Novel is a narativ form of communication. It narrates about characters who live in a specific set. It is a story line that tells about some events and situations connected by the story told.

The story is verbalized by different narrativ techniques. You can have a third person narator. He can be external, omniscient, intrusive (when he is inside the test). He can speak from the point of view of a character or adopt the interior of monologue or he can also use the stream on consciouness technique. He can use telling or showing or he can be a first person narrator or the first person narrator, who is also the protagonist, the eye-witness and the narrator himself.

The setting consists of references to space and time, also investigated from a symbolical ot metaphorical point of view.

A traditional structure of novel is the character. A character can be either, a flat character or a round chracter that shows a development of the story. Novels are written to be read and therefore, the novelist who speaks to his literary choices has always an ideal reader in mind. The novel has also been considered the narrative of character’s perexcellance. The analysis of characterization considers how a character comes to life. A narrator can choose different elements to portrait his character.

ELEMENTS OF CHARACTERIZATION:

• name

• surname

• language used or dialogue used

• way of thinking

• way of speaking

• cultural background

• phisical description

• reputation

• peculiarities

textual analysis isn’t a summary.

The analysis of a novel starts with:

1. brain storming of the title of the novel: expectation and curiosity rased by the title;

2. structure (chapters, scenes, or not chapters or scenes al all). Each chapter is organized into sequences. Each sequences has got a specific function in the economy of the chapters. After that you should take into consideration action and situation expressed by characters whose characterization should be analyzed refering to the elements already quoted and last but not least from all the connotative elements: language sounds (phonological level), word order or syntax (sintattic level) and all the figure of speech and the function they have inside of the communicative speech have the novel.

The novel was born on the 18th century. Robbinson Cruice by Daniel Defce is considered the english arctay of the novel. In english there are two words:

1. NOVEL: leterary communication forms that tells about something that tens to realize so that the reader may suspend disbelieve and be convinced that the novel tells about life.

2. ROMANCE: is more connected to story of fantasy, fairy tales and virtual-love story.

The novel developed in the 18th century is the production and the expression of middle class values. The middle class had became really important at that time and novelelist of the period became their mouth speakers.