CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method of the Analysis
In completing this thesis, I am performing the descriptive qualitative method. The method is applied by describing the data and analyzing them, related to the focus of analysis. According
to Bogdan and Biklen in their book entitled Qualitative Research for Education: an Introduction to Theory and Method 1982:2, Qualitative research may be used either as the primary strategy
for data collection, or in conjunction with observation, document analysis or other techniques. There are several steps in applying this method. The first step is collecting the books
which relate to the religiosity. The second step is reading the collected books, including journals, notes and relevant sources to the thesis. The next step is quoting the data and describing them
into the analysis. The analysis will be performed by explaining the religiosity which can be found in a novel entitled Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
3.2 Data Collecting Method of the Analysis
The beginning of thesis procedures is to collect the books related to the title of thesis. The focus of analysis is about religiosity which can be found in a novel entitled Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The books are collected from several sources such as library, book store and internet.
The books which are collected contain vast information about analysis. Thus I try to select the relevant books to the analysis only, which is the study of religiosity. One of the books
that I used for data is Uncle Tom’s cabin novel Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1981 and other books and thesis that can be used as source of the data about religiosity.
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3.3 Data Analyzing Method of the Analysis
This procedure is the process of describing the data and analyzing them into the thesis’s analysis. The data are including the religiosity, such as: faith, love, humbleness, reverence, pious,
trustable, and tough prayer as it is portrayed in the novel of Uncle Tom’s Cabin . In accomplishing this thesis, I do several steps, they are:
1. Collecting the data about:
a. Religiosity of Uncle Tom.
b. Religion Philosophy approaches
2. Selecting the data about:
a. The religious experiences and religious aspects related to the theme of the thesis.
b. The structural approach considers and analyzes the novel from intrinsic aspects
namely, plot, character, and setting. 3.
Describing the religiosity, such as: Honest and reliable, Humble and Full of Love, Faith,
and Respectful in aspect of meaning and the examples. 4.
Analyzing the religiosity, such as: Honest and reliable, Humble and Full of Love, Faith,
and Respectful as it is portrayed in the novel of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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CHAPTER IV THE ANALYSIS OF UNCLE TOM’S RELIGIOSITY
4.1 Honest And Reliable
Uncle Tom is a middle aged black man who is very honest and intelligent. It is rare to find in slavery life at that time an honest and reliable person like Uncle Tom. Mr. Shelby, his
first employer confessed his honesty and his piety.
“…, Tom is an uncommon fellow, …, steady, honest, capable, manage my whole farm like a clock.” … “Tom is a good, steady, sensible,
pious fellow, … and I always found him true and square in everything.” p. 2
Uncle Tom’s master, Mr. Shelby, entrusts him with many of the dealings of his house, even trusting him to take large sums of money of business trips for his master. For Uncle Tom
this could be a prime opportunity to escape. However, Uncle Tom always returns because he cannot violate Mr. Shelby’s trust by running away with his master’s money. Given Harriet
Stowe’s religious background it isn’t surprising that Uncle Tom’s story mirrors the biblical story of Joseph’s enslavement in Egypt. Even as the Joseph’s Egyptian master Potiphar chose to
entrust Joseph with all his belongings, so Mr. Shelby entrusts his dealings to Uncle Tom.
“ Tom, why don’t you make tracks for Canada?” “Ah, master trusted me, and I couldn’t,”… p. 2
And, when Dan Haley want to repair the conciliator iron on Tom’s hands when they wanted to go to leave the city, the smith make assure that Tom is an honest slave and it’s
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impossible for him to escape. All the people in the city had know about the honesty of Uncle Tom. Therefore so many people didn’t believe that he will be sold.
“Now, ye don’t well, reely,” said the smith, “who’d a thought it Why, ye needn’t go to fetterin’ him up this yer way. He’s the
faihfullest, best critter---“p. 112
Tom’s piety put to a test when Haley asked Him where did Lucy go, the slave he had bought that her son was sold without told Lucy. Even though Tom hate haley and actually there
was no relation between lost of Lucy with him, Tom told Haley where did Lucy go.
“well, Mas’r, “ said Tom, “towards morning something brushed by me, and I kinder half woke; and then I learn a great splash, and, then I
clare woke up, and the gal as gone. That’s all I know on’t.” p. 150 When Tom was bought by St,\. Clare family, his honesty more put to a test. Almost two
years he worked for this second employer, he has trusted to manage the St. Clare financial.
Trusted, to an unlimited extend, by a careless master, who handed him a bill without looking at it, and pocketed the change without
counting it, Tom had every facility and temptation to dishonesty; and nothing but an impregnablsimplicity of nature, strengthen by
Christian faith, could have kept him from it. But to that nature, the very unbounded trust reposed in him was bond and seal for the most
scrupulous accuracy.p.231
Even, by Tom honesty, Eva, the only one daughter of St. Clare that she was at the last gasp, telling Tom about what does her feeling and telling about hat will happen to her when she
pass away then. Only with Tom Eva share her feeling.
The friend who knew most of Eva’s own imaginings and foreshadowings was her faithful bearer, Tom. To him she said what
she would not disturb her father by saying. To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to
unbind, ere leaves is clay forever. p.333-334
This fact shoed that Uncle Tom is a very pious person and by his piety he can be trust. The beliefness is real for his employer and the people ho love him.
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4.2 Humble and Full of Love
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