By
Dianita Hadiningsih
02004145
ABSTRACT
Dianita Hadiningsih
02004145
ABSTRACT
The research of this S1 thesis is the struggle of Hasari Pal to support his family as reflected in Dominique Lapierre’s The City of Joy: A Sociological Approach. This study is a literary study of the novel entitled The City of Joy. The objective of this study especially describes the struggle of Hasari Pal to support his family during the second half of twentieth century in The City of Joy.
This study applied library research method, which takes the novel as the main source and other printed materials, such as books, journals, the internet etc, to support the main data. The writer applies sociological approach to see the struggle of Hasari Pal for his family’s life as inhabitant of Calcutta. The writer uses the sociological approach in this research based on the scholar of Wellek and Warren’s theory.
After doing this research, the writer comes to the conclusion about the struggle of Hasari Pal to support his family in Calcutta some important points that are found in the research are; first, how hard the struggle of the poor societies in maintaining their life from the disease, and the violence. And all people in this town should face the very bad climate for eight months in every year. Finally they get the happiness which in waited for along time by Calcutta society. Three weeks after the cyclone, with a courage and application strengthened by their hard apprenticeship in the slum, they rebuilt their life as peasants. With full impression, the author tells about three characters of Protagonist in The City of Joy, they are Hasari Pal (rickshaw man), Stephan Kovalsky (Polish priest), and Max Loeb (a young doctor from the Jewish-American). The second, the social background of India during the second half of the twentieth century are all caused by the bad economy. The influences from economic condition are caused by; catastrophes, the diseases, and crime.
This study applied library research method, which takes the novel as the main source and other printed materials, such as books, journals, the internet etc, to support the main data. The writer applies sociological approach to see the struggle of Hasari Pal for his family’s life as inhabitant of Calcutta. The writer uses the sociological approach in this research based on the scholar of Wellek and Warren’s theory.
After doing this research, the writer comes to the conclusion about the struggle of Hasari Pal to support his family in Calcutta some important points that are found in the research are; first, how hard the struggle of the poor societies in maintaining their life from the disease, and the violence. And all people in this town should face the very bad climate for eight months in every year. Finally they get the happiness which in waited for along time by Calcutta society. Three weeks after the cyclone, with a courage and application strengthened by their hard apprenticeship in the slum, they rebuilt their life as peasants. With full impression, the author tells about three characters of Protagonist in The City of Joy, they are Hasari Pal (rickshaw man), Stephan Kovalsky (Polish priest), and Max Loeb (a young doctor from the Jewish-American). The second, the social background of India during the second half of the twentieth century are all caused by the bad economy. The influences from economic condition are caused by; catastrophes, the diseases, and crime.
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