Background of The Study

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

This chapter of the thesis discusses some topics related to the background of study, problem of study, purpose of study, scope and limitation, significance of the study, and definition of key terms.

1.1 Background of The Study

Literature is very interesting to discuss because there are so many literary works around the world. Also, literary works is interesting because it is an expression of human’s thought, feeling, and experience written in form of poetry, novel, and drama. According to Mario 2004: 1, literature is deferred to as the entirety of written expression, with the restriction that not every written document can be catagorized as literature in the more exact sense of the word. It means that, it can be stated that literature means the productions of written works having excellence of form of expression and dealing with ideas of permanent interest. Film is one of literature branches that are commonly consumed by society. Film is a small reflection of human life that is covered in an interesting audio visual product. As what stated by Bordwell and Thompson 2008, “ Films communicate information and ideas, and they show us places and ways of life we might not otherwise know” p.20. Furthermore, it gives us many lesson; it also inform as many things that we may not know before. Therefore, there is also a research conducted by M. Nabris Raunaq 2014 under the tittle An analysis on Aibileen’s truggle to help negro Women Maid’s freedom in Kathryn’s novel “The Help”. The research found that there were 2 several points that can be concluded about the main character’s struggle. Based on the analysis there are many great efforts which Aibileen did in “The Help” novel. For examples, she strugglea to invite other Negro Maids to tell the true story of white women. Another struggle is she struggles to provethe true story of Negro maids. Related to definition that Aibileen struggles to invite and to prove the true story of Negro Maids because they are the ways to getting her goals. Based on the analysis, there are four kinds of reason of Aibileen helps Negro women maids, first, she was always insulted by Hilly. Second, most of Negro maids got low salary. Third, negro maids were descriminated in public fasilities. Fourth, Negro maids were accused as the thief. It can be stated that Aibilieen has many reasons to help Negro maids in Jackson Missisipi. She saw much descrimination towards Negro maids. Therefore, there are two kinds of Aibileen’s effects toward herself and Negro maids, namely: negative and positive effects. The first, is stress which can be found that Aibileen and her friends got stress. The second, is depression which can be found that Negro maids were threatened by white people, and the third is fear which can found that Aibileen was fear. In the positive effects, there are two points. The first is motivation which can be found that many stores ordered books “The Help”, and one of Negro maids were not fired by her master. The second is independence which can be found that Aibileen got a new job. Related on the effects of Aibileen’s struggle, it can be stated that many positive effects of Aibileen got from her struggle after she and her friends got many negative effects. She can get a new job and change her future as the writer in the Jackson Journal. One of Negro maids was not fired by her master because the negro maids told that 3 her master is a good master. Therefore, most of masters is not cruel with the Negro maids. Most of Negro maids can get much money for selling the book, and Negro maids can feel safety when they want to go every place in Jackson Massisipi. Based on the reason above, the researcher is interested in analyzing the struggle of the main character. The movie which will be analyzed is “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Martin Scorsese. The movie in which it talks about struggle done by Jordan Belfort who wants to be a successful stockbroker in his work which face so many obstacles and hard struggle even sucrifice to rich his goal. Therefore, the researcher is really interested in knowing what struggles he does, to described struggle face by Jordan Belfort to be a successful stockbroker and to know the effect of his struggle.

1.2 Statement of Problem