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Book Review of Eat, Pray, Love Written by Elizabeth Gilbert
Septriana Ambarwati and Retno Wulandari
English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Semarang
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Abstrak
Tugas akhir ini membahas novel karya Elizabeth Gilbert yang berjudul Eat,
Pray, Love. Novel ini merupakan salah satu karya Elizabeth Gilbert yang terkenal.
Eat, Pray, Love adalah sebuah novel yang berisi tentang pengalaman pribadi
Elizabeth yang dikemas dalam bahasa Inggris modern yang mudah dimengerti dan
sarat pembelajaran tentang kehidupan yang dapat dijadikan contoh yang baik bagi
pembacanya. Dalam tugas akhir ini penulis menganalisis lebih dalam tentang tema
karena tema merupakan unsur intrinsik yang paling dominan. Novel Eat, Pray, Love
memiliki tiga tema yang berbeda yaitu kesenangan duniawi, religi, dan percintaan.
Penulis juga menganalisis kelebihan yang dimiliki novel ini yaitu format penulisan
yang unik, tema, gaya bahasa, penggunaan bahasa asing, dan keragaman budaya.
Selain itu penulis juga menganalisis sudut pandang subjektif, dan alur yang
merupakan kelemahan dari novel Eat, Pray, Love.
Kata kunci: tema, kelebihan, kekurangan
1. Introduction peace and happiness. She inspires people to
always have positive thinking. By reading
Eat, Pray, Love is a story about a woman who this book the readers can learn how to face a
tries to heal herself from depression after her problem with confidence and patience. In
unsuccessful marriage. After she decides to addition, this novel is also a fun book to read
end her marriage, Elizabeth makes plans to since it is taken from the real situation and
visit Italy, India, and Indonesia. At first she written in a simple language style.
visits Italy to search the worldly pleasures,
and then she goes to India to find God, the 2. The Objectives of the Study
last she visits Indonesia to balance the
worldly pleasure and to devotion to God. The objectives of this final project are :
These experiences make her learn to conquer 2.1. To analyze the theme of Eat, Pray,
her fears and depressions. Love,
2.2. To reveal the strengths and the
weaknesses of Eat, Pray, Love.
The writer has chosen this book because Eat,
Pray, Love can motivate people to keep 3. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her
fighting for their independence and Works
happiness. Because of her dissatisfaction,
Elizabeth leaves her luxurious life to find
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Elizabeth Gilbert was born on 18th July 1969
in Waterbury. She grew up in Litchfield, One day Elizabeth gets a chance to visit Bali,
Connecticut. She got married to Michael Indonesia. During her visits in Bali her Yoga
Cooper in 1994, but they divorce in 2002. trainer introduces her to Ketut Liyer, a ninth-
Ever since January 2007, she has been generation Balinese medicine man. Ketut
married to Jose Nunes. Liyer reads ElL]DEHWK¶V SDOP +H VD\V WKDW
someday she will return to Bali and become
Elizabeth studied politics at New York his English teacher for three or four months.
University. In 1991 she got her Bachelor of
Arts degree. After she moved to New York, When she returns to New York, her husband
she works at Spin, GQ, and The New York is ready to discuss the terms of their divorce
Times magazine as a journalist. She ever VHWWOHPHQW $IWHU KHDULQJ KHU KXVEDQG¶V
became a finalist for The National Magazine requirements, Elizabeth asks her lawyer to
for three times. Coyote Ugly is a movie based make a modified deal. Finally her husband
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experiences as a bartender on the Lower East divorce.
Side.
After she gets divorce from her husband, she
Her first novel Stern Men was published in quits her job, and makes plan to travel around
2000. The next two years, in 2002 she the world alone. At first she goes to Italy and
published her non-fiction book The Last studies the art of pleasure. During her visits in
American Man. In 2006, her traveling Italy, Elizabeth goes to various cities in Italy
memoir Eat Pray Love was published. to eat and learn Italian language.
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Committed, the continuation of novel Eat After a few months in Italy, Elizabeth thinks
Pray Love which was published in 2010. that she must clarify her relationship with
David. They agree to end their relationship.
4. Summary She feels sad for a while but then Elizabeth
spends the rest of her time in Italy with joy
When Elizabeth Gilbert turns to thirty one and happiness
years old, she enters the worst period in her
life. She feels depressed and unhappy with On 30th December, she goes to India. She
her marriage. She is afraid that someday she makes plan to live in the Ashrams (a place of
must settle down in one place and has babies. religious retreat for Hindus). She finds many
One night when her husband is sleeping, she difficulties at the beginning of her stays in
sneaks out from their bedroom and cries in Ashram. She cannot concentrate while
the bathroom floor. She says over and over, meditating. But then she can master her mind
³,GRQ¶WZDQWWREHPDUULHGanymore, ,GRQ¶W by addresses her prayer for Nick, her nephew.
want to live in this big house, I GRQ¶WZDQWWR After she spends four months in India,
KDYHDEDE\´ Then she prays to God for the Elizabeth finds peace in her soul.
first time in her life. From that night
Elizabeth starts to realize the presence of God Elizabeth continues her journey to Bali. Her
around her. main purpose in Bali is to meet Ketut Liyer.
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Seven months later, Elizabeth decides to forgets who Elizabeth is. When Liz says that
divorce her husband. In the middle of her she is a book writer from New York he
difficult divorce process she meets David, an remembers about her. She spends her time in
actor and a writer. But their relationship does 8EXGDV.HWXW¶VVWXGHQWWROHDUQWKHDUW RI
not work out. They break up and reunite for balancing the worldly pleasure and the divine
several times. transcendence.
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In the middle of her journey in Bali, she Furthermore, Elizabeth learns from
meets Felipe, a Brazilian man. Elizabeth the Italians about how to do
realizes that she loves Felipe, but she is afraid nothing after her hard works to
of getting hurt again. But then they spend solve her problems. She spends
their days together in Bali with love and four months to eat and learn Italian
pleasure. Elizabeth can fulfill her purposes in language.
Bali to enjoy the worldly pleasure but she still
devotes herself to God.
5.1.2. Pray (Religious)
5. Review
In this part of the story, Elizabeth
5.1. The Theme gives her religious view. Elizabeth
is not a religious person before.
The themes in this novel are divided into She believes in God but she admits
three sub-chapters, they are: that she does not adhere in a
particular religion. After she gets
5.1.1. Eat (the Pursuit of Pleasure) various problems in her life, she
begins to feel the presence of God
The word eat, in this case refers to on the night when she sobs very
the worldly pleasure, because hard on the bathroom floor. She
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satisfy their physical desire. would call what happened that
night the beginning of a religious
In this part of the story, Elizabeth conversation. The first words of an
tries to escape from depression by open and exploratory dialogue that
searching the worldly pleasure after would, ultimately, bring me very
she fights to solve her problems. FORVH WR *RG LQGHHG´ Gilbert,
Elizabeth chooses Italy to search 2007:16).
the worldly pleasure because she
thinks that Italian people know The most dominant aspect in this
how to enjoy their life with chapter is religion. Elizabeth tells
pleasure. The Italian people love to about her spiritual journey during
make a celebration for all the goals her visits in India for four months.
that they achieve. As Elizabeth Her motivation to visit India is to
VD\V³«,WDOLDQVKDYHWUDGLWLRQDOO\ learn Hinduism in an Ashram. It
always been hard workers, seems like Elizabeth wants to
especially those long-suffering invite the reader to find out the
laborers known as braccianti (so Hinduism. She uses a lot of
called because they had nothing but Hinduism terminology and
the brute strength of their arms ± philosophy, such as Gurukita,
braccie- to help them survive in Shiva, and Brahma. During her
this world). But even against that stays in Ashram, Elizabeth can
backdrop of hard work, il bel far eliminate all her sadness and
niente has always been a cherished pressure by meditation. She gets
Italian ideal. The beauty of doing new insights about how to resolve
nothing is the goal of all your hard the problems, she also learns to
work, the final accomplishment for surrender herself to God (not only
which you are most highly satisfy her worldly pleasure).
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5.1.3. Love 5.2.2. The Theme
In fact, the themes in this novel are
In this part of this novel, Elizabeth very simple and based on the real
finds her love in Bali. At first her situation. But those themes actually
motivation to visit Bali is to make this novel become attractive
balance the pursuit worldly and reasonable because the reader
pleasure and the understanding of can understand the problems which
divinity. She learns aW.HWXW/L\HU¶V happen in this story. The title Eat,
place to master how to balance her Pray, Love consists of three
soul. unrelated word, however those
three words are the title of each
But starting from the middle of the chapter. A novel with more than
story, the romance element begins one theme is difficult to find.
to dominate the story. In Bali However Elizabeth can integrate
Elizabeth finds her lover, Felipe, a those themes into an interesting
Brazilian man who can erase her novel.
trauma of love. She also finds best
friends who love her such as 5.2.3. Simple Language Style
Yudhi, Ketut Liyer and Wayan.
During her time in Bali, Elizabeth According to the book Theory of
finds someone that can understand Literature ³ODQJXDJH LV TXLWH
her. She can forget her broken literary the material of the literary
heart and starts to love Felipe. She DUWLVW´ :HOOHN DQG :DUUHQ
also realizes that love will make 1973:174). Language style is the
her life more meaningful, and she language used by the writer in
finds it all in Felipe. his/her literary works. The
language style that is used in this
5.2. The Strengths of Eat, Pray, Love novel is very simple and does not
use theoretical language. So the
The strengths of this novel are : readers who do not understand the
literature theory are able to
5.2.1 The Unique Format understand the story. This novel is
also suitable for foreign readers
This novel has a unique because Elizabeth uses modern
writing format. Elizabeth gets the English which is easy to
inspiration from the japa malas understand.
(the string beads which is used by
the Hindus or Buddhist to staying 5.2.4. The Use of Foreign Languages
focus during prayerful meditation).
She divides this novel into three In some cases there are many
parts and in each part has thirty six difficulties in the use of foreign
tales. In every chapter, the reader language in a novel. This occurs
can find a different theme with because the author does not give a
thirty six different stories. This clear explanation or a footnote. But
makes the novel ³(DW3UD\/RYH´ in novel Eat, Pray, Love the use of
different and the readers do not feel foreign language such as Italian,
bored reading novel through short India, and Indonesia is easy to be
stories. understood by the readers. The use
of foreign language here actually
makes this novel become
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