Aziz N Hudha, 2250404594 (2011) SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS VALUES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN LANGSTON HUGHES POEM FREEDOM’S PLOW. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The study focuses on the struggle for democracy, which is revealed in the poem to earn human rights. The objectives of this study are to describe the struggle for human rights in the poem Freedom’s Plow. Next is to find out the relationship between social and religious values which the author suggested. The primary data taken from the poem in the form of stanza or line, and then secondary data taken from book, internet, and encyclopedias. The data were gathered by reading the poem, identifying, inventorying and classifying. To analyze the data I use American social and religious values theory, and there were several steps to analyze the data. They were exposing, arranging, and then describing. I used descriptive method in reporting the data. From the analysis, it is found that Afro Americans struggle for racism and human rights. Some suggested struggles are to raise the awareness of racial discrimination and unite Black people to get the same opportunities in all aspects of their life. Based on the result of analysis, I concluded that people have to struggle in this life to fulfill their dream, though, in reaching that they will face some problems with the games and rules survival of the fittest, but they have to struggle the best they can, and also have fighting spirit. The suggestion for readers who want to analyze the same topic is study and analyze about American Democracy.

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