problem formulation is about the how the main character Chizuko is described.
Second, is the Theory of Discrimination. This theory is to understand the kinds of Discrimination that faced by Chizuko through her society. There are
two kinds of discrimination, Class and Race Discrimination. Class discrimination is done the Japanese nation Kaoru who wanted to look for the
job. And also Billy Kane White people. Racial discrimination is done by Billy Ka
ne, white people, who humiliated Chizuko‟s family through Chizuko‟s children. The theory of Class and Racial discrimination is to understand deeply
about the kinds of discrimination Class and Racial themselves. The last theory is Theory of Relation Between Literature and Society.
This theory is used by the writer to relate between the author‟s literary work and the author‟s social life on the real life. It means that author‟s literary work
is the image of the author‟s social life.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object that the writer used to analyze this study is The Music Lessons. The author or writer was Wakako Yamauchi. This drama was written in 1953. The
publisher of this drama is University of Massachusetts Press. This drama was written by Yamauchi during the period of immigration. This drama consists of
two acts and forty three pages. Act one is divided into four scenes and act two is divided into six scenes. This drama also showed the experience of Yamauchi
because this drama was more or less the same with her life- experience. This story was about the first generation of Japanese immigrants Chizuko
and her children who faced of the discrimination, either from the same Japanese itinerant Kaoru or white people from United States Billy Kane. Chizuko
wanted to maintain her family economic condition and her family integrity. She did not want her last child Aki was influenced or persuaded by Kaoru’s violin
lesson and Aki went from her. The author also wanted to show how the main character Chizuko resisted the class and race discrimination and also the struggle
that shown by Chizuko. The struggle of Chizuko was shown when she and her children got the discriminations. She did all ways so that she and her three
children could survive. In addition, Chizuko also struggled from class and race discrimination from the fellow Japanese itinerant, Kaoru and from white people
from United States, Billy Kane. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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.
