Phraseological Analogue as the Basic Technique to Translate American Literary Phraseologisms (by the Example of the Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” By Harper Lee)

<p class="Penulis">The purpose of the research is to find out the character and the moral values in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. This research is designed as qualitative research. The approach that the writer uses is qualitative. The data are collected by analyzing the data found in the novel. The analysis of the novel is undertaken on the dialogues. The result of the research is the form of character and moral values. 1) The character that emerges in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the protagonist, antagonist, and foil characters. The protagonist is 70 %, the antagonist is 18 %, and the foil character is 12 %. It means that the character who dominates in the novel is the protagonist. This novel's point is to lead the readers to appreciate others 2) There are seven moral values in the novel: respect, kindness, conscience, self-control, empathy, tolerance, and fairness. The moral value in the novel, respect gets 28 %, kindness is 10 %, conscience is 15%, self-control is 5 %, empathy is 15%, tolerance is 13%, and fairness is 15%. It means that moral values that dominate in the novel convey particularly to the readers is respect.</p>

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Child Narration in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp150-155 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 150-155

Author(s):

Mushtaq A. Mohammed ◽

May H. Abd Alhadi

Keyword(s):

American Literature ◽

Significant Role ◽

Point Of View ◽

Western Society ◽

First Person ◽

The Novel ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird ◽

Children's Stories ◽

Harper Lee ◽

Class Distinction

Children's stories have a significant role in American literature. Such a role is regarded as both instructive and entertaining. A child narration, to Harper Lee (1926–2016), the American novelist, reveals some hidden messages about how a child can develop and can succeed to conform to society. A narrator, to her, could or could not be a character in the events. If a child narrates the events of a novel, he/she will definitely simplify the topics he/she narrates. Hence, Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays a world that is exotic to the reader. The present paper aims to explore how the novel introduces the struggles and the disadvantages of Western society through a child’s narration, which includes the point of view and language. It also tackles how the capacity of childhood innocence shows people’ behavior clearly. This study tries to find some answers to the following questions: Why did Lee use child narration? What is the aim of using first-person narration? Was the narrator successful in reflecting the truth of events as adults did? The paper also aims at shedding light on the western problems through the child’s eyes. It attempts through child narration to expose people’s deceptive appearances, racism, and class distinction.

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TRANSLATION SHIFT IN THE TRANSLATED NOVEL OF “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD” BY FEMMY SYAHRIANNI

LINGUISTICA ◽

10.24114/ling.v6i2.6442 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Dian Sukma Lestari And Zainuddin

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Target Language ◽

The Novel ◽

Data Display ◽

Source Language ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird

The aim of this study were to find out category shift types used in thetranslation of novel To Kill A Bird and to describe of how category shift is translatedin the novel from English into Indonesian. This study were conducted by usingdescriptive qualitative method. The data of the study were words, phrases, andclauses in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird which is translated into Indonesian byFemmy Syahrianni. It was found that there were 280 data in the novel from Englishinto Indonesian. The data analysis were taken by listing and bolding. Documentarysheets used as the instrument to collect the data. The data were analyzed based onMiles and Huberman (2014) by condensation which consists of selecting, focusing,simplifying, abstracting and transforming and then data display by using table inorder to get easy analyzing the data. The result of this study were (1) there were fourtypes of category shifts found in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird namely; structureshifts (36.78%), class shift (27.14%), unit shift (32.5%) and intra-system shift(3.27%). (2) The process of category shifts in the translation novel by havingmodifier-head in source language changed into head-modifier in target language,adverb in source language changed into verb in target language, one unit in sourcelanguage changed into some units in target language. and plural in source languagechanged into singular in target language.

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Posthumous baggage. Harper Lee’s letters

Voprosy literatury ◽

10.31425/0042-8795-2021-4-194-214 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194-214

Author(s):

D. V. Zakharov

Keyword(s):

Personal Life ◽

Private Correspondence ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird ◽

Detailed List ◽

Harper Lee ◽

Insight Into ◽

Shed Light

The article is devoted to the epistolary legacy of Nelle Harper Lee, the author of the American cult classic To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The researcher examines a collection of Nelle’s letters written from 1956 to 2009, provides a detailed list of sources and makes suggestions about the potential new discoveries that could shed light on the life of ‘America’s most reclusive author.’ This short study of ‘posthumous baggage,’ as Lee referred to her private correspondence, offers an insight into the interests of the author, who insisted on keeping her personal life to herself. The letters included in the study concern the writer’s relationship to her father Amasa Coleman Lee, on whom she based the character of Atticus Finch, her attitude to her own biography published by Charles Shields, and personal anxieties of her final years. The author also details Lee’s opinions of literature, from the 19th-c. classics to contemporary authors, and shows how much she valued communication with her numerous fans.

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STATE OF EXCEPTION THROUGH RASISME IN GO SET A WATCHMAN IN AGAMBEN’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Bahtera Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra ◽

10.21009/bahtera.202.01 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 123-134

Author(s):

Damay Rahmawati ◽

Ramadhani Ardianto Karsa Sunaryono ◽

Mira Utami

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Racial Discrimination ◽

Black People ◽

Lower Class ◽

State Of Exception ◽

The Novel ◽

Citizenship Rights ◽

American Society ◽

The Impact ◽

Harper Lee

This study aims to see racism in the novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee as state of exception; a political philosophy of Agamben. Agamben's idea of state of exception is used in this study as the theoretical framework. This research specifically reveals how racism becomes part of state of exception in American society around 1960s when the novel was written. The analysis focuses on issues of racism in American society as depicted in the novel. The issue of racism is taken with the aim of analyzing state of exception in USA, in dealing with racial discrimination. After analyzing the issues of racism and state of exception in the novel, this study reveals that racism in American society is politically structured. The finding of this study is the discrimination experienced by lower class citizens who are dominated by black people, as the impact of state of exception which affects their citizenship rights.

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Book Review: Reading Harper Lee: Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman

Reference & User Services Quarterly ◽

10.5860/rusq.58.4.7169 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 267

Author(s):

Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Historical Context ◽

Primary Documents ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird ◽

Key Topics ◽

And Gender ◽

Harper Lee

Reading Harper Lee: Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman by Claudia Durst Johnson is meant to assist students studying the work of Harper Lee by providing context for her life and work and examining key topics such as race, class, and gender. It functions in some ways as an update to Johnson’s Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents (Greenwood, 1994) since it includes analysis of Go Set A Watchman. Rather than being a replacement for the 1994 reference work, it functions as a great complement for a student studying Harper Lee. While Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird provides numerous primary documents to help a student understand the historical context, Reading Harper Lee provides a more concise analysis of themes, which potentially makes it more accessible to a student new to literary criticism.

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Blackstone’s Long Tail

Loving Justice ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479895274.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 147-182

Author(s):

Kathryn D. Temple

Keyword(s):

Common Law ◽

The Novel ◽

Racial Justice ◽

Long Tail ◽

Slow Change ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird ◽

False Sense ◽

Fundamental Value

This chapter returns to the idea of harmonic justice, suggesting its association with tyranny, an association formally legible in intolerance for deviations from form. The happiness it promises is undone by Blackstone's ambivalent and shifting position on slavery and the uses his text served in America. Blackstone's reach is demonstrated through a reading of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, where the children of enslaved people learn to read from the Commentaries as Lee celebrates Blackstone's claims for liberty as a fundamental value of the English common law. But the irony inherent in this argument is as cruel as the cruel optimism Blackstone inspired. The novel inspires not racial justice, but complacent acceptance of glacially slow change, in which gradualism cloaks the most brutal racism. Difference here is represented as deformity and deformity is erased by the end of the novel, replaced with a false sense of ease and comfort.

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Extra-Linguistic Features of the Southern Dialect of American English in the Novel of Harper Lee “Go Set a Watchman”

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.2478/jesr-2019-0029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 117-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nataliya Anatolevna Deputatova ◽

Diana Rustamovna Sabirova ◽

Liya Faridovna Shangaraeva ◽

Anel Nailevna Sabirova ◽

Olga Valerevna Akimova

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

English Language ◽

American English ◽

Local Population ◽

The United States ◽

The Novel ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Auxiliary Verbs ◽

The Usa ◽

Harper Lee

Abstract The article discusses the multi-level linguistic features of the variations of the American English in the United States under the influence of territorial isolation, which forms the structure and functional use of the language. In the USA an extensive material on regional types of pronunciation has been collected in the fields of sociolinguistics and dialectology while the variability of English speech on the territory of the United States of America remains practically unexplored. In this article the extra-linguistic features, namely, territorial peculiarities of the southern dialect are considered in combination with the features of the dialect of the South Mountain region and the dialect of South Coast area on the example of the novel “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee. Phonetic, grammatical and lexical peculiarities of the southern dialect have been studied. The examples from the book enabled us to see the specific nature of the dialect of the Southern United States. We have also compared phonetic, lexical and grammatical features of this dialect with the literary English language and saw huge differences. Having analyzed the grammatical peculiarities of the southern dialect, for example, we conclude that the most common grammatical error of the local population is the incorrect formation of general questions, the use of the tense forms of the verbs and the absence of auxiliary verbs in the sentences.

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Et Tu, Atticus!: The Hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and the Cold War

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities ◽

10.22492/ijah.8.1.02 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 21-33

Author(s):

Akiyoshi Suzuki

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

American South ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

The Novel ◽

New Yorker ◽

The Poor ◽

To Kill A Mockingbird ◽

Poor White ◽

The American South ◽

The Cold War

Against the background of the Cold War, this article rethinks the novel (1960) and film (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird, more specifically Atticus Finch’s characterization as the courageous, unblemished defender of an unjustly accused black man in the American South. Because of Atticus’s unrelenting efforts to exonerate Tom Robinson, he has been proclaimed the 20th century’s greatest American movie hero. At a closer look, however, it turns out that, while Atticus fights hard for Tom, he nevertheless, and as a matter of course, abandons the investigation into the stabbing death of Bob Ewell, a poor white man and Tom’s accuser. The New Yorker magazine noted this conflict in the movie. So, it begs the question: from what social attitudes does this broad-spectrum admiration for Atticus emerge? This article proposes an answer: it originates in identity-centrism, an attitude that underlies United States ideology during the Cold War era and results, specifically, in a total disregard for the poor. In other words, To Kill a Mockingbird is not a closed-ended novel of good versus evil, but an open-ended work that raises a troubling question about diversity.

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