Historical novels are getting less popular these days due to its content of story on historical events. To which it does not interests a lot of readers. Most of the historical novel readers are mainly adults in their 30s up to the elderlies in the late 50s to 70s. Therefore, our youngsters are not that interested in reading historical novels as compared to other kinds of novels like romance, comedy and many others. For such reason, authors tend to change their perspective and started to write about historical novels for teenagers. The content and elaboration of the novel should be able to attract the interest of the youngsters in reading the historical novels. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify settings in the 2019 teenagers’ historical novels competition “Wira Demokrasi” by Nor Azida Ishak. The samples of the study consisted of the “Wira Demokrasi” teenagers’ historical novel itself. The “Wira Demokrasi” teenagers’ historical novel were chosen from the 2019 teenagers’ historical novels competition and won the consolation price out of the 8 novels who competed in the competition. This study is a quantitative study whereby the number of settings that took place in the novel in each chapter were taken into account. The different settings used in each chapter of the novel were further elaborated into 3 different situations which are the place, time and society which were involved in each setting. The settings used in the novel were captured and analysed by using Discourse Analysis Theory by Normaliza Abd Rahim (2019; 2021). The result of the study showed that setting plays an important role in elaborating the detail of the storyline. It helps to identify the actual surrounding and environment that the character of the story had to go through or face during certain situation. It also helps the reader to understand more in depth of what is happening in the storyline which mainly focused on the place, time and society involved. It is hoped that further studies will focus on other important aspects that needs further elaboration in the teenagers’ historical novel.
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To Cite this Article: Roslan, N. M., Subramaniam, V., & Abdullah, M. A. R. (2022). Settings in The 2019 Teenagers’ Historical Novels Competition “Wira Demokrasi” by Nor Azida Ishak. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(11), 1761– 1769.
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