Toni Morrison’s Home used by the writer because this work is suitable because Morrison’s puts the issue ofthe repression. The writer wants to reveal
what exactly that the author did not explain clearly. The writer wants to reveal the reactions of the main characters toward class repression by analyzing the
characterization of the main characters. By studying this work hopefully it can be used tohelp people see the effects of negative stereotypes. Those kinds of point of
view can cause people to repress other people which were happening at that time in African American society. It becomes the learning point that people as human
being should treat other people in the same way without any repression.
B. Problem Formulation
1. How are the main characters depicted?
2. How is the class repression toward the main charactersdescribed?
3. How is the reaction of the characters toward repression?
C. Objectives of the Study
The objective of the study is to give clear descriptionto the questions of the repression in African-American Society in problem formulation. The
questions are about the description of the main characters, the class repression toward the main characters, and the reactions of the characters toward their
experience being repressed within African-American society. In the first question, the writer will depict characterization of Frank Money and Ycidra as known as
Cee. In the second question the writer will give the evidence of class repression which is experienced by the characters presented in the novel. For the last
question, the writer will try to reveal the reactions of the characters’ experience of
being repressed through Frank Money and Ycidraas the main African-American characters in novel entitled Home.
D. Definition of Terms
In this study, in order to avoid the misunderstanding on certain terms the writer makes specific key terms as mentioned in the title.
Silent Fight
Fight is struggle determinedly to make a strenuous effort to do, obtain, achieve or defend something; to make vigorous effort to oppose, resist, or
overcome something or somebody which is not expressed or voiced, though felt or believed; not speaking or communicating, especially through voice Webster,
2006: 1345.Fight is struggle determinedly to make a strenuous effort to do, obtain, achieve or defend something; to make vigorous effort to oppose, resist, or
overcome something or somebody. The silent occurs when someone has no power to react directly. Someone who feels that actions will not make any changes, will
take no action towards the problem. It also happens when someone has no choice to express his or her feeling.
Class
Class is an objective economic category, it can be defined as a position of an individual within the structure of production relations, including their effective
rights and duties Stearns, 1996: 184. The status in the society that is shaped by the economic condition and position of person has big influence in society.
Repression
Repression is the process of suppressing somebody or the condition of having political, social, or cultural freedom controlled by force Webster, 2006:
1230. The repression occurs when there is a gap between the upper and the lower.The way someone suppresses another people who have less power. This
action aims to get advantage of someone.
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