2.2.2 Middle

In the middle the actions or the events start move from one event to another. Internal conflict that happen inside the character itselves or external conflicts start to show. This statement strogly by Burhan Nurgiyantoro.

Tahap tengah cerita yang dapat juga disebut sebagai tahap pertikaian, menampilkan pertentangan dan atau konflik yang sudah mulai dimunculkan pada tahap sebelumnya, menjadi semakin meningkat, semakin menegangkan. Konflik yang dikisahkan, seperti yang telah dikemukakan diatas, dapat berupa konflik internal, konflik yang terjadi dalam diri seorang tokoh, konflik eksternal, konflik atau pertentangan yang terjadi antar tokoh cerita, antara tokoh (- tokoh) protagonist dengan tokoh ( - tokoh; dan kekuatan) antagonis, atau keduanya sekaligus. Dalam tahap tengah inilah klimaks ditampilkan, yaitu ketika konflik (utama) telah mencapai titik intensitas tertinggi.

Bagian tengah cerita merupakan bagian terpanjang dan terpenting dari karya fiksi yang bersangkutan. Pada bagian inilah inti cerita disajikan: tokoh-tokoh memainkan peran, peristiwa-peristiwa penting-fungsional dikisahkan, konflik berkebang semakin meruncing, menegangkan, dan mencapai klimaks, dan pada umumnya tema pokok, makna cerita pokok diungkapkan. Untuk mengidentifikasi apa konflik utama, mana peristiwa – fungsional – klimaks, dan apa tema dan atau makna utama cerita, diperlukan kajian yang jeli dan kritis. Singkatnya pada bagian inilah terutama pembaca memperoleh ‘’cerita’’, memperoleh sesuatu dari kegiatan membacanya (Nurgiyantoro, 1995:145).]

From the quotation above, then it could be concluded that the middle phase is the important one in a fiction works, in this phase the main story show up. Shortly in this phase the reader have ‘’the story’’ get something from reading activity.

Based on William Kinney (1966) in this phase consists conflict, complication and climax. Conflict, we move from the end of the beginning of the middle as the elements tending to wards instability in the initial situation group themselves into what we recognize as pattern of conflict.

Complication is the interplay between character and event that builds up a tension and develops a problem out of the original situation given in the story. In other word, it from the end of the beginning of the initial situation group themselves into what are recognize as a pattern of conflict (Kenney, 1966: 17). The movement from initial statement of conflict to the climax is often referred to as complication. Conflict may be external and internal; conflict may variously spiritual contest between antagonistic forces, internal conflict between aspects of personality, and external conflict between a person and external force, or another person, society, environment, nature, the universe, God etc.

Climax, is the moment of highest tension, when the story turns toward its solution. The climax is fetched when the complication attains its highest the story is intensity, from which point to the outcome of story is inevitable (Kenny, 1966: 18). Climax is generally present by the author in the end of the middle part of the story of a narrative work.