scholarly journals OBSESI PARA TOKOH NOVEL TEEN LIT “MISS CLEAN” KARYA SARA TEE (Obsession of Characters in Teen Lit Miss Clean by Sara Tee)

Sirok Bastra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Tania Intan

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap obsesi yang dialami para tokoh remaja dalam novel Miss Clean karya Sara Tee. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif dan menggunakan pendekatan psikologi sastra. Data dikumpulkan dengan metode dokumentasi dan dikaji dengan landasan teoretis yang relevan. Teori tentang obsesi yang diterapkan merupakan gagasan dari Kaplan, Nevid, Rathus, Greene, dan Barzilay. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dari empat tokoh remaja yang dikaji, terdapat tiga jenis obsesi yaitu kebersihan, cinta, dan kepemilikan. Penyebab dari obsesi tersebut adalah karena pendidikan dari orang tua, keinginan untuk memiliki pasangan, serta hasrat untuk mendapatkan objek yang diinginkan. Dampak dari obsesi pada para tokoh adalah konflik dengan sekitarnya, kekecewaan, dan tercapainya tujuan. Sebagai karya populer, teen lit Miss Clean merepresentasikan kondisi nyata dari permasalahan remaja yang memiliki kecenderungan sifat obsesif.  This study aims to uncover the obsession experienced by teenage characters in the novel Miss Tee by Sara Tee. The study was conducted with a descriptive qualitative method and using a psychological approach. Data is collected by the documentation method and reviewed on a relevant theoretical basis. The theory of obsession applied is from Kaplan, Nevid, Rathus, Greene, and Barzilay. The results showed that of the four teenage characters studied, there were three types of obsessions, namely cleanliness, love, and ownership. The cause of the obsession is due to education from parents, the desire to have a partner, and the desire to get the desired object. The impact of obsessions on the characters in conflict with the surroundings, disappointment, and the achievement of goals. As a popular work, teen lit Miss Clean represents the real conditions of adolescent problems that have obsessive tendencies.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Rahmi Munfangati ◽  
Rifdah Diniatulhaq

The aims of this study are to analyze and identify; (1) Mark Watney’s optimism in the novel and (2) the impact of being optimistic as reflected in the novel. This study belongs to library research. To analyze the data, this study applies a psychological approach. The analyzed data are described by using the descriptive qualitative method, then. After analyzing the novel, it is found that; first, Mark Watney as the protagonist character is an optimist person proved by his goals and expectancy. Based on the types of optimism, Mark’s optimism refers to the comparative optimism and situational optimism. Second, the impact of being optimistic for Mark Watney are; he has high self-efficacy and hopes that somehow leads him to find a way to communicate with people on Earth, growing food and eventually manages to find his way back to the earth.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Nur Atikah Ridwan ◽  
Zulfan Sahri

The objectives of this study are to reveal the causes and negative impacts of overprotective mother’s attitude towards her child in the best-selling novel entitled My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, and to see how overprotective Sara Fitzgerald as a mother who has an overprotective attitude towards her second child. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with library study to find out the overprotective mother and how the overprotective developed by applying internal and external overprotective theory and mother's theory. The primary data used is the novel itself. Secondary data are books and articles relating to conflict theory. The results showed that there was a major problem that caused by Sara Fitzgerald as an overprotective mother and the impact of her overprotective attitude towards her daughter. There are two causes that Sara becomes an overprotective mother to her second daughter: her illness and her recovery and the impact towards her third daughter  is lacking affection and suffering.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Rahmi Munfangati ◽  
Aisyah Nur Handayani

Self-identity is an aspect that every human in the world has. Without it, a person is in danger of being negatively affected by those around him/her and by the outside world. Some people are grappling with this identity-forming phase in their search for self-definition. This is reflected in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Therefore, this research aims to describe the main characters' search for self-identity as seen in the novel. The type of this research was library research. This research applied a psychological approach, and the data were analyzed using the descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that Kathy and Tommy's quest to find their true selves occurred in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood stages. Narrated by Kathy, she flashed back the memories of how they, Kathy and Tommy, are puzzled because of too many mysteries in Hailsham, the boarding school where they live. They connected each puzzle which could be the answer. But, in the novel, the question they belong to for being different brought them to another question. The process of findings itself flowed as long as they grew. In the end, they found information about their identity as a clone and as an individual.


EDU-KATA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Sukirno Sukirno

The purpose of this study is to describe (1) the use of the language of barbarity, (2) the form of human barbarity, (3) the author's world view on human barbarity, (4) the impact of human barbarity, (5) the way out of human savagery in the novel tetraogy of Eka Kurniawan. This research uses study literature and sociology of literature by using heurmeneutic and mimesis theories to analyze the tetralogy of a novel by Eka Kurniawan. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with a stylistic approach and sociology of literature. The main data of this study are in the form of vocabulary, grammar, and text structure. The results found that many uses of the word vulgar or minority. Found forms of barbarity such as fraud, oppression / torture, quarrels, rape and murder. In the author's worldview, power, deception and suffering are found. The impact of barbarity is found revenge, quarreling and murder. While the way out of savagery can be done by way of education / school, religious, patient and helping each other.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Risa Al Adewiya

This research aimed to find the translation techniques used to translate the imperative sentences and the impact to the translation quality which is found in the dialogues of novel The Lost World. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by analyzing, questioning and interviewing to the raters. The analysis was started by finding and classifying the imperative sentences based on the theory of Greenbaum and Quirk (1990). Then, analyzing the translation techniques based on the theory of Molina and Albir (2002) and analyzing the translation quality based on Nababan (2012). The researcher found 63 data of imperative sentences in novel The Lost World. There are 45 data (71,4%) imperative sentences without subject, 4 data (6,35%) of imperative sentences with subject, 2 data (3,07%) of imperative sentences with let and 12 data (19,04%) of negative imperative. The researcher also found 12 translation techniques, they are amplification 8 data (8,42%), borrowing 3 data (3,15%), compensation 5 data (5,26%), established equivalent 15 data (15,78%), linguistics amplification 2 data (2,10%), linguistics compression 7 data (7,36%), literal translation 39 data (41,05%), modulation 2 data (2,10%), particularization, 1 datum (1,05%), reduction 7 data (7,36%), transposition 2 data (2,10%), variation 4 data (4,21%) with total data 95. The result of translation quality of imperative sentences found in the dialogues of novel The Lost World is qualified or well translated with final score of translation quality is 2,83. With the 2,78 for accuracy aspect, 2,85 for the acceptability aspect and 2,91 for the readability aspect.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Suci Amalia ◽  
Safitri Hariani

This research is concerned with the criminal investigation done by the protagonist by the name of Joe Talbert in Allen Eskens’s novel entitled The Life We Bury. It aims to reveal Joe Talbert’s investigation on a criminal case to uncover the truth. The novel, books, journals and website relating to the criminal case are used as source of data. The data is analyzed by classifying the obtained data in two sub chapters related to the research problems of this study. The writers adopt the theory from Taber K (2006). They are the protagonist’s way in doing his criminal investigation and the results of his criminal investigation. This research uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The finding shows that firstly there are two ways in getting information on the criminal investigation, such as doing inspection in the court of law and doing interview, and secondly that the results of his criminal investigation shows the truth of Carl’s real life and the real murderer.


2021 ◽  
Vol VI (IV) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ejaz Khan ◽  
Aamir Shehzad ◽  
Shamaila Roohi

The present study endeavors to analyze the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Muhammad Hanif’s Red Birds, focusing on the depiction of PTSD felt by major characters in then ovel. The psychological approach along with a descriptive qualitative method, has been used for evaluating the signs of PTSD in the backdrop of Raymond Benedict Flannery's theory. The significance of this study is to appraise the individuals about the hazardous outcomes of trauma. If trauma shows the symptoms of arousal, intrusive, and avoidance, the result is a post-traumatic stress disorder. Using this mechanism, the novel has been analyzed, and then the relevant data has been categorized according to the tenets of the theory. The study discovers the required symptoms of PTSD,i.e., intrusive, avoidance, and arousal, experienced by the characters. Mother Dear develops more intrusive symptoms as compared to arousal and avoidance symptoms, whereas arousal symptoms are more influenced by Momo.


Author(s):  
Anggia Putria ◽  
Muizzu Nurhadi

The research aims to reveal how the application of dramatic elements of Dashner’s Maze Runner is transformed into its film adaptation. To achieve the purpose, the researcher analyzes seven dramatic elements by Gustav Freytag’s Pyramid which consist of exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. The results of this research are the differences of the dramatic elements in the novel and film adaptation are not significant because only the scenes of exposition and rising action are not similar.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Enggin Valufi ◽  
Retno Budi Astuti

Hedonism is a view of life in philosophy that seeks to avoid pain and make pleasure as the main goal in life. People who embrace hedonism tend to over-pursue pleasure. The hedonism lifestyle is mostly carried out by 18th century people especially the nobles who live in high culture. They are as close to hedonism as they are in the Persuasion novel by Jane Austen. Sir Walter Elliot the main character is a nobleman who did a lot of hedonism. Hedonism which is seen as too glorifying personal pleasure to ignore others. The purpose of this study was to find out the types of hedonism done by Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion. This research uses descriptive qualitative method because all data are in the form of sentences. The researcher uses a philosophical approach and analyzes data using Weijers' theory as the main theory. The results of this study found that Sir Walter Elliot performed two types of hedonism, namely aesthetic hedonism and selfish hedonism.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Arini Egi Tiarawati ◽  
Tri Wahyu Retno Ningsih

The aim of this study is to analyze the types of figurative language which found in Ugly Love novel by Colleen Hoover. This study used figurative language theory by Leech to analyze the data which the researcher found in the novel. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative method. The total of the data are 87 data to be analyzed in the types of figurative language. The data will be identify and classify into 8 types of figurative language by Leech. The result of this study found 6 types of figurative language in this Ugly Love novel. That are 33 data of personifications (33 data) , 19 data of similes, 11 data of irony, 10 data of hyperbole, 9 data of metaphors, and 5 data of metonymy. The most of dominant type of figurative language in the Ugly Love novel by Colleen Hoover is personification.


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