CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
The writer answers the two questions that have been stated in the problem formulations in the previous chapter. Firstly, the writer explores what experiences thatSuzie
has. The theory of repression supports to know the answer as well. The second problem is
the defense mechanism which is shown through Suzie,and the theory of defense mechanisms which includes denial, displacement, and regression helps the writeranswer the second
problem.
A. Suzie’s Experiences that Make her Fearful of Being a Jewish
As stated in the previous chapter, fear is defined as the bad feeling you have when you are in danger, when something bad might happen or when somebody or something frightens
you Oxford University Press, 2000:162. By using the theory of characterization by M.J. Murphy, the writer finds that Suzie is a
girl who is to forget about something which happens in her life. She has been known as someone who has strong willingness. There are some cases that can be shown when Suzie
shows her quality of fearful.
1. When She was Afraid of Her Name
Suzie is the main character of this short story. In the early story she is shown as Fegele, a young-motherless girl living with her father in a small wooden house in a village.
As the story goes, her father leaves her and goes to America to have a better life. Suzie becomes different when her father leaves her. Her personality changes into a
wild girl. She often feels lonely just like she does not have anyone to share with. She spends her day to play with her friends. At the moment,the village where she lives is attacked and
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burned in pogrom. Her mother is killed and she is separated from other youngster who makes it to the port to emigrate. Suzie escapes with the help of neighbours and willing to
find her father to America. Accidentally, she is not arrived in america but in Britain. And so the journey begins that takes the little girl and the three men further
than any of them have ever been before, across steppe and through forests, through the smouldering remains of what were villages, as they cut a path
across country, through the devastation of the civil war, towards the borderPotter, 2000: 16
Suzie simply believes that her choice to follow that group bring hers to meet her father soon even though in the story she always faces a problem and she always represses anything
happening with her past experiences. Her fear towards herself makes her afraid enough to hold the pain long enough. The example is when she becomes one of a group of children
alone. After arriving in Britain, she lives with her foster parents then they gives her name: Suzie. The reason by given her name Suzi isbecause when they looks at Fegele’s face, he
sees a black-eyed Susan in his northern English. She does not give anything to comment, yet she stilled and silenced by exhaustion and being traumatic.
When he reaches the little girl with dark eyes, still clutching the remains of the photo, he bends down and looks into her face. Suzie, he says, for a black-eyed Susan, in his
northern English. She looks up at him, stilled and silenced by exhaustion, by the endless sickness, by the terrors of abandonment, and now by bafflement at the
incomprehensible sounds coming out from the red cavernous mouth beneath his bristly grey moustachePotter, 2000: 18.
It can be clearly seen in the quotation that Suzie’s fear is strong enough to make her hold her pain. Thus, Suzie holds everything, and tries not to say anything even if it is just her
name. The only thing she does is silenced by exhaustion, by the endless sickness, and by the terrors of abandonment.
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