Bu Mus fulfilled Mister Samadikun‟s trivial and finicky requirements:
calculator, compasses, and crayons. She was able to buy a few compasses and some crayons with money from her money from her sewing. And
because calculators were very expensive, she bought an abacus instead. The important thing, however, was that we now had two trophies that
would certainly impress Mister Samadikun p. 335.
The text above obviously shows that Bu Mus is very helpful person. It is analyzed by using Murphy‟s methods of characterization. It is derived from Bu
Mus‟ reaction.
g. Brave
Bu Mus is a brave person, especially when it deals with her school and her students. Bu Mus challenges PN that wants to knock down Muhammadiyah
Gantong primary school. “Destroy this school if you want, just destroy it. But you‟ll have to do it
over my dead body” We instantly formed a human barrier in front of Bu Mus. If PN wanted to knock down our school and Bu
Mus, they‟d have to knock us down first p. 358.
As seen from Bu Mus‟ speech, it can be concluded that Bu Mus is a very
brave woman. It is analyzed by using Murphy ‟s methods of characterization.
Bu Mus sends a letter to PN in order to meet the head of PN. No one is brave enough to do like that before.
In accordance with her letter, Bu Mus still insisted on meeting with the head of PN. This was very brave. Never before had anyone acted this way,
not even the head of the government establishment whose building had been trampled by the dredges p. 359.
With the text above, it is very obvious that Bu Mus is a brave person. She is like a fighter who has no fear to fight people who is in a stronger side. It is
analyzed by using Murphy‟s methods of characterization. It is derived from the direct comment from the author.
2. Bu Mus’ Motivations in Teaching in Muhamadiyah Gantong Primary
School in Belitong
According to McConnell 1977 motivation comes from the Latin word “motive” which mean “to move” that is defined in many different ways, the most
common one is a series of questions that why people think, feel, and behave as they do p.259.
Huffman, Vernoy and Vernoy 2000 also present two forms of motivation that affect achievement. They are intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation
p.401. Intrinsic motivation refers to a desire to perform an action for our own sake. Bu Mus has intrinsic motivation because being a teacher is her desire. Being
a teacher is her big dream. Bu
Mus‟ face was puffy from holding back tears. I understood how she felt, because her hope to teach was as great as our hope to go to school.
Today was Bu Mus‟ first day as a teacher, a moment she had been
dreaming of for a very long time. She had just graduated the week before from Sekolah Kepandaian Putri Vocational Girls‟ School, a junior high
school in the capital of the regency, Tanjong Pandan. She was only fifteen years old. Sadly, her fiery spirit to be a teacher was about to be doused by
a bitter reality, the threat of her school closing because they were short by just one student p. 5.
Bu Mus is a determined person. A person who has strong will to make her dream come true. A person who will give her best effort to get what she wants.
There are many difficulties faced by Bu Mus, but her desire is too big to give up. Her determined choice to become a teacher would later bring Bu Mus
unimaginable hardships, no one else wanted to teach at our school because there was no payment. Being a teacher poor private school, especially in
our village, was a moneyless profession, only embarked on by those,
