Racial Discrimination Portrayed in Flannery O’connor’s Short Stories:a Good Man is Hard To Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge

Abstract

This thesis entitled Racial Discrimination Portrayedin Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories: A Good Manis Hardto Findand Everything That Rises MustConverge. This thesis contains an analysis of the racial discrimination in the two short stories of the same author. The two short stories setting in United States on 19th century. The aims of this thesis are (i) to know how the stereotype portrayed in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Convergeshort stories, (ii) to know how the prejudice portrayed in A Good Man is Hard to Find and EverythingThat Rises Must Convergeshort stories, and (iii) to know how the rejection portrayed in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge short stories. The writer used sociology of literature as the main theory, and some attitudes that related to discriminations such as stereotype, prejudice and rejection in analyzing the problems. In completing the analysis, the writer used qualitative descriptive method. The writer collects the data from some sources includedA Good ManisHardto Findand Everything That Rises MustConverge short stories, journals, article, website, and books which related to the racial discrimination.

Skripsi ini berjudul Diskriminasi Rasial yang Digambarkan dalam Cerita Pendek Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find dan Everything That Rises Must Converge. Skrispsi ini berisi analisis diskriminasi rasial dalam dua cerita pendek dari penulis yang sama. Kedua cerita pendek ini terjadi di Amerika Serikat pada abad ke-19. Tujuan dari skripsi ini adalah (i) untuk mengetahui bagaimana stereotip digambarkan dalam cerita pendek A Good Man is Hard to Find dan Everything That Rises Must Converge, (ii) untuk mengetahui bagaimana prasangka digambarkan dalam cerita pendek pendek A Good Man is Hard to Find dan Everything That Rises Must Converge, dan (iii) untuk mengetahui bagaimana penolakan digambarkan dalam cerita pendek A Good Man is Hard to Find dan Everything That Rises Must Converge. Penulis menggunakan sosiologi sastra sebagai teori utama, dan beberapa sikap yang berkaitan dengan diskriminasi seperti stereotip, prasangka dan penolakan dalam menganalisis permasalahan. Dalam menyelesaikan analisis, penulis menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Penulis mengumpulkan data dari beberapa sumber seperti cerita pendek A Good Manis Hardto Find dan Everything That Rises MustConverge, beberapa jurnal, artikel, situs web, dan buku-buku yang terkait dengan diskriminasi rasial.