The Reception Analysis in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

Andi Sarwindah. 2020. The Reception Analysis in Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants (supervised by Abidin Pammu and Andi Inayah Soraya)
The aims of this study are : (1) to describe the reader’s response of the short story Hills Like White Elephants, and (2) to know the moral values that accepted by reader toward short story Hills Like White Elephants. This study is an literary receptions, about the reader's response to literary works.
This is an experimental research, using quantitative descriptive method. In this case the writer describes the data that have been obtained from the field in the form of a questionnaire containing questions about the reader's response toward short stories Hills Like White Elephants. Then the reader asked a question about the moral value of the short story. There are 20 respondents from English Department students, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Hasanuddin University.
The results of this study indicate that, in responding to Hills Like White Elephants short stories, readers can respond from two aspects namely, intellectual and emotional aspect, each of which consists of five aspects. Reader's response to short stories has differences both in terms of intellectual and emotional. The most positive response in intellectual are languange 90%, and characteristic 70%, and the most negative response in intellectual aspect are theme 45% and plot 74%. In the other hand the most positive response in emotional aspect are emotion 75% and interest 75%. Meanwhile, the most positive response by respondents between intellectual and emotional is the emotional aspect which has 4 (four) positive responses from 5 (five) aspects. The moral value of the story also has differences, the writer classifies it into several moral values, including, thinking before acting, loving yourself, respecting others, life is a choice, a mother's love for all time, and honesty.