Aspects Of Morality In The Novel Re: By Maman Suherman As Teaching Material For Literature In High School

Abstract

Literature is a reflection of the process of life that the author (literati) is trying to express to the public (readers). In the disclosure of life processes, often literati bring up social problems that may be acquired through sensing the surrounding reality and immersing them in literary works. In describing these problems, the branch of literary science that studies them is literary sociology that tells about literature and social (society). Sociology explains how the author describes the reality of his life. One of the parts is about the morality aspect. This research seeks to describe the morality contained in the novel Re: by Maman Suherman by using the study of literary sociology to relate it as a teaching material for literature in high school. The method applied in this study is descriptive qualitative. Data is obtained from a series of processes in the form of reading and taking notes. Later, the data were classified and analyzed according to the theory of study of literary sociology. The aspect of morality raised in the study is bad morals (immoral/ ammoral). This aspect of poor morality will later become an example for learning literature in high school. The results showed that bad morality in Maman Suherman's novel Re: includes crime, slurping, and delinquency of children.