CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING
Conflict was defined as a social process between two individuals or more in which one individual has a desire to beat another individual by drop it off or create his opponent
become useless. Conflict can be divided into two kinds of it. It can be internal conflict and external
conflict. Internal means himself external outer means with another one. In studying and analyzing of the leading character conflict, the writer only to discuss internal conflict and
external conflict from major character in a novel.
4.1 Internal conflict
Internal conflict is a private war within oneself. It could be anything from deciding between two or more choice, to deciding many things in our personal life. There is
internal conflict between good and evil strength and weakness love and hate. Internal conflict refers to emotional or analytical struggles a character has due to his values, his role and
society, or the company he finds with himself.
4.1.1 Anna’s internal conflict
Anna is a little girl who has so many mystery of her life and why did she have to do all the supply for her sister Kate. Kate needs her blood because Kate is sick, leukemia, and
really need her blood supply to stay alive. Anna internal conflict can be seen when Anna starts to think for something that she must do to change her life. Anna try to ignore how is she
feels about Kate and planning something. It can be seen from the quotation below:
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“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you
choose one gritty path you‟ve got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you‟re making a mistake? Kerri approaches, holding out a strip
of paper with the number I‟ve asked for, but I close the door without taking it and walk back to my desk. “No one can make you donate an organ if you
don‟t want to.” Picoult, 2004:23 From
the quotation above the words “your whole life stretches out ahead” shows that Anna is try to get solution for her problem and take a risk for every plan she must do. Anna
internal conflict can be seen when Anna decided that she must continue her plan and she ready to face the people. Anna tries to make her self stronger. It can be seen from the
quotation below: “I decided one day to force myself into imagining what it would be like
after Kate died. That way, or so tony vowed, when it really happened, I‟d be ready.
” Picoult, 2004:215 From the quotation above
the words “I decided one day to force myself” shows that Anna feel strong enough to face the problem even tough she must fight against everybody.
Anna internal conflict can be seen when Anna thinks that how her life without Kate. She thinks that her life must be so happy without Kate and blood supply anymore. It can be seen
from the quotation below: “DID YOU EVER WONDER how we all got here? On Earth, I mean.
Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who says that the star
deities populated the world: Evening star and morning star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the sun and the
moon. Humans rod
e in on the back of a tornado” Picoult, 2004:299 From the quotation above
the words “how we all got here? “shows that Anna thinks there must be a reason why she did have to do all the blood supply for Kate and wondering
how is her life should be. Anna internal conflict can be seen when Anna thinks something after she supplies her blood for Kate and wondering that she must be in heavens for being so
nice to Kate. It can be seen from the quotation below:
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“HERE‟S MY QUESTION: what age you when you‟re in heaven? I mean, if it‟s Heaven, you should be at your beauty – queen best, and I doubt that
all the people who die of old age are wandering around toothless and bald. It opens up a whole additional realm of question, too. If you hang yourself,
do you walk around all gross and blue, with your tongue spitting out of your mouth? If you are killed in a war, do you spend eternity minus the leg
that got blown up by a mine?” Picoult, 2004:327 From the quotation above
the words “what age you when you‟re in heaven? “ shows that Anna shows that she want to ignore to supply for Kate against but she cannot say it to her
mother. Kate is Anna older sister. She does love Kate and love their family, but there is something that Anna feels that her life is not like the ordinary people. The blood supply, and
kidney supply for Kate. Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen when Anna supply her blood for Kate. Anna is a little girl who has a mystery why she has to give her blood to her
sister Kate. It can be seen from the quotation below: “It made me wonder, though, what would have happened if Kate had been
healthy. Chances are, I‟d still be floating up in heaven or wherever, waiting to
be attached to a body to spend some time on earth. Certainly I would not be part of this family. See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn‟t get here by
accident. And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it‟s gone, so are you.”Picoult, 2004:8
From the quotation above the words “if Kate had been healthy” shows that Anna feel
that her life only to save Kate. Anna realizes when she is thirteen years old and for entire her life she has to supply blood for Kate. Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen when
Anna talk something to Jesse her brother. They realize that their parents did not care and only care about Kate, and how Kate can survive alive. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“My parents tried to make things normal, but that‟s a relative term. The truth is, I was never really a kid. To be honest, neither were Kate and Jesse.
I guess maybe my brother had his moment in the sun for the four years he
was alive before Kate got diagnosed, but ever since then, we‟ve been too busy looking over our shoulders to run headlong into growing up. You
know how must little kids think they‟re like cartoon characters-if an anvil drops on their heads they can peel themselves off the sidewalk and keep
going ?well, I never once believed that. How could I, when we partially set a place for death at the dinner table?
” Picoult, 2004:10
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From the quotation above the words “My parents tried to make things normal“ shows
that Jesse agree about Anna‟s opinion about their parents and he knows they can do nothing
to change the situation Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen when Anna comes to hospital to see Kate. Anna feel so worry about Kate she thinks that Kate really need her to
survive but Anna feel that she cannot do the supply anymore. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“For a moment, my mother is caught between us, a soap bubble. She looks from Kate to me and back again. My sister‟s in pain and I‟m relieved. What
does that say about me? The last thing I see as I run out of the room is my mother pushing the
nurse‟s call button over and over, as if it‟s the trigger to a bomb.” Picoult, 2004:61
From
the quotation above the words “What does that say about me?“ shows that Kate is sick and she really need Anna‟s help but Anna try to ignore and did not care how Kate is.
Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen when Anna come to see Kate. She feels so worry about Kate, Anna realizes that Kate is her only sister she has. Anna tries to make
everything‟s right. It can be seen from the quotation below: “I crawl onto the bed, which is narrow, but still big enough for both of us. I
rest my head on her chest, so close to her central line that I can see the liquid dripping into her. Jesse is wrong-
I didn‟t come to see Kate because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it
‟s hard to remember who I am.” Picoult, 2004:168
From the quotation above the words “without her, it‟s hard to remember who I am”
shows that Anna feels sorry to see Kate and she told her apologize to her brother Jesse the only person she can talk about Kate internally. Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen
when Anna comes to see Kate in the hospital and Anna try to talk something to Kate. She told that Kate must strong to against the situation and stay alive. It can be seen from the
quotation below:
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“When I stopped talking to her, she figured she‟d done something wrong, which she probably had, anyway. There were entire days where I did
nothing but cry; others where I felt like I‟d swallowed a lead plate; some more where I worked really hard at going through the motions of getting
dressed and making my bed and studying my vocal words because it was easier t
han doing anything else.” Picoult, 2004:215 The quotation above
the words “she figured she‟d done something wrong” shows that whatever the situation is Anna still support Kate and she ask for Kate opinion about her. Kate
is not hate Anna for what has Anna do. Anna internal conflict with Kate can be seen when Anna think she does love Kate but everything she do only to have wrights her own body and
what is the mean of her life. It can be seen from the quotation below: “There was a time when, like Kate, I‟d wanted to be a ballerina. But since
then I‟ve gone through a thousand different stages: I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to be a paleontologist. I wanted to be a backup singer
for Aretha Franklin, a member of the cabinet, a Yellowstone National Park ranger. Now, based on the day, I sometimes want to be a micro surgeon, a
poet, a ghost hunter.
Only one thing‟s a constant. “Ten years from now,‟ I say, “I‟d like to be Kate‟s sister.” Picoult, 2004:488
From the quotation above the words “I‟d like to be Kate‟s sister.” shows that Anna
and Kate just like ordinary sister who spent time together and share their dream together. Sara
is Kate and Anna mother. Sara faces the difficult situation when Kate is sick and almost dies.
Kate really needs Anna‟s help to supply her blood for Kate, but Anna won‟t do the supply
anymore and Sara must face the lawyer and the judges. Anna internal conflict with Sara can be seen when the first time Anna is in jurisdictions Anna feel so nervous and really scare
about her mother expression but she must face the judges. It can be seen from the quotation below:
Campbell : „I need to speak my client,” Campbell says.
Sara : “Right now she‟s my daughter, “my mother says, and she takes
my hand and yanks me out of my chair. At the threshold of the door. I manage to look back. Campbell‟s fuming. I could have told him it would
wind up like this. Daughter trumps everyth ing, no matter what the game.”
Picoult, 2004:107
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From the quotation above the wor ds “Right now she‟s my daughter“shows that Anna
feels confuse about the condition. She must face her parent‟s against the judges and the lawyer. Anna internal conflict with Sara can be seen when Anna is in the second jurisdiction
and she fight her mother to Kate but Anna knows Sara is so confused. It can be seen from the quotation below:
Sara : “It seems remarkable that while one of our daughters is leading us
into a legal crisis, the order is in the throes of a medical one but then again, we have known f
or quite some time that Kate‟s at the end stages of renal failure. It is Anna, this time, who‟s thrown us for a loop. And yet- like
always- you figure it out; you manage to deal with both. The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible tha
n you‟d ever believe at first glance.” Picoult, 2004:236
From the quotation above the words “one of our daughters is leading us into a legal
crisis “shows that Anna feels so worry about Sara condition and she hope that her mother is
not hate her and try to make everything is easy. Anna internal conflict with Sara can be seen when Anna supply her blood for Kate. Anna does the supply because Kate almost dies and
need Anna‟s help and the judges ask Sara how is the procedure of the supply. It can be seen from the quotation below:
Sara : “We use EMLA cream, a topical anesthetic. The cream is
supposed to keep her from feeling the prick of the needle, but she still yells. I wonder if it hurts as much as having your six-year-old stare you in the eye
and say she hat es you.” Picoult, 2004:272
From the quotation above the words “We use EMLA cream “shows how the
procedure when Anna supply her blood for Kate and Sara knows that it hurt when the doctor take her blood much more than usual to save Kate. Anna internal conflict with Sara can be
seen when the last jurisdiction the judges feel so confuse about Anna and family the judges ask Anna to decide. It can be seen from the quotation below:
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Judge : “Make it quick,” the judge says.
Mr. Campbell : “Your honor, all of Anna Fitzgerald‟s life she has been
medically treated for her sister‟s good, not her own. No one doubts Sara Fitzgerald‟s love for all her children, or the decisions she‟s made that have
prolonged Kate‟s life. But today we have to doubt the decisions she‟s made for this child.” Picoult, 2004:351
From the quotation above the words “the decisions she has made for this child” shows
that the judges agree that Sara as the mother of Kate and Anna must be treat her child with honest. Anna internal conflict with Sara can be seen when Sara ask for Anna apologizes and
ended the case to save them family and promise Anna not to have supply her blood to Kate anymore. It can be seen from the quotation below:
Sara : “Anna,” I tell her,” I love you. I loved you before I ever saw you, and I will love you long after I‟m not here to say it. And I know that
because I‟m a parent, I‟m supposed to have all the answer, but I don‟t. I wonder every single day if I‟m doing the right thing. I wonder if I know my
children the way I think I do. I wonder if I lose my perspective in being your mother, becau
se I‟m so busy being Kate‟s.” Picoult, 2004:477 From
the quotation above the words “Anna I love you.” shows that Anna feels so confuse to see her mother than she decide to close the case to save their family and stay
together.
4.2 External Conflict
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