The Construction of an Intellectually Diffabled Character in Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump

This study aims to see how the intellectually diffabled is constructed in Forrest Gump novel written by Winston Groom in 1986. To discover the construction of the intellectually diffabled character in the Forrest Gump, focalization’s aspect of Narratology developed by Genette (1972) and Fludernik (2009) and the theory of characterization from Minderop (2005) were employed as tools to analyze the novel. After the data were collected, the data were analyzed by using focalization and characterization and interpreted with support from the secondary sources defining intellectually diffabled character and other relevant studies. The findings of this study show that there are negative perception and positive perception in this novel. However, the positive perception outweighs the negative perception. As a result, Forrest is seen as a man who has many talents. In addition, it can be concluded that although Forrest’s construction still shares most assumption of intellectually diffabled people, Forrest can challenge it all by the positive things he does and thinks.----------Studi ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana karakter yang memiliki keterbelakangan mental dikonstruksi dalam novel Forrest Gump yang ditulis oleh Winston Groom tahun 1986. Untuk mencari tahu bagaimana karakter yang memiliki keterbelakangan mental dikonstruksi dalam novel Forrest Gump, fokalisasi yang merupakan salah satu aspek dari Naratologi yang dikembangkan oleh Genette (1972) dan Fludernik (2009) dan juga teori karakterisasi dari Minderop (2005) digunakan sebagai alat untuk menganalisis novel Forrest Gump. Setelah data dikumpulkan, data dianalisis menggunakan fokalisasi dan karakterisasi lalu diinterpretasikan menggunakan sumber pendukung dan juga studi-studi lain yang berhubungan. Studi ini menemukan bahwa ada persepsi negatif dan positif dalam novel Forrest Gump. Namun, persepsi positif disini lebih banyak daripada persepsi negatif. Kesimpulannya, Forrest pun dalam novel ini dianggap sebagai orang yang memiliki banyak bakat. Sebagai tambahan, dapat pula disimpulkan bahwa meskipun konstruksi Forrest sebagai karakter yang memiliki keterbelakangan mental sama dengan konstruksi social masyarakat, Forrest dapat menentang itu semua dengan segala hal positif yang dia lakukan dan pikirkan

Teaching hard things: The journalism ‘intro’

Teaching students the hardest skill in journalism – how to start your story - with the help of Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and Cool Runnings

An Analysis of Life Struggle in Forrest Gump Film: An Individual Psychological Approach

This study aims to examine the film Forrest Gump which discusses the main character who is also named Forrest Gump. More specifically, this study will discuss the efforts in fighting for life that are carried out by the main character. The main object used in this research is a film entitled Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis and premiered in 1994. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research method using two main theories. The theory used is the theory of Individual Psychological Approach and ERG Theory (Existence, Relatedness, Growth). The result of this research is that all the theories used by researchers can have a relationship with the film used. In character development, Forrest Gump can show points that can be used in the theory of Individual Psychology and ERG, namely feelings of inferiority, feelings of superiority, lifestyle, social interests, self-creation, and fictional goals. As well as three other points for self-motivation, namely, existence, self-relation, and growth

MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS MANIFESTED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE FORREST GUMP THE MOVIE

A film is one of  literary works. American film has long been popular with recreating American history. Forrest Gump movie  is chosen to be analyzed in this thesis because it shows the reality and the western historical themes. To support the analysis of the main character, some theories of  the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslows are utilized to get better understanding about the main character. Since the object of the study is a movie, the researcher also use the movie studies. The  formulated research problem  is on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs manifested  by the main character in  Forrest Gump the movie. The result of this study shows that the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow is manifested by Forrest Gump, the main character in this movie. Little Forrest cannot walk properly without braces in his legs, but miraculously he can walk and even run. This kind of way  for being secure, from being bullied, brought him to reach all the impossible things that people think he cannot do. The satisfaction for being loved and belonging with his closest people taught him to face his own destiny. Being rich, famous and having a medal of honor, actually, he did not meant to do it. It is just all about caring, protecting and keeping the people around for being safe and having a comfortable live. Finally, he thought that maybe each people have their own destiny or just live floating around accidental-like on a breeze. At the last, Forrest has his destiny as a “godzilionaireâ€, a good friend, lovely husband, and a great man as a son and a father.  The other researchers need to do further studies and carry out other pieces of analysis reveal to the important and useful things in  Forrest Gump  the movie. The second possibility is the next researchers may keep using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs but they can have different object to analyze or they can use the same movie but different approach.Keywords: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization, Forrest Gump,   Forrest Gump The Movie

Self-Concept Portrayed In The Main Character Of Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump Novel: Humanistic Psychological Approach

This study entitled Self-concept Portrayed in The Main Character of Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump novel: Humanistic Psychological Approach. The aims of this study was to analyse and describe the self-concept characteristics of main character in the novel of Forrest Gump by Winston Groom as the author addressed the reasons of raising the issue of self-concept. The type of this study was literary study. The type of data to be conducted this study consisted of two data sources. The primary data was the text from Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump novel. The secondary data to be used was collected from Psychology books, E-books, articles, E-thesis and reviews from internet. The conclusion of this study: firstly, the portrayal of self-concept characteristics in Forrest Gump as the main character of the novel. Secondly, Forrest Gump as the main character overcoming his problem in life applied the self-concept. Thirdly, the reasons why Winston Groom as the author addressed the issue of self-concept in life to be applied that people to be intuitive, open to new experiences, believe in oneself choices and stay optimistic in life

TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF PROMISING AND OFFERING UTTERANCES IN FORREST GUMP MOVIE

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the promising and offering utterances in commissive of speech act, translation techniques and its equivalences in Forrest Gump movie subtitles. The method used is qualitative method. The results showed several techniques employed, such as adaptation, borrowing, established equivalent, linguistic compression, literal translation, modulation, particularization, reduction, transposition, and variation. The translation technique mostly used is established equivalence. For the shift rendering in source text and target text in Forrest Gump movie subtitles, it is concluded that mostly the data do not occur any shift in promising or offering utterances. Also, in terms of translation equivalence, the dominant kind of translation equivalence in this research is dynamic equivalence