Ibnu Aziz , 2211412004 (2017) THE REBELLION AGAINST CONFORMITY REFLECTED ON LOWRY’S THE GIVER. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Rebellion was a result of any individual who was unwilling to conform to the majority groups’ beliefs called conformity. Rebellion was not always bad, but sometimes rebellion could bring goodness than badness. It, moreover, could be seen as something honorable and heroic. A literary work might portray a rebellion towards a society that seemed perfect, The Giver novel, for instance. The Giver showed a perfect place to live in which everything was under control creating a conformity. Therefore, this study aims to explain the conformity described in The Giver and to explain the rebellion against the conformity described in The Giver. This is a descriptive qualitative study using deconstruction approach by Jacques Derrida. By using The Giver novel, I collected the data relating to the conformity and rebellion before dividing them into episodes. Through the episodes, I obtained the binary oppositions. Then, I reversed and dismantled those binary oppositions to get interpretations. At last, the study concluded that: first, conformity was the results of the community going to the Sameness. The Sameness was the main purpose of the community making the community as the safest and most prosperous place to live for the citizens in which there were no lies; all of things were a truthful. Second, however, the Sameness was no more truthful. The absence of the memory made living in the community was obsolete and dangerous. The memory showed that the Sameness was a big conscious lie making the citizens did many terrible things without knowing what they did. That was why the memory needed to be shared to make them realized the terrible things they did and to uncover all lies of the Sameness.

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