An Analysis of Moral and Education Value of the Main Character of “Forrest Gump” Film as Life and Learning Motivation.

An Analysis of Moral and Education Value of the Main Character of “Forrest Gump” Film as Life and Learning Motivation.

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An Analysis of Moral and Education Value of the Main Character of “Forrest Gump” Film as Life and Learning Motivation.

 

Teaching English has a purpose that to educate the participant or the student can master four basic skills. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. There are many ways which can be done to increase their ability in those four skills. For example: to increase ability in listening and speaking, they can watch film, listen to music, and radio broadcast, of course in English.

In this globalization era, a film does not only give pleasure but also give values that human need to motivate him/her. Film as one of literature is a social institution, using as its medium language so that literature cannot be separated from human life. A film containing dialogues and actions is sometimes based on a novel or a story. Beside the function of film as entertaining program, it also gives another benefit that the watchers can get from it that is the moral and education values. Film sometimes contains of philosophical attitudes which light human life. Film can also give the watchers life and learning motivation. Those motivations give people spirit to continue their life much better. Through the motivation giving, the watchers are hoped to be motivated and learn more to the goodness of course. For that reason, the writer is encouraged to analyze such the phenomenon.

This analysis study is carried out to: (i) to know the characteristic of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film. (ii) To know the moral and education values of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film which can be used as life and learning motivation.

This research uses the qualitative approach. In addition, this research uses descriptive method. The writer attempts to describe the characteristic of the main character and the moral and education values of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film which can be used as life and learning motivation. The data of this study is the dialogues representing the characteristic of the main character and the moral and education values of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film which can be used as life and learning motivation. Meanwhile, transcript of dialogue in “Forrest Gump” film is the data source. 

From analyzing the data of this research, it was obtained that; (i) There are 8 characteristic of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film. (ii) There are 3 moral and education values of the main character of “Forrest Gump” film which can be used as life and learning motivation.