ANALISIS NILAI MORAL KUMPULAN CERPEN “MALAM TERAKHIR” KARYA LEILA S. CHUDORI

Abstract

The decline of moral values that occur in the community is increasingly of concern, especially among students/learners. We know that students are now increasingly becoming so immoral, a lot of students who are immoral even dare to kill their teacher. The education of moral values must be inserted in any language and literature learning, one of them by reading a short story which has a lot of good moral values. This study aims to analyze the forms of moral values that contained in the short story entitled Malam Terakhir. This analysis uses a structural approach to read and identify the intrinsic elements of the short story. Data collection in this research by reading and marking the text or sentence that is included moral values. So moral values that contained in the short story are easily identified. Based on the results of the analysis of the short story collection “Malam Terakhir" contain a lot of the moral value that deserves to be emulated, as in a collection of short stories containing moral values, namely the value of a good example on the title, as well as the value of honesty in the title of "Untuk Bapakâ€, value of caring each other on title “Sepasang Mata Menatap Rainâ€, and the value of the advice on the title of “Adilaâ€. The value is identified from some of the events and characters in these short stories.

Keyword : moral values, short stories, structural approach.