Abstract :
This study aims to answer the statement of the problems : (1) What types of
focalization are used in Dr. Seuss. The Grinch Movie, (2) How does focalization
in the movie explain what the narrator knows about the story. Dr. Seuss? The
Grinch movie is the one of the movie that use narrator to help convey the story.
This movie is tell about green haired creature named The Grinch who hates
Christmas and want to destroy Christmas. The researcher uses theory by Genette
(1980) and the researcher uses qualitative method of research. At first the
researcher will study about the topic, and then the researcher will collect and
observe the data from the object after that the researcher will explain the result of
the observation from the researcher object. The results of the analysis showed
that : (1) This movie use zero focalization (omniscient narrator). The researcher
explains and analyzes the narrator?s utterance in this chapter. The narrator uses
zero focalization because the narrator have the knowledge about the story and
know more than the character knows, (2) The narrator knows not only the
character feelings, past, activities, minds but also minor character feelings and
activity. The narrator also knows about the situation, the setting place of the story