Bryce Is In Conflict With Juli

4.3 Bryce Is In Conflict With Juli

The hero character of this novel named Bryce Loski. Bryce lived with his parents, Steven and Patsy Loski. He has a sister named Lynetta . Bryce was a quite attractive boy who loved basketball and baseball. He was Juli’s new neighbor who just moved in front of Juli’s house. After being attracted by Bryce’s eyes, Juli fell in love at the first sight. Next, Juli directly gave a hand to help Bryce’s moving and that was how this story begins. From the first chapter of this novel, the reader was brought to the impression that Bryce hated Juli. Bryce felt disturb upon a little girl who kept looking into his eyes and stalking him. All he got feelingwas just disturbance.The first conflict that Bryce has with Juli is her aggressiveness and bluntness. When Juli has been saw there was a new neighbor who was unpacking their stuffs, she saw Bryce who was in the same age like her and directly jumpedinto their truck after dazzling by Bryce’s eyes. Juli offered a hand to help but Bryce thought that Juli just disturbed them. Bryce’s father also rejected Juli’s help and asked her to go home. But Juli was a stubborn and persistent with a heart of gold that she kept asking to do something to help. Then Bryce was asked to go inside of the house by his father. Juli run to chase him and unconsciously, they were holding hand. This was how the story began. This was the first moment that caused a big headacheto Bryce. “All Ive ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off —you know, just give me some space. It all started the summer before second grade when our moving van pulled into her neighborhood. And since were now about done with the eighth grade that, my friend, makes more than half a decade of strategic avoidance and social discomfort. She didnt just barge into my life. She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life. Did we invite her to get into our moving van and start climbing all over boxes? No But thats exactly what she did, taking over and showing off like only Juli Baker can.” p.18 Based on the quotation above it can be concluded that Bryce felt Juli existence was a burden for him since she could not leave him alone and she just barged into his life the way she was, uninvited. Obviously, it can be seen that Bryce has reject Juli even star from the beginning. The conflict continued when Juli found out the fact that Bryce was in her class. Juli was unbelievably surprised. She raninto Bryce and hugged him in front of the other students. Bryce was very embarrassed at the time. He did not know what to do. Their friends shouted and mocked at him all along day. Juli became a nightmare that haunted Bryce every time. Juli was like a virus that should be avoided by him.Juli was like a noisy mosquito which kept buzzing around his ears and drove him crazy. “….. “Bryce” Juli squeals. “Youre here.” Then she charges across the room and tackles me. Mrs. Yelson tried to explain this attack away as a “welcome hug,” but man, that was no hug. That was a front-line, take-em- down tackle. Everyone jeered, “Wheres your girl friend, Bryce?” “Are you married yet, Bryce?” And then when she chased me around at recess and tried to lay kisses on me, the whole school started singing, “Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree, K-I-S-SIN-G…” My first year in town was a disaster.” p.22 From the quotation above, it is may concluded that Juli’s attitude of being spontaneous of seeing Bryce that she was not just threw her self into him but she even tackled him in front of every one. In the perspective of a little boy, this incident is plainly embarrassing and disaster. As generally known that a little boy usually just want to make friends with other boy, they will feel really embarrassing if a girl comes after them like the way Juli was to him. The fact that he was a new studentsalso made the situation even worse since all of the good impression that he had to show flew to the window because of Juli. Even a little boy indeed has a self esteem. Astime passed by and as it has predicted the Bryce’s first year at school did not go well. Bryce thought that he would be saved from Juli that they would be in different class. Unfortunately, their fate was cemented and Bryce was stuck with Juli in the same class again. Bryce tried his best to avoid Juli. Bryce and Juli were mocked as a couple at school again. This condition leads to the frustration and stress to the poor little boy. While in the other side, Juli was very happy to hear ahe said. This fact made Bryce hated Juli even more since everyone mocked Bryce about Julievery day for almost three years. In the other words, Juli’s existence has brought Bryce into deep conflict of his youth. Until one day, Bryce took an action about it by havingrelationship with Shelly Stalls. He hoped by doing that, Juli would stay away from him so Shelly was used to make Juli giving up on Bryce. Shelly was Bryce’s media to avoid Juli. At the beginning, Bryce plan was successful but after breaking up with Shelly, Juli started to chase on Bryce. Based on the description, it can be seen that Juli’s existence has brought many problems to Bryce’s life and it was still failed. So it is really obvious that the conflict of Bryce’s disaster teenage life is because of July particularly.

4.4 Bryce Is In Conflict With His Life Principle