Putri Rahmawati Pratiwi , 2250405023 (2011) Modern People Facing the Death in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story ”The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is based on the study which attempted to examine Modern People Facing the Death in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story ”The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. The main purposes of the study are to find out the symptoms of modern people face the death and to know the modern people’s attitudes face the terrible fate of their death in ”The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. The object of this study is the short story entitled The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Miller Hemingway. The data of this study are in the forms of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, dialogues, and hidden meanings found in the short story that are related to Modern People Facing the Death. The data were collected by means of reading the Snows of Kilimanjaro Short Story several times repeatedly. Data analysis took three phases. Firstly, it was identification phase. Data were identified based on its relevance with the symptoms and attitudes of Modern People Facing the Death. Second was inventory. Data were entered into an inventory table. Third was classification. The inventory data were classified according to their categories (the symptoms and attitudes of Modern People Facing the Death). The results of the study are: 1) Symptoms modern people facing the death are hallucinations and emotional changes, 2) There are five modern people’s attitudes of facing the death: The first is denial. Second is anger. Thirdly is bargaining. Next is depression. Finally, they will enter an acceptance attitude. However, this study did not explore about the individual differences of modern people which contribute to their attitudes in facing death. Also, the signs of death themselves have not been studied. It is suggested that the individual differences of modern people which contribute to their attitudes in facing death be researched.

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