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2. Major Character

Major characters are important in the story as the center of the story DiYanni, 2001. Thus, the major character will be the focus of the story because it dominates the story. According to Perrin 1998, there are two types of major characters, namely protagonist and antagonist as cited in DiYanni, 2001. Henkle 1977 states major character is the figure of the novel that has the significant of the experience of the book. A major character has an important role in conveying the theme of the story by focusing on the major character’s experiences.

3. Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Conflict

According to Insenhart and Spangle 2000, conflict is an exposed struggle between at least two independent parties that perceive incompatible goals and inadequate resources and intrusion from another party in obtaining their goals. Beside, Hocker and Wilmot 1985 state conflict is a felt struggle between two or more interdependent individuals over perceived incompatible differences in beliefs, values, and goals, or over differences in desires for esteem, control, and connectedness as cited in Borisoff, Victor, David, 1989, p. 2. According to Ghaffar and Khan 2012, there are four types of conflict, two of them are intrapersonal and interpersonal. Intrapersonal conflict arises because of multifarious reason within the individual while interpersonal conflict occurs between two individuals p. 333.

4. Culture Shock

According to Malpass and Lonner 1994, culture shock is the failure in adjusting oneself to a different culture or disability to successfully perform basic 8 social tasks in a different setting. Another definition of culture shock is an initial adjustment to an unfamiliar environment in which the psychological process of culture shock has been used to describe the adjustment process on its emotional, psychological, behavioral, psychological impacts on individuals Pedersen, 1995. Commonly, culture shock happens because there is disability to adjust to the new culture. It is normal to experience culture shock when people stay in another country for the first time.