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about life and death and calls it as th e “final paper” that Mitch should finish. Hence,
they decide to meet every Tuesday since they believe that they are Tuesdays people. In many meetings that are held, Morrie talks much about American culture.
He has a deep concern of the values applied by the society. Morrie says that people are too busy with themselves and are sank in accomplishment. Morrie thinks that by
doing so, people will seem half- asleep. It is convincing that Morrie does not agree with this value. He says that this kind of culture does not make people feel good
about themselves. Instead, Morrie has his own personal views on the American values
which become his values in life. His personal values emphasize on human relationship. Morrie believes that
love does make differences. His love to others is expressed by his attitudes. What he likes to do are, for example, communicating with others, showing his affection to
them, having time together with his discussion groups and reading books instead of getting busy with the television programs. By doing such activities, he creates a
“cocoon” of human activities.
B. Approach of the Study
Rohrberger and Woods Jr. 3-9 states that sociocultural- historical approach is dealing with social, cultural, and historical background of the author. Since this
study is in reference to the American culture, the sociocultural- historical approach is applied. This approach is used since it emphasizes on the social, cultural, and
historical background of the author which enables the thesis writer to understand the novel. Furthermore, this approach will support the analysis of the formulated
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and Morrie’s personal views on American values that should be applied in the society.
C. Method
There were some steps that were done to answer the problems that had been formulated. The first step was reading the novel Tuesdays with Morrie as the major
source of this study as well as the object of this study. The novel was read many times to get the best understanding about the issues discussed.
After getting view of what the novel told about, two problems were formulated based on the thesis
writer’s attracts to the issue .
In answering those formulated problems, some data were gathered from many sources, such as previous
studies on the same novel, books and websites. The next step was underlying the related theories, the approach used in this
study, and the previous studies, to answer the two main problems; the American
values described in the story and Morrie’s personal views on American values. In this
step, analysis on how American culture is, especially its values, was undergone. This analysis was aim to answer the first problem. The next step was answering the second
problem. In this step, the thesis writer analyzed Morrie’s personal views of American values.
The last steps were concluding the whole thesis, suggesting future researchers, and making a lesson plan. The conclusion constituted a brief summary of the result of
the analysis that had been conducted. After made a conclusion, suggestions for future researchers were revealed. The thesis writer then made a lesson plan for English
language teaching as the very last step.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
