his neighbor. He is relax and senile.
b. Natalya Stepanovna
Natalya is a Chubukov’s daughter. She is 25 years old. Natalya is a talkative girl. She wants to get everything what she wants in the other hand she is ambisious. She is in love, she is like a lovesick cat.
c. Ivan vassilevitch Lomov
Ivan is a neighbor of Chubukov. He is 35 years old, just a critical age. Ivan is a large and hearty. If he gets nervous, his heart is palpitating awfully, especially when he is faced with Natalya. Probably he is afraid with women.

2. Setting
a. Place
It is happened in A drawing-room in Chubukov’s house.
b. Time
It is happened in evening, about 7 p.m.

3. Plot
The plot of the proposal story is a traditional plot structure.
- Exposition: In the evening, at Chubunkov’s house.Ivan Lomov visited to Mr. Chubukov, he wore evening dress, gloves, hat, and so on. Chubunkov was surprised but feels so glad when meet him. Lomov said that he went to propose Natalya (Chubunkov’s daughter). Chubunkov is very happy when hears that and directly accepts the proposal. Lomov feels he is not proper man to Natalya. It is the right time for Lomov to ask Natalya in marriage.
- Complication
When Lomov discussed Oxen meadows is his own, Natalya becomes dies angry and says disagreement. She quarrels with Lomov to get land right. Natalya humiliates Lomov, she thinks that he is a good neighbor but Lomov is just a Land-grabber, Lomov cannot control has emotional sense and shout to Natalya. Natalya complains to her father and ask to him to state that Meadows is Chubukov’s. Lomov blamed Chubukov has taken the Meadows from Lomov’s family. He thought that the Lomov’s is honorable people.
- Climax
The climax is when Lomov and Chubukov humiliate their families each other. Lomov’s heart cannot stop beat. Then he decided to leave that house. After Lomovs left them, Chubukov had forgot to say that actually he had came to propose Natalya. He would to make a proposal. Natalya was shocked when hear that. She wants Lomov comeback soon.
- Resolution
Natalya shall acknowledge that Oxen Meadows is Lomov’s. She also asked to forgive about the debate before. Chubukov is greatly astonished with the alteration of his daughter opinion.

4. Style
The Proposal is dominated with the dialogues or conversation between Ivan Lumov, Natalia, and Chubukov. The writer also used the social diexis such as my dear fellow, my angel, my treasure, and my precious.

5. Conclusion
The conclusion is a relationship between man and society. Because, in this story tells about the relationship between between Ivan Lumov, Natalia, and Chubukov. From the story, we can take message, we must not reckless if we are faced in a problem.