The Character Analysis of Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi in The Novel “Totto-chan, The Little Girl at The Window”

Literature is considered to be important because it provides all kinds of knowledge. The character is an important element in literature. A novel usually adopt human experiences that the characters must act as the real human. One of the popular novels is “Totto-Chan, The Little Girl at The Window”, a novel by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi that was published in 1981. The writer used descriptive method in order to portrayed Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi as the second character beside library research. This study aims at finding out the character Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi and the events by the second character faced in the school, which construct and develop his nature. After analyzing the characterization, the writer find out that Mr. Sosaku Kobayashi is a man who is creative, innovative, kind heart, trustworthy, regardful, empathy, hard worker, a great educator, responsible, democratic, open-minded, good listener, simple, homely, being loved and loved his student.