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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH FINDING
A. Description of Data
The writer uses the short story Mother’s Hair by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas on the Jakarta Post as the object as a research. The literary work of short story comes from
the Jakarta Post newspaper on May 20, 2007. As I have mentioned that the data are collected from the newspaper of the Jakarta Post. The data that the writer obtains can
be presented on the table below.
No. Sentences
Type 1.
“She seldom talked anyone, including me. She merely spoke as she needed. But when she talked, her words sounded very
cool and tranquil.” Hyperbole
2. “There was a feeling gently caressing my heart, such that I
was not capable of questioning her abrupt change of behavior.”
Personification
3. “To begin with, her change did not thoroughly tease my heart
because I was still a small kid. I was busy as a bee, fling kites with friends after school, finding eels in the paddy fields that
then we baked together, and sometime chasing the white herons until reaching the neighboring village.”
Simile
4. “Tunggal, my son, goes to the guava tree beside our house.
The tree has born fruit. Suddenly my mother told me upon my arrival at home after chasing kites. She was by the window,
combing her long hair.” Personification
5. “To begin with, her change did not thoroughly tease my heart
because I was still a small kid…” Personification
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“I headed directly toward the tree. Soon I climbed its sturdy trunk. My tiny body did not make it away, the tree steadily
standing erect.” Personification
7. “In its boughs, I saw the fruit with light yellow skin. I
imagined their pink edible flesh. Quickly, the fruit filled my hungry stomach.”
Personification
8. “From the tree I saw the woman walking hastily, looking
morose. She seemed to burn with anger. I kept watching her, and it turned out that she headed toward my house.”
Hyperbole
9. “In front of the door she called out to my mother with filthy
words. Then she pounded at the door. It flew open and hit the wall. Again, the woman yelled and she looked as though she
were possessed by an evil spirit.” Personification
10. “When finally the woman found her, my heart beat hard.
What should she do to my mother? when I saw a black shadow pulling at mother`s hair, accompanied by a howl, like
a wolf.” Simile
11. “I was so scared that I shut my eyes and ears. But my fingers
managed to open the eyelashes that were trying to unite. I could see what was happening.”
Personification
12. “My mother’s hair was being repeatedly dragged. But it
seemed that she didn’t fell anything. She played it cool. There was an urge to assist her, but it was as though a tree hugged
me tightly.” Personification
13. “Besides, the tree, suddenly flapping backwards and
forwards in the wind, made me afraid.” Personification
14. “I heard mother’s voice, singing a song whose meaning I did
not understand . Her voice was very gentle and heaved in a
slow rhythm as though it followed a breath of wind moving around the leaves of a guava tree.”
Personification
15. “Mother didn’t say a word. She kept combing her hair,
reciting the song that sounded softer. Her eyes gazed at the sun, whose light was becoming dimmer. Dusk was falling.
Before long, her eyes would stare at the moon. Then, the moonlight would move to mother’s eyes.”
Personification
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“She never changed, always combing her handsome hair. The change was just the color of her hair. Brownish.”
Personification 17.
“Day by day we got closer. Finally, we pledged to sail together in the ocean of love, aiming to reach the promised
land.” Hyperbole
18. “All of the sudden, the sunlight entered the room through the
open window, touching my mother’s hair. Her wind-blown hair shone like a polished diamond, my eyes not blinking.”
Simile
B. Analysis of Data
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