Cohesion in Hans Christian Andersen's Short Story Thumbelina - UDiNus Repository

CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONAND SUGGESTION

5.1Conclusion
Basedon the data analysisoutcome,it can be concludedthat Hans Christian
Andersen'sShort Story Thumbelinois arrangedin harmoniousform. It is shownby
the use of the grammaticalcohesivedevicesin the form of text and cohesionthat
occurs in the text. Those grammaticalcohesivedevicesmay help the readerto
understand
the wholetopic of shortstoryandits meaningeasily.
The grammaticalcohesivedevicesin Hans ihristian Andersen'sShon Story
Thumbelinaare:Reference,Ellipsis, Substitution,and Conjunction.In the storythere
ate:.446 (57,19%) PersonalReference,22 (2,83o/o)DemonstrativeReference,23
(2,45%)comparativeReference;T (a,9a%)Nominal Ellipsis, 1 (a,l3yo) verbal
Ellipsis,2 (0,25%)ClausalEllipsis;2 (A,26alo)
ClausalSubstitution;t54 ttg,75%)
Additive conjunction,45 (5,77%)Adversativeconjunction,31 (3,gg%) clausal
Conjunction, 69 (6,16%) TemporalConjunction.
Hans ChristianAndersen'sShort Story Thumbelinais easyto be understood
becauseit usesthe propergrammaticalcohesivedevices.The relationsthat occurred
betweenthe two elementsof text which is linked by the grammaticalcohesive

devices are in anaphoricand cataphoricways. The function of anaphoricand
cataphoricrelationcreatecohesionin thetext andalsocreatethe meaningof the text.

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5.2 Suggestion
After readingHansChristianAndersen'sShort Story Thumbelina,which is very
enjoyableand understandabledue to its use of the necessarygrammaticalcohesive
dwices, it is suggestedthat the studentsshouldbe concernedand pay attentionto the
cohesionwhen they write a text becauseit will help to understandthe meaningof it.
the studentsshould also have to pay realizethat the use of grammaticalcohesive
devicessuchasreference,ellipsis, substitution,and conjunctionare very importantto
comprehe4da readingpassage,Last but not least,grammaticalcohesivedeviceshelp
st[dents to managetheir vocabularyand to avoid the useof monotonouswords,when
they write a text.