B. Approach of the Study
The writer uses Sociocultural -Historical Approach to analyze the play The Music Lessons. Robert said that
“Sociocultural -Historical Approach is a traditional approach which stresses the relationship of literature to its historical
period, and for this reason, it has had a long life ” Robert, 1995: 266. Although
much literature may be applicable to many places and times, much of it also directly reflects the intellectual and social worlds of the authors.
“When the work is written, what the circumstances that produces it, what major it deal with, and
how it fits to the author career Robert, 1995: 266. This approach told about the reflection
of author’s life in the past period through the literary work. The author wrote the literary work based on hisher life
experience. It is also discuss about how the author reflects the historical period from the real life of himher into the literary work. The author also told her life
story through the literary work. In addition, it also discusses the facts and major issue from the literary work which is written by the author. The major issue that
becomes the phenomenon in the play that the writer wants to reveal is discrimination.
Second theory of Sociocultural-Historical approach that the writer uses in this study is the theory form Rohrberger Woods. They said that
“the only way to locate the real work is in reference to the civilization that produces it
” Rohrberger Woods, 1971:9.
The quotation above has the meaning that the way to determine the work of the author is to see the civilization or history of hisher life.
Civilization is defined as the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people and point out that literature takes this attitudes and actions as its
subject matter Rohrberger Woods, 1971:9.
The writer uses this theory to analyze how the story in this play reflects the real or true life of the author through this story. This approach also helps the
writer to understand the social background of the Japanese immigrant in the United States. In addition, the writer become understands the reasons of
Japanese people did the immigration in the 1900s. The story of this play is appr
opriate with author’s real life.
C. Method of the Study
This study is library research. The most important source in this study is The Music Lessons itself, the book by Abrams, and the book by John K. Roth.
This book consisted of the Theory of Discrimination. This book was about the class and race discrimination. In this study, the writer did the three steps. First, the
writer decided the literary work to be analyzed, in this research The Music Lessons by Wakako Yamauchi. Second, the writer was reading and
understsanding the story. Third, the writer found three problems formulations that the writer wanted to answer. Fourth, found a source or theories and the approaches
that appropriate in this research. Fourth, found the related studies in the library web. Fifth, the writer answered three problems formulations in the analysis. The
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