Moral Values Analysis in The Rainbow Troops Novel Written by Andrea Hirata

Novel, like other types of books, is used as a medium of education since it contains great figures with diverse events that come within an interesting plot. The Rainbow Troops is one of them that conveys the message of education, culture, religion, and values of life such as moral, appreciation of the honesty, courage to face the trials of life, solidarity in friendship, or thoughts that should be owned by a good person. This research attempts to find out and analyze moral values in this novel and the way the author presented them. The source of the data is The Rainbow Troops written by Andrea Hirata. The researcher did several steps of extracting the data commencing trough reading the whole book carefully, categorizing the various moral values by highlighting phrases which are considered as moral values, to making table based on the specifications of moral values. The findings reveal that there are several moral value presented explicitly by the author in The Rainbow Troops. In terms of human relationship with themselves, the major type of moral value is tenacity, in respect of human relationship with others in society, including their relationship with nature, the dominant moral value is friendship, and regarding human relationship with God, the most presented type of moral value is obedience.