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Clara, Short Story Setting Analysis

1. The document provides a setting analysis of the short story "Clara" by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, including details of the place, time, and social environment settings. 2. The place settings include the toll road where the main character Clara was robbed and raped, Clara's house which was surrounded and under attack, and an office where Clara was interrogated. 3. The time setting is Jakarta in the 1990s, with events taking place at night when fires were burning across the city. 4. The social environments represented are the high-class society of Clara's family, worker classes like the writer and commander, and a middle-class old woman, with

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Clara, Short Story Setting Analysis

1. The document provides a setting analysis of the short story "Clara" by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, including details of the place, time, and social environment settings. 2. The place settings include the toll road where the main character Clara was robbed and raped, Clara's house which was surrounded and under attack, and an office where Clara was interrogated. 3. The time setting is Jakarta in the 1990s, with events taking place at night when fires were burning across the city. 4. The social environments represented are the high-class society of Clara's family, worker classes like the writer and commander, and a middle-class old woman, with

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Name: Siti To'ifah

Npm: 18113016
Class: PI18A

Clara
A short story by Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Setting Analysis

Place
1. Toll road
Where clara had been robbed and raped by the Pedestrians.

Evidence:
"Fires were already burning everywhere as my BMW sped along the tollroad."

2. Clara's house

Evidence:
"Don't come home," Mama said. She said our subdivision was surrounded, the neighbors'
houses had been looted and torched, Papa, Mama, Monica, and Sinta, my sisters, were
trapped in the house and couldn't get away.

3. An Office
Where Clara was introgated.

Evidence:
"Maybe i'm a pig, but i wear a uniform."

"An office boy put smelling salts under her nose. She came to again."

"For years now I've been assigned to make reports and hardly any report was the truth. I've
become an expert in making bitter truths turn magicaly into something agreeable, and
contrariwise, making deeds that were actually patriotic turn into subversion, the main thing
is they were always transformed according to the needs of the moment."

Time
The time setting of the story is around 90s and happened at night.

Evidence:
"Jakarta, 26 June 1998"
"To the left and right, I could see fires lighting up the night. The toll road was empty, my BMW
flew along at 120 kilometers an hour."

"I don't know how long i was unconscious. When i opened my eyes, all i could see were the
stars."

"Sleep over there," I pointed to a long bench, "tomorrow morning you can go home."

Social Environment

High class society which is Clara's family.

Worker class society which is the writer, commander, office boy, Clara, Papa, Clara's family
business workers.

Middle class society which is an old woman.

Clara's family and the victims ethnic is Chinese.

Community's belief in the story was racism.

Evidence:
"So i had no reason to trust this woman who intentionally dyed her hair red."

"Shit! Slant-eyed like this and you still have the nerve to say you're Indonesian!"

"She must be rich. After all, she drives a BMW."

"An old woman from a kampung by the toll road had help road."

"For years now I've been assigned to make reports and hardly any report was the truth. I've
become an expert in making bitter truths turn magicaly into something agreeable, and
contrariwise, making deeds that were actually patriotic turn into subversion, the main thing
is they were always transformed according to the needs of the moment."

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