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SKEETER’S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE EQUALITY OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE HELP FILM Nor Holis; Ratna Asmarani
Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra
Publisher : LLDIKTI Wilayah X

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (444.286 KB) | DOI: 10.22216/kata.v5i1.68

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The Help is a film  that is adopted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel with the same title. It tells about a young white woman named Skeeter who wants to make black and white people live equally in the society. This research aims to analyze Skeeter’s struggle for life equality between black and white people. In order to analyze it, the writer applies Adler’s individual psychology to the data from the film such as dialogues, monologue and scenes. Furthermore, this research is assumed to be useful for the following researchers with the same topic or idea. Adler’s individual psychology is used to analyze Skeeter’s life of style and her struggle for superiority or striving for superiority. Hence, those aspects would give understanding how Skeeter fights for black people’s life. This research concludes that Skeeter struggles for making black people’s life better. It is influenced by her childhood experience that is called style of life and social inequality. Her style of life encourages her to do an action to make black people well-accepted in the society. Therefore, her struggle is also called as striving for superiority that is not for herself but for social interest.
SKEETER’S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE EQUALITY OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE HELP FILM Nor Holis; Ratna Asmarani
Jurnal Kata Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra
Publisher : LLDIKTI Wilayah X

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (444.286 KB) | DOI: 10.22216/kata.v5i1.68

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The Help is a film  that is adopted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel with the same title. It tells about a young white woman named Skeeter who wants to make black and white people live equally in the society. This research aims to analyze Skeeter’s struggle for life equality between black and white people. In order to analyze it, the writer applies Adler’s individual psychology to the data from the film such as dialogues, monologue and scenes. Furthermore, this research is assumed to be useful for the following researchers with the same topic or idea. Adler’s individual psychology is used to analyze Skeeter’s life of style and her struggle for superiority or striving for superiority. Hence, those aspects would give understanding how Skeeter fights for black people’s life. This research concludes that Skeeter struggles for making black people’s life better. It is influenced by her childhood experience that is called style of life and social inequality. Her style of life encourages her to do an action to make black people well-accepted in the society. Therefore, her struggle is also called as striving for superiority that is not for herself but for social interest.
The Tragic Revelation of the Transgender in “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman” (Anonymous) Ratna Asmarani
Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya Vol 13, No 2 (2023)
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan dan Humaniora (FIPH), Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26714/lensa.13.2.2023.247-260

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The aim of this article is to analyze the tragic revelation of the transgender in an anonymous short story entitled “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman.” The analysis is supported by the concepts of transgender and cross-dressing since the male main character who has a wife and two daughters gradually becomes a transgender preceded by becoming a secret cross-dresser. The library research method is used to collect the relevant data while the qualitative research method is used in the general analysis. The literary analysis is supported by textual research method focusing on character, conflict, and setting, and contextual research method focusing on the concepts of transgender and cross-dressing. The result shows that becoming transgender is a difficult process and needs much bravery. Since the main male character feels unable to face the consequence as a transgender, he starts by becoming a cross-dresser in secret at night for a couple of hours at the house basement. When he finally wants to declare in public about his coming out in a full female clothes, he prefers to present it as his last performance in his well-arranged death.