Racial issue on Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of River"

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I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy

bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

“The Negro Speaks of River” tells about the history of black, specially the Afro-American people. It tells their history from their origin of country until they are now, in United States of America. Hughes tried to construct the racial issues in this poem by the title itself “The Negro Speaks of River”. “Negro” refers to specific race that has specific characteristics and history while “river” refer to a natural thing that exist in this world from the beginning of the time. On the third stanza, the word “I” doesn’t refer to a singular form of first person but it refers to the Afro-American people generally. He also uses a narrative form in the poem to construct the racial issues. On the third stanza also tells about the origin of the Afro-American people from the beginning of the time until the present time. It is described in a narrative way by several keywords, shows the sequence of time. The keywords are, “…Euphrates when dawns were young”, “…my hut near the Congo…”, “…upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it”, “…the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln / went down to New Orleans…”

The Euphrates River believed as one of the river flow in the Garden of Eden, (others are Pison, Gihon, and Tigris) the place of origin of humankind. The line continues by “…when dawns were young” that can be interpret as the beginning of the time. Next, he mentioned Congo River, located in Africa. This river helps the black people to make living and gives them a life when they settled in Africa continent. (Line 6: “…my hut near the Congo…”). It continues by “I looked upon the Nile…” (Line 7). Nile located in Egypt where the Pharaoh ruled and made the black people as their slave to build their civilization (marked specially by the pyramids). As we saw, this period can be marked as the period the black people treated as lower/second class than the other race. Mississippi River located in Mississippi, a place where black people got discrimination at that time. New Orleans is a place represented as the place for the black people to start a new life. Nowadays New Orleans becomes a “central cultural place” for the Afro-American in USA.

Hughes uses the figurative language as the literary devices to raise the issue. On the second stanza (“My soul has grown deep like the rivers”), he uses the metaphor to affect the reader when read this poem. This metaphor makes the reader think that river mentioned in this poem influences the black people’s life throughout history. We also can use the Marxism theory to criticize the poem. Marxism theory deals with the class struggle between the “first second class societies” against the “second class societies”. In this poem, we could see the struggle of the black people (as the “second class societies”) against the other people throughout the times (from the beginning of the time until now). They fight their right to be equal in every field of life (education, politics, etc) and they did success gaining their equality nowadays although some discrimination still exists.

We can conclude that the poet use this poem to make people (black people and others) aware of their existance. The Afro-American people should realize the origin of their ancestors and the struggle in every period of time they’ve been through. Not only the struggle, that must be noticed, but also the contributions of the black people to the civilizations. This can considered that the Afro-American people in America are people that give contributions to the state and not just “a slave-descendant” people that live in the state.

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Sebuah Transkrip bebas dari CD Motivasional Tianshi
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Awalnya gak ingin buat tulisan tentang Tianshi dalam waktu dekat ini, however, habis ngelihat transkrip dari kaskus di sini:
http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=773641&page=27
(Yang ditulis oleh saudara Music Healing), saya merasa perlu menulis postingan ini, mengapa? Karena transkrip yang ada sungguh menyayat hati saya.
Berikut adalah Transkripnya (berikut commentary dari saudara Music Healing)
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Isi Starter Pack Unicore
kemaren pelan 2 saya mendengar dengan seksama, word by word, starter pack bapak LT yang terhormat
catatan2 di bawah ini, saya ketik kata demi kata ikutin omongan 2nya LT di CD starter pack Tienshi
ps: kata2 dengan “”” kata….””” adalah sedikit pikiran spontan saya ketika mendengarkan
PART 1
mari kita mulai dari awal ::
1. Dibuka dengan quote dari ahli dunia,
Albert einstein – 95% impian dan 5% teknis (pendidikan, skill, koneksi, dll)
Thomas Alfa Edison - 90% impian dan 10 % teknis
“” tolong temen2 yang jago googling
tolong cari perkataan mutiara dari Albert Einstein dan T A Edison yang memberikan kata2 indah ini untuk dunia””
2. menekankan kalau IMPIAN adalah segala inti keberadaan dan keberhasilan
Ini adalah ketikan kata2 bapak LT :
Impian
• Definisi : keinginan yang DENGAN SEGALA CARA HARUS TERWUJUD, ini 95% nya… 5% teknis
• Alasan yang terkuat untuk jalanin bisnis ini
• ciri2 rang punya impian: wajah berseri2, mata berbinar2 , matanya dollar… matanya BMW, terpancar dari wajahnya
• Kesulitan : gara2 krisis berkepanjangan, Impian nya orang Indonesia kok luntur??
• LT menekankan kita belajar kembali menjadi anak kecil, harus ngotot, harus maksa, harus dapat yang diinginkan..
karena masalahnya adalah orang dewasa yang terlalu banyak tahu, sudah belajar terlalu banyak ilmu, sehingga impian seperti seorang anak kecil luntur
karena menurut LT Impian mendahului segala tindakan – ( jelas dong ya, semua orang juga tau ?? )
HARUS BERPIKIR KAYA DULU WALAU BELUM KAYA
KOK MIKIR DAPET 100 JUTA PERBULAN AJA TAKUT, APALAGI MIKIR 1 MILYAR PERBULANTakut jadi ayo BERPIKIR KAYA !!! ….
Orang yg tidak pernah berpikir tidak mencapai sesuatu !! (INGAT , kerja keras dan teknis cukup 5%)
Impian adalah arah , direction, tujuan hidup kita, ayo ngaku lah… elo pada
ga punya arah hidup kan? Krn elo pada ga punya impian…
ELO PADA ORANG2 YANG GA PUNYA TUJUAN HIDUP …
plok plok plok penonton
3. Alasan punya impian dan alasan masuk Tiens Unicore
- BISNIS INI MILIK ANDA SENDIRI, ANDA GA PUNYA BOS, GA USAH TAKUT DIMARAHIN BOS, BISA PULANG PERGI NGAPAIN AJA KAPAN AKA
IMPIAN ADALAH BOS HIDUP ANDA
- Modal sangat kecil dan tanpa risiko…
buka toko harus ada modal besar.. mau ga mau krn sudah keluar modal, usaha kaya gini harus dilanjutkan terus…
“””” INI GW GA NGERTI BANGET LOGIKA NYA… JADI TAKUT BERUSAHA DENGAN JUJUR DAN BENAR KARENA TAKUT KETEMU MASALAH DAN HARUS KOMITMEN DENGAN USAHA DAN PROFESI KITA?? “”””
- KITA KELUAR DARI ZONA KENYAMANAN KITA…
ga kaya orang2 yang kerja biasa, pergi pagi pulang sore, duit selalu pas2an, rutinitas kehidupan dalam kekurangan
hal2 kaya gini bikin nyaman, pegi pagi pulang sore, ama keluarga .. ga ada impian
Harus punya impian !!!
ISTRI BELI SEPATU MERAH, SUPAYA MATCHING, KITA BELI MOBIL MERAH (plok plok plok)
ISTRI BELI SEPATU KUNING, KITA BELIKAN MOBIL KUNING (plok plok plok)
Jangan mau hidup kaya air, biarpun keruh diterima aja??
Orang2 yang hidupnya butut kok puas sih ?? itulah orang2 biasa .. !!!
orang2 luar biasa di tienshi.. adalah harus orang yang spesial
yaitu orang tienshi,
Elo orang takut bermimpi??
LT memberi contoh:
LT selalu ditegur ibu bapak nya sendiri krn ibu bapak saya takut mimpi tapi saya cuek
aja dong
ANDA SEMUA JANGAN JADI KAYA Gajah Sirkus
da di zona nyaman, dari kecil sering gagal kalo mau melarikan diri, mau lari, kena rantai sakit, terus dah gede, ga berani lagi lari
jangan kaya gajah sirkus, yang mestinya bisa lari, ga ada yg bisa halangin, tapi gajah itu dia yakin dia ga bisa pegi.. takut mimpi takut gagal.
Musuh terbesar adalah diri sendiri..
ayo elo pada ngaca lo…
HARUS JADI BEBAL…. KAYA ANAK KECIL… INTINYA NGOTOT
JANGAN TERLALU PINTAR DAN DEWASA !!
terus omongin thomas alfa edison (TAE) gagal dulu 2000 x sebelum berhasil bikin lampu
kalo TAE dulu give up
susah dong, BMW2 kita, masa pake lilin ? (hahahahah plok plok plok)
TAE ampe tuli ketemu lampu meledak terus, benar ga?
“”” ada yg bisa konfirmasi, TAE emang tuli karena
kena lampu meledak 2000 x??“””
JANGAN KEBANYAKAN KUPING
JANGAN KEBANYAKAN TAHU
TUTUP ITU KUPING
TUTUP ITU TAHU
Kentucky Fried Chicken 1009 x ditolak…
“”” please guy confirm this fact””
tapi emang pak Sanders jualan MLM ??
Abraham lincoln ngotot akhirnya jadi presiden setelah 45 tahun gagal
pak Lincoln, dari jadi ketua RT, gagal,
coba jadi RW gagal
jadi lurah gagal
jadi camat gagal
naik jadi menteri gagal
jadi wakil presiden gagal
berarti menurut LT, pak Lincoln berpendapat gini” saya berarti bakatnya jadi presiden!””
plok plok plok
“”””
Thomas Alfe Edison 2000 x gagal.. (apa hubungan ama MLM?)
ini kan proses ilmiah.. bukan proses nawarin dagangan ke orang? semua proses ilmiah dalam ilmu pengetahuan ya emang gitu?? “””
End of part one
PART 2
cara jadi sukses :
Baca buku tiens terus, terus berpikir dan punya impian besar.. ada di pikiran maka itulah terjadi
Dengarkan kaset sukses .. gali impian dengan kesuksesan orang2 lain
Pertemuan orang sukses Unicore, contoh Luci, SMA udah sukses dapet kekayaan.. yang ini harus ditiru
siapapun harus bisa kaya dia
Pertemuan, antusiasme itu harus menular, jadi jangan jauhi pertemuan !!!
supaya anda2 semangat terus
JANGAN SOK BIJAKSANA BUAT ANDA YANG UDAH TUA!!
COBA YAH.. ISTRI SIAPA INI.. IH KEREN BANGET LOH.. PAKE MOBIL SESUAI BAJU DAN SEPATU
Beli peta, buat impian ke luar negeri kapanpun , dengan bebas,bisa bawa siapa aja ke seluruh dunia, bawa ortu dll..
Bahagiakan dong ortu dengan kasi kejutan
mama mama, ini ada mobil baru
mama, suprise, ini rumah baru
besok mama papa terserah mau ke luar negeri,
jadi mama papa anda2 bangga punya anak yang punya impian
Plok plok plok !!! histeria massa
SEMUA PAKE DUIT
ANDA-ANDA ORANG2 ANTI UANG — MUNAFIK
Uang itu perlu buat segalanya .. kalo perlu mama kita ikut prospek
jadi kalo ortu da mati , mereka bisa ikut prospek ,
ortu kesaksian nanti di akherat kalo anaknya sukses di tiens Unicore
“”” gua cuma geleng2, kualat banget nih, mama papa da ga didengerin nasehatnya, da mati dengan bangga, LT punya impian kalo mama papa nya juga prospek setan di akhirat sana”””
nah orang2 Tienshi itu
sudah kaya, ceritanya bantu orang lain,
LT bisa rubah orang dari naik sepeda jadi naik BMW
karena diri anda anda, semua orang berterimakasih pada anda krn jadi kaya .. luar biasa kan??
saya turun dari airport , disalami orang2 yang ga saya kenal, semua terima kasih2 krn mereka da jadi kaya karena saya
mau ga kaya gitu? bangga kan kaya gitu??
plok plok plok
dari Segi spiritual.. anda bisa biayain orang yang anda cintai untuk naik haji, ziarah rohani dll
BAPAK IBU, JUJUR AJA
IBADAH AJA PAKAI DUIT — JADI DUIT ITU PALING PENTING YA KAN?
IBADAH AJA NGERTI DUIT
IBADAH GA AKAN BERTAHAN, KITA CUMA SUMBANG PERASAAN DAN SIMPATI DOANG
IBADAH PAKE DUIT
ADA DUIT, STATUS SOSIAL DAN SPIRITUAL AKAN NAIK
“”” asli gw cuma bisa elus2 dada denger kata2 ini…. orang2 yang dengerin LT semua ketawa ketiwi membenarkan “”””
mau ga anda?
Bebas waktu dan bebas finansial
Uang ga masalah…mau apalagi..
keluarga mau belanja apa aja bisa…
orang 2 biasa, anak istri mau beli apa aja—ga bisa
musti boongin anak krn ga sanggup beliin yang anak mau
tapi Orang2 tienshi beda
banyak uang, banyak waktu, deket ama semua orang… ga stress
buat apa jadi orang kaya tapi ga ada waktu
Milikilah waktu… kerja di luar, banyak meeting ga ada waktu..
di tiens itu ada Passive income..
uang datang tanpa kerja,
sehingga orang2 tiens, justru kerepotan krn kelebihan uang.. duit ga abis2…
beban beratnya justru adalah gimana abisin uang berlebihan .. itu orang tienshi
mama mama, papa bingung nih.. duit da masuk lagi..
jadi kita bagi tugas
papa dapat passive income
mama harus bisa abisin itu duit sebanyak itu
PLOK PLOK PLOK HISTERIS
jadi bapak2 ibu2
Lindungi impian , jangan ampe dicuri orang lain.. terutama orang2 deket
kita….. orang2 sekitar kita mau curi impian kita
“”BACA BAIK2 PERNYATAAN LT INI. JANGAN SAMPAI IMPIAN ANDA DICURI ORANG LAIN TERUTAMA ORANG2 DEKAT ANDA “””
Anda mesti marah ama orang2 yang mau curi impian kita, terutama orang2
dekat kita
jreng jreng
ini adalah quote kesukaan saya dari seminar LT di starter pack Tien Unicore :
NASEHAT ADALAH PEMBUNUH
Nasehat orang sekitar kita adalah pembunuh karena orang2 sekitar kita terlalu sayang ama kita, jadi orang sekitar kita takut kita gagal,
jangan turuti nasehat orang 2 sekitar kita, karena NASEHAT ADALAH PEMBUNUH
harus kita teruskan impian kita supaya kelak
orang dekat kit, mereka bisa bahagia krn elo yang berhasil bisa bahagiain mereka
BIARPUN KELUARGA KITA SAYANG AMA KITA
HATI2 !!
HATI2 DENGAN MEREKA KARENA MEREKA MAU MENCURI IMPIAN KITA
“”” plok plok plok dari saya buat LT buat nasehat ISTIMEWA satu ini “””
end of part 2
PART 3
gimana cara kita menjaga impian kita???
Caranya:
1. buat daftar semua keinginan kita
100 barang apa aja yang kita inginkan,
boleh barang, harta, keinginan apa aja
liatin daftar ini setiap hari untuk semangat,
dan pada akhirnya kita tau, dari 100 itu mana yang paling kita inginkan…
2. Visualisasikan – ini paling penting..
cari gambarnya, tempel dimana2 , buat dream book.. supaya kita tetap setia ama impian kita..
Survey di USA mendapatkan bahwa
60% manusia ga punya impian jelas.. hidup di bawah rata2..
30% punya impian samar2 tapi tetep lakukan rutinitas orang rata2
7% hidup di atas rata2 krn punya impian yang jelas
3% impian jelas dan tertulis serta divisualisasikan….
“”” tiens masuk yang 7 dan 3% ya pak LT?
terus kaya bapak di majalah2 Tiens bilang
saat ini, bapak bawa foto jet pribadi ditempel di laptop, di rumah, dimana aja, supaya dengan cara apapun bapak LT bisa dapet uang untuk beli jet pribadi .
ada di majalah investor plus terbitan tiens kan
mainan BMW udah LT dapat
sekarang harus dapat jet pribadi “””
contoh Jim carrey main the mask dapat 10 juta dollar, santai aja tuh
dia da punya dream book, dan dapet 10 juta cuma di urutan paling awal
“””” confirm dong bener ga Jim Carrey menyatakan ini? “”””
YANG DI BAWAH INI ADALAH QUOTE FAVORIT KE 2 SAYA PRIBADI DARI BAPAK LT
JREEENNGGGG JRENGGGG MUSIC ON
IMAN YANG PALING TINGGI ADALAH KITA MERASA KITA SUDAH SUKSES
tinggal tunggu waktunya
“”” top banget ini pernyataan.. Iman paling tinggi adalah ketika kita udah merasa kita sudah sukses “”””
3. Miliki lingkungan yang positif yaitu orang2 unicore yang positif.. semua di unicore adalah orang positif dan sukses semua,
cari terus upline anda dan ikuti semua perkataannya
biarpun upline anda lebih muda dan anda merasa lebih tua, ikuti dia
biar semangat terus.. orang sukses tidak dipengaruhi orang lain.. hanya oleh orang2 positif
KOMITMEN DENGAN IMPIAN ANDA
5. fokus dan setia dengan impian, bukan fokus pada masalah2 ..
makin tinggi posisi anda, makin banyak masalah
dengan fokus pada impian..
masalah bintang 3 mah kecil, ga sebanding dengan masalah uplinenya apalagi masalah broze, bahkan diamond
jadi kalo upline anda yang masalahnya jauhhh lebih besar dari anda, kenapa anda pusing dengan masalah anda
keep looking up to your upline
Ingat , berani rugi besar berarti untungnya makin besar
6. Lakukan usaha sesuai sistem yang belaku dengan unicore.. tidak boleh di luar sistem,
krn sistem UNICORE ini sudah terbukti berhasil
7. “”” ini adalah favorit quote gw dari LT yang berikutnya”””
SUARA UPLINE adalah SUARA DARI ATAS.
IKUTI SEMUA KATA KATA UPLINE ANDA
JANGAN SOK TAHU
JANGAN SOK PINTAR
ORANG YANG TERLALU PINTAR ADALAH ORANG GAGAL !!!
HARUS DENGARKAN UPLINE
JANGAN TENGOK DAN DENGARKAN SIAPAPUN
HANYA DENGARKAN SUARA DARI ATAS, UPLINE ANDA
‘”””” ini dia nih yang bahaya dari Tiens Unicore
kita diajarkan menjauhi semua logika, suara upline kaya suara Tuhan ya??? “””
8. Jadilah Core person – biasakan diri jadi orang sukses, besarnya bisnis tienshi
tergantung besarnya orang2 berpikiran sukses/ core person ini yaitu anda
9. Komitmen minimal serius 2 tahun,
Allah aja di kitab suci mengajarkan ada musim tanam dan panen, minimal 2 tahun kan?
ini Investasi, ini perusahaan besar,
invetasikan waktu anda 2 tahun ini
bangun aset 2 tahun ini
dan sisanya adalh FREEDOM of TIME and FINANCIAL
SEUMUR HIDUP
Plok plok plokkk
Kalo anda ga lakukan, anda seumur hidup hanya orang keras
10. buat orang Tienshi,
Ga ada dan ga kenal namanya inflasi
ga pusing dengan hukum ekonomi, itu untuk orang non tiens,
Buat orang tiens,
setiap tahun, harga bukan makin mahal
harga terus makin murah , barang barang apapun terus makin terbeli oleh kita
terus begitu tiap tahun
mau kan ? plok plok plok
“”” gw asli da malas komen lagi hihihihihihih “”””
ada 4 faktor yang mempengaruhi bisnis ini :
1. perusahaan Tiens sudah besar, sudah mendunia, dengan produk2 bagus dan membawa mujijat
perusahaan ini telah membangun ribuan orang tiap hari..
BERPEGANGLAH PADA PERUSAHAAN YANG TEPAT
YA PERUSAHAAN YANG SEPERTI INI
UNTUK KIRA MEWARISKANNYA PADA ANAK CUCU KITA
plok plok plok
2. Omset Tianshi di indonesia, 80% nya adalah dari sistem unicore
80 BMW, 3 pesawat, telah dibagi,
jangan ikut sistem tiens lain
3. Garis sponsorisasi.. upline itu suara nya harus diikuti..
anda2 yang da punya jabatan besar di luar, punya perusahaan besar dan keberhasilan 2 besar sebelumnya
LUPAKAN ITU SEMUA
hanya ikuti apa kata upline anda krn mereka udah terbukti berhasil di sistem unicore ini
plok plok plok
4. Anda sendiri
anda adalah faktor terbesar dari bisnis ini,
downline adalah faktor utama
percuma kalo semua dowline gagal dengan impiannya.. semua akan jadi useless… jadi ujung2nya semua tergantung anda sendiri.. downline
semua kembali pada anda sendiri
Maukah kita hidup fokus pada impian anda?
“”” agak kontradiksi ama pernyataan awal ya??”””
penutup
dari chicken soup
ada orang cacat yang berniat mau lari
sampai dari orang cacat yg dokter bilang ga mungkin jalan
jadi juara lari dunia
“”” apa hubungannya dengan Tiens?? “””
END
itu semua saya ketik kata per kata bapak LT di CD starter pack beliau
terima kasih
menjelaskan sekali sikap dan tingkah orang2 masuk tiens unicore ya??
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Bagaimana para pembaca? Apa masih perlu saya komentari? Tapi gpp, biar saya komentarin dikit.
Hal-hal yang ditekankan di CD Motivasi ini adalah:
1. Dalam hidup yang terpenting adalah Uang, banyak uang = banyak ibadah, banyak uang = bahagia
2. Orang di luar Tiens Unicore = negatif, Orang di dalam Tiens Unicore = positif
3. Jangan terlalu banyak tahu
4. Jangan banyak mendengar
5. Jangan sampe impian-impian BMW, uang melimpah, dll dicuri
6. Nasehat bisa membunuh, jangan dengarkan!
7. Hanya dengarkan Upline, karena Upline adalah orang sukses
Sungguh amat dangkal dan mengecewakan dari sebuah alat bantu motivasional.
Para pembaca sekalian, perluas pikiran, dengarkan nasehat, dengarkan hati nurani, biarkan impianmu dicuri asal anda bisa bangun dan menghadapi realita, dan satu hal lagi, uang bukan segala-galanya banyak hal dalam hidup ini anda bisa dapatkan dari ketiadaan uang.
Tuhan memberkati.


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Fernando Sirait

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I recommend you to read this novel. Many messages that can we take from this story such as: the purpose of life and when you’re going to die. Sometimes we don’t want to talk about them, unless you have to. In my simple word, this novel tells us about tragedy when life is cut short, though in being compressed it becomes like a diamond.

Color Problem in Happer Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird”

Race issue and great adventures take a large part in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird”. A social problem of deeper significance is presented in the story. The color problem appears with all its bad aspects. To kill a mocking Bird reveals of how a people in a community contaminated with the disease of color prejudice and it appears as a prominent theme. Yet the story conducts the meaning of how social and color problem raise as race issue.

The story is quite simple but then tightens up into a deep meaning. The story is narrated in the first scene by Scout, who is barely six years old. Numerous incidents happen in the story and one of the incidents is when Jem’s arm is broken. Jem is Scout’s elder brother. The story also comes up with the mysterious figure Mr Radley who seldom speaks to others. It makes the children curious about the story of his life. It is Miss Stephanie, a gossip of the neighbourhood, who has told the children of the mysterious ways of Boo Radley’s life and they finally begin their adventure around Mr Radley’s house. The incidents link together the social problem of color prejudice. It seemed by the narration from Scout of the Boo Radley mystery and the breaking of Jem’s arm.

Yet the story grows to the deeper social and race issue. Scout the narrative reveals the bad aspects of racial prejudice that grows in the societies of Alabama and other states in the Deep South know as Maycomb. In the story, Maycomb has a mixed population of whites and blacks, the whites as a landowners and farmers employing the Blacks as farm hands and domestic servants. There is discrimination against the Blacks as this is an accepted fact in the Deep side. “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men everyday of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” (Page 233). The discrimination is seen through the point of view of the narrator. Here, the farmers in the countryside are being illiterate and prejudiced. All these treatments against the Blacks are the phenomena happens in the story that reveals the racism issue in the story.

To Kill a Mocking Bird is an example of how the social problem can be major issue through the eye of the innocence, Scout who links together the incidents revealing the social problem and color prejudice. The story much like a mockingbird that makes music to us to enjoy and in a deep meaning carries out the race issue.

Fauziah Umar Abdat

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Feminism in Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels

Women portrayal plays a large part in Sidney Sheldon's “Rage of Angels”. This novel told the different side of women,as a heroine that is equal to men. Sidney usually illustrates the lack of dominant female characters in his novels, because women are often seen as inferior to men in society.

The story begins with a beautiful woman, Jennifer Parker. She works as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of New York, in Manhattan. Because of her mistake as the criminal defense attorney, she became the victim of Michael Moretti’s conspiracy, one of the most powerful organized crime families in America. She was accused of being involved with the mafia headed by Moretti and took a bribe from him.

That was the beginning of Jennifer’s ruin life. She was fired and could not find a job anywhere until she met Adam Warner, who then changed her life. he decided Jennifer was not guilty of taking bribe. However, Jennifer's life did not get better; she had to face terrible struggle to survive in New York City. One of her big problems came from Robert Di Silva, a brilliant district attorney who had vowed to destroy Jennifer’s carrier as attorney because of her guilty.

The complication continued as Jennifer fell in love with Adam Warner, her fellow attorney. He was being groomed for the Senate and promoted into the White House. It grew more complicated when Jennifer met Warner's wife. After discovering Mary Bath was pregnant, Adam told Jennifer that she had to keep on his marriage a little longer; he never knew that Jennifer was pregnant too. They broke up and Jennifer decided to become a single mom. Unexpectedly, Jennifer's son was kidnapped, and in desperation he asked Moretti for help and as an exchange she agreed to be Moretti family's lawyer.

Jennifer's life soon became more terrible and turned into a nightmare when her son died because of head injury. The story ended up when Jennifer was shot by Michael, who finally knew her affair with Warner. Warner also discovered that Jennifer's son was actually his son that he never realized it before because of his promotion as the president of the United States.

The overall meaning of this story is portrayed through the use of literary devices which influence its feminist theme. The woman character in the story is extraordinary, such as when Jennifer got desperate in looking for a job but she tried to be independent. The woman in this novel is seen as independent, tough, and hard worker under the pressure of the men. Moreover, in this novel woman becomes a heroine that is able to conquer the men using her intelligence. This is seen when Jennifer wins the court. This time Jennifer wins the court over Robert Di Silva and it seems like David who had slain Goliath.

The setting of the story is a big town, New York City. Big cities usually deal with individualism, modernism and freedom, which keep the reader idea that it's not easy for women to live alone and work the whole day to achieve their dream.

There is a symbol in the novel which relates to the meaning of this interpretation of the story. For example, the writer wrote this book at 1980’s. In the late 1980's, when the mafia organization was spreading from Italy into America, it declined because FBI and the US government tried to destroy them. In the novel, it was related to the situation at that time. The idea of chaos in the city is exemplified by the battle between government represented by lawyer and organized crime families represented by mafia.

To sum up, Rage of Angels illustrates many interesting ideas about woman portrayal in a big city like New York, and also symbolically in the society where we live in. through the use of literary devices, Rage of Angels tells a suspenseful story that can be interpreted to mean many things. Among those things is the idea that women are as well as men in the society and equality can be achieved if both of them reconstructed the mindset and form in society.

posted by laili azizah 0608243

Explosive, Overwhelming, Terrific but also Awful

On June 24th 2009, the second installment of of Transformers is released in the whole world, including Indonesia. Transformers 2: Revange of The Fallen is the most anticipated movie of the year because everybody must be curious with the continuance of the story and finally they cant hardly wait to watch this movie (So do i). hehehehe.

In fact, The movie can earn roughly 201 million US$ just in a week after released and be the No 1 on US box office two weeks in a row.

Firstly, I will say the action scenes and visual effects are wonderful. 90% of this movie filled by action, action and action; that will coddle your eyes and also make your head keep spinning around till the end of the show.

Michael Bay keeps adorning his movie with explosions or massive destructions even bigger and crazier than before. With the overwhelming budget, he tries to widen the scope of the by creating an unreasonable – plot and very long runtime. Bay insists to present new robots either Autobot or Decepticon to to fill the plot that takes 2 and a half hours without giving detail information about them. They just come and go, in the meantime, the audience actually don’t know who they are; do they belong to autobot or cecepticon, etc.

How about the acting of the main characters?.......just so-so

Shia Le Bouf will never become my favorite if he doesn’t want to take another acting courseto improve his bad and soulness and flat acting.He looks stupid in this movie. Megan Fox ? oh she is nothing better; fortunately she still looks amazingly hot but she cannot act well here, perhaps she just shows her big boobs to entertain the audience. The Parents? THEY ARE Ridiculous. Everybody else can be sure not to win the Oscar for best supporting role neither.

Transformers 2 tends to present great visual effects instead of a good plot. Honestly I’d like to say I enjoyed Angels and Demons and Terminator Salvation a lot more than this movie.

Just love or hate it….

It depends on you

Overall, Transformers 2 is quite entertaining and absolutely fun for those who look for a cool popcorn movie that doesn’t need much effort to think about the heavy plot. Just go to the cinema with your lovely brothers and sisters and enjoy your summer holiday.

XOXO

Posted by Eku Baruna Graha (0608185)

The Ingredients of Twilight’s Novel

Mirna Tania

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Twilight is one of the best seller novels in the world. Stephanie Meyer is the writer of Twilight series. Twilight divided into four series novel: twilight, Eclipse, New Moon, and Breaking Down. The premise of Twilight novel is simple; it’s about love between a girl named Isabella Swan and a vampire named Edward Cullen. Yeah, I can read your mind this story is just about love, a freak and non making sense love. Simple, predictable, boring, and common story, that is the people’s perspective before read this novels. Even Stephen King said Stephanie Meyer is a bad writer; I don’t have comment about that judgment. I believe that everyone have the different definition of what is the good and bad novel. Based on my experience if you want to explore and improve your knowledge about everything don’t judge it by the cover. Hehe, I found that words about three seconds a go..

To be honest I have read the whole Twilight series about three times. Please don’t call me weird or an idiot girl, just because I spent my holiday to read those novels. I love the story of Twilight novels because I find equality between Edward and Bella. I didn’t find the term of Oppressor and Oppress in the novel. I think that is the educated reason and I have an uneducated reason, this story is about love. Yeah, I like read love story but don’t worry I like to read the other novels too.

Twilight’s novel bring some new atmosphere for my brain (I used my hyperbole to impress the reader..). Don’t ask me whether this novel just came up with a boring love story and bla bla bla. Based on my opinion, this novel gave me a lot of advantages, check this lists:

a. This novel provided me medium to improve my imagination and sharper my imagery about how to make the novel vivid in my mind. The result is I have a wild imagination. Hehe.. Then I can apply this into other novel because I have practice my imagination through Twilight series.

b. I have improved my vocabulary, yeah I know that it’s not your business but I just want to share with you about the good news :)

c. This novel also put some novels that I never heard before like Romeo and Juliet in many versions and Jane Austin’s works. To be honest I started like to read classical novels like them. So I called this reasons are the advantages reading Twilight’s novel.

d. The last but not least, this novel showed me the equality between men and women.

It is just small things that I can share with you about the ingredients of twilight’s novels. I hope you can find the other ingredients through reading this novel. Don’t judge it before you read it.

Thank you for your attention...