Children Empowerment in C.S. Lewis Novel The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Adi Irma Suryadi, Dariyana Dariyana

Abstract


This research is aimed to describe Lucys thoughts, feelings, and actions in C.S. Lewiss novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The problem that formulated in the research will be answered based on Lucys thoughts, actions, and feelings and then describe it. The main source for this research was C.S. Lewiss novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. This novel is considered as a childrens literature. The focus and the data for this research were events in the novel which showing Lucys thoughts, feelings, and actions. The data were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. The instrument was the researcher himself. There are four criteria: credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability, which the researcher used in order to make trustworthiness. The findings showed that this novel contains childrens empowerment. Children empowerments are considered as important aspects in childrens story and it has great influence to enrich childrens intelligence and emotion in their growing period, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe can be categorized as a good novel.


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Character building; children empowerment; children literature

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