LIZ S EFFORT TO GET BETTER LIFE IN BREAKING NIGHT NOVEL (2010): AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: OVI ARIESTA AYU ANDARI A 320 110 182 SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2014 i
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MOTTO Jangan Cuma bisa mengeluh, buatlah sebuah perjuangan dengan kemampuan. (The Researcher) Time is Gold. (The Researcher) Tuhan akan menjawab doa manusia ketika manusia itu juga mau berusaha. (The Researcher) v
DEDICATION This research paper is especially dedicated to: The Greatest Allah SWT My beloved father My beloved mother My beloved big family My beloved lovely My beloved friends vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Assalamu alaikum wr. wb. Great thanks to Allah SWT, the most gracious and merciful. His blessings can never be calculated or measured, so that the reseacher can finish this research paper entitled LIZ S EFFORT TO GET BETTER LIFE IN BREAKING NIGHT NOVEL (2010): AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH. And also thanks for the great prophet Muhammad SAW, peace be upon him, who brings the Muslim from the darkness into the brightness. The reseacher realizes that the research paper cannot be finished without many helps and supports from several people. Thus, the reseacher would like to express his earnest gratitude for the following persons: 1. Drs. Abdillah Nugroho, M.Hum, as the first consultant, who has given her time to guide, advice, and share much knowledge patiently to the reseacher until this research paper finished. 2. Titis Setyabudi, S.S, M.Hum, as the second consultant, who has given her time to correct the grammatical structure of the research paper. 3. Prof. Dr. Harun Joko Prayitno, as the Dean of School of Teaching Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. 4. All lectures of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta especially English Department who has helped and guided the reseacher in many ways. Also her deepest thanks for all of their beneficial knowledge that has taught to the reseacher. vii
5. Her beloved parents, Bapak Parnu and Ibu Tumiatun, for their amazing love, prayer, support until today. and make her understand that Allah is the highest aim of life and make her understand how to be a real Moslem, 6. Her beloved grandparent, Bapak Yatno and Ibu Sarmi for their love, support, prayer and togetherness. 7. Her beloved family in Magetan, Mbak Endang, Mbak Tika, Salma, Ayu, Ragel, Anggun for all their support, advice, help, and spirit. All of those give additional spirit for me. 8. Her beloved Afid Anggara for her support, togetherness, and prayer until today. 9. Her best friends in campus, Melinda, Trismi, Yasmine, Inuk, Aix, Catur, Ibnu, Amin, Ninik and others friend cannot be mention for making her life become more colorful. For all the support, sharing, spirit, story, craziness, laugh, jokes, and sweet moments during studying in UMS. 10. Her beloved friends in PPL SMK Harapan Kartasura, for all the sweet moments during conducting the field work in SMK Harapan Kartasura. 11. Her dearest friends in Yasmine boarding house, who are her second family in Solo, for all craziness in the playing play station, laugh, love, spirit, advice, sharing, support, and prayer. She always wishes that they will always be best friends and getting success of each other. 12. All of the people, who cannot be mentioned one by one, for everything. viii
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TABLE OF CONTENT Page TITLE... i APPROVAL... ii ACCEPTANCE... iii TESTIMONY... iv MOTTO... v DEDICATION... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENT... vii TABLE OF CONTENT... x SUMMARY... xiii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION... 1 A. Background of Study... 1 B. Literature Review... 6 C. Problem Statement... 6 D. Limitation of Study... 7 E. Objective of the Study... 7 F. Benefit of the Study... 7 G. Research Method... 8 H. Research Paper Organization... 9 CHAPTER II: UNDERLYING THEORY... 11 A. The Notion of Individual Psychology... 11 B. Basic Assumption of Individual Psychology... 12 1. Striving for Superiority... 12 2. Fictional Finalism... 13 3. Inferiority Feeling... 14 4. Social Interest... 14 5. Style of Life... 15 6. Creative Power... 16 C. Theory of Issue... 17 x
1. The Notion of Effort... 17 2. The Efforts Variants... 18 3. The Efforts to Change People s Life for the Better... 18 D. Structural Elements of the Novel... 19 1. Character and Characterization... 19 2. Plot... 20 3. Setting... 20 4. Point of View... 21 5. Style... 21 6. Theme... 22 E. Theoretical Application... 22 CHAPTER III: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS... 24 A. Structural Elements... 24 1. Character and Characterization... 24 2. Plot... 33 3. Setting... 39 4. Point of View... 40 5. Style... 40 6. Theme... 44 B. Discussion... 46 CHAPTER IV: INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS... 49 A. Development of Liz s Personality Based on Adler s Individual Psychology Analysis... 49 1. Striving for Superiority... 49 2. Fictional Finalism... 51 3. Inferiority Feeling... 52 4. Social Interest... 53 5. Style of Life... 54 6. Creative Power... 56 B. Discussion... 57 xi
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION... 60 A. Conclusion... 60 B. Suggestion... 61 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 63 APPENDIX... 65 xii
SUMMARY OVI ARIESTA AYU ANDARI, A 320 110 182, LIZ S EFFORT TO GET BETTER LIFE IN BREAKING NIGHT NOVEL (2010): AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH. RESEARCH PAPER. MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA. 2014. The problem of this study is Liz s effort to get better life in breaking night Novel (2010) directed by Liz Murray. The purpose of this study was to describe the novel based on the structural elements and depict the novel based on individual psychological approach. The type of this research is qualitative research. This type of research data is a text taken from two data sources: primary and secondary. The primary data source is The breaking night novel by author Liz Murray in 2010. While secondary data sources are other materials taken from some books, author biographies, comments, website searching about breaking night novel. Both the data collected by conducting library research and analyzed with descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis, the author describes some conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis of each element, it shows that the character and characterization, plot, setting, point of view, style, theme. Secondly, based on individual psychological analysis reflected in striving for superiority, fictional finalism, inferiority feeling, social interest, style of life, creative power all of this have meaningful goal in human s life. This novel also shows the determination process involving large will produce amazing results. Keywords: The Effort, Breaking Night, An Individual Psychological Approach. xiii