The worry of parents and adults about morality of now generation pushes them to find out a fun way to give children the understanding about right and wrong. One of
alternative way is literary work. Nowadays, there are many literary works that are adopted for cinema. One of them is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe. The visual literature is considered can create a fun way to introduce the human and moral value to the children.
It attracts the writer to analyze the script of this story and try to break down the values of reward and punishment. The rewards are the consequence of doing good and
the punishments are the consequence of doing bad. These values are considered can be the way to give the understanding about base principle to behave morally.
B. Focus of the Study
Morality is a means to socialize with the family, friends and community. It’s an important thing to have acceptable relationship. Some people argue that the most of
young generation have a bad morality. Therefore, parents have to raise the awareness of their children to behave morally. Children’s literature can be an alternative to grow the
moral understanding of their children. Nowadays, there are many literary works that are adopted for cinema. It can give
moral message to the children more effective and exciting. One of them is popular fantasy novel The Chronicles Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that was
firstly published in 1950 and was adopted for cinema in 2005. Related to the way of stimulating child’s moral behavior, the writer will focus on the reward and punishment
concept of the script The Chronicles Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
The rewards and punishments value are considered can give understanding to children about morality. They will understand the consequence of doing good or bad. The
reward and punishment values in the story are considered can be a good model to children. They can imply those values in their real life but in different ways. Therefore,
they don’t need to frown anymore when their parents are starting to preach about having good behavior. They will have fun way to learn about life, about how to be human.
C. Research Question
Based on the background and the focus of the study, the writer tries to formulate the problems to get more specific purpose. The problems are:
1. What kind of rewards and punishments are implied in The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? 2.
How did the author deliver the moral message to children through the reward and punishment values?
D. Objectives of the Study
This research is aimed to figure out the kinds of rewards and punishments which appear on the script of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Besides, it’s aimed to figure out how the authors deliver the moral message to children through the reward and punishment values as an element of Lawrence Kohlberg’s
thought of moral development.
E. Significance of the Study
