INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study Roberts
and Jacobs (1993:1) say, “Literature refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express
emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas.”
Taylor (1981:1) says, “Literature like other arts, is essentially an imaginative act, that is, an act of the
writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.” Based on
the statements, it means that literature
is a kind of art that ally tells, dramatizes, analyzes, expresses the emotions, and advocates the ideas where the
imagination of the author ordering the
experience of life into written or oral composition by offers the pleasure.
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:2) say, “Literature
may be classified into four categories
or genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictionprose which classed as imaginative literature.” The genres
of imaginative literature have much in
common, but they also have distinguishing characteristics. Prose fiction, or narrative fiction, includes myths,
parables, romances, novels, and short
stories. Originally, fiction meant anything made up, crafted, or shaped, but today the word refers to prose stories based
in the author’s imagination. Fiction is
distinguished from the works it imitates, like historical accounts, reports, biographies, autobiographies, letters,
personal memoirs and meditations. From the
major forms, the writer chooses the fiction prose, exactly in novel.
Novel is a picture of real life and manners,
and of the time in which it was written.
Novel describes the true event (nonfiction) or fiction event which the novelist wants to present in the novel. In
nonfiction novel, the novelist presents
the actual and the sequence of real event from their life experience. The novel that used in this paper is nonfiction
novel, in which the novelist presents actual
people and events in story form.
In novel, there is the central idea that the
novelist presents to the reader.
The central idea of a novel ally is called as
the theme. Yelland (1983:189) says,
“Theme is the central thought in a literary work.” The theme may be directly stated or be most obliquely concealed
within the literary work. To find the
theme in a story, we have to read and understand the whole dialogs and the plot inside the story. After it was done we
can conclude what the theme that delivered
by the novelist in a story of the novel. Peace is one of theme which can found in this novel. The definition of
peace is all about happiness, freedom from
fear of violence, and something that will make people respect each other.
Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian
obstetrician and gynecologist who specializes
in infertility. He was born, raised, and received his elementary, preparatory and secondary education in the
refugee camp schools. Abuelaish received
a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, Egypt and then a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University
of London. From 1997-2002 completed a
residency in OB/Gyn in Soroka; followed by a subspecialty in fetal medicine in Italy and Belgium; then a Master
in Public health from Harvard University.
He founded the "Daughters for Life Foundation" in memory of three of his daughters, who were killed by Israeli
tank fire during the Gaza War to encourage
young women. The death of his children strengthened his resolve to promote reconciliation between Israelis and
Palestinians where I Shall Not Hate novel is one of his reconciliation promote.
I Shall Not Hate tells about the journey of
Izzeldin Abuelaish on the road to peace
between Palestinians and Israelis where are his three daughters and his niece were died because of bomb from tank.
Another reason is his girls were killed
by Qassam rockets which fired them in his apartment by Hamas. Passed by that accident, he wants that his daughters
will be the last sacrifice on the road to
peace between Palestinians and Israelis without hatred.
The writer has chosen Izzeldin Abuelaish’s
novel as the object of this paper
because the writer is interested in analyzing the theme in this novel. It is because the novel tells the moral message of
peace, forgiveness, humanity, and power
which are interesting to share to the reader.
1.2.Problem of the Study Based on the novel of
Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate, the problems that the writer would like to analyze
in this paper are: - How is peace created? - How is forgiveness created? - How is humanity created? - How
is power created? 1.3.Scope of the Study The analysis of this paper is limited
to the peace, forgiveness, humanity, and
power as the theme in Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate.
1.4.Objective
of the Study The objective of writing this paper is to find out how peace,
forgiveness, humanity, and power can be
created.
1.5.Significance of the Study The significance
of study that the writer wants to share are: -
Theoretically, the significance of the study is it can be used to enrich
the literary study especially in theme.
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Practically, the significance of the study is the reader will understand
about theme in a novel and the reader
can learn what moral message from I Shall Not Hate novel.
1.6.Method of the Study The writer uses
library research by qualitative description in writing this paper. The data sources divide into two kinds
they are; the Primary data, which is the
novel as the source and the Secondary data, which are the reference books and the internet as the sources. The first
step that the writer takes is by read the data sources such as the text from novel,
reference books, and internet. The second
step is the writer notes and selects the quotation from data sources. After that, the writer interprets the data that have
been collected. And the last step is the
writer analyzes the data to get the conclusion.
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