The quotation above has the meaning that the way to determine the work of the author is to see the civilization or history of hisher life.
Civilization is defined as the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people and point out that literature takes this attitudes and actions as its
subject matter Rohrberger Woods, 1971:9.
The writer uses this theory to analyze how the story in this play reflects the real or true life of the author through this story. This approach also helps the
writer to understand the social background of the Japanese immigrant in the United States. In addition, the writer become understands the reasons of
Japanese people did the immigration in the 1900s. The story of this play is appr
opriate with author’s real life.
C. Method of the Study
This study is library research. The most important source in this study is The Music Lessons itself, the book by Abrams, and the book by John K. Roth.
This book consisted of the Theory of Discrimination. This book was about the class and race discrimination. In this study, the writer did the three steps. First, the
writer decided the literary work to be analyzed, in this research The Music Lessons by Wakako Yamauchi. Second, the writer was reading and
understsanding the story. Third, the writer found three problems formulations that the writer wanted to answer. Fourth, found a source or theories and the approaches
that appropriate in this research. Fourth, found the related studies in the library web. Fifth, the writer answered three problems formulations in the analysis. The
writer divided the analysis became three subchapters. The analysis chapter was about the characteristics of the main characters, the class and race discrimination,
and the struggle of Chizuko Sakata against discrimination. The last step was making the conclusion based on the analysis.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter concerns on the analysis of characteristics of chizuko, the kinds of discrimination, and Chizuko struggles of Chizuko to face the discrimination. This
chapter is divided into three subchapters. First is characteristics of Chizuko, the second is the kinds of discriminations that appropriate with the story. The last is
the proofs of Chizuko‟s struggles in order to face the discrimination.
A. The Characteristics of Chizuko Sakata
The first problem formulation is about the characteristics of the main character Chizuko. The characteristics of main character can be analyzed by the
Theory of Characters by Abrams of which says that “Characters are the person
represented in a dramatic or narrative work, which are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with particular moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities
” Abrams, 1999:32. In addition, the Theory of Characterization by Robert and
Jacobs that says four ways to analyze the characacters: 1. What the characters themselves say and think, if the author expresses
their thought 2.What the characters do
You have heard that ―actions speak louder than words, and you should interpret actions as signs of character.
3.What the other characters say about them In stories and plays, as in life, people often talk about other people.
4.What the author says about them, speaking as storyteller or observer What the author says about a character is usually to be accepted as truth.
Naturally, authors must be accepted on matters offactRoberts Jacobs, 1987:147-148.
