Enhancing Critical Thinking in Analyzing Short Story “The Lazy Jack” Viewed from Identity Theory

Moh Yamin,Nurhamsi Deswila,Ajah Saputra

doi:10.23917/ijolae.v3i1.9948

Abstract

This paper aims to describe and discuss the messages and meanings of the short story “The Lazy Jack”. The significance of this research is for building new frame that analyzing literary work is only viewed from the setting or character in a simple manner, but also can be viewed from identity theory assisted with critical thinking as the thinking approach rationally and based on the reason. The basis of reasoning is based on the researchers’ capacity in deepening and learning the situations and conflict happening to the character in the story. It is qualitative research in which the data collection is started from coding obtained from the text “The Lazy Jack” in line with the goal of the research. The result of this research shows that Jack does not have a firm personal identity, firm life principle, life vision, and struggling for survival. He is the one dependent on others although he always fails to learn to be better. It means that Jack is without personal and social identity.

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Identity in literary work can be reflected from the characters narrated in the story. Woodward (1997) stated that people’s identity is reflected in the way they express their meaning and culture in their life
This paper aims to describe and discuss the messages and meanings of the short story “The Lazy Jack”
Because this paper was aimed to enhance critical thinking in analyzing the short story “The Lazy Jack” viewed from identity theory, so this concept was used to help identity theory in finding out the messages and meanings expressed in this kind of short story

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Identity in literary work can be reflected from the characters narrated in the story. Woodward (1997) stated that people’s identity is reflected in the way they express their meaning and culture in their life. Woodward (1997) stated that people’s identity is reflected in the way they express their meaning and culture in their life. Identity in literary work can be reflected from the characters narrated in the story. It can be seen in the story in which the meaning and culture of the characters is explored. Identity exhibits how the characters appear in every part of the story. Identity can be constructed and/or highlighted by accessing both cultural and learned experiences to synthesize a given stimulus (Romagnoli, 2018)

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