Analyze Novel "The Education of Little Tree"

THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

“PINE BILLY”

Lu’lu Faridah

lulufarida290@gmail.com

English Education of Department, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Yogyakarta

Abstract

       This article focuses how to analyze part of novel “The Education of Little Tree”. The focuses is three ideas. The researcher write the background of author and summarize the story of novel.The researcher used a theory marxism to analysis the novel.  The result of data is found, the emphasize of character subject in the novel. For article, the researcher to describe relationship between the data with theory has used.

Keywords :background of author, summarize part of novel, and theory marxism.

INTRODUCTION

       Novel is some some work art is written by writer with beutiful word, rhyme, style and other element that obtain into novel. From the novel we can get knowledge is given by writer. To write novel, we must study literature to know the method make some novel and other work art become the best art.

       I will analyse some novel “The Education of Little tree” is written by Asa Earl Carter. Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama politician George Wallace in the 1960s, but gained more fame in the '70s and '80s as novelist Forrest Carter, whose book "The Education of Little Tree" was a bestseller. He was born 04 September in Oxford, Alabama in 1925, the second eldest of four children. Carter served in the United States Navy during World War II and for a year studied journalism at the University of Colorado on the G.I. Bill. After the war, he married India Thelma Walker. The couple settled in Birmingham, Alabama and had four children.He began work on his first novel, spending days researching in Sweetwater's public library. The novel has publicated in 1976. I think the novel is the best, because in this novel, the witter tell about his memoir in his life with his Granfather. After Carter died (from injuries he got in a 1979 fistfight), it was revealed that he was, in fact, Asa Earl Carter, a former radio announcer and Ku Klux Klan member, and that his "autobiography" was a work of fiction.

SUMMARIZE

       In the wintertime, Ganpa, Granma and grandson went to forrest to leaves and put them on the corn patch. They flatten corn patch in around sloping side mountain.

       Grandson liked gathering the leaves and putting them in the sack. Thus also Granpa and Granma help him in other sack. After they finished them, they just come out from forest and back to field.They never do something very long, beacuse it made them bored. So, they ussually spent thier time with enjoy in the house. When they still busy with thier activity, Granma made ingredient to medicine.

       Leaves that into sack has got wet, so they just ask Ol’ Sam to plow field. Ol’ Sam is some mule. Left eyes’s mule cannot see and he is old, so they must be patient to plow the field by Ol’ Sam.

       One day, when they walked down to cabin, then they go to kitchen to eat together with Granma. When they saw someone in outsidehouse, and obvious he is Pine Billy. They just ask him to enter in the house and eat  together. Granpa and Granma like him and just also me. Then, Pine Billy told to them about feller that stay in around settlement. He said, he is from Chicargo, but he is got a Illinoys tag on his car. Smokehouse knowed he had him, because he has been lie to us. Altough feller has been lie, Pine Billy has given punishment to him, because he has distrubed social in the settlement.

       Pine Billy said them big fellers didn’t take no chances, not with their money;that was why they was rich. The, Pine Billy come back by the table and got the piece of sweet tater pie. Pine Billy eat together with Granpa’s family and then he played his finddle by pretty and he sung”Red Wing”.

       I went to sleep in the cabin. I dreamed that Pine Billy came to our cabin and he was rich and hadd a tow sack on his shoulder. It was full of sweet’ taters.

CRITISM

       The novel is interest to read. I read part of novel from “The Education of Little Tree” by Asa Earl Catter. The author used marxism when he written the novel. The author written story about the teaching of little tree that get something to aplicate in our life. The story tell about someone has the best attitude for other people and to againt fellers that made damage in the settlement. His name is Pine Billy. He is so rich, but he is not arrogant to other people and he always help them. He always has good attitude and to defeator justificatation in the settlement.

       Marxism is a theory that think the capitalist collecting money with sacrified proletariants. I will focus the marxism in the story, because the story emphasize character of someone in story that carry well to lead a life. For life every someone is not easy, but every people have to fight in their life to get what they want. Needful every someone is many to vindicate their life, so they must be advantages their riches to cram needful everyone in life. Pine Billy has given good example to walking our life and advantage our times to goodness. From the theory of marxism, everyone can get knowledge in society and good attitude to walking the life. The relationship everyone in the society is important to increase development incomplete in our life. The author write the story of part “The Education of Little Tree” has obtain several aspect social in life such as benign, kind, polite and good attitude are given by subject in the story that can get of reader.

CLOSING

       The story of novel is written by Asa Earl Carter in the part of “The Education of Little Tree” tell about the character of Pine Billy who has good attitude and not arrogant to other people, although he is so rich and has many riches in his life. Pine Billy turned to theory marxism that fighting the crime from the poeple have kapitalism in their life of settlement and give defect to society.

REFERENCES

Carter, forrest, . The Education of Little Tree. United State : Decorate Press,1976.

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http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/asacarter.html. [03 January 2016]

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