Summer Re-Evaluates Western Value Systems

love and angry. The emotionless of Summer is proven when she suddenly decides to leave Tom. Summer : I think we should stop seeing each other : Let‟s just eat and well talk about it after. Mm... That‟s good, I‟m really glad we did this Without another word she goes back to her pancakes. Tom watches her eat like this is the worst travesty in the history of mankind. : mouth full I love this pancakes Tom looks at his food in disgust. he may never eat again. Summer : innocent what? Tom stands up to go Summer : Tom, dont go. You‟re still my best friends The dialog between Summer and Tom above describes how cruel Summer is. It seem like she does not have emotion. After she beats Tom hardly with breaking up, she acts as normal people as if nothing happen with her and Tom. After she dumps Tom, she eats pancakes and said if she loves those pancakes a nd she forgets about Tom‟s heartache. Innocently she said that Tom is still her best friends. Summer is described as ignorance woman on everything that happen in her life, include in her relationship with Tom. She ignores Tom, ignores Tom‟s hurt feeling, and she does not try to chase Tom and let Tom go away from her. As postmodern people, Summer refuses the harmonic, universal, and consistent explanation. Tom needs some consistency about the relationship, he tries to understand Summer‟s thought, but he is no longer strong enough to understand Summer‟s will. At the beginning of the story Tom knows that he and Summer have different idea of relationship, but Tom decide Summer‟s skepticism is primarily a result of uncertainty and that if they do get together she will slowly change her mind, but the fact is, day by day he got with Summer is getting worse. Postmodern creates an emotionless individual. The people become more passive and ignorance. According to J. Baudrillard the culture is totally changed. These Cultural Revolution caused people to become passive, creating society as a „black hole‟ that absorb all the meaning, information, communication, etc. Those things make the society meaningless, they take their own way, and being pessimistic. 7

e. Summer Lives with her Beliefs

Postmodern people live with their own beliefs, language, and value. It is prove from their behavior and expression of postmodern people in daily life. Because of that, postmodern people do not think about the truth, they ignore the logic or systematic thought. Summer as a character with postmodern ideas or thoughts lives with her beliefs, languages, and her values, she does not wants to prove who‟s the most right, either she is right or other people is right. Postmodernist conclude “what‟s true for you may not be true for me”, encapsulates the postmodern idiom fairy well. As a character with postmodern ideas or thoughts, Summer lives with her beliefs. She does not believe in love and the one right person. Summer thinks that love is only fantasy. Postmodernist believe that the notion of the truth is contrived illusion. One of the most prevalent characteristic of postmodernism is the idea that there is no and can never be any kind of absolute truth. They say that the idea of the world‟s own story, the unified picture of reality, is an illusion. There is no such thing as the whole truth. 8 Postmodernist believe that the notion of the truth is contrived illusion. For postmodern people the truth is relative, depend on social context. Tom and Summer 7 Bernard Raho, SVD, Teori Sosiologi Modern Jakarta: prestasi pustakaraya, 2007, p. 208. 8 Michael Luntley, Reason, Truth and Self: the postmodern reconditioned London and New York: Routledge, 1995, p. 12.