CHAPTER III
THE METHOD OF STUDY
Each scientific writing should have a certain kind of method to analyze the problem that is taken. So does this thesis. It uses an approach to
discover accurate information about social problems and its impact to the personal or individual in that society. I use some steps; identify and analyze
the problem, collect data, draw conclusion, and revise theories. The method that is used in this thesis is library research which done within extrinsic
approach to analyze the impact of social life to one individual. All God’s Chillun Got Wings is a play that tells about the violation of personal selfhood
one with the collective violation of the communal spirit. This play tells about a powerful of the impact of racial issue. Therefore I am very interested to
analyze how the four characters react in facing the racial issue and how the racial issue impacts the characters.
3.1 The Research Method
I use the All God’s Chillun Got Wings as the main source of the data. I collect the required information by reading and studying as many as possible
to support the research. I use library research to collect the data for this thesis. Library research means the information is taken from some text books,
articles and journal from internet and others that related to the subject matter.
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Those are about social, especially the racial issue at that time, about personality and characters and others.
3.2 The Data Collecting Procedure
The data and supporting information are collected by reading all references. Of course, the first step is to read the play, All God’s Chillun Got
Wings, as the main source. I read the play for several times to understand the play clearly. Then I also read other supporting sources related to the topic as
mentioned above.
3.3 The Data Analyzing Procedure
The next step is to analyze the primary data that is Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings. The analysis is carried out with the help of
other supporting data. The analysis is still in draft form because it may undergo some changes later.
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CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF RACIAL ISSUE ON THE CHARACTERS IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S ALL GOD’S CHILLUN GOT
WINGS
Every human cannot live by himself and isolated from other human. Human need society to continue his life and multiply. That is why when we
discuss human we also immediately discuss society. Just like Nurdin 1989:54 defines that social problems are a decline or deviant behavior of
society, related to a big numbers of people’s deviant behavior, not related to individual deviant. In spite of if the deviance of some one behavior could
affect some people can be a symptom of social problems, because this problem invites the attention of some members of society in where the
deviant society happens. All God’s Chillun Got Wings was written by Eugene O’Neill. ONeill
divides his play into two long acts--the first tracing the childhood, adolescence and eventual marriage of Jim and Ella; the second beginning
with the couples return from France, where they have fled to escape the pressures of American prejudice. The four scenes in Act I are filled with the
spirit of music--White and Black choruses, solo singers, a Salvation Army Band, church bells, and an organ grinder. In the second act there is no music,
but the sustaining presence of some vital force is suggested by Ellas madness
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and the expressionist distortion of objects which become symbolic dream
images. One of many racial issue plays that tell about the struggle of people
from the oppression of their social life where racial issue is rising. In this play we can see how great the racial issue impacts the characters. It does not
only impact the characters’ beliefs but it also destroys themselves, emotion, even until they get madness. These are the things which furthermore I will
focus to analyze in this thesis. I will focus on what the impact of the racial issue on Jim Harris’, Ella Downey’s, Hattie Harris’, and Joe’s characters.
