Devadasi a Actant The Relationship Between Actans and Functional Structure

after she dances with Guru- ji together Raju’s singing. Sender in the schema of actant 4 relates with the object in the schema of actant 5. Sender in the schema of actant 4 is feeling bored and the object in the schema of actant 5 is dance. Uma’s feeling makes her wants to dance because with a dancing, she will feel free and happy. To get her object, there is an opponent and she also gets a helper as described in the schema of actant 5, but she fails to get her object. The main of schema actan in the Devadasi story can described as follow: parents comfortable living in India Uma Hafeez and dance Uma Muslim and Hindu’s riot Uma’s parents sender urge Uma subject to feel comfortable living in India object. Umma gets help from Hafeez and dance helper that taught by Guru-ji. But, Uma gets a problem from Muslim and Hi ndu’s riots opponent when she want to get comfortable feeling by dancing in Guru- ji’s home. b Functional Structure The Beginning Situation: Uma’s father takes her to India for the first time. Before they go, she makes a deal which exchanges the trip with the private dance lesson in India. Transformation, the first is the qualifying test. Uma’s mother wants to know Uma’s feeling since arriving in the India, she hopes Uma will like India, her hometown. But Uma does not answer because she feels uncomfortable with Indian’s attitude to her. Hafeez, her family’s driver picks up her to dance class lesson at Guru- ji’s home for the first day. The second is main test. Upon arriving in Guru- ji’s home, Guru-ji tests her to dance an allaripu dance. Guru-ji who knows Uma has forgotten to dance it shows her its movements dance together with Raju’s sing. Uma follows her and she dance well. When she dances, she feels free for the first time in India. The third is glorifying test. Uma and her family attend to her cous in’s wedding ceremony, in the wedding she walks out and talk together with Hafeez. Her parents and her family look at them and become angry because her act is not suitable with Indian tradition. In the next morning, she goes to her last dance class with Hafeez. Before they go, Hafeez warns her to cancel her dance class because in the Old City there is Hindu and Muslim’s riot, but Uma ignores him. The Ending Situation: on the way to Guru- ji’s home, the gangs of Indian Muslim men gather their car. Immediately, Hafeez asks her to remove her bindi in order she looks like Indian Muslim. So, Hafeez and Uma can pass them. This incidents makes Uma confusing her identity because she is India but she never know all about India and she is not American where she has lived and has considered that she is American. So, Uma fails to get her object although she has passed the opponent failed. Look at appendix 10

CHAPTER 1V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

The United States is commonly referred to as a country of immigrants. 48 Immigrants come to this country for a variety of reasons. They usually come looking for a better life, not only for themselves but also for their children. They may be fleeing poverty, hunger, or persecution or perhaps just seeking better life opportunities for themselves and their family. One of immigrants who live in US is Indian. Most of Immigrant Indians live in Massachusetts, Indian American community. The first immigrant generations usually feel homesick. Then, they transmit their origin culture to the second and the next generations. The second generations who born or live in the foreign country will adopt the culture values which are taught by first generation. But the perception of the second generations about their original culture differs from the first generation. So, they feel more interest to adopt culture and life style in the country where they grow up than in their hometown. That is why the conflict between the first generation and the second generation appear in the three stories, The Validity of Love, Bangles and Devadasi . After analyzing the three stories by using actantial and functional structure, can be seen that there are similarities and differences in the structure of 48 Cynthia Garcia, Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in middle childhood, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. ,2009 p. 17. story between two stories, The Validity of Love and Devadasi. But the stucture of story in Bangles is different from both of them, whereas the three stories have the same theme. This difference is caused by the subject in each story, in The Validity of Love and Devadasi subjects are the second generation but in Bangles, subject is the first generation. The similarities in The Validity of Love and Devadasi are subject main character, sender an activator of story that is in The Validity of Love, the sender is obligation from parents and in Devadasi, clearly the sender is parents and the ending of story which the subject fails to get the object. Besides that, the differences are helper, opponent, and the causes of conflict begins. In each story raises the same problem on the subject, it is identity problem. In the story which is the second generation as a subject, such as The Validity of Love and Devadasi, the subject or main character face identity crisis but in the story of Bangles, the subject who is first generation faces diaspora identity. The crisis identity faced by second generations because they have minimalist of experience in India even though in their home environment is often heavily Indian, but may incorporate aspects of both cultures, while the environment beyond the front door is profoundly American. So, t he second generation’s identity is shaped by both and by the interaction between the two. Unlike with the first generations, generally they suffer diaspora identity because they have many experiences and the strong of tie with their original culture, India, so they always feel homesick and apply their original culture in America.