Data and Source of Data Data Collecting Procedure Data Selecting Procedure

24

3.4 Data Analyzing Procedure

After selecting the data, then the next step is starting to analyze all those selected data to prove what are being written in the objective of this thesis and finally the writer can draw the conclusion for this thesis. In analyzing all data which support this research the descriptive method is applied. Descriptive method is used to describe the main data from the novel. Kaelan 2005:58 said that descriptive method is a method that is used in analyzing an object, such as values ofhuman culture, a systemof philosophy, ethical values, the value ofthe artwork, a group of people, eventsorotherculturalobjects. The purpose of this method is to create adescription or picture systematicallyandobjectively, on the facts, properties, characteristicsandrelationshipsbetweenelements ofthe existingora particular phenomenon. Whitney in Kaelan 2005:58-59 said that descriptive method is a fact- finding with proper and systematic interpretation. 25 CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS Every human is born to be a human who has a freedom and does not bondage to other people. In other words, they have their own rights. But, as the time goes by, people develop to be better while the others still in their base position. This causes the difference among them, such as status, position, power and so forth. This condition is impacted toward society. A group of people starts to control the weak group. They consider the weak group as minority, marginal, and even worst, as merely as a property or animals. The weak people are not treated as human. This effect causes social issues. It spreads all over the world with its variations of the issues. Some of them are slavery and injustice. These are portrayed in the novel Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave is a slave narrative which is based on true story of Solomon Northup, a freed African-American who was kidnapped in Washington DC, held in a slave pen and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South in 1841. It is a story of deception, violence and callous disregard for human rights. The American slave narrative dramatizes how slavery corrupts America’s greatest institutions and thereby threatened to destroy the very social, economic, religious, and political bedrock upon which the country is founded. Twelve Years a Slave supports the antislavery argument that the institution of slavery undermined and perverted the institutions of marriage and the family. Slave narratives had a mission: to convert readers’ hearts and minds to the antislavery cause by revealing how slavery