Joni and Joko

Dinar Mukminia Asokya

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Writing 5A

There are two students in one of the best university in Jakarta, Joni and Joko. They always together in campus like a gay couple, but they do not. They are actually very best friend. They take the same subject, English literature, however, they have different will and way to face their campus life.

Joni is a rich boy because he has a rich father who is a success businessman in domestic and international cargo. He actually does not like literature but his father force him to learn English, that is why he takes English literature to get a title as a master in English.

Different with Joni, Joko takes English literature because he likes culture and literature. He wants to be TV news presenter that is why he needs to improve his English skill while he learns about culture and literature in the same time. Before he take English literature as his subject, he asked some advices from many people to make him sure that English literature will help him to reach his dream. He promise to himself that he will be serious with his study because he does not have father anymore and he does not want to waste his time.

In class, Joni always feels so sleepy. In his mind, the lecturer appears like a storyteller who brings him into a quality sleep. He does not want to listen whatever the lecturer explains in class. His hobby is looking to the watch and asking himself, “when its over?”.

What Joni always done in class is a far cry from what Joko has done. Joko always be the first student who sitting in the class before the lecturer comes. He feels so curious about the material that he reads in the book and he is ready to ask it to the lecturer. If he does not get a good answer, he will wait until the class over and ask the same question again to the lecturer.

Joko always takes a note of the additional material from the lecturer and Joni is never bored to borrow Joko’s note and copy it.

One day, Joni and Joko are gathered in one group to have a presentation in class. Joni feels so happy because he has his best friend in the group. As usual, Joni does not do anything for their presentation. He puts off his duty on Joko’s shoulder. Joko does anything he needs to make ‘their’ presentation perfect. An hour before the presentation, Joko gives a piece of paper that contains all material that he needs to explain in front of class when Joni’s turn comes. Finally, the presentation looks like a group presentation.

The day comes and goes very fast. Joko is busy to reach his thesis adviser and Joni is busy to get someone who can help him in class like what Joko has done to him. Four years pass quickly, Joko is almost done with his study and Joni is far away from graduation because he failed in many classes.

Joko is finally get his title as master of arts and he is accepted as a radio announcer in one of Jakarta’s leading radio. He gets that job after his struggle to work while he finishes his thesis.

On other hand, Joni is so much busy with his career in his father company while a paid man try to finish his thesis. Two years after Joko’s graduation, he can feel graduation too and he gets his title.

From Joni and Joko’s story we can find some values that there are students that really focus on their study because they want to reach their dream. They have a dream and they choose a subject that can help them to reach their dream. Those are different from some students who enrol themselves in university to get a title. They cannot focus on their study because they don not like it and they do not what to do with their knowledge. It might trigger from the forcing from their parents to choose the subject that they do not like or they parents are forced to choose the subject because they do cannot decide by themselves