The purpose of this study is (1) to describe the socio-historical setting of A A. Navis, (2) to describe the structure that builds a collection of Jodoh short stories by AA Navis (3) revealing the inner conflicts of the main characters in AA Navis's collection of short stories (4 ) describe the relevance of the collection of Jodoh short stories by AA Navis with Indonesian language teaching materials at ŚMA. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods. This research data is a sentence that shows the inner conflict of the main character in five short stories in the collection of Jodoh short stories by A. A. Navis. Source of Jodoh short stories by A. A. Navis. The data is validated by theoretical triangulation techniques. Data analysis techniques using a semiotic reading model consisting of
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data derived from a collection of A. Navis; (2) the structure in the collection of Jodoh short stories by A. A. Navis consists of themes and facts of the story. The theme of the five short stories in this short story collection is about the life issues of the main characters before and after meeting a soul mate. The facts of the story consist of plot, character and setting. The flow in the collection of Jodoh short stories by A. A Navis consists of forward grooves and backward grooves. Figures are displayed in the sociological and psychological dimensions. The background of the five short stories is in a collection of heuristic and short stories. The results of this study (1) the socio-historical setting of the soul mate of AA Navis has a similarity in taking the background of West Sumatra (3) Inner conflict contained in the collection of short stories consists of conflicts approaching - approaching, conflict approaching - away, conflict away - away, and (4) the results of this study were implemented in literary learning in class XI high schools with KD 3.9 and 4.9 and in accordance with the criteria of high school literary teaching materials