REPRESENTATION OF EDUCATION ON MOVIE “JEMBATAN PENSIL” BY HASTO BROTO (A SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE ANALYSIS)

Abstract

A movie entitle “Jembatan Pensil” by Hasto Broto tells about the children at a village in Muna Island, South East Sulawesi, they find difficulty to get education. This paper will describe the movie by using sociology of literature approach. Based on the result of the analysis, Jembatan Pensil movie represents that at a village in Muna Island, there is inequality on education and how difficult the track makes obstacle to education enter the village. In other hand, the government doesn’t pay attention to the situation, and make the education is difficult to be reached. Character Ondeng comes to be hero to reparir the brittle bridge by saving his money. Mental retardation of Ondeng is a satire to society and government.