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motivation to take care of Phoebe. Caroline’s achievement motivation shows her process of struggle from being unlucky to be someone better who can survive and
live with happiness. Her difficult past life really gives Caroline many bad experiences that
influence her personality as well. It reflects how hard Caroline lives her life when she was a child until her teenager. She is an optimistic person but the surrounding
never supports her to reach her dreams. This condition motivates Caroline to get out from her afflicted life. Since Phoebe came to her life, she believes that they
will write their life story together. Caroline has spent her life alone without anyone special accompanies her every single day. After the death of her parents,
she has no one to share. Phoebe means everything for her so that Phoebe is worthy to be struggled. McClelland 1985 emphasized that “doing something better” is
the incentive for the achievement motive. Having Phoebe in Caroline’s life really strengthen her to do everything better than before. Phoebe becomes her new
reason to live and survive.
1. Carolines Affiliative Motivation
The first Caroline’s motivation is affiliative motivation. It becomes the major motivation in this study because this motivation takes the main role of
Caroline’s decision to be a foster mother to Phoebe. According to
Atkinson, Heyns, Veroff in Charles P. Smiths Motivation and Personality 1992, the affiliative motive
is defined as the desire to establish, maintain, or restore warm relationships with other people p. 53.
In Caroline’s solitary life, she really needs someone to get her love and love her. She misses the time when her parents were still with her. In her
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thirties, she has not any man to be her lover. She just spends her time to work and live alone in her tiny apartment. Caroline is bored with the loneliness she has
experienced. This makes Caroline decides to find someone to share with. This motivation divides into four parts. The first part is Caroline’s need to
keep the relationship between her and David Henry. Phoebe is David Henry’s daughter. Caroline thinks if she becomes a foster mother for Phoebe. She can still
keep in touch with David Henry. According to list of Murray social motives, affiliation is:
To draw near and enjoyably co-operate or reciprocate with an allied other an other who resembles the subject or who likes the subject. To please
and win affection of a cathected abject. To adhere and remain loyal to a friend. Murray 97
Caroline still listens to David Henry and adores him, although he has married to Norah, a beautiful woman. She is not a kind of woman who can easily forget her
feeling to David Henry. The second part is the refuses of David Henry to Phoebe because she suffers from down syndrome. David Henry is the man who asks
Caroline to take Phoebe to the institution because she suffers from down syndrome and David Henry keeps his wife away from sorrow. She comes to the
institution but then she finally raises the girl alone and takes her to live a new life. The third part is the need for affiliation with someone she loves. She realizes that
she cannot live by herself in this world. She needs somebody to share with. Phoebe is the first person who is so close to her after her parents’ death. She feels
the warmth, love, and togetherness every time she gets close to Phoebe. Phoebe really reminds her about the love she can enjoy from her parents. The fourth part
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is Caroline’s love to Phoebe at the first sight. The first time she sees Phoebe she falls in love with her. Phoebe’s innocent face indicates that she does not deserve
to get injustice. Caroline prefers taking Phoebe with her to leaving Phoebe at institution.
a. Caroline’s Responsibility after David Henry Refuses to Take Care of Phoebe
David Henry as a father does not want to take care of Phoebe because she suffers from down syndrome. The first time he sees the baby, he knows there is
something wrong with her. He analyses his daughter’s physical appearance. According to his knowledge as a doctor, down syndrome could be possible to
have heart complication and die early. “What he was looking at were the unmistakable features, the eyes turned up as if with laughter, the epicanthal fold
across their lids, the flattened nose 21.” This condition forces David Henry to take Phoebe far from his wife,
Norah. He knows the feeling of a mother if she loses her daughter, just like David Henry’s mother when she loses his sister in the early age. She could never leave
from her grief. It really tortures David Henry to see his mother in sorrow. He does not want Norah to experience the same sadness. According to Charles P. Smith
1992, children who experienced insecurity in the primary affiliative relationship very early in life are apt to grow up with an implicit fear of rejection p. 70. This
happens to David Henry’s childhood. Because her mother was always in her
