I. INTRODUCTION
1.1. The Background Of The Analysis
Literature is one of fundamental means of communication. It conveys ideas, feelings, emotions, desires through medium language. In daily life human can’t be separated from
literature, because by using literature human can express everything in mind, express feeling, and express intention. In this analysis I intend to talk about literature which is written in the form of
novel. That’s why it’s important to tell about the definition about literature, so that either the writer or the readers can be easily understand abut literature itself. R.J Rees 1973:9, in his
book English Literature stated that “Literature is a permanent expression in words of some thought or feeling or idea about life and the world”. It means literature offers a picture of reality
through words provided in literary works. Literature divided into three kinds. They are poetry, drama, and novel. Each of the
literary works has much in form but has some differences. Poetry is written in lines by focusing rhymes scheme; drama can be written down in the form of words of poetry. Poetry often uses
particular forms and conventions to suggest alternative meanings in the words, or to evoke sensual responses. Drama is a play as a work of art composed p fork spoken, or motion
performed, by imagined characters and having a subject, action, development, climax, and conclusion. Meanwhile, a novel is a narrative kind of writing which is focused on sequence of
events, times, and solution contain more than a thousand words and have the aspects of novel, they are plot, character, theme, and setting.
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Novel is an extended fiction, phrase narrative dealing with human character and actions of a period of time Peek, 1984: 104. It means novel offer an important event in society and in a
country. This analysis writes a story from a novel, which we know that novel is one of the kinds of literature. I intend to write about uncle Tom’s religiosity in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin that is tell us the other side of slavery occurs in the colonies. A slave, Uncle Tom, was happen to be the main character, had an extraordinary religious life.
At the first nineteenth century, there was a novel which raised up the life of slaves in America. Even though before it there so many literatures which raised up the themes of slavery
but there weren’t as phenomenal as this one. This novel describe a life of a slave that must be faced his life in the plantation estate. Even, Uncle Tom, a slave, that became a central character
in this novel must be experienced of having different employer for some time because of many factors. He also must be left his wife and his children.
The novel entitled Uncle Tom’s Cabin opened the eyes of American and offered to see the slavery from another side, the side which is out of their mind before. Slavery is cruel thing.
The thing that made minority people were like animals. This is very contrast with the religion which is hold by almost people in America.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a child of missionaries in America, the writer of this novel, wrote this novel very well. The language style that wasn’t judged the white people even though
supposed that the thing was bad. The descriptive and persuasive method that used can suggest the reader to catch out and agreed with the content of the novel itself.
Uncle Tom, as the main character in this novel, experienced bad things from all his employers. That was also happened to all the slaves in America at that time. But, the things that
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made Uncle Tom different from others, when he was attempted to survive his life from the bad attitude of White peoples on him. His faith to his religion made him survive.
The obstinacy of Uncle Tom to survive his life in the slavery support the writer to observe and discuss his religiosity.
1.2 Problem of the analysis
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