Febriyani Khasanah: One of Good Books

Perahu Kertas

It is a book that created by Dewi Lestari. All people already know who Dewi Lestari is. I love this book, and I must write the summary from this book to make me remember about the contain of this book.

This book tells us about four friends,they are Keenan,Kugy,Eko and Noni. Keenan is a boy who has talent to be a painter,but he has agreement with his father who force him to continue his study in Economics. Kugy is girl who has a dream to be a story teller. She continues her study in Faculty of Arts. Keenan and Kugy are met through Eko and Noni. Eko is Keenan’s cousin,and Noni is Kugy’s best friend. They all study in Bandung.

As the time goes by,Kugy and Keenan fall in love, but Kugy has a boyfriend,so the serious relationship between Keenan and Kugy can not be continued. The relationship between the four friends are separated by the distance. Kugy is busy as a voluntary teacher in an informal school called Sekola Alit. She meets Pilik in this place. Pilik is the most attractive student. Pilik and friends can be handled succesfully by Kugy, because she creates a story about their adventure,the tittle is ‘Jendral Pilik dan Pasukan Alit’.

Meanwhile, Keenan goes through a period of his life in Bali. It happened because his relationship with Wanda started in good ways become complicated. Keenan stays with Pak Wayan’s family in Bali,but he can not stay in Bali for along time. His father is sick and Keenan should go back to Jakarta. In Jakarta Kugy and Keenan meet again, in fact the four friends also. All of them with different condition. Love and friendship during 5th years end with surprise. Finally Kugy and Keenan can continue their love relationship.

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In my opinion Perahu Kertas is an interesting novel. This book tells us about love and friendship that generally used as the theme of novel. In spite of the theme is commonly used,the story in this book is different from other books that have same theme. Love story in this novel has many problems and obstacles that is close to our life. The plot in this novel is logic and related to the true situation in life. In this novel I find many characters created by author. Each character has different characteristics that gives the readers good examples, such as optimism,humble,patriotism and etc. Uniqueness from Kugy Character inspires me to be an optimistic and cheerful person. But what a pity of me,because I think I am like Keenan characters now,that more comfortable in silent and still silent under force.

When the readers read this novel, they were taken as in real life. As we know that commonly novel with love theme explain us about euforiateenagers life,but Perahu Kertas is different. I hope I have oppotunity to read many books that can inspire the readers like this book, because I get moral lesson from this novel, such as life is all about choices that must be going on. Every obstacle must be passed to get our dream and aim.

PERAHU KERTAS

Editor:

Hermawan Aksan

Proo

Reza Gunawan

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