TITLE                                                              : Laskar Pelangi 

AUTHOR                                                                    : Andrea Hirata

FIRST COPY RIGHT DATE                          : Production on july 2007

Laskar pelangi is a novel which adoption from a story about ten resident of a country from Bangka Belitung. This novel is a story about memorial time of children. This adventure beginning when they become student in elementary school, Muhammadiyah. This elementary school is the only one school in their village.

Their school is very poor than PN TIMAH school in Bangka Belitung. PN TIMAH is a special school for the children of wealthy families.

“ We like the rainbow. For us rainbow is a natural painting, and the art from GOD given for us, Its amazing. We don’t know which one of us first started this hobby, but when the rain season we always wait the rainbow. Because we always wait for saw rainbow and then mrs. Muslimah given name of our group is the Laskar Pelangi.”

This is the story of the fiery spirit of the village children to change their fate. Most parents would rather see their children help their parents on the farm, or worked hard in the PN Timah, rather than schools that did not clear their future. But not for them, school is the most important than anything. They has a unique individual.

Lintang is smart boy in the sciences, while Mahar experts in the field of arts and culture. They like to represent the right brain and left brain people.

Lintang has a spirit of learning. He was willing to travel by bicycle as far 80 miles from his home for get some knowledge. Because of his spirits up will smell of burning rubber from his shoes, since been eroded by a pedal bike.

And then there is the figure of a child Mahar  imaginative, creative though often gets ribbing from friends, but managed to raise their status in the school festival august 17.

 Next ,There is the figure of a child flo. Although she like dress up like boy. She from rich family and she was school in PN TIMAH. But she decided to school in elementary school Muhammadiyah because she interesting with Laskar Pelangi groups.

Furthermore, Ikal is a dreamer boy, he have high dream and he never hopeless at something, he always spirit. For him, life started from dream.

Overall i find this book very enjoyable as the plot is very creatively thought of

This novel is full of broad insight like the ocean like the author is well aware of the sciences, art and culture,humanities. We will be smile from little humor, touched and even cried when we read the story of Laskar Pelangi.