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3. For Future Researchers
By analyzing the movie, it is expected that the result of the analysis will be beneficial for the future researchers who want to analyze the same object. This
study is expected to give information about Freedom Writers movie.
E. Definition of Terms
1. Conflict
In this study, conflict refers to problems faced by people in life. Everybody in this world must have problems in their life. The problems that they faced lead
into some conflicts. According to Kennedy and Giogia 2010, there are two kinds of conflict which are an internal conflict and an external conflict. An internal
conflict is a conflict against two desires within a character. While an external conflict is a struggle against another character and environment.
2. Teacher
According to Senge 2000, a teacher is an expert who is capable of imparting knowledge that will help learners to build, identify and to acquire skills
that will be used to face the challenges in life.
3. Freedom Writers Movie
Movie is a visual image or story which is shown on a screen. Movie can be a media for entertainment and media for education. Freedom Writers is a movie
which was released on January, 5 2007 in USA. This movie was directed by Richard LaGravenese who also wrote the screenplay. Freedom Writers is a movie
which is not only entertaining but also educative. The movie tells about some
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conflicts that faced by a teacher in educating her students. The movie is educative because it gives good examples of a teacher which can be used by the audience to
educate students or children.
4. Message
According to Beaty and Hunter 1989, message or moral value is an oversimplification or conclusion from a literary work. From the literary work, the
author encodes a message for the audience which contains a lesson. In the other words, through the literary work, the author wants to teach a lesson for the
audience.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter contains two parts namely review of related theory and
theoretical framework. Review of related theories is about the theories that the writer uses to analyze the movie script. The theories are used to guide the writer in
answering the problem formulation. The last part is theoretical framework that are used to give information to the readers what is going to discus in the analysis.
A.
Review of Related Theories
This part consists of theories used in the study. Those theories are theory of critical approach, theories of character and characterization, theories of conflict,
theories of teacher, and theories of message.
1. Theory of Critical Approach
According to Rohrberger and Woods 1971, there are five critical approaches which are used to understand the nature, function, and positive values
in literature. Those five critical approaches are formalist approach, biographical approach,
sociocultural-historical approach,
mythopoeic approach,
and psychological approach pp. 6-15. Critical approach is very important to avoid
subjective response towards work of art. People may say they do not like the story because it is too sad or violent, but they do not know that there are some ways to
judge the literary work called critical approach. In their book Reading and Writing About Literature, Rohrberger and Woods 1971,
state that ”one must know what
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