Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Halimatul, Fitri
Femmy, Dahlan
Mariati, Mariati
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2020-08-31 07:06:08
Abstract :
In this research, the writer analzes the effects of social problems in Ghost Boys by Jewell
Parker Rhodes. The novel ilustrated how the sosial life of African-American and the most
problem towards them. The analysis has two purposes, which are describing about the social
problem and the effect towards African-American faced the social problems. The social
problem that writer finds are poverty, violence, crime, and racial discrimination. The effect
that writer find are anxiety, isolated, and affirmative action. The writer uses the analysis of
sosiology of literature from Laurent and Swingwood and history approach fom Jhones,Bartles
as a theory. The method that writer applied is close reading method for searching the details
by observe, and collect the data to prove the analysis. The result shows that the Afro-
American as ilustrated in the novel have poverty, violence, crime and racial discrimination.
Those giving impact for their life like anxiety with other, they was isolated with other
neighborhood and they want to change their situation against discriminiation with affirmitive
action.
keyword : Sosiology of literature, Sosial Problem, Effect