AN INTERPRETATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL VALUES OF THE
NON-FICTION DRAMA ON TELEVISION MOVIE: THE MIRACLE
WORKER BASED UPON THE BOOK ENTITLED “THE STORY OF MY
LIFE” WRITTEN BY HELEN KELLER
HARIS MUNANDAR WIBAWA: An Interpretation of The Educational Values
of The Non-Fiction Drama on Television
Movie:‖ The Miracle Worker‖ Based Upon
The Book Entitled ―The Story of My Life‖
Written by Helen Keller
Literature is such a different way in learning English, it shows the beauty
of a language that can make us enjoy learning it. However it also requires wide
knowledge and more than linguistic capacities. Learning and teaching English
through literature involve the learners‘ emotions and feelings while learning it.
Drama is one of the genres in literature besides prose and poetry. Drama is
a written art that is visualized in a performance either performed in a theatre or
recorded in a film. There are two kinds of drama, namely fiction and non-fiction.
Non fiction drama is based on the true story and usually contained many
educational values more than the entertainment values. We are not only able to
learn about the educational values but also we are able to collect some important
information about the culture by learning about the characters and the other
elements of the drama. Meanwhile the fiction drama is a drama which is made by
the writer‘s imagination.
The aims of this research are to find out the educational values in the nonfiction
drama of television movie: ― The Miracle Worker‖ Based Upon The Book
Entitled ―The Story of My Life‖ Written by Helen Keller. Watching the movie on
television or DVD and also reading the subtitle we can experience and get
knowledge from the drama that we can apply in our real life. We also know about
several different characters from the drama, we can see and feel about their
environment and feelings and emerge our emotion whether it is happy or sad.
The technique of collecting data in this thesis is library research or
qualitative approach that is to collect, to arrange, to present, to analyze, to
conclude, to make decision, to interpret the data, to be systematic, valid and
reasonable, and to control the situation. This technique uses books and other
references such as web to collect the information.
Educational values is the values related to the education, both in the school
or at home, not only for children but also adult. It consists of moral value, social
value, and spiritual value. Education is any process by which an individual gains
knowledge or develops attitudes and skills. Value in education based on goodness
and the truth that source from divine revelation, the case done through cultivation
of value for studen