The analysis of sandy's motivation in refusing racial discrimination in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter

Nugroho, Chrishardono Agung (2008) The analysis of sandy's motivation in refusing racial discrimination in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

Literatureis a media of communication which shows human's thought in the form of written language. Literature has three kinds, such as fiction,which contains short story and novel; drama and poetry. Novel is a long story written in prose. Moreover, novel is a picture of reality,time, and manners. Here, the author of a novel will show imagination of place and time that can be caught by the readers. The writer's reason in writing this thesis, are:(1) to know what are the meaning of motivation and struggle for the main character in Not Without Laughter,namely Sandy, (2) to know how his motivation and struggle support him to refuse racial discrimination, (3) to hope that the readers are able to understand more about motivation and struggle in facing hard situation in this life. Then,the writer of the thesis chooses a novel written by Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter.This novel is published in 1930 for the first time.Langston Hughes is one of many talented black authors deal with the period called the Harlem Renaissance.Not Without Laughter is called as a semi-autobiographical.novel because this novel tells about Hughes' experience living in the white world.Not Without Laughter describes about a black family living in white world in the early of twentieth century. Sandy, as one of main characters in this novel, is an African-American boy who experiences in the slavery period. He has a motivation when he lives in that period. Motivation with uncomfortable treatments as the background supports him to refuse racial discrimination done by white people. Besides, the writer understands more about the life of black people after reading this novel. Some of the black never try to respect the white, even they hate the white. Meanwhile, some others try to follow the white's life by observing and learning how they think, talk, dress, or behave. But, Sandy does not do what the white have done to him. Even, Sandy does not have hard feeling when the white give different treatments to him. He proves to the white that black people also need to be appreciated. Winning an essay contest as the second winner held by his school is what Sandy has done to prove his achievement to the white. In writing this thesis, the writer takes a main source of data from the novel Not Without Laughter written by Langston Hughes. The writer also collects some data and other references from some books and internet to support this thesis.Besides,theories of motivation and setting are applied to dcscribe the background of Sandy's motivation to refuse racial discrimination; and theories of motivation and psychological and sociological conflicts are used to explain Sandy's struggle to refuse racial discrimination. Many lessons can be taken from the novel Not Without Laughter. As an African-American boy, Sandy often experiences uncomfortable treatments from white people. But, Sandy does not treat the white differently because he only wants to focus to his motivation änd his struggle to refuse racial discrimination to the black. He wants to have a different result, so he has to have different paradigm and different action.Here, he writer is able to learn and understand more about motivation and struggle in facing hard situation in this life. Therefore,it can be concluded if people have a different paradigm and different action in doing something, they must get a different thing.

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