MORAL LESSONS IN DOROTHY’S ADVENTURE AS REFLECTED IN BAUM’S THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

Abstract

The novel the Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L Frank Baum is chosen because the
writers want to reveal the moral lessons of Dorothy. Moral lesson is what you have
learned and what you encountered right. The form that the writers use in this research
is qualitative research. The writers collect the data from two sources, first is primary
source from literary works itself or the novel. And secondary source is from
documents and internet articles. In analyzing the data, the writers use objective
approach. The result of the study is the ten indicators of moral lesson as follows,
honesty, tolerance, work hard, creative, love the motherland, communicative, love for
peace, care for the environment, care for social and be responsible. The moral lesson
becomes very important, as knowledge and skill, those moral lessons were very
relevant to the curriculum used in Indonesia right now. It is also means that the
Wonderful Wizard of OZ, novel by L. Frank Baum, is recommended to be read by the
Indonesian student to build understanding about moral lesson.