scholarly journals JASON WALKER’S MOTIVATION TO SURVIVE IN BRANDON MULL’S NOVEL SERIES BEYONDERS: A WORLD WITHOUT HEROES

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
M. Wahyuddin Masdin ◽  
Nurindah Nurindah ◽  
Yulius Tandi Sapan
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
The Way

Literature is a written work that have intellectual and imaginative ideas with a neat and organized structure. Novel as a kind of literary works is a piece of writing in form of prose which has complex attribute such as complicated plots, various settings, and a great variety of characters.One of the best fantasy works is Beyonders series, written by Brandon Mull.Beyonders: A World Without Heroes is the first of Beyonders trilogy series. The story of Beyonders: A World Without Heroes novel is about a thirteen years old boy named Jason Walker who trying to find a way to go back to his world. From Beyonders: A World Without Heroes novel, things that stand out are the story of a struggle to survive and find the way to go back home.Therefore, one of the particular elements to build the story in the novel is motivation of the major character.Motivation helps to achieve something that can make a better circumstance, we will not be able to achieve anything if we do not have any desire to achieve it.This study aimed to analyze Jason Walker’s motivation to survive in Brandon Mull’s novel series Beyonders: A World Without Heroes. This study used Personal Construct Theory (PCT) which classified emotions to analyze Walker’s motivation to survive as to which emotions caused Walker to be motivated to survive. This study found that Walker’s motivation in real world is his interest towards animals was what motivated Walker to study in zoology major. Trapped in unreal world made Walker motivated to survive to find a way home and  as  setting  and  conflict  influenced,  Walker’s  motivation  has grown to save Lyrian from Maldor. By using Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory (PCT), this study found that anxiety on why Walker was stranded in unreal world, guilt of involving Lyrian’s people and did not want to make his family and friends worried about him, threat from Maldor

Mourning and Reminiscence: Parallel Psychotherapeutic Processes for Elderly People

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Viney ◽  
Yvonne N. Benjamin ◽  
Carol Preston
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Processes ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Mourning and reminiscence are therapeutic processes common in therapeutic work with the elderly. However, a theoretical explanation of why they are effective has been lacking. Personal construct theory accounts for both in terms of the search of elderly persons for validation of their construct systems. In this article, this explanation of the parallel psychotherapeutic processes is explored, together with relevant information from the literature on mourning and reminiscence. Therapeutic case studies illustrate the characteristics of the two processes and the relationship between them.

Loss of Life and Loss of Bodily Integrity: Two Different Sources of Threat for People who are Ill

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Viney
Keyword(s):  
Healthy People ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Different Sources

Personal construct theory was used to generate some questions about the meanings that different types of threat–loss of life and loss of bodily integrity–hold for people who are severely ill. Content analyses of the responses of ill people and healthy people indicated that ill people expressed more concern with both types of threat than healthy people. Ill people who were suffering from acute rather than chronic illness, who were scheduled for surgery and who were hospitalized rather than being cared for at home expressed more concern about loss of life but not about loss of bodily integrity than other ill people. Each type of threatened loss was found to be associated with a different set of psychological states for people who were ill. Threat of loss of life was associated with indirectly expressed anger and uncertainty but also with the expression of many positive feelings. Threat of loss of bodily integrity was also associated with indirectly expressed anger, but with direct expression of it too, together with hopelessness and helplessness. Patients facing the first threat saw themselves as actively engaged in relationships with others, while those facing the second viewed themselves more often as passive participants. The value of this information about the meanings of threats of loss of life and loss of bodily integrity for the counseling of ill people dealing with these threats was illustrated by two case studies.

The Genesis of Schizophrenic Thought Disorder: A Serial Invalidation Hypothesis

1963 ◽  
Vol 109 (462) ◽  
pp. 680-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bannister
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Construct Theory

The study to be reported was carried out within the framework of Personal Construct Theory as put forward by Kelly (1955). This theoretical background is summarized and discussed in Bruner (1956) and Bannister (1962).

Qualitative Research

2013 ◽  
pp. 352-364
Author(s):  
M. Gordon Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Management Issues

This chapter presents a conceptual discussion about investigating management issues relating to global business operations. Current global business operations provide an opportunity to conduct Ex Cultura research. This term represents the situation where researchers conduct investigations beyond their own culture. A Grounded Theory approach within a qualitative perspective is proposed so that newly emerging themes may be identified. These themes may not be known before hand because of the Ex Cultura environment. Two methods are suggested; the first method, Personal Construct Theory and the RepGrid technique, documents what the research participant thinks about a particular research question. The other method, Narrative Inquiry and the Long Interview technique, documents what a research participant has done relative to a research question. Both methods document the research participant’s interpretation of their personal experiences. Further, the methods support Ex Cultura research into management issues involved in global business operations.

spontaneously invented a name for the creature derived from the most prominent features of its anatomy: kamdopardalis [the normal Greek word for ‘giraffe*]. (10.27.1-4) It is worth spending a little time analysing what is going on in this passage. The first point to note is that an essential piece of information, the creature’s name, is not divulged until the last possible moment, after the description is completed. The information contained in the description itself is not imparted directly by the narrator to the reader. Instead it is chan­ nelled through the perceptions of the onlooking crowd. They have never seen a giraffe before, and the withholding of its name from the reader re-enacts their inability to put a word to what they see. From their point of view the creature is novel and alien: this is conveyed partly by the naive wonderment of the description, and partly by their attempts to control the new phenomenon by fitting it into familiar categories. Hence the comparisons with leopards, camels, lions, swans, ostriches, eyeliner and ships. Eventually they assert conceptual mastery over visual experience by coining a new word to name the animal, derived from the naively observed fea­ tures of its anatomy. However, their neologism is given in Greek (kamdopardalis), although elsewhere Heliodoros is scrupulously naturalistic in observing that Ethiopians speak Ethiopian. The reader is thus made to watch the giraffe from, as it were, inside the skull of a member of the Ethiopian crowd. The narration does not objectively describe what they saw but subjectively re­ enacts their ignorance, their perceptions and processes of thought. This mode of presentation, involving the suppression of an omniscient narrator in direct communication with the reader, has the effect that the reader is made to engage with the material with the same immediacy as the fictional audience within the frame of the story: it becomes, in imagination, as real for him as it is for them. But there is a double game going on, since the reader, as a real person in the real world, differs from the fictional audience inside the novel precisely in that he does know what a giraffe is. This assumption is implicit in the way the description is structured. If Heliodoros* primary aim had been to describe a giraffe for the benefit of an ignorant reader, he would surely have begun with the animal’s name, not withheld it. So for the reader the encounter

2014 ◽  
pp. 318-318
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mode Of Presentation ◽  
Real Person ◽  
The Way
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