a graduation paper....

1. CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Every person has their own dream. They have their own way to pursue
what they want for themselves. However, not all of the people have succeeded
to achieve their dreams which create uncertainty, un-confident, anxiety,
stressfulness, and many more. Because of this bad feeling, some people have
decided to commit suicide because they feel desperate with their problems and
he or she thinks that they will not be able to handle it.
Human is as both an individual as well as a social creature. As the
individual creature, they are able to think, to decide, to perform the ideas in
their mind. However, human will feel lonely if they don’t get any support
from another human to help them. Human, as a social creature, also needs
affection, trust, love, caring, sharing, attention, and so on. When somebody is
in trouble, it will be nice and helpful if they get some support from someone
they love to release them from their problem. Money or foods maybe
something that people can give to help people to solve their needs crisis. Yet,
what kind of help they can offer if the crisis is happening in their heart; an
inner-crisis, such as lack of confident, cowardice, desperate, and many others?
Students in Indonesia, typically, they are not brave enough to dream as
big as what they have asked during their childhood. After they have graduated
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2. from schools or universities, they just try to find any kinds of job as soon as
possible because they need money. They don’t try to get what they want or
even brave or possibly it is overwhelmed to get a job or achievements they
dream of, like most success people have.
One way to answer that question is by giving some psychological aids,
like motivation. Motivation is very powerful as a mean of hope, compassion,
believe, trust, and caring. That is always pleasant when people get support or
motivation from someone they love, adore, best friends, or probably someone
they don’t know from the corner of the city. In order to get some motivation,
there is no necessity that they have to meet people they know or people who
support them, because they can get many kinds of motivation from many
places or things. One of them is by reading motivational books.
Book is the window of the world. By reading a book, people will learn
and understand many things, because reading, as Soedarsono said, is the
complex activities which mobilize a large number of separated activities such
as: people must use their understanding and imagination, notice and recall
(1991: 4). By reading a book, people can enrich people’s knowledge and
becoming a very effective way to learn something new. In education, reading
a book is a must. From books, people learn to comprehend and understand
what is contained in those books. By reading a book, people get new
knowledge which could improve intelligence in order to solve their problems.
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3. Recently, the writer just realizes how many people influenced by a
motivational fiction book entitled “The Secret”. It is written by an Australian
woman. In 2007, she became the most influential people, version the world in
Time magazine. Many positive comments or testimonials from the reader of
this book and they confess how much this book could change people’s mind
to believe in what they are wanted for their future. The power of positive
thinking, whether people realize it or not, are given in this book and it creates
immense power to imagine, to have a hope, struggle until paramount, and
encourage people to be brave to make their dreams come true.
So, based on the review above, the researcher decides to take up a
literary research entitled “A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL
VALUES IN “THE SECRET” RHONDA BYRNE’S BOOK”
B. Statement of the Problem
If the writer takes a look at the background of the study, this research is
proposed to answer the following problem:
1. What are the educational values in “The Secret” Rhonda Byrne’s
book?
2. How is the educational values presented in the book?
3. What are the significance, relevance, and implication, of educational
values in this book towards learning motivation?
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4. C. Objectives of the Study
After the research has been accomplished, it is expected that the writer
will able to answer about:
1. To describe the educational values in “The Secret” Rhonda Byrne’s
book.
2. To find out the style of presenting the educational values in “The
Secret” Rhonda Byrne’s book.
3. To describe the significance, relevance, and implication of educational
values in this book towards learning motivation.
D. Benefit of the Study
As well as enrich the writer’s knowledge about this book, the benefits of
performing this literary research are:
1. Theoretically
The result of the research can be beneficial in the world of literature
in the future. It is also expected to be able to contribute some advantages
for the world of education.
2. Practical benefit
a. Contribute the development of literary study, particularly among
students of STAIN Salatiga especially for those who are interested in
literary study.
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5. b. Widen people knowledge and deepen their knowledge about
educational values and literature in this world.
c. To open reader’s mind to see the important of motivation in education.
d. To encouraged the readers to struggle in pursuing their dreams.
E. Clarification of Key Terms
This research’s title provides five words as the main elements of what will
be composed in this graduating paper. They are:
1. Descriptive study
As the adjective, descriptive means; referring to, constituting or
grounded matters of observation or experience (Webster, 1981:610).
Unlike adjective, the word “study” is defined in many meanings. So, the
researcher will choose the closest meaning to this research, that is: a
careful examination or analysis of a phenomenon, development or
question, or, a literary or artistic production intended as a preliminary
outline an experimental interpretation or an exploratory analysis of
specific features or characteristic (Webster, 1981:2110). A descriptive
study is undertaken in order to ascertain and be able to describe the
characteristics of the variables of interest in a situation and also to
understand the characteristics of organization that follow certain common
practice.
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6. 2. Educational values
The word “education”, means: a systemic training and instruction
especially of the young in school, college, etc (Hornby, 1974:277). In
more specific, education becomes in practice identical with schooling, in
example formal instruction under controlled condition (Syam, 1988:5-6).
This word gets a suffix –al, which makes this word become an adjective,
which means “something related with” or have a characteristic of
education.
Values derived from the word “value”, which means: a conscious
effort to realize process and condition of learning in order to produce
learners who can develop their potential to get spiritual force, self control,
behavior, intelligence and skill which is needed by themselves, society or
nation (Silaban, 2003:3).
From the above explanations, it can be considered that educational
values is a critical and deepest part of meaning that people need to think or
realize relating with anything that have a characteristic or related with
education.
3. The Secret book
It is a book written by Rhonda Byrne. This book is made as a self-
spiritual help book for people who want to read it. First published in 2006,
this book had gotten an enormous responds from her proponent. The word
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7. book as defined by Hornby, as number of sheets of paper, either printed or
blank, fastened together in a cover, literary composition that would fill
such a set of sheets (1974: 28).
This book is based on Wallace D. Wattles’s book entitled The Science of
Getting Rich, a book written in 1910. This book tells people about the law
of interaction, where what people think is what they will get. When people
are focusing on a bad thinking, so that’s what will happen to them. The
power of positive feeling and positive thinking could change their life
better, from wealth, health, and happiness. The secret’s selling doubled
even more after it was introduced in Oprah Winfrey Show, and becoming
the New York best seller list.
4. Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda was born in Australia and began her career as a radio
producer before moving into television production. Many of her shows
won industry awards and were screened in major countries outside
Australia. Rhonda Byrne was listed in Time magazine as one of the “a
hundred’ most influential people” in the year of 2007. She is the writer of
The Secret and the continuation of her first book entitled “The Power”.
She was born sixty years ago in Australia in March 12th. She is a writer as
well as a producer of the film version of her book, The Secret. By the
spring of 2007, she was succeeded to sell out almost four million copies of
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8. the books, and two millions copy of the DVD. She also became the
producer of “Sensing Murder”.
Taken from her official website, towards the end of 2004, Rhonda
got a very traumatic and most depressed moment in her life. She had just
divorced from her husband, and her father passed away. After a while, she
discovered what she is looking for, about the law of the universe. She got
a book from her daughter, a copy of The Science of Getting Rich, written
by Wallace D. Wattles in 1910. Two months later. She was looking about
every single prove of her great invention, and investigate it from the
ancient times, throughout history.
Her life transformed as soon as she applied her invention, about this
secret knowledge. After that, she has a mission to spread this secret all
over the world. With her background as an international television
production, she started to make a movie about “The Secret”. Rhonda spent
the next two months teaching everything she knew to key staff members at
her production company, Prime Time Productions. One of her strongest
intentions was that Prime Time would use The Secret to make The Secret.
F. Review of Previous Research
This research is included in literary research which concerns about
educational values of “The Secret” book written by Rhonda Byrne. By using
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9. library research, here are some researches that have close relation with the
writer’s study to help the researcher proves that this paper is original.
It begins with the review composed by Siti Zulaikhoh’s thesis entitled
“Education Values on the Novel “Even After All This Time”. Patience,
tolerance, spirit to fight, long-life learning, the process of maturity, and the
importance of parents figure towards their children psychology are some of
the education values shown in this research.
Secondly, the review as written by Widiastuti, “The Moral Values in
Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih”. In her research, she found out that Ketika
Cinta Bertasbih is not merely a story about Moslem “culture” about how to
represent love to someone they love, but also a complete series of all field
maybe people can imagine in this world, such as politics, Islamic law, ethic,
language, culture, religious preaching, and many others. She implies that
education values in not merely undertaken by the school, but more
importantly, from their surrounding.
In this research, the writer point found a special approach about how
educational values presented in this book towards learning motivation. The
reviews that are based from the previous researcher are written in a shape of
story. However, this book is more direct, because the author wrote the
statements from her teachers and then explains their main ideas to the reader
in a more comprehensive way. This book is a direct lecturing guide,
statements, and these teachers give some examples about how the knowledge
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10. is applied. This book also still in term of fiction because it is used many
imaginations, visualization, and magical or psychological examples.
G. Research Methodology
1. Research object
The object of the research in this study is the teacher’s statements
and Rhonda Byrne’s statements in “The Secret” book, and it is published
by Atria Books, New York / Beyond Words Publishing, Hillsboro-
Oregon.
2. The Methodology of the research
In this research, researcher has divided the sources into two types;
they are primary source and secondary sources.
a. Primary source
It is impossible for the researcher to accomplish this research
without the primary source. Because, it is a source of original data
and a basis of research (Soeharto, 1989:12). From the title of the
research explained, therefore, the primary source of this research is
taken from “The Secret” written by Rhonda Byrne which is published
by Atria Books, New York / Beyond Words Publishing, Hillsboro-
Oregon, in 2006.
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11. b. Secondary sources
Two is always better than one. It is why the researchers also
need more support in completing the primary data in order to make it
more clear, precise, reliable, and appreciable. The supported data is
taken from relevant literature theories, literature journals, education
books, etc. Some of them are:
1. The Secret-the movie.
2. A.S Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary – 7th Edition
3. Bahar Soeharto, Menyiapkan Penelitian dan Penulisan Karya
Tulis Imliah (Skripsi-Thesis)
4. M. Taylor, Values Education for Citizens in the New Century, and
many others.
3. Type of Research
Research in literature always needs the other literature materials
for the completion of the research. So, the writer decided to have the
library research which is conducted by collecting data from books,
regulations and academic writing. (Sumanto, 1995:16)
4. Technique of Collecting Data
Researcher needs some steps in order to complete the data. In this
study, the technique used is documents review, where using written
recourses to collect the data (Subroto, 1992: 42). This research also used
note-taking technique, where the researcher as the main instrument
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12. undertake an accurate observation, directive steps, and precise towards
the primary source, “The Secret” Rhonda Byrne’s book. Secondary data
is books, articles, or internet to collect the data. The result of observing
those data will be recorded as the data sources, and then it will be used to
compose the research. Noeng Muhadjir stated that, data is not “as what
has been given from the nature, but it is a result of interaction between
the researcher and the data source” (in Aminuddin, 1990: 62). So, the
writer uses some steps as follows:
a. Read and analyze “The Secret” By Rhonda Byrne.
b. Collect the data from related reviews, books, journals, and academic
writing
c. Write down the important notes in Rhonda Byrne’s book as well as
from the other secondary sources.
d. Arranging the data into several parts.
e. Concluding based on the data analyzed (Lex y, 2002: 130)
5. Data Analysis.
Data analysis is an effort which is done by working with the data,
organizing the data, sorting the data, synthesis it, search and find the
pattern, decide the main ideas, what things that are needed to be learnt,
and decide what things that are needed to be told to people (Bogdan and
Bikken in Moleong, 2005: 248). The technique of analyzing the data will
be done descriptively. Aminuddin said that the result or the product of
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13. data that is needed to be analyzed and the result of the analysis are not in
numbers or co-efficiency about the relation between variables (1990: 16).
From above, the writer will conduct the analysis with the following
steps:
a. First step, the writer will read it by using heuristic reading, just read as
what it is, and then the writer will try to summarize The Secret Rhonda
Byrne’s book in a synopsis. Synopsys is a summary of a piece of
writing, a play, etc (Hornby, 2005: 1113). According to Keraf (1981:
84), he said that summary précis is an effective way to present a long
essay in a short way.
b. Second step, the writer will read the primary source repeatedly.
According to Rifaterre (in Pradopo, 2003: 135), Hermeneutic reading
is said as a repetitive reading (retroactive) after heuristic reading by
giving its literature convention. The aim of hermeneutic reading is find
the significant meaning, which is the educational value of the book.
c. To get the relation between educational value and learning motivation,
the writer will extract the learning motivation from the book.
d. Concluding the data analysis.
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14. H. Graduating Paper Outline
In order to make this study systematic, the writer divides this study into
five chapters.
Chapter I is introduction, which consist of background of the study,
statement of the problem, the objective of the study, the benefit of the study,
clarification of key terms, review of previous research, research methodology
and graduating paper outline.
Chapter II is theoretical review; which consists of the definition of
education, value and the description of educational values.
Chapter III consists of certain elements consist in Rhonda Byrne’s book,
“The Secret”. It is including the biography of the author, and the synopsis of
the novel.
Chapter IV, the writer presents the findings and discussion. It consists of
the educational values in “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne’s book; the style of
presenting the educational values in The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne’s book,
and the significance, relevance, and implication of educational values in this
book towards learning motivation.
Chapter V is the closing that will be used by the writer to make
conclusion of the research and suggestions.
The last part is bibliography, and appendix
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