44 Dawan starts to lose her hope to get supports, so she talks to her father and
gets his permission. She thinks ab out the old monk‟s statement about how she
should let her dreams go because it is just a futile dream for him. Dawan almost gives up on her dream to get a better life after studying in the city. She takes into
consideration the old monk words that encourage her to be satisfied with her condition in the village. She is frustrated because even the old monk does not
want to help her to talk to her father.
c. Hunches
The hunches cannot be found explicitly from the novel. The writer can find some gender schemas tha
t trigger Dawan‟s mind development in the field of her belief. Most of those gender schemas are from Noi‟s statement about her
experience in the City. “I could tell you some things about the young girls in the City that would
make your teeth fall out, my Aunt,” she said bitterly p. 41.
Noi once lives in the village and she experiences tough and bitter life there.
She warns her aunt, Dawan‟s mother, that Dawan should not go to the city to
study because the city is a dangerous place for her. Noi keeps saying that city is not a place for a young girl like Dawan. A girl is not treated well and appropriate
in the c ity, according to Noi. This statement influences Dawan‟s mind in a
positive way. Stirring uneasily, Dawan asked, “If things are so unfair in the City, how
will remaining in our little village ever change anything?” p. 42. From Dawan‟s statement above, the writer infers that Dawan becomes
more curious about the city and it creates the new belief about the city. She makes PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
45 hunches about how she can c
hange her village‟s current condition to be better if she can go to the city and get more knowledge there. She becomes more critical
and sees the positive side of the unfairness condition in the city for a girl like her. She is guessing what will happen to her in the city if she has not been given a
chance to really go to that place. Dawan creates her own belief towards the city while Noi is insisting not to help her to get her father‟s permission.
She began to wonder if it was right for her to assert herself, to stand in Kwai‟s way. Perhaps her father was right after all; with more schooling,
Kwai could find good jobs, and earn some money to help the family. Maybe someday he might even become strong and important, and have the
power to change the injustices in their village and in the country.
And Dawan herself? What could she do? She was just a girl. Wouldn‟t she grow up just to be a wife and a mother? What could she do
with more learning? p. 56.
Dawan starts to make hunches towards her capability to get the scholarship and study in the city. She supposes that she does not deserve the scholarship and
the one who deserves it is actually Kwai because Kwai is a boy. She underestimates herself by acknowledging her future role as a woman who can
only cook and raise the babies. She cannot see herself as a capable person to do the same things like the boys may do. She thinks that she cannot bring the change
when finally she comes back to the village after studying in the city school.
2. Desires
In addition to belie fs, desires is also the center of Dawan‟s mind
development. According to Davidson 1963, desires are to be understood as a general category including wants, urges, and states of caring about something as
cited in Bartsch, 1995, p. 5. Those three parts of desires are also known as a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
46 whole range of pro-attitudes toward or about something. Desires can also be
seen as an attitude which encourages someone to do something and bring faith to someone‟s decision and action.
a. Wants
In this novel, the writer finds t hat Dawan‟s desire to go to the city and
study many things there. Dawan really wants to get the scholarship at the beginning, but she keeps her dream in her heart. When finally the teacher
announces the winner of the scholarship, which is her, she does many efforts to get supports from many parties.
“ I mean, that‟s why I want so badly to go to school in the City. As it is now, all we ourselves know about are the little bits and pieces of
unfairness that we have experienced. It‟s hard to change things, even the smallest thing, without changing the overall pattern that these things are a
part of. I keep thinking that there must be a whole order to this, a system with rules and laws all mapped out in it. And I want to study how the
system works and moves, and then I think I could help to find a better
one.” p. 43.
Dawan really wants to go to the city because she knows that everything in there has been more advanced than in the village and there are many useful things
that are taught in the city school. Dawan knows that villagers need to know more things to improve their own life. She thinks that she can fight for her people if she
has gained more knowledge in the city. Moreover, for Dawan, villagers like her, only know a little about things, that is why they experience injustice and never
live a fair life. She knows that getting the scholarship means she bears responsibilities.
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