Kind The Characteristics of Steve

especially on what they do support to each other Cheal, 2002:7. Parents are very important person of children‟s life. After the parental divorce, Ronnie always ignores Steve. In the Steve‟s letters, he also says that Ronnie always ignores him Sparks, 2009:413. Ronnie is angry with her father. According to Ronnie‟s opinion, it is Steve‟s fault. “He‟s the one who left” Sparks, 2009:10. Someday, Will asks Ronnie why she does not play piano anymore. “He taught me to play from the time I was able to walk. I played for hours, seven days a week, for years. We even did some composing together. It‟s what we shared, you know? It was something for just the two of us, and when h e moved out of the apartment... I felt like he hadn‟t only betrayed the family. I felt like he‟d betrayed me personally, and I was just so angry about all of it that I swore I‟d down here and saw the piano and heard him playing it every time I was around, I couldn‟t help feeling that he was trying to pretend that what he‟d done didn‟t matter. Like he thought we could just start over. But we couldn‟t. You can‟t undo the past” Sparks, 2009:256. Steve is Ronnie‟s first piano teacher. Ronnie tells that they used to play piano every day. They also composed song together. After the divorce, Ronnie feels like her father not only betrayed her family but also betrayed her personally. “Anger and hostility are common emotional reactions among adolscents, especially toward the parent they blam e for the divorce” Rice, 1996:120. Ronnie says that her father who leaves her. She thinks that it is all of her father‟s fault. She thinks that her father loved someone else and then decided to divorce from her mother. Ronnie blames her father about her parental divorce. Ronnie like the other adolescents needs support and affection from her father, but she does not get it from her father. Whereas Steve always tries to call her and send letter to her, but she does not care about it. She always has a negative feelings towards Steve because Ronnie thinks that Steve is the reason why her family broken.

2. She does not get along with Kim, her mother

Besides having negative feelings towards her father, Ronnie also does not get along with Kim. Ronnie never obeys her mother‟s rules anymore. She breaks the curfew, she does whatever she likes, and she never pays attentions to her mother anymore. After Ronn ie and Jonah arrived in her father‟s house to spend their holiday, Steve asks Jonah about Ronnie and Kim. “...Mom and Ronnie fought the whole time” Sparks, 2009:19. Ronnie and Kim also fight because of the simple things. When Ronnie snaps her gum on the way to Steve‟s house, Kim is also angry with Ronnie Sparks, 2009:9. Ronnie knows her mother hate it but she still snaps her gum like that. It is their second fight when they are on their way to Steve‟s house. Their first fight is when Kim plays Mozart‟s Sonata number 16. Ronnie does not like that because she played it in her performance at Carnegie Hall four years ago, before the divorce happened Sparks, 2009:8. Fatherless children may develop a number of problems. Sometimes they become excessively dependent upon the mother; sometimes they grown rebellious and defiant, difficult for the mother to control. Antisocial behavior in the form of stealing may also break out the following the loss of father Martin and Stendler, 1957:331. Kim finds it difficult to control Ronnie after the divorce. Ronnie becomes a child who never listens to her mother again. “After separation occurs, adolescents have to adjust to the absence of one parent, often one on whom they have depended deeply for affection and h elp” Rice, 1996:120. Kim is the only one parent who lives together with Ronnie because after the divorce Steve leaves alone. Kim has double role, as a father and as a mother. In fact, Kim has a new boyfriend. She dates with Brian. She will get married with her new boyfriend in