Name : Angelica Amelia

Class : XII IPS 2/3

Merry Riana Million Dollar Dream

Merry Riana is a successful young woman entrepreneur, writer, and motivator. Her life’s
story is told in a movie, Merry Riana “Million Dollar Dream”, which is adapted from her
book with the same title. This film visualizes her struggle to survive from difficulty of life
and become successful.

The violence that happened in Jakarta and other big cities in Indonesia in May 1998 makes
Merry Riana forced to flee to Singapore. Merry Riana’s father decided to send his daughter to
Singapore because he was afraid of the unsafe condition. She went alone to Singapore with
the support money that was only enough to buy food for five days. Fortunately, Merry Riana
met with her best friend, Irene, who wanted to go to university in the there, too. With Irene’s
help, Merry could live in a boarding house. She was also accepted in one of the best college
there, but it could only be reached if Merry paid $40,000. The only hope was to take  a loan
college student that could only be obtained if Merry had a guarantor. Then, Merry met her
senior, Alva, who was very reckoning. He gave many requirements before he finally agreed
to help Merry. He also had Merry look for side job. Merry realized that she should be
successful as soon as possible. She did various work, from spreading online business
brochure, until playing withe high risky shares. The condition of her economy was moving up
and down. Problem of love also occurred when Alva expressed his feeling to Merry.
Meanwhile, Merry knew it well that Irene fell in love with Alva.

The acting of Chelsea Islan (Merry Riana) in thit movie is very good. She can impersonate
Merry Riana’s character very well. But, it would be better if there was no kissing scene.

I think this is an inspirational movie which can motivate people to be successful at young
age. It brings good spirit for young men in Indonesia. The script writer is successful to bring
a set of interesting conflicts which make the plot of this movie become alive.

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Analyze:
Paragraph 1:
Merry Riana is a successful young woman entrepreneur, writer, and motivator. Her life’s story is told
in a movie, Merry Riana “Million Dollar Dream”, which is adapted from her book with the same title.
This film visualizes her struggle to survive from difficulty of life and become successful.
 Generic Structure
= Generic structure of the first paragraph is orientation, because this paragraph talks about
background information of the text.
 Language Features
 Past Tense :
- Sentence 2 : Her life’s story is told in a movie, Merry Riana “Million Dollar Dream”,
which is adapted from her book with the same title.
 Adjective : young
 Specific Participants : Merry Riana is a successful young woman entrepreneur, writer, and
motivator. Her life’s story is told in a movie, Merry Riana “Million Dollar Dream”,

Paragraph 2:
The violence that happened in Jakarta and other big cities in Indonesia in May 1998 makes Merry
Riana forced to flee to Singapore. Merry Riana’s father decided to send his daughter to Singapore
because he was afraid of the unsafe condition. She went alone to Singapore with the support money
that was only enough to buy food for five days. Fortunately, Merry Riana met with her best friend,
Irene, who wanted to go to university in the there, too. With Irene’s help, Merry could live in a
boarding house. She was also accepted in one of the best college there but, it could only be reached if
Merry paid $40,000. The only hope was to take  a loan college student that could only be obtained if
Merry had a guarantor. Then, Merry met her senior, Alva, who was very reckoning. He gave many
requirements before he finally agreed to help Merry. He also had Merry look for side job. Merry
realized that she should be successful as soon as possible. She did various work, from spreading
online business brochure, until playing withe high risky shares. The condition of her economy was
moving up and down. Problem of love also occurred when Alva expressed his feeling to Merry.
Meanwhile, Merry knew it well that Irene fell in love with Alva.

 Generic Structure:
= Generic structure of the second paragraph is evaluations, because this paragraph concluding
statement, opinion, and recommendation of the story.
 Adjective :
= Sentence 1 : big cities
 Language Features:
 Past Tense :
- Sentence 2 : . Merry Riana’s father decided to send his daughter to Singapore because he
was afraid of the unsafe condition.
 - Sentence 3 : She went alone to Singapore with the support money that was only enough to
buy food for five days.
- Sentence 6 : She was also accepted in one of the best college there but, it could only be
reached if Merry paid $40,000.
- Sentence 8: Then, Merry met her senior, Alva, who was very reckoning
- Sentence 9 : He gave many requirements before he finally agreed to help Merry. He also
had Merry look for side job.
- Sentence 10 : He gave many requirements before he finally agreed to help Merry. He also
had Merry look for side job.
- Sentence 11 : She did various work, from spreading online business brochure, until
playing withe high risky shares

 Long and complex clauses:

- Sentence 6 : She was also accepted in one of the best college there, but it could only be
reached if Merry paid $40,000.
 Specific Participants :
- Sentence 2 : Merry Riana’s father decided to send his daughter to Singapore because he
was afraid of the unsafe condition
- Sentence 4 : Merry Riana met with her best friend, Irene,
- Sentence 8 : Then, Merry met her senior, Alva

Paragraph 3:
The acting of Chelsea Islan (Merry Riana) in this movie is very good. She can impersonate Merry
Riana’s character very well. But, it would be better if there was no kissing scene.
 Generic Structure
= Generic structure of the third paragraph is interpretive recount, because this paragraph
talks about the summary of an art works including character and plot.

 Language Features:
 Past Tense
= Sentence 3 : But, it would be better if there was no kissing scene.
 Spesific Participants
= Sentence 1 : The acting of Chelsea Islan (Merry Riana) in this movie is very good.

Paragraph 4 :
I think this is an inspirational movie which can motivate people to be successful at young age. It
brings good spirit for young men in Indonesia. The script writer is successful to bring a set of
interesting conflicts which make the plot of this movie become alive.
 Generic Structure
= Generic structure of the fourth paragraph is evaluation submation, because this paragraph
concluding the last opinion consisting the appraisal or the punch line of the art works being
criticized.
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