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A Reading Toward Stephen King's the Green Mile THE EVILS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: A READING TOWARD STEPHEN KING’S THE GREEN MILE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra In English Letters By SELVIE FEBRIANIE Student Number: 024214027 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2007 i The goal of human life is to serve and to show love and the readiness to help others. (Albert Schweitzer) Human power to choose enables them to think like angel or demon, king or slave. Whatever the choices, it will be created and realized by their minds. (Frederick bailes) OUR GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL (Confucius) selvie’s collection iv I dedicated this thesis for the following people who contribute much in my life: My dear parents ‘Mimom’ and ‘Pipop’ My dear sister ‘’Cim-com’ Opa Supit Lambertus Ngantung in Manado Tante ‘Ndut’ v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank you My Lord Jesus Christ, for always accompanying me in every condition that I face. I believe that in Your guiding only I could accomplish everything, including this thesis. My deep gratitude goes to Dr. Novita Dewi, M.S., M.A. (Hons.) as my Advisor. I am very surprised that I could accomplish my thesis in two months. I am greatly helped by your ideas and suggestions which are extremely valuable. I would also like to express my gratitude to Dra. A. B. Sri Mulyani, M.A. as my Co-Advisor for detailed suggestions for improving my thesis. My great and deep gratitude goes to my dear parents, Agung Widodo, Bc.Hk and Sofie Yosefien Ngantung for being the best parents. I am very blessed to be your daughter. When I am feeling down, both of you always motivate me and make me strong. Your life experiences have taught me much. For my sister, Bertha, thank you for accompanying me during my library study. I truly thank to my friends in Pelita Group, Budi and Mas Yudho for helping me to finish my business. I would not forget to thank Pdt. Yusak E.W and Mbak Arum who help me with the computer. My friends in GKI Prambanan, thank you for taking over my position and finishing my works. I thank also my friends in English Letters 2002, my ‘twin’ Dini, Shella, Ori, David, Swesty, Ferdi, Thomas, Dodi, Meme, and thank you for English Letters Department Sanata Dharma University. I do really appreciate all the helps given to me. God bless us. Selvie Febrianie vi TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE .................................................................................................. i APPROVAL PAGE ........................................................................................ ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE.................................................................................... iii MOTTO PAG ................................................................................................. iv DEDICATION PAGE...................................................................................... v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................. vii ABSTRACT..................................................................................................... ix ABSTRAK ....................................................................................................... x CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 1 A. Background of the Study...................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation ........................................................................... 6 C. Objectives of the Study........................................................................ 7 D. Definition of Terms.............................................................................. 8 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW ................................................ 10 A. Review of Related Studies ................................................................... 10 B. Review of Related Theories................................................................. 12 B.1 Theories on Character .................................................................. 12 B.2. Theories on Setting....................................................................... 13 B.3. Theories on Narrative Reading and Plot ...................................... 14 B.4. Theories on New Historicism....................................................... 17 C. Review on social condition in America in Depression Era ................. 18 D. Review on Capital Punishment ............................................................ 20 E. Theoretical Framework ........................................................................ 25 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY............................................................. 27 A. Object of the Study............................................................................... 27 B. Approach of the Study ......................................................................... 30 C. Method of the Study............................................................................. 31 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS .......................................................................... 34 A. The Depiction of The Badness of Capital Punishment through the story of Characters and Settings........................................................... 34 A.1.Lowering the Value of Human Life, Throwing Away Humanity...................................................................................... 35 A.2. Unfair Trial................................................................................... 39 A.3. No Chance of Rehabilitation........................................................ 41 A.4. Execution of the Innocents........................................................... 44 A.5. Legalizing the Act of Killing ....................................................... 46 vii B. The Contextuality of the Badness of Capital Punishment in The Green Mile with the Situation and Condition in America in Depression Era and with the World in General ................................... 52 B.1. Lowering the Value of Human Life, Throwing Away Humanity...................................................................................... 52 B.2. Unfair Trial................................................................................... 56 B.3. No Chance of Rehabilitation ........................................................ 61 B.4. Execution of the Innocents ........................................................... 64 B.5. Legalizing the Act of Killing........................................................ 65 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION..................................................................... 69 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................... 76 APPENDICE .................................................................................................. 79 Appendix 1: Summary of Stephen King’s The Green Mile............................. 79 Appendix 2: The Story of Scottsboro Boys according to A People and A Nation......................................................................................... 82 viii ABSTRACT SELVIE FEBRIANIE (2007). THE EVILS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: A READING TOWARD STEPHEN KING’S THE GREEN MILE. Yogyakarta: Departament of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University. Capital punishment has been an endless topic for debate as its practice has created pro and contra from its supporters and opponents. Many criminals are punished in the name of justice and law through the system of capital punishment. Nevertheless, something done in the name of justice and law is not always right or perfect. Depression era in America has been a witness from this kind of punishment. This study is to analyze the above issue by asking two questions: first, how the badness of capital punishment in The Green Mile is depicted through the story of the characters and settings. Second, how the badness of capital punishment is contextualized with the situation and condition in America during the Depression era and with the world in general as well. To do the analysis, several steps were applied. First, the primary data and the secondary data were gathered. The data consisted of Stephen King’s novel The Green Mile as the primary data. For the secondary data, the information about capital punishment, Depression era, and the situation and condition of the world in general was gathered. Second, a close reading was conducted both of the novel The Green Mile as the literary text and the information about capital punishment and depression era as the non-literary text. The theories which were used were theories of character, theories of setting, theories of narrative reading and plot, and theories of new historicism. The approach which was used was new historicism approach. From the analysis, it was found five evidences which support that capital punishment is bad. (1) The value of human life seems nothing once someone is convicted to die. His crime has lowering his life value. It is worsened by the status as the convicted person, the next corpse. There is no humanity in the practice of capital punishment although it is done in the softest way. It takes life not in the time decided by God. There is no way to return back for the convicted persons.. Although they are found not guilty later, it
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