AN ANALYSIS OF SHANE’S STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE
STARRETT’S FARM IN THE NOVEL “SHANE” BY
JACK SCHAEFER
THESIS
BY:
IZZA RISDANI
06360068
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF SHANE’S STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE
STARRETT’S FARM IN THE NOVEL “SHANE” BY
JACK SCHAEFER
THESIS
By:
IZZA RISDANI
06360068
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF SHANE’S STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE
STARRETT’S FARM IN THE NOVEL “SHANE” BY
JACK SCHAEFER
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
BY:
IZZA RISDANI
06360068
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
“There is a will there is a way”
DEDICATION:
I dedicat ed t his t hesis t o:
My beloved mot her and f at her,
My sist ers,
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ACKNOWNLEDGMENTS
Alhamdulillah, all praise is to Allah SWT, the Merciful and Charitable.
Because of His guidance, blessing and affection, the writer can finish this thesis.
The writer also expresses her deepest gratitude to Mrs. Dra. Thathit Manon
Andini, M.Hum and Mrs. Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M.Si for their advice, correction,
motivation, and ideas in guiding her thesis. The writer’s gratitude also goes to all the
lecturers of English department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang for
knowledge.
The writer dedicated her deepest love and sincere to her beloved Mother
(Ramjiah), Father (Buang Hamdani, S. IP), and sisters (Wiwi and Nana), who give
her support and prayers so that this thesis can be completed.
To all her best friends (Kakayo Rezka, Uic, Depai, mak Dilla, Yua, Indro,
Viona Patricia, Pina, Eci, Nay, Dian and Marini) and GJB friends, she also expresses
her deepest gratitude because of their togetherness and kindness and to Mr. A for
becoming her inspiration. To her friends at campus (Vike, Ratih, and Budi), the writer
also would dedicate her thanks for their help and their support and for all her friends
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION ... ii
MOTTO & DEDICATION ... iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... iv
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 7
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CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 19
3.1 Research Design ... 19
3.2 Approach. ... 20
3.3 Research Object ... 21
3.4 Data Collection ... 22
3.5 Data Analysis ... 22
CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ... 23
4.1 Findings... 23
4.1.1 Shane’s Struggle to Save the Starrett’s farm ... 23
4.1.1.1 Shane becomes a farmhand ... 24
4.1.1.2 Shane gets into a fistfight with Fletcher’s men ... 25
4.1.2 The Effect of Shane’s struggle toward Starrett’s family ... 28
4.2.1 Starrett’s family can save their farm from Fletcher ... 28
4.2.2 Starrett’s family losses Shane ... 29
4.2 Discussion ... 30
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 32
5.1 Conclusions ... 32
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 of this thesis presents such topic as: background of study, statement
of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and
definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows.
1.1Background of Study
Literature is always interesting to be discussed. It gives different impression
and knowledge for everyone. Therefore, human’s expression can be shown with any
and different ways just depends on how they see things or on what views. The
expression of human life sometimes is shown from literary works such as novel,
poem, and drama.
Reading literature is important because it can provide people with valuable
and useful knowledge. Reading literature has some advantages. First, the readers can
enrich their vocabularies and add their understanding about the meaning of the
sentences in the novel. Second, readers can get some inspirations and widen their
knowledge about foreign culture. Third, readers can see the reflection of real life
which is complex with many conflicts to be faced, for instance struggles in life,
problems with others, and social interaction.
According to Meyer, literature is described as a fiction has consists of
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when the authors create a fiction, they stir their imagination and choose every word
that they want to write carefully so that it can be understood by readers. For example,
when authors write a story, they build their own imagination and write it down as
clearly as possible. Even some words will sound strange or too imaginative; it will
help the readers understand about the authors’ thought or what they want to say.
There are many kinds of literary works, such as novel, drama, poetry, and
short story. All kinds of literary works help people grow both personality and
intellectuality. Literary works also enable the readers to recognize human dreams and
struggles in different societies that they would never know before. Novel is one form
of literary works that often try to reflect human life by portraying the mental and
inner mind of the characters.
Novel comes from Latin word, novellas that means new, because if we
compare with the others, like poetry, drama, and so on, it is the newest one. Novel
has certain length and describes the characters and scene of representative real life in
a plot or chaotic situation.
By reading a novel, people get worthwhile lessons. Novel tells about a
description and mirror of human life that may include references to real place, people,
and event. It gives not only joy and great pleasure but also messages and lesson that
people can apply in life which they can get those from many conflicts that has to be
faced by the character so people know the way to handle difficult situation and other
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Novel is chosen because it can improve knowledge in literature. On the other
hand, it can give a new knowledge about another science different from the writer’s
study about education in English department. In a novel, there are many things that
we can analyze, for example we can analyze about theme, subject matter, plot or
characterization. On the other hand, from the novel we can also analyze about the
mission faced by the characters or the intrigue that happened in the novel. In reading
a novel, the readers will not only get enjoyment but they also be brought into a vast,
lose, and fresh relationship to life since novel may be called as the imitation of life.
They can get a better view of things that happen in the people’s mind. Besides, it also
invites our emotional and intellectual involvement and also our response to the story.
It means that when reading a novel, the readers will get involved in the experience
that faced by the characters.
In this research, the writer tries to analyze about the struggle of one of the
main characters in this novel, because struggle is very important in life and also life is
full of struggle to reach everything what we want in this world. There are some
previous researches that related to this research. One of the researches was conducted
by Konsuratmiwati (2006). Her study was an analysis of Mitch Mc Deere’s struggles
in John Grisham’s novel “The Firm’. The result of her research showed that the
Mitch Mc Deere’s struggles are the struggle to finish his study and struggle to find
out a mystery in the firm. Another research was conducted by Dewi (2009). Her study
was analysis of the main characters’ struggles in “Kramer vs Kramer” novel by Avery
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struggles as a single parent, struggles to get the job, and struggles to defend of his
child. The last was conducted by Chasanah (2005). Her study was an analysis of
Edward’s struggles in Captain Marryat’s novel “The Children of the New Forest”.
The result of her study concluded that there are two kinds of Edward’s struggles, they
are struggle to live and struggle to revenge. All of the findings from the researcher
that mention above give an inspiration for the writer to know the struggle that faced
by one of the main character in this novel.
In this study, the writer investigates the struggle that happened in “Shane”,
Jack Schaefer’s novel. One of the main characters, that is Shane must struggle to save
the Starrett’s farm by becoming a farmhand and doing a fistfight against Fletcher’s
man.
So, in this study, the writer is interested in analyzing Shane’s struggles in
order to protect Starrett’s farm from Fletcher, the bad man in the town and to help
Starrett’s family who gave him a place for living. Besides, the writer would like to
get some inspirations and widen knowledge by reading this novel. So, based on the
reason above, this thesis is entitled: “An analysis of Shane’s struggle to save
Starrett’s farm in the novel “Shane” by Jack Schaefer.
1.2Statement of Problems
Based on the background of study above, the writer formulates the statement
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1. What are Shane’s struggles to save the Starrett’s farm in the novel “Shane” by
Jack Schaefer?
2. How are the effects of Shane’s struggle toward Starrett’s family in the novel?
1.3Purpose of Study
Based on the statement of problem, the purpose of study is intended to
identify:
1. To know Shane’s struggles to save the Starrett’s farm in the novel “Shane” by
Jack Schaefer
2. To know the effects of Shane’s struggle toward Starrett’s family in the novel
1.4Significance of Study
The writer hopes that the result of this study may give some contributions.
First, it is expected that the result of this study gives the readers some knowledge
about struggle. Second, it is to motivate the readers, especially students of English
Department at University of Muhammadiyah Malang to love literature. Finally, this
study is to give alternative references to the students who are interested in analyzing
prose.
1.5Scope and Limitation
There are many struggles which are done by some characters in this novel,
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struggles that is Shane’s struggle. The scope of this study is focused on struggle. The
writer only analyzes Shane’s struggles and the effects of his struggles toward the
Starrett’s family.
1.6Definition of Key Terms
1. Analysis is to identify the separate parts that make it up (this correspond roughly to the notion of tearing it to pieces), to determine the relationships
among the parts (Kenney, 1966).
2. Novel is a long work of narrative prose fiction. Because of its length, a novel can picture-life with all of its richness, complexity, and contradiction
(MacMillan, 1987).
3. Struggle is to try very hard to do or to achieve something that is difficult (Hornby in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 1995).
