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But class struggle is constant, even in periods of relative labor “peace.” Even when workers are not struggling to increase their share of the wealth they produce,
the owners are trying to increase their share. Increased productivity, decreased wages, taking more taxes from the corporations to the working class, cutting health care
benefits, all these are ways in which the capitalist class wages class struggle against the workers.
In this thesis, the writer analyze about the struggle of the people as a lower class who have to work hard to fulfill their needs in their life. Struggle is related to
psychological unconscious mind. It is an effort to obtain freedom, to make great effort under difficulties, to be content with or against act, and to be confused. Thus,
struggle may mean choices of action to do an effort, whether the way is true or wrong. Class struggle is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to
competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes. In this research, struggle is the main discussion, especially the struggle of the main
character through the games.
2.4.1 Lower Class
Lower class or also knownas ‘proletariat’ or ‘laboring class’ is the class of people employed for wages, especially in manual or industrial work. In Marxist
theory and sociology of literature, lower class is often used synonymously with the term ‘proletariat’, and includes all those who expend either mental or physical labor
to produce economic value, or wealth in non-academic terms, for those who own the means of production. The lower class is typified by poverty, homelessness, and
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unemployment. People of this class, few of them have finish high school, suffer from lack of medical care, adequate housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and
vocational training. The media often stigmatize the lower class as “the underclass,” inaccurately characterizing poor people as welfare mothers who abuse the system by
having more and more babies, welfare fathers who are able to work but do not, drug abusers, criminals, and societal “trash.”In this novel, Katniss who comes from the
lower class districts have to go through such physical and mental labor in order to meet the demands and needs of her family’s lives.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE STUDY
In doing this study, the writer will go through the necessary steps for achieving the most effective study results and these steps involves research design,
data sources, data collection and data analysis. The main source of this analysis especially the data was taken from the novel “Hunger Games” written by Suzanne
Collins. The data are in form of quotations which are selected from the novel. The selection is oriented on the text which has connection with social class and struggle
as expressed in the novel. This thesis used the theory of Marxism by Karl Marx, Iwill analyze the practice of Marxism and the elements applied in the society. From the
analysis, Iwill be able to draw a conclusion for the problem formulation to reach the goal in solving the problem.
In analyzing the data, the writer usesqualitative method,because all data are analyzed in the form of words and sentences. Qualitative is about exploring issues,
understanding phenomena, and answering questions by analyzing the data. Hermeneutics method is also used in this analysis. There are actually similarities
between hermeneutics and qualitative, both methods analyze the data by means of interpretation in the form description. Hermeneutics research is a qualitative research
strategy.Hermeneutics research emphasizes subjective interpretations in the research of meanings of texts, art, culture, social phenomena and thinking. Thus the activities
of interpretation shows on three basic things: an oral recitation, a reasonable explanation, and a translation from another language.
This analysis begins when the data collected. This method explainsabout how understanding structure and pattern from the data. Having theability to understand
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Conclusion language that used by the author in a novel and then to analyze the dataand the world
that author is created in the formof wordsandlanguage. Because inthis thesis, the writer using the novel to get and observe the data.
3.1 Research Design
