The book is written by a member of that class of people who are my least favourite a religious person who cannot conceive of someone not being religious. I was a little annoyed when I found out that the person the book is dedicated to had also written a story about a man in a boat with a wild cat and had considered suing for plagiarism. Apparently, when Yann Martel wrote this he was feeling a bit down and this was his way of plucking himself up. I’m going to have to assume you have read this book, as if I don’t I won’t be able to say anything about it at all. So, being told a book is a winner of the Booker tends to be a mark against it from the start, unfortunately. The only Carey I haven’t liked won the Booker ( Oscar and Lucinda), I really didn’t like the little bit of Vernon God Little I read and I never finished The Sea despite really liking Banville’s writing. I tend to avoid the winners of the Man / Booker – they make me a little depressed. I found a lot of this book incredibly tedious.
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In the novel, it is only found 2 kinds, affixes and prefixes. There are 4 kinds of segmentable affixes, prefixes, affixes, simulfixes, and infixes. Techniques of data analysis which is chosen are reading the novel, classifying the bound morpheme in Source Language and Target Language, then analyzing the bound morpheme, and the last is drawing the conclusion. The research used technique of selecting and choosing to collection the data. It is discovering the types of bound morpheme and the rank-shift in translating bound morpheme. The overall pages of this novel is 311 pages and the sample is 97 pages (31,19 %). Random sampling was used to select the sample. The data is Tonya Hurley's novel "Ghostgirl-Lovesick" and its translation "Ghostgirl-Lovesick" by Berliani M. Second, it is aimed at finding out the rank-shift in translating bound morpheme. 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