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AN ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE FACED BY EVA AS A
STUDENT AT WOORDROW WILSON HIGH
SCHOOL
ON RICHARD LAGRAVENESE’S
FILM “FREEDOM WRITERS”
THESIS
by:
Yoana Vibriyanti
201110100311227
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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AN ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE FACED BY EVA AS A
STUDENT AT WOORDROW WILSON HIGH
SCHOOL ON RICHARD LAGRAVENESE’S
FILM “FREEDOM WRITERS”
THESIS
by:
Yoana Vibriyanti
201110100311227
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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AN ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE FACED BY EVA AS A
STUDENT AT WOORDROW WILSON HIGH
SCHOOL ON RICHARD LAGRAVENESE’S
FILM “FREEDOM WRITERS”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
by:
Yoana Vibriyanti
201110100311227
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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This thesis was written by Yoana Vibriyanti and was approved
on May 18th, 2016
by:
Advisor II, Advisor I,
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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on May 4th, 2016
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M.Kes.
Examiners: Signatures:
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ORIGINALITY DECLARATION
The undersigned:
Name : Yoana Vibriyanti
Student ID Number : 201110100311227
Program of Study : English Department
Faculty : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
I declare that the work presented in this thesis was carried out by myself and does not incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge this thesis does not contain any material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in text.
Malang, April 28th, 2016
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
ũKarena sesungguhnya sesudah kesulitan itu ada kemudahan, sesungguhnya sesudah kesulitan itu ada kemudahan. Maka apabila
engkau telah selesai (dari suatu urusan), tetaplah bekerja keras
untuk (urusan yang lain), dan hanya kepada Tuhanmulah engkau
berharapŪ
(QS. Al Insyirah: 5-8)
Dedication
I dedicated this thesis to:
My beloved father (Junari) and mother (Sumi Hartini)
My Advisors (Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M. and Dra. Thathit Manon A., M.Hum.)
My sister (Mayra Ade Verdanika) and all my big family
My adored (Roosesandy C.K)
All my friends (Fida Akhyar, Adi Wahyu P, Arista Putri D, Annisa J, Mega
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The researcher praise to the almighty Allah Subhanahuwata’ala who has given blessing and mercy to the writer in order to finish this thesis. Shalawat and salam may be granted to our noble prophet Muhammad Shalallahua’alaihi wassallam and His family, His friends, and His followers who have brought Islam until this present.
This thesis is the end of the writer’s journey in obtaining her S.Pd degree. At the end of her thesis, the writer would like to express her gratitude to Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M and Dra. Thathit Manon A., M.Hum., as advisor who has been very helpful, kind, and passion in giving advises ideas, and valuable time during the process of this thesis writing guided and given her suggestion in finishing her thesis with a great patience.
The writer also wants to express her deeply gratitude to her parent (Bapak Junari and Ibu Sumi Hartini), her sister (Mayra Ade Verdanika), her big family (Kakung, Uti, and whole family), her best friend (Roosesandy C.K), and all of the people who cannot be mentioned one by one, thanks for love, care, support and providing unfailing support and continuous encouragement throughout her years of study that given to the writer through the process of writing this thesis.
Malang, April 28th, 2016 The Writer,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... iv
LEGALIZATION ... v
ORIGINALITY DECLARATION ... vi
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... vii
ABSTRACT ... viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... x
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1. Literature ... 8
2.2. Film ... 9
2.3. Kinds of Film ... 10
2.3.1 Action-Adventure Film. ... 10
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CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1. Research Finding ... 32
4.1.1 The Violence Faced by Eva as a Student ... 33
4.1.1.1. Dividing into Separated Section Depending on Race ……….………… ... 33
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1. Conclusions ... 53
5.2. Suggestion ... 54
5.2.1 For the Lecturer ... 54
5.2.2 For the Students of English Department ... 55
5.2.3 For Next Researcher ... 55
REFERENCES ... 56
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the writer presents section, they are background of the study, statements of problem, purpose of study, scope and limitation, significant of study, and definition of key term.
1.1. Background of The Study
Literature is the expression of thought, it means the ideas, feelings, views, reasoning, and other operation of human mind (Newman in Singleton, 1966: 573). Literature makes the people increase their understanding of human life which have different cultures, and the other aspects of life. They will know how to interact and treat the other people because sometimes in literature there is a character that is reflection from people‟s characteristics in the real life.
Literature exists because it pleasures us. It pleases us by imitating life, or more precisely, by displaying its writers‟ vision of life as it should be
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One film shows violence as “Freedom Writers”. It is a drama film released in 2007, inspired by the experience of a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School on the Eastside, Long Beach, California with pupils from different ethnics and backgrounds. The film departs from the real events, it tells about the story of the main characters, Erin Gruwell, who teaches in Freshman English Class room 203 for special classes of children victims of fights between racial gangs, and Eva, a student who involved in violence from she was child. The priority to discuss is the violence faced by Eva, the causes of violence and how Eva overcomes violence as a student at Woordrow Wilson High School.
In the previous study which has been done by Sari (2015) in analyzing social identity formation of Eva in Freedom Writers Film show that Freedom Writers film is interesting. She found that Eva‟s social identity formation is divided into two processes: self-categorization and social comparison. Furthermore, previous study which has been done by Anjani (2012) in analyzing the violence faced by students in school shows that violence can be happened and done by whoever, such as the violence caused by teacher, the student itself, and the element of school. Actually, the violence that happened in school which is done by the students is often not resolved properly by the help of a teacher. However, this previous study did not tell about the violence that happened in school in more detail yet.
From that‟s previous studies, this study will analyze literary work on “Freedom Writers” film in different topic which more interesting than the first and
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main character which will be explained in more detail in the study entitle “An Analysis of Violence Faced by Eva as a Student at Woordrow Wilson High School
on Richard LaGravenese’s Film “Freedom Writers”. Thus in this study, the film
is analyzed because it offers many valuable lesson, message and interesting story. “Freedom Writers” film is chosen to be analyzed because it tells about violence
faced by Eva that happened in school. This story is based on true story of the major character Eva who involved in violence since she was child.
Violence is chosen as a topic because however, nowadays it is becoming the crucial issue in Indonesia, such as the students in Makassar got in fighting each other at school. It is a main matter that should be given more attentions from the government and people who have empowerment. Violence as human action always has reason, importance, and certain aim. Not only in Indonesia, in United State of America the violence which is caused by races also being a crucial issue. It is not only violence between Blacks, Whites, Latinos and Asians but it is also the institution such as police. Some data from ProPublica (2014) showed that as many as 1217 fatal shooting by police in 2010-2012 are summarized in the federal data show that age 15 to 19 of blacks were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while only 1.47 per million white in the same age died shooting by police. Detailed accounts of more than 12,000 police homicides stretching from 1980 to 2012 contained in the FBI‟s Supplementary Homicides Report were involved in
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Loftin in ProPublica, the professor of Albany University and co-director of The Violence Research Group, said that the count of homicides by police in FBI is a minimum and to precisely measure what puts people at risk of homicide by police is impossible without more and better records. Still, what the data are certainly relevant that shows about the race of victims and officers, and the circumstances of killings,. “No question, there are all kinds of racial disparities
across our criminal justice system” he said. According to Pro Publica (2014), the
data is incomplete. The fatal police shooting reports of the country‟s 17,000 police departments is not filed at all and many have field reports for some years but not others. Indeed, while the absolute numbers are problematic, a comparison between white and black victims shows important trends.
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of criminals and dangerous people, so that is why Blacks and Latino always become the victim of violence.
The reasons above are motivated to conduct this study is expected to give new insight and important lesson to the audiences who know and involve to violence and to the teachers who have the student that is involved to the violence. It is very important for teacher to know about the ethnic, racial, even the culture of the student and can make easily for the teacher and students to understand each other when they are in learning process.
1.2. Statements of Problem
Following the information exposed in the background of the study, the statements of problem can be formulated three questions as the focus to investigate. They are:
1. What are the violences faced by Eva as a student at Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟s Film “Freedom Writers”? 2. What are the causes of the violence faced by Eva as a student at
Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟s Film “Freedom Writers”?
3. How does Eva overcome the violence as a student at Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟sFilm “Freedom Writers”?
1.3. Purpose of Study
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1. To explain the violences faced by Eva as a student at Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟s Film “Freedom Writers”. 2. To find out the causes of the violence faced by Eva as a student at
Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟s Film “Freedom Writers”.
3. To discover Eva overcome the violence as a student at Woodrow Wilson High School on Richard LaGravenese‟s Film “Freedom Writers.
1.4. Scope And Limitation
The scope of this study is focused on the violence which happens in „Freedom Writers‟ directed by Richard LaGravenese. Furthermore, it is limited in
discussing on the violence faced by Eva as a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, the causes and the overcome.
1.5. Significance of Study
It is hoped that the result could give worthy contributions to the development of literature subject. Besides, she hopes that it could encourage students to read literature and to get good appreciation on English literature works. Furthermore, the result of the study can be used as reference in writing a similar research from different tittle.
1.6. Definition of Key Term
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come to care about, but a film might also develop an idea or explore visual qualities or sound texture (Bordwell and Tompson, 2008)
2. Violence is a situation when someone does actions that could endanger physically against her/himself, others, and environment (Stuart and Sundeen in Hasibuan, 2013)
3. “Freedom Writers” is a drama film released in 2007, inspired by the experience of a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School on the Eastside, Long Beach, California.
4. Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of „The Fisher King‟.
