to specify the relation between plot and the chara cters’ attitude. Afterwards, the
other sources about the idea of postmodernism were read. Then, the writer made a list shortening in order to narrowing the study could be done. It was decided that
this undergraduate thesis would find more about the charact ers’ attitude and relate
it with postmodernism. The second step was analyzing the data and starting to make research in more
systematically form. The writer tried to make the problem formulation as the guidance for the analysis and began to analyze the problem. The first problem
formulation is related to the plots that can be found in the story. The second problem formulation is how was
the characters’ attitudes based on the plots toward the lottery drawing was possible to answer after having and understanding
of the concept from postmodernism. Then, relate the attitudes from the characters to the idea of postmodernism.
Finally, the third step was drawing a conclusion. In this step the writer made summary of all the process of analyzing and the result of the research.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
Shirley Jackson’s “
The Lottery
” is a short story that tells about a small
group of people who that still believe in the tradition which is called lottery. This tradition is an event in the story which makes people in that village killing their
neighbor in exchange to get a big harvest. The story goes by showing a contact, and a communication within all the characters toward the lottery. Most of the
activity that the characters do in the short story is the routine of the lottery event. In this chapter the writer is going to analyze three items. First, the writer is
going to analyze the plot of the story which is mentioned in the problem formulations
. The second part is about the characters’ attitudes toward the lottery drawing that is reflected from the plot of the story. This part will be divided into
three sections; before, during, and after the lottery drawing. On the final part, the writer will answer the last question from problem formulations which are about
the ideas of postmodernism as seen through the characters’ attitudes.
A. The Plot of the Lottery
In this chapter the writer will analyze the plot from the story by using theories on the previous chapter. Theory from M.H. Abrams and Guerin are used
by the writer as a source of data. By reading and understanding the theory, the plot of the story can be drawn. The lottery begins with initial situation. Initial
situation here means that the story begins with something that lead the reader to guess what is going to happen in the lottery and it is the sense of liberation as seen
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