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A BRIEF LOOK AT AND COMMENTS ON THE SOCIAL LIFE IN “THE ADVENTURE OF TOM SAWYER” BY MARK TWAIN Rachayu, Imma
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2 No 1 (2015)
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Prose is one of the three literary kinds. Sub kinds of prose are history, description, biography, fiction, reflection, persuasion, censure and humor. The writer will take one sub-genre of prose only, which is fiction. Fiction is action, which primarily appeals to the imagination. This research aims to find the properties of the novel and the social life and comments described in the novel. The scope of the study is limited only a brief look and comments on the social life in ?Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain?. Data analysis was conducted with the  qualitative analysis. The results showed that there was seven elements, which are the biography of the author, the list of his writings, the summary of the adventure of Tom Sawyer, the theme, the plot, the characters, the setting and points of view. In answered the second questions about two aspects consist of; a) human beings has good behaviour, he will do positive activities in the social life such as human beings are not descrimination of racial in their environment. They have a good nature, the nature of love, patience, wisdom, kindness, simplicity, the nature of protection and responsibility and than have the potency to belief in God, b) human beings has bad behaviour, he will not do the positive or good activities in the social life, because there were some the economic gaps in their environment which make them have identical the nature of greed, selfish, arrogance, stinginess and ambitions in their life. Meanwhile, the social life in our environment can make us become mature and care with other people. We have to be able give good services to each other and try to avoid bad behavior which may depress ourselves.   Keywords : a brief look at, comments, social life, the adventure of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
AN ANALYSIS OF LIBERTARIAN RADICAL FEMINISM ON RIE’S CHARACTER IN JOYCE LEBRA THE SCENT OF SAKE (2009) Rullyanti, Merry; Sari, Sinta Purnama
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Literature has close relationship with human?s life. It could not separate with society as the writer is member of society. It represents the life and life itself is social fact. Feminism theory has purpose to know the nature of inequality and focus on power, gender politics and sexuality. While generally feminist theory also concern to analyze women?s right, interest and issues. The themes usually explored in feminism such as oppression, patriarchy, discrimination, etc. One of that is libertarian radical feminism that related to patriarchy is characterised by power and propose detrimental for men to exhibit only masculine traits and women to exhibit only feminine traits. The aimed of this study are to know Rie?s life toward tradition with domination of man power and to find out libertarian radical feminism characteristics that possessed by Rie in the scent of sake novel. From the finding of the writer found about Rie?s life as the main character in The Scent of Sake novel, she occurs many oppression from patriarchy which domination of men and women become passive just take care to her husband, house and children. She must receive her parents decision to marring with man who didn?t love her, she is sacrifice herself to get heir from that man consider to business family. Then she still survive with the act of her husband and the last she knows that her husband has been cheat to geishas and has babies whereas she can?t has it too. Because of that, her libertarian radical feminism characteristics rise up. It also caused by her parents died and make her aware that she must take control in her family, she can?t depend her life to her husband that waste much money to geisha. She changes become independent and androgynious women by her education. However, Sake business and the other business that her family become more successful in Rie?s leadership. She really has soul of successor in Sake business. Keywords : Libertarian radical feminism, The Scent of Sake novel
THE STRUGGLE OF SCARLET O’HARA TO FIND PURE LOVE IN MARGARET MITCHEL’S GONE WITH THE WIND (1936) Diana, Eli
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This research is entitled The Struggle of Scarlet O?hara to Find Pure Love in Margaret Mitchel Gone With The Wind (1936). The aim of the study is exploring  the most dominat needs of Scarlet O?hara needs appering in Gone With The Wind (1936) and to know the struggles of Scarlet O?hara in finding her needs in Gone With The Wind (1936). This research used a qualitative method to explore the protagonist character in the novel and used the concept of Abraham Maslow?s using five basic hierarchy of needs especially focused on the struggle for love, affection and belongingness also self actualization needs. Based on the analysis, the researcher found that Scarlet O?hara struggles to love, affection, belongingness and self actualization because she needs a man to love, family?s affection and get many friends. The finding of this research revealed that the most dominant needs of Scarlet O?hara  appering   in Gone With The Wind (1936) is the needs of love, affection, and belongingness to make her life full of joys and happiness.Keywords : Struggle, Love, Affection, Belongingness
AN ANALYSIS POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE STATEMENTS OF OPRAH WINFREY’S STATUS ON TWITTER Aditya, Silvia Erlin; Asri, Ervi Mayang
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2 No 1 (2015)
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This paper analyzed the positive and negative statements of Oprah Winfrey?s Status on Twitter. Status is the tweet of the Twitter users in order to communicate or broadcast what they are doing; their feelings, happiness, sorrow, and many other events that they feel can spread rapidly by using Twitter. Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Oprah?s status on twitter got positive response by her followers. Along she is a queen in talk show, she already develop good communication style and loss the obstacle between herself and audience. Winfrey often make status on her twitter to show her image. Beside make status about motivation, from her status on twitter, Oprah Winfrey also sometime publish her real life in her status on twitter. This thing be proved with some her status which is analyzed in this research. Oprah?s tweets also often contain about success tips and as motivation sentence. Based on the result of the research and it can be concluded that Oprah?s status on twitter more dominant positive than the negative one it is Because of her life is inspiring many people and Oprah Winfrey is famous celebrity and good or kind-hearted person public figure. Keyword : Analysis, Positive and negative sentence, Oprah Winfrey, Status, Twitter
AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN JK.ROWLING’S THE CASUAL VACANCY (2012) Rachayu, Imma; Aprilia, Laura
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2 No 2 (2015)
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The purpose of this analysis is to find out about how the influence of the Id, Ego and Super Ego of the teenage characters in the novel and to know that there is a kind of juvenile delinquency in the novel The Casual Vacancy (2012) Sigmund Freud. Theory about the condition of the human psyche is one theory which is often used, this theory helps in analyzing the psychological condition of a person in the face of the challenges of life in adolescents. By using qualitative descriptive methods the authors tried to explore any form of juvenile delinquency by Fagan (2006). Then the writers also delve more deeply about the psychological impact of juvenile delinquency by Sigmund Freud's theory that the id, ego and super ego. After analyzing the data, which in getting various quotations within the novel, the writers ultimately conclude that the dominant juvenile delinquency, are the use of cigarettes and drugs. Adolescent mental condition is always influenced by the presence of the id, ego and super-ego as it had been by Sigmund Freud describe through the theory of psychoanalysis. Juvenile delinquency largely influenced by his ego. It can be seen from the surrounding adolescent measures contained in the novel The Casual Vacancy (2012). The impact of juvenile delinquency itself will affect himself like any other people around. Keywords: Juvenile Delinquency, Adolescent, The Casual vacancy, Psychoanalytic theory
THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT PORTRAYED IN ROBERT FROST’S SELECTED POEM Dewi, Citra; Kaskumita, Rina
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 2 No 2 (2015)
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Social conflict is an event that we often overcome in our daily life. People usually face the social conflict by many attitudes. There are three kinds of social conflict, they are conflict between individual, inter-group conflict, and conflict between organizations. There are many ways of someone to express their thought about social conflict, One of them is by using beautiful combination of words that contains implicit meaning that makes that combination of words is hard to be understood. One of the famous poets is Robert Frost. Robert frost beautifully uses combination of words and metaphor to express his thinking of social conflict. By using descriptive qualitative method, the researcher is helped to pill off the meaning of the poem that closely related to social conflict in the selected poem of Robert Frost. After having analysis over the entire related source in this case in this case is poem, the researcher found that there is a tendency of the author of the poem, Robert Frost, in using the social conflict sense in presenting the poem. The implicit point of social conflict in the poem, most of them is included to conflict between individual, then the rest is included to inter-group conflict. As said by That condition is analogously with the theory of social conflict that is conflict between individual that stated Conflict between individual is conflict that occurs between one individual, to another individual or more. This conflict is usually caused by confusing condition of someone (Rummel : 1991). Keywords : Social Conflict, Robert Frost?s Poem, Conflict between Individual
CYCLE OF ABUSE IN RUTH ANN NORDIN’S NOVEL HIS REDEEMING BRIDE (2009): A PSYCHOLOGICAL FEMINISM Parhusib, Christin Natalya
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 3 No 1 (2016)
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This research investigated about a woman cycle of abuse in His Redeeming Bride authored by Ruth Ann Nordin. This research has purposes: (1) What are woman circle of abuse in His Redeeming Bride novel; (2) How do the woman face the oppression in the His Redeeming Bride novel. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The primary data is sentences in His Redeeming Bride novel authored by Ruth Ann Nordin which describes about woman oppression conditions or circumstances. The data were collected by analyzing the sentences which consist of tension building, acute violence, reconciliation/honeymoon and calm mentioned by Dr. Walker.As the result, there are 22 sentences which describes about oppression. The women face the oppression bravely because they think that they need to stay strong and continue to live even though their husband leaves them. Most oppression in the novel indicates the woman suffered from psychological violence. Keywords: Cycle of abuse, women oppression, psychological violence, feminism.
AN ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS IN ‘’I LOVE YOU MOM’’ SHORT STORY BOOK BY ARLEEN AMIDJAJA -, Zahroni
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 3 No 1 (2016)
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Character is a system of beliefs and practices that direct the actions of an individual. By analyzing the characters, we can understand the human characters in everyday life. Therefore, researchers are interested in analyzing the characters in '' I Love You Mom''  Short Story Book. The problem of this study are: (1) What arethe characters in ?I Love You Mom??short story book?  (2) What are the moral values that can be found in ? I Love You Mom?? Short Story Book? The researchertook five short stories to analyze. This study useda descriptive qualitative method to analyze and interpret the research object sentence in ??I Love You Mom.??book. The stepto obtain the data was collectingsources of the data from five short stories in ??I Love You Mom.??book. After that,  the researcherselected  data and made conclusion. The results of this research are: (1) related about the character, (2) related about moral value. The researcher expects this research will be useful for other researchers who are eager to know more about characters. Key words: Character, morals, values, short story.
AN ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION WORDS IN “ZIG ZIGLAR” FANS PAGE ON FACEBOOK Azhari, Muhammad
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 3 No 2 (2016)
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Semantic is a branch of linguistics. This branch is the important one, and there are lexical meaning and contextual meaning. By reading the motivation words, we can get knowledge about motivation and it can motivate us to be a better person. Therefore, the researcher was interested in analyzing the kinds of meaning used in motivation words in Zig Ziglar fans page.The problem of this study are : (1) what is the lexical meanings of Zig Ziglar motivation words? (2) What is  the contextual meaning of Zig Ziglar?s motivation words in his fans page? (3) How is the response of the fans toward the motivation words? The researcher took twenty five motivation words to analyze. This study used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze and interpret the research object of motivation words in Zig Ziglar fans page. The step to obtain the data was by collecting sources of the data from Zig Ziglar fans page on facebook. After that, the researcher selected twenty five motivation words that contain lexical and contextual meaning, analyzed the collected data, and made conclusion. The result of this research are as follows: (1) related to the lexical meaning, while (2) related to the contextual meaning, and (3) related to the response of fans. The researcher expects this research will be useful for the other researchers who are eager to know more about semantics. Key word: Semantic, motivation words, lexical meaning,contextual meaning, ZigZiglar.
USING PEER EDITING TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL Syakirman, Ahmad
JURNAL LITERARY CRITICISM Vol 3 No 2 (2016)
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The objectives of the study are describing the Implementation of peer-editing technique to improve students? writing skill and describing whether peer-editing technique can improve students? writing skill or not. This Study was undertaken in Vocational School of SMA Negeri 4 Kota Bengkulu. The subjecst of the research are the second year students of X IBB2 of SMA Negeri 4 Kota Bengkulu., who consit of 30 students. The researcher collected the data of the research observation, interview, document, and test (pre-test, post-test1,post-test2).In this research the researcher applied classroom action research which requires four steps, namely planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The result of this study shows that teaching writing usingpeer-editing can improve the students? writing ability. It is proved by the improvement of the students? mean score.The mean score of pre-test is 49,6%, while the mean score of post-test is 79,20%. In addition the students also fell intersted, motivated, and easy in writing class. Key Words: Peer Editing, Writing Skill

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