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BOOK REPORT FORM

NAME : Dini Krisnanti

CLASS / ST. NO. : VIII-J / 05

BOOK TITLE : SIRKUS POHON

AUTHOR : Andrea Hirata

PUBLISHED BY : PT Bentang Pustaka

PUBLISHED IN YEAR : August 2017

THE CHARACTER(S) OF THE STORY:

There is the characters of Sirkus Pohon, Sobri, or other names Hob is a hard worker,
patient, a passionate man. Tegar, is a boy who is kind, tough, hard worker man, never gives
up and so merciful. Tara, never gives up, good at drawing, tough. Taripol, is a man who like
to steal. Dinda, a beautiful girl which is a wife of Sobri. Circus boss, a mother who never give
up, always happy, and she is sho kind.

THE SETTING OF THE STORY:

The setting of the story is in, Tanjong Lantai, religious courts, playground religious court,
police station, Sobri’s house, cargo ship, stadium, the place of the circus show, night market,
Belantik, Belantik market, SMA, Dinda’s house, under the kersen tree, on the road, Tara’s
mother’s house,

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 SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

There is a family in Tanjong Lantai. Sobrinudin is one of the kids. His sister and his brother is a
succesful person, but not wit with him. He is unemployed man. And his sister is a girl who
graduated brilliantly. It all started with his friendship with Taripol, his little friend. It turned out
that Taripol was the gang leader or mafia. He became a fugitive by the police. Because his name
was tarnished after being involved in a case with his best friend, Sobrinudin also had to find food
and shelter. He needs a permanent job. But no one wants to accept it, his name has been tainted
as a gang of thieves. There is also a story about his meeting with Dinda. Dinda is a girl who
works as an emplotee at a grocery store. Dinda really likes pomegranate, so Sobrinudin often
brings the fruit. The meeting made Sobrinudin fall in love with Dinda and he was motivated to
find work. One day there is a mother who is looking for employees. Sobrinudin was received
uniformly and with a fixed salary like a civil servant. And Sobrinudin’s work is as a circus Clown
going around.

Besides, there is a story about Tegar. One day in morning, Tegar went to religious court. At there
while he waiting his mother, he play at the religious court playground. In there Tegar found a girl
who was queuing up the slide but was lured by another child. Tegar help the girl. The girl is Tara.
Tara remembered that. Until she grew up she always waited for him in the playground of the
religiou court while drawing the face of the boy. Until more than 90 paintings were created.

While, Tegar continuing to look for Tara when he was in the stadium when he became a flag-
dispering force. Tegar continued to look for Tara until finally he worked in the Blasia circus.
Where Tara is the daughter of the circus boss Blasia. But both of them don’t understand each
other. Tara tried to remember the boy’s face. In his imagination she foung Tegar’s face. But she
did not believe, she continued to pay attention to his eyes. His eyes were exactly the same when
she last met in a religious court.

One day a man came to collect a debt to the circus Blasia even tough the Blasia circus had no
debt to the man. The man apparently wanted to destroy the Blasia circus. The man is angry so he
burns the whole circus until there is no one left. Boss’s mother is very sad. Circus Blasia is
reportedly bankrupt forever. But Tegar went wandering to work in Jakarta. Many years Tegar
kept sending letters to Tara. His last letter said he would built circus Blasia again and the circus
Blasia would continue to perform.

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YOUR OPINIONS ABOUT THE BOOK:

I think it’s a great book. Reading this book, I felt like I was being taken to a part of the
country. Like the other Andrea’s book. The depiction of the setting of place, situation and
dialect that is thick with Malay, makes the reader dissolve. As if sitting in one of the coffee
shops there. And witness the fragments of the lives of the characters.

THE MORAL VALUE(S) OF THE STORY:

 Enterprises will never deny result.

 Goodness always win.
 Love will find its way.

READING IS THE BRIDGE

TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE

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