A study on religious and social values in the Novel Jiwa-Jiwa Pemberontak by Kahlil Gibran

ABSTRACT

One of the objective of literary works, especially for novel or prose Active, is to give example if moral (religious and social) values owned by the character. It is important because readers are usually interested in the ideal moral of the characters of the story. Then, it gives them an inspiration to draw lesson from the story. There are, the writer interested to investigate Khalil Gibran literary works entitled “Jiwa-Jiwa Pemberontak”.

The problems of this study are: to describe the religious and moral values found in the novel “Jiwa-Jiwa Pemberontak” by Khalil Gibran and to describe the way the author presents the religious and moral values in his novel.

This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data of this study are analyzed using snowballing technique. The data are analyzed several times relevant to the number of the categories made. In line with the feature of qualitative research, the study is conducted simultaneously, and the conclusion is made after rechecking the data with other data sources. Two kinds of triangulation are applied in this study. First, triangulation of the data sources is done by using other sources of data, namely internet and other books besides the main sources of data that is in the book entitled “Jiwa-Jiwa Pmberontak” by Khali] Gibran. Second, methodological triangulation is done by using multiple data collecting procedures, namely reading the main sources of data, reading other title of Khalil Gibran books / novel and getting data from internet.

The findings show that they are some kinds of religious and social values found in “Jiwa-Jiwa Pemberontak” by Khalil Gibran. It means that religious and social values presented simultaneously, truthfully occurs in the real life of society so far. It is suggested that the readers of this study draw lesson from the moral values presented in Khalil Gibran’s novels. The next researchers are suggested that they conduct research with similar theme with this study but in wider scope and perspective.