CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Analysis
The novel, Journey Without Maps, is , as the title suggests, and account of a long trek through a dense jungle in Liberia in West Africa, with its
wretchedness, unhappiness, and injustices. To the reader who is familiar with the earlier works of Graham Greene, it will be obivious even from the title of the
novel that the story will not be a happy, superficial one, for Greene always tend to dwell noun the unhappy aspects of life.
The story introduces us the narrators journey when he was the British Consul at Monrovia. He made it the object of his first journey outside Europe. He
and his cousin, Barbara Greene, traveled with a chain of porters from the border of Sierra Leone across the head waters of several rivers and down at Grand Bassa.
I am very impressed as well as deeply fascinated by some points in the novel which cannot be separated from human life, such as the squalor,
unhappiness, and involuntary injustices of the blacks. I am also impressed by the ways the author expresses such matters as loyalty, honesty, and hospitality,
performed by the natives toward the whites eventhough they are under the opression of the whites.
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The appreciations of these points are relatively not the same and not nearly depend on personal and narrow minded judgment. One may appreciate
them well or as those which can give benefical things for him or her. The injustice as well as morals are very interesting to discussed.
In another point of view, the contact between the characters also need to be revealed. Therefore, based on the statement above, I am intrested in analyzing
the novel, especially the racial discrimination which exists in the novel.
1.2 The Problems of the Analysis
There are some problem which arise in teading the novel. One of them is that the narrator of the story is encountering a savage trive in the deep jungle in
Africa. He believes that this tribe does not have any good moral, but he is wrong these people have good qualities. The problems are as follows :
- Is it good for the white people to dominate black ones? -Do the black, savage people have better quality of life than the white
people? - Is there any moral lesson in the novel which will be learned by its readers ?
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1.3 The Scope of the Analysis
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