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Biography

Biography comes from Greek, bios which has the meaning of life and graphien which means writing. Biography is a writing that discusses someone's life. Simply put, biography can be interpreted as a story of one's life history. Biography itself can take the form of only a few lines of sentence, but the biography can be more than 1 book.

Short biographies only explain the facts of a person's life and their important role. Long biographies include important information but are told in more detail and written in a good story style.

                Biography is a book that tells the events of one's life. Through the biography can be found a relationship, a description of the meaning of a particular action or a mystery that surrounds a person's life, and also an explanation of the actions or behavior in his life.

The following biography features:

1. Biography has a structure consisting of: orientation, event or problem, and reorientation.

2. Biography contains based on fact information and is presented in narrative form.

3. Factual (facts) based on someone's life experience told in the biography figure.

4. things that must be observed in biographical texts, namely:

1. Biographical title

2. The interesting and impressive things that are displayed in the lives of the characters told

3. A wonderful and moving thing that appears in the life of the person being told

4. Things that can be exemplified or emulated from the life of a character.

Structure of Biographical Text

Following is the structure of the biographical text consisting of orientation, events and problems, reorientation.

1. Orientation

Orientation is the part where explaining about the introduction of characters, contains an initial description of the characters told in the biography.

2. Events and Problems

Part of the event or event is a part that contains an event or event that has ever been experienced, including in it contains about the problems it has faced in achieving its goals and ideals. The interesting, amazing, impressive, and touching things that character has ever experienced are also described in this section.

3. Reorientation

Reorientation is the closing part. This section contains the author's views on the narrated figure. Reorientation is optional, which means that it may or may not exist in this section.

Example of Soekarno's Biography

Bung Karno was a popular name from Soekarno. Born on June 6, 1901 in Blitar, East Java. When Soekarno was small, he did not live with his parents in Blitar. He lived with his grandfather named Raden Hardjokromo in Tulung Agung, East Java. Soekarno even went to school there even though it wasn't finished, because he had to come along with his parents who at that time moved to Mojokerto. In Mojokerto, Soekarno was then schooled at the Eerste Inlandse School where his father also worked there as a teacher. But then he was transferred in 1911 to ELS which was at the level of elementary school to be prepared to enter at the HBS in Surabaya. After graduating and attending HBS in 1915, Soekarno then lived in the house of Haji Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto or HOS Cokroaminoto who was a friend of Soekarno's father. It was Soekarno who knew the world of struggle which made him a true fighter.

Soekarno's Biography

• Full name: Ir. Soekarno

• Nickname: Bung Karno

• First name: Kusno

• Place, date of birth: Blitar, June 6, 1901

• Islam

• Wife Name:

• Fatmawati

• Hartini

• Ratna Sari Dewi

• Child's name:

• Guntur, Megawati, Rachmawati, Sukmawati, Guruh (from Fatmawati)

• Taufan, Bayu (from Hartini)

• Kartika (from Ratna Sari Dewi)

• Education:

• HIS in Surabaya

• Hoogere Burger School (HBS)

• Technische Hoogeschool (THS) in Bandung

• Died: June 21, 1970

• Buried: Blitar, East Java