![]() As a semi-fictive space, it represents an integral portion of Marquez's imagination, as well as readers’ perceptions of South America: "Macondo appears in only two of Garcia Marquez's his nine novels and three of his. Macondo, as a setting for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is one hundred years of solitude functions as a hybrid space where the "mappable" and "magical" worlds co-exist simultaneously. This study shows that the novel voices the belief of a young woman that she could be accepted by her society without changing her body in accordance with the appropriate body image her society holds. Frost (2001) and Beth Younger (2009), through the study of the characterization of the main characters and the perspective of the female character and of the society where she lives, which is based on the theory of narratology by Ian Rudge(2004).The resistance is depicted from how the novel describe the concept of the body image of young woman which is not considered appropriate according to normative society, how the main female character reacts to this concept, and how this magic realism story is narrated. This research uses feminism as the literary approach, especially the concept of adolescent body image by Liz. ![]() ![]() This paper reports an analysis on a young adult novel written by MadeleineL‘Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962), which aims to uncover the presentation of the main female character in resisting the society assessment of her body image as an effort to be accepted in society just the way she is. ![]()
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