A Research Proposal

THE CANNABIS’ NARRATION IN HIKAYAT POHON GANJA BOOK

AND KID CANNABIS MOVIE

By:

Farhan Dimyati

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1.1 Background

Narrative generally has the meaning of a sentence or paragraph arrangement that tells

of an event or event with the existence of a storyline, settings, characters and conflicts

without the main sentence.

The purpose of the narrative in both films and writing is to provide information or

insight and expand knowledge and provide aesthetic experiences to readers and

viewers.

Many people assume that marijuana plants are plants that do not deserve to grow.

However, the literature states that Cannabis plants are one of the safes drugs on earth.

In other words, Cannabis is a safe plant. Even Cannabis is safer than salt. And all that

has been proven by expert research.

In the Hikayat pohon ganja book, cannabis is very much fought for. Evidenced by the

support of Lingkar Ganja Nusantara. But many people say that cannabis plants are

very dangerous.

There are so many benefits from cannabis plants both in terms of medical and

everyday. For example, in southern Sulawesi, there is a mother who has diabetes. Even

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almost his whole body could not be moved. After using the drug from the decoction

of the roots of the cannabis tree, a mother recovered and could carry out her activities

again.

Even outside the country, Cannabis has been used as a medicine to cure minor ailments

(depression) and severe illness.

1.2 .Statement of the Problem

Based on the background, which become the problems of the research are how

the Cannabis in Hikayat pohon ganja book and kid cannabis movie, thus the research

gave some qusetions as the follow :

a. How does the narration do ?

b. How does the narration describe the cannabis ?

1.3 Research Objective

Based on the research questions that be mentioned above, the following is a

research objective to answer how the cannabis for the study, so the research gives raise

as many as one research objectives :

a. How does both literary works describing the struggle from every cannabis’

aspect.

1.4 Research Significance

This research is expected to be able to succeed well, which is to achieve goals

optimally, produce systematic reports, and can be useful in general.

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 There are two benefits expected from the results of this study, namely

theoretical benefits and practical benefits:

1. Theoretical benefits

This research is expected to be a reference for further research of literature and a

reference for scientific development in the field of English Language and Literature or

further literary research.

2. Practical Benefits

• For the reader, the results of this study can provide a picture that Cannabis Plants

researched and studied as understanding or learning according to interest.

• For English Language and Literature Department of the Faculty of Adab and

Humanities, the results of this study can be used as learning materials or lecturers more

knowledge about literature Cannabis.

• For a society that is to increase knowledge and insight regarding the Cannabis plants.

1.5 Conceptual Framework

Comparative Literature has been recognized widely by literary academics. In

general research, comparative literature has the relation to history or in other scientific

fields that are part of the literature. Comparative Literature appeared initially and

develop in Europe that based on the mythology of Greece and the holy books of

Christians, the New Testament and the Gospel (Damono, 2009). Wellek and Warren

(1949) says that,

“The first term comparative literature for the study of oral literature
studies, folklore and migration, how and when folklore into to the more

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 artistic literary writing. The terms of comparative literature in this case,
includes the study of the relationship between two or more literary.
Comparative literature equated with a thorough literature study.”

It explains that comparative literature makes an attempt how to connect

literature with each other, how the influence between them, and what can be taken and

what provides. Two primary ways in which the comparative literature can be

categorized: the first, literature must be compared with literature too; and the second,

literature can be compared with the other field. The two object of literature that have

been being compared is literature with different cultural backgrounds. According

Basnett (1993), “comparative literature is a cross-culture study texts, characterized by

interdisciplinary and related to the pattern of relationships in literature across space

and time.” Comparative literature is a literature that review of two or more than two

different countries and carried out systematically (Trisman, 2002).

Comparative Literature to believe that both homogeneity and heterogeneity of

different kind of literature are to be sought in the study of Comparative Literature; the

comparison is to discover the differences out of similarities and the similarities out of

the differences of various literature (Cao, 2014). Cao explained the purpose of

comparative literature is to compare and to find the similarities and differences. It can

use whatever theories in analyzing because comparative literature doesn’t have an

absolute form of the theory.

Therefore, the concept of comparative literature can conclude simply that the

comparison between the literary works with other literary works and the literary work

with the other field. For instance, literary work with other literary work: the poetry

with the novel; the novel with the film; the poetry with the song; and the other, literary

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work with the other field: the novel with political dynamics; cultural movement;

historical shifts; and the other.

The process of adaptation can give us a new dimension in the art world today

because it refers to the process, namely the process of transposition, the process of

creation which involves re-interpretation and re-creation, as well as forms of

intertextuality. Hutcheon (2006) says that,

“To adapt is to adjust, to alter, to make suitable. This can be done in any
number of ways. First, seen as a formal entity or product, an adaptation is an
announced and extensive transposition of a particular work or works.
Second, as a process of creation, the act of adaptation always involves both
(re-)interpretation and then (re-)creation; this has been called both
appropriation and salvaging, depending on your perspective. Third, seen
from the perspective of its process of reception, adaptation is a form of
intertextuality: we experience adaptations (as adaptations) as palimpsests
through our memory of other works that resonate through repetitions
with variation.”

There are various reasons underlying the process of adaptation, such as having

an emotional with the literary work that will be adapted, the desire to preserve the

literary works that will be adapted, the literary works that will be adapted is famous,

best seller, citizens are familiar with the story. Fischlin & Fontier (in Hutcheon, 2006)

says that there is some apparent validity to the general statement that adaptation “as a

concept can expand or contract. Writ large, adaptation includes almost any act of

alteration performed upon specific cultural works of the past and dovetails with a

general process of cultural recreation”.

However, several things must be considered in adaptation. Some of it is the

transformation, translation, replication, and a tendency. Transformation is the transfer

form, the transfer of language translation, imitation is the next author's creative

process, and the tendency is content similarity (Endraswara, 2008). Through the

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adaptation, various elements of literary work are transformed even eliminated. So, the

removal process or transformation is part of adaptation, because the main point is the

process that changes the shape as a result of work. Related to this, it will happen the

diversion of media which is a process of change from one type of art into another kind

of art (Damono, 2009). In the diversion of media, it will happen the change of

character, plot, setting, dialogue, and others.

Speaking of narratives, there are so many experts in the field of literature who

define them and certainly have different definitions. According to Keraf in his book

(2001: 137) Narrative is a form of discourse that attempts to tell an event as if the

reader sees or experiences the event itself. Without a narrative, a story will not be

interesting at all. There is no soul if the literary people say. Like vegetables without salt

or dangdut music without drumming, it doesn't taste at all.

However, actually by learning more about the narrative science we will be more

able to be human. The human being meant here is to be wiser in addressing a problem,

not easily ignited by emotions, seeing problems from various points of view or making

us more sensitive to the social problems that surround us. Because our whole life is

inseparable from narration.

Not only in human life, can we find narration in the world of architecture. If

we go to the mall, have we ever asked why the cinema or amusement park is on the

top floor? Or when we enjoy the weekend with our beloved family to the star garden,

have we ever asked why the lion cage is not placed after the window? And have we

ever asked when we enjoyed the 'past' in the museum, the most unique or the rarest

historical objects were placed in a place in the middle of our traveling destination?

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 Of course, it is not all because of the fad of manager or engineer management,

all of them have their narration. In the world of literature, of course we know Gustav

Freytag's plot theory, namely Freytag's Pyramid.

In the theory it is explained that Climax is at the top of the pyramid theory,

not at the beginning and that makes the places mentioned above very interesting to

visit.

1.6 Research Method

The procedures of this research are:

This research is belongs to qualitative research. The method that used in this

research is descriptive qualitative method. According to Key (1997) descriptive

research tries to present the accurate information dealing with the existing phenomena.

It means descriptive approach is a research method which uses technique of searching,

classifying and analyzing the data.

1.6.1 Research Design

To analyze the research I will use literary criticm. Literary criticim with a

consideration of the qualitis of the work accompained by the detalled analysis and

interpretasion to the work it self.

Northrop Frye in Nurrachman (2017) suggested that for literary criticm in the same

as research, especally for the context of qualitative at least for the five reason. First,

Frye (1996:37) argues, the first thing that literary critics has to do it to read literature.

To make an inductive survey of his own field and let his critical principle shape

themselvessolely out of his knowledge of that field. Second, because the particular

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context are literary works as text. The data collected are in the form of words, or as

Frye says “the organizing or containing form of its conceptual framework.” Third,

literary research deals with the process because it needs to get the trick description on

the context being investigated. Fourth, the process of analysiing data is done

inductively. And the fifth, literary research concerns with meaning: it means what the

researcher seeks to discover is intended to make literary works meaningful for our

lives.

1.6.2 Source of Data

The data sources are taken from movie and book . The other sources that the

researcher used are from library research and also previous study of other people about

Cannabis theory to give better understanding. The researcher come to Lingkar Ganja

Nusantara and discussion about ganja with Dhira Narayana. The other sourchers are

from article, journals, intenet, and so on.

1.6.3 Data Sample

cannabis benefits in medical. you can visit the following link :

http://www.lgn.or.id/obati-pasien-kanker-sejak-1985-amerika-dan-kanada-kuasai-

hak-paten-farmasi-ganja/

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From minutes 6:25 to 7:00, the footage explains the benefits of cannabis for his daily
life. cannabis is a necessity for him.

or you can watch the movie in the following link : https://layarkaca21.world/kid-

cannabis-2014/

1.6.4 Technique of Analyzing Data

The data of this research will be collected by:

a. Watching

The first step, the researcher will watching Kid Cannabis movie.

b. Reading some related data

The researcher will search and read many references about the Cannabis in

the library and also a website which provide much infromation.

c. Reading

The researcher will reading Hikayat Pohon Ganja book.

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 d. Displaying

The last step in collecting the data, the rearcher will show the data.

Displaying is an activity to display the data which were collected by the

researcher. The collected data were ready to analyze.

1.6.5 Technique of Collecting Data

The data of this research will be collected by using the following steps:

1) Shorting the scane that related with the theme of research.

2) Categorizing the data which relate with the problem.

3) Describing all phases of data collection and analysis.

4) Conclusion, this is the final phase of analyze the problem research.

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Narayana, Dhira. 2011. Hikayat Pohon Ganja: Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Nurrachman, Dian. 2014. Introduction to Criticism: Bandung : Pustaka aura semesta.

Nurrachman, Dian. 2018. Contemporary Critical Theory: Bandung: ELSA Writers

Publishing.

Nurholis. 2016. Introduction to literary analysis: Bandung: UIN Bandung.

Lgn – Indonesian cannabis news, movement & research : http://www.lgn.or.id/

Dantovski, Peter. 2013. Kriminalisasi Ganja: Yogyakarta: Indie book corner.

Kholiq, Abdul. 2017. Dunia dalam Ganja: Jakarta: Penerbit jalan baru.

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