Background of the Study

Different with Meity who analyzed the class and race discrimination through setting and characteristic of the main character, the writer analyzes the class and race discrimination with only the characteristics of the main character and the characterization. The writer also used the same approach with Meity, Sociocultural-Historical approach. “To analyze the novel Girl in Translation, the writer uses the Sociocultural- Historical approach” Kubuan, 2015: 25. The second Related Studies is Los Vendidos by Destyan Pijar Buana, a student of English Letters of Sanata Dharma University. His undergraduate thesis is “Racial Discrimination towards Mexican-American through setting in Valdez‟s Los Vendidos ”. In this thesis, he analyzed the race discrimination towards Mexican-American people through the setting. “The second objective is to reveal the racial discrimination towards Mexican-American people, which is main point of this study through the setting of this play. Buana, 2015: 5 ”. The approach that Buana used is same with the writer used. “The approach used to analyze this thesis is Socio-cultural historical approach Buana, 2015: xii. Different with Buana, the writer does not only reveal the racial discrimination but only the class discrimination. The reason is Japanese immigrant also got the discrimination based on economic class and their degree. The second difference is the writer does not reveal the discrimination with the setting of the play like Buana used. The last related study is from the journal of Elizabeth Young-Bhruel entitled “Discriminations ”. This article showed the fine disctinction about American people Whites with Asian American students. She as a teacher made a critic about the racial discimination and violence tendency between students. She also wanted to justice to her students. She wanted all her students have the same treatment, especially in skin color. “Racial discrimination and violence, everyone at this meeting agreed, are horrible, contemptible” Bhruel, 1993: pp.53-69. Different from Bhruel who criticized the racial discrimination between the students, in this research, the writer wants to reveal not only the racial discriminations, but also the other discriminations. The discrimination that the writer means is class discrimination.

A. Review of Related Theory

1. Theory of Character and Characterization Characterizing

Character is one important intrinsic element in a story. The story becomes unclear without the characters and their characterization. In a Glossary of Literary Terms, Seventh Edition, Abrams said that: Characters are the person represented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with particular moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons says and their distinctive ways of saying it-the dialogue-and from what they do-the action.Abrams, 1999: 32. By the quotation above, it can conclude that characters are person in drama or fiction who has a particular moral, intellectual, and emotional in their attitude. The readers can identify or make a conclusion that those qualities above are PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI characteristic of characters in a drama or fiction that has a particular moral, intellectual, and emotional in their attitude. The readers can identify or make a conclusion that those qualities above are characteristic of characters in a drama or fiction. Characterization is the important element to identify the character in the literary work. According to Robert and Jacobs, there are four ways to identify the characteristics of the characters. 1. What the characters themselves say and think, if the author expresses their thought 2.What the characters do You have heard that ―actions speak louder than words, and you should interpret actions as signs of character. 3.What the other characters say about them In stories and plays, as in life, people often talk about other people. 4.What the author says about them, speaking as storyteller or observer What the author says about a character is usually to be accepted as truth. Naturally, authors must be accepted on matters offactRoberts Jacobs, 1987:147-148. The characterization of the main character can be showed by many ways above. The main character‟s characteristic can be showed through the main character‟s say and do, in this play Chizuko. The characteristics of Chizuko can also be showed through by other characters. In addition, the characteristic of Chizuko is described by the author. The author has the role as a story teller behind the story.

2. Theory of Discrimination

This theory is used to answer the kinds of discrimination. This theory is used to identify the terms of discrimination that happened to Chizuko.