4. Problem Formulations
Based on the background elaborated in the previous sub-chapter, the research focuses the formulation on how the commonly silenced realities including sensuality
and sexuality, bad sides of life, and unexpected behaviors are disapproved and silenced by adults yet shown in
Blume’s novels; and how those silenced, on the contrary, empowers the book aesthetically and practically. Therefore, the problem
formulation is i n what way Blume’s selected novels yield pleasures in Children’s
Literature as well as their therapeutic effects in voicing the following silenced issues: 1. Sensuality and Sexuality
2. Bad Sides of Life 3. The Unexpected Manners
5. Objectives of the Study
In the attempt to investigate pleasures and the practical uses of voicing the silenced brute sides of life, sexuality, and the unexpected behaviors, this research has
an objective formulated to elaborate how Blume’s selected novels yield pleasures in
Children’s Literature as well as their therapeutic effects in voicing the following silenced issues:
1. Sensuality and Sexuality 2. Bad Sides of Life
3. The Unexpected Manners
6. Benefits of the Study
The results of this study may contribute to share the conceptual understanding about the existence of common but unchecked assumptions about childhood and
children’s literature as well as the power relation between adults and children which have led into silencing in creating stories for children so that the single definition
about how children is so long understood in society is possible to question and to criticize. Especially in Indonesia, this research is expected to be beneficial as
children’s literature is mostly silenced from themes like brute sides of life, sexuality, and unexpected behaviors in childhood and their literature.
While practically, this study is aimed at sharing knowledge to children’s literature critics, writers, educators, and parents including local and general about the
benefits of being aware of silencing in the production or understanding children’s literary works. This, then, enables the presence of more honest authors and caring
adults who put children, their life, and their problems as the subject in their own literature so that pleasurable stories can be achieved to encourage wider number of
young readers and the practically useful stories can be used to help children learn about their real life through literature.
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