Twain characterization in Jim gave a view not only flesh out Jim’s character, but goes on to give us a precise and profound vision of American society and beyond that, a
study of the nature of man and the awful contradiction between social condition and natural morality as well as entertaining us with a crackling good adventure story.
In this paper, the writer focused on Jim character as a black slave. The first reason for me to analyze Jim’s character is because he is the only black man described in the
novel among white men, and the other reason that is the writer sees the existence of relation between the facts in American history with this novel. The fact is connected the
freedom of the Negro slave in the novel with the reality in American history as the historical background, so the writer used for this research under the title “An analysis of a
major character in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn using the Sociology of Literature”.
B. IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEM
Based on the background of the study, the writer has identified some questions related to the topic of the study, they are:
1. What social issue is found in the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?
2. Are there any relationships between the characters of the novel with the social
issue in the Nineteenth century? 3.
Does the novel reflect the social condition according to the history of America in the Nineteenth century?
4. How the writer described the character of Jim in this novel?
C. SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF STUDY
The writer focused the research writing on the analysis characters of Jim in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn using the theory sociology of literature by George
Lukacs. For this research the writer tried to make a relation between the content and the characters of the novel with the social American slavery in the Nineteenth century, when
the setting of the novel took place.
D. STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
Based on the background of study above, and to make focus in discussion the writer would like to concentrate and limit the problems, they are:
1. How is the Jim’s character as the major character presented in the novel The
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn? 2.
How Jim’s character reflected a slave in the novel?
E. OBJECTIVE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The writer wanted to explore the deepest character, to show the background of sociology of literature in relation with the novel, and of course to give scientific
contribution for the development of literary study in relation to sociology of literature as a source to be studied later by the students.
The following were the objectives of the study dealing with the significances above:
1. To know how is Jim’s character as the major character presented in the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.
2. To describe Jim’s character reflected a slave in the novel.
F. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
