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A thesis abstract written by Yohana Ariestiani, a student of Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris at UIN Alauddin Makassar, Indonesia. The thesis explores the emotions of the main characters, Anna and Sara, in Jodi Picoult's novel 'My Sister's Keeper'. Anna, who is expected to donate a kidney to her dying sister, Kate, fights for her right to decide her own fate. The document delves into the complex relationship between the sisters and their mother, Sara, and how their actions are driven by their love and concern for each other. The thesis was accepted in the Sidang Munaqasyah on May 11, 2012, and is a requirement for Yohana to earn her Bachelor's degree in Adab dan Humaniora.
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first-consultant and Dr. Abd. Muin, M.Hum as the second-consultant who always give advice and guidance.
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HALAMAN JUDUL …………………...………………………………….. i HALAMAN PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN SKRIPSI ……...…………….. ii PENGESAHAN SKRIPSI…………………………………………………… iii PERSETUJUAN PEMBIMBING ………………………………………… iv APPROVAL SHEET ……………………………………………...………... v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS …………………………………...……………. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS …………………………………………………….. viii ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………… ix CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ………………………………… 1 A. Background of Research ………………………… 1 B. Problem Statements ………………………… 4 C. Objectives of Research ………………………… 4 D. E. Significant of ResearchScope of Research …………………………………………………… (^45) F. Systematical of Writing ………………………… 5 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ………… 6 A. Previous Related Research Findings ………… 6 B. Theoretical Background ………………………… 8
YOHANA ARIESTIANI. Emotions of the Main Characters in the Novel My Sister’s Keeper (under guided by Mardan and Abd. Muin).
This thesis is a research about Emotions of the Main Character in Jodi Picoult’s novel “My Sister’s Keeper” by using psychological approach based on Sigmund Freud Characterization of the Main Characters in the Novel My Sister’s Keeper. 2) Kinds of’s Psychoanalytic Theory. The research is aimed at finding out: 1) The Emotions reflected by the Main Characters in the Novel My Sister’s Keeper. 3) Moral Values Stated by Jodi Picoult in Her Novel. The method used in this research is qualitative method. The data source of this research was taken from the novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which was published in 2004. In this research, the researcher found that there are two major characters; they are Sara Fitzgerald and Anna Fitzgerald. The emotions expressed by both major characters are: anger, anxiety, disgust, enthusiasm, gratitude, guilt, love, and sadness. The em Theory that are Id, Ego, and Super Ego. The Id side of main characters showed byotions found in this novel were analyzed based on Sigmund Freud’s Analytic both Sara and Anna in this novel appeared when Sara intentionally gave birth of Anna in order to be a supplier for Kate’s medical needed. Besides, Anna showed her Id in her expression of anger to her parents due to all medical treatments she had been through since she was born. The Ego side of Anna appeared when she look her beloved sister got pain. She loved her one and only sister and she did not want to loseher. After looking at Kate, Anna became anxious and did not want to something bad happened to Kate. The super-ego appeared when Sara felt guilty for what she had done to her daughter. Sara had made her family in inharmonic condition because she abandoned her two other children. Sara only focused on saving Kate’s life. Besides, the researcher found the moral values delivered by the author through her characters,they are talking about right and obligation, everyone has their right upon their own body, and he should not be forced to do something that he does not want to do. Talking about obligation, a mother has an obligation to treat her children equally and to make them feel safe. The other one is sincerity love in which when you love someone, you will love him even he is not perfect, you can accept the weakness ofhim. The implication of this research is about making a struggle for someone you love in which when you love him/her, you will do anything as hard as you can to keep him/her with you. Furthermore, the implication of this research is also to make understand the reader such as the students of English and Literature Department, the researcher herself and neglecting their feeling since every child born in this world has his own right to get especially to the parents to love children sincerely without love from parents.
This chapter presents background of research, problem statements, objectives of the research, significance of the research, scope of the research, and systematical of writing. A. Background of Research Wellek and Warren (1976: 94) state that “Literature is said to be creative, an art, what an author has been produced”. It means literature is a product of author’s imagination. Learning literature can help us to understand life better and especially environment, culture, and values within. Literature represents life, which may occur in social reality. The literature is derived from the author’s experience and knowledge about reality and life. Besides, Taylor (1981: 2) states that “literature is said to be school of life that authors tend to comment on the conduct of the society and of individual in the society”. Hence, Taylor means that literature may become tool of valuing people in their behavior both collectively or individually. Literature is like a mirror in which people can see their faces and make a judgement about their action. Thus, literature is the meaning of looking the good or bad side of man’s life. Peck (1984: 38) divides literature into three genres of types; they are: poetry, drama and novel. Poetry is dominated by the rhythm and melody, drama is the combination of dialogue and stage. While novel is supposed to be a sort of fictitious writing. Novel is one genre literary works which represents human life
Anemia (FA) in which the body cannot make healthy bone marrow. After researching the news she found, she then began to make a story about a child having suffered from dying illness. That was the origin of the novel “My Sister’s Keeper” Picoult’s intention in making her work is to show us about morality through the description of her fictional characters, she also has intention to attract readers’ attention by showing emotional expressions that reflected by the characters in her novel. By reading a novel, the readers may feel the emotions contained in it, and then they begin make their own imagination as they are in this novel as well. One of Picoult’s novel touching new phenomenons in family conflict is “My sister’s keeper”. This novel examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. My sisters’ keeper novel also has been visualized in the movie by the Director Nick Cassavetes in 2009. As a consideration, the researcher prefers to analyze the novel than to analyze the movie because a novel usually contains much more expressions and conveys the message well than does the film. The researcher chooses this novel for the reason that it reflects the value of morality and message. Besides, this novel also covers numerous emotional expressions reflected by the main characters. By reading it, the researcher can learn about right and obligation of being parents, can learn how to be good parents, and can learn how to treat children fairly and equally. Additionally, the
researcher finds the story of this novel interesting to be analyzed because the story of this novel is such an unusual story in literary work. The researcher also hopes that this research can give new knowledge for readers about family’s life. B. Problem Statements Based on the description above, the researcher focuses on research questions as follows:
1. What are the characterizations of the main characters in Jodi Picoult’s novel “My Sister’s Keeper”? 2. What kinds of emotion reflected by the main the main characters in Jodi Picoult’s novel “My Sister’s Keeper”? 3. What moral values stated by Jodi Picoult in her novel? C. Objectives of Research Based on the problem statement above, the researcher will investigate to find out: 1. The characterizations and kinds of emotion reflected by the main characters in Jodi Picoult’s novel “My Sister’s Keeper”. 2. The moral values stated by Jodi Picoult in her novel. D. Significant of Research It is hoped that the result of this research may give meaningful information for those who are interested in novel. It is also may be useful as a considerable reference for other researchers who would like to conduct a similar research.
This chapter deals with some previous findings and theoretical background. A. Previous Related Research Findings Andayani (2007) conducted a research entitled The Expressions of the Main Characters’ Love in Thomas Hardy’s Novel the Return of the Native. The objectives of the study are to describe the expressions of love in the novel that are reflected by the main characters and the moral values behind the expressions of the main characters’ love. The responding of the main characters in Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native in facing their loves is also shown in different ways. They give wide variety of love expressions such as symbols, directs, indirect, acts, falling in love, and descriptions’ expression. Love is one of the important aspects which is needed in our life. For the sake of love, people do anything including sacrificing his love as done by Clym Yeobright is willing to sacrifice his love to his mother by living her and lives together with Eustacia. From the literature point of view, the researcher hoped that the readers will be able to take some benefit from it. Besides, they will be able to increase their understanding about expression of love and moral values by reading this final project. Syahril (2009) conducted a research entitled An Analysis of Emotion Based on Benji Madden’s Experiences as a Song Researcher in Good Charlotte. The
research was aimed at finding out the emotions in Charlotte’s song Lyrics and the messages contained in the song. The method used was the lyrics of the song by Good Charlotte and also some additional references that related to the subject matter. The result of the research indicated that: the emotions in Good Charlotte were the emotions generated by what may happen, impression of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, love, hate, and curiosity. The messages in Good Charlotte described that Benji Madden as a song researcher wrote song lyrics to give the illustration about marriage, divorce, broken home, violence, children, life and the effect of them. Good Charlotte song lyrics were based on Benji Madden’s true experiences which make him inspiring to create and write song lyrics that told about conflict, disappointment, hate, anger, sadness, unsatisfied feeling, and unforgettable moment. Silawaty (2009) conducted a research entitled Emotional Aspects in Linkin Park’s Song Lyrics. In her thesis, she explained the emotional aspects found in selected songs of Linkin Park. After researching, she found numerous emotional aspects contained in Linkin Park’s song lyrics such as anger, sadness, fear, joy/happiness, and disgust. Moreover, she also wrote the messages conveyed by Linkin Park in their song lyrics. The message is about that related to things which commonly happen around us such as optimism, self awareness and honesty. Based on the three previous findings above, the researcher finds similarity and differences. The similarity among those previous findings and the research
By giving a statement, Bain means that a novel is intricate and multifarious a length read book that can reflect aspects of human through its characters, while the characters presented in a novel are fictional people. Moreover, the events of a novel may happen in a real life. The interpretation of novel above is similar to Gill’s. Gill (1995: 141) also gives statement of novel as follow: “Novel is a fictional narrative in prose, generally longer and more complex than a short story. In a novel, setting, plot and characters are usually developed in a great detail”. By this statement, Gill means that a novel is not like short story due to its length and complexity. A novel as a product of an author presents fictional intrinsic elements that are plot, setting, and characters. Authors have their own right to create fictional personalities in a fictional world. In other words, novel is a genre of fiction, set up in a number of words that represents human life. Like those statements above, Mc. Donell (1983: 71) defines novel as a long work of narrative prose fiction dealing with characters, situation and setting that imitate those real life. Mc. Donell here generally also has the same interpretation of novel with Bain and Richard that a novel is a product of an author as creative work, an author has his own imagination and the idea may from the real life. In conclusion, novel is a long work of fiction that deals with character and setting coming from the imaginative thought of the author and presenting
the imitation of real life. In other words, a novel could express the author’s feeling, thought, and experience. Furthermore, it becomes one way of conveying feeling and thought or a medium that can be used to critic everything happens in this world. In short, by the existence of novel as one genre of literary works, people may take some lessons of life.
