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anywhere near the bar. Hed work in the back kitchen. It would be for an hour or so after school and half a day on Saturday. Id
pay each two dollars a week. Smith, 1947:413
Francie struggled completing her education in hopes through education that Francie is able to change the lives of her family. Especially when her father,
Johnny Nolan has gone, Francieshouldwork to resolve all struggles. But in the end, Francie is able to reach her dream of becoming a writer. The struggle in
defense of her existence as a woman makes her managed to become what she is now. Her desire to become an educated woman is able to be realized and make a
big difference to the lives of her family.
c. Being a workerwomento achieve a socialist transformation of society
Getting a description of changing the position of women in current social context, firstly we need be to known how the society changes generally. Holzner
dan Saptari, 1997:242. The Francie’s life changes after she decided for schooling to get education then working in some part time job for finishing her study.
Francie achieve a socialist transformation from the society in her school and her job. When she was studying, she is the most clever student in her class. She called
the best writer. This condition makes her being known by every people around her, include her teachers. Her existence avowed through her potential. This can be
seen from the quotations below : “ The school got out a magazine at the end of the year in which the
best story written in composition class from each grade was published. Francie’s composition called “Winter Time” had been
choosen as the best of the seventh grade work.” Smith, 1947:309
Francie’s capability in writing made her achieved trancsformation from her society. This situation helped her to develop her self even she never got many
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attantion from her parents. She never gave up for fighting her existance in her school. It is not only from her teachers or from her environtment, she achieved
transformation also from her friends in school. Eventhough she rarely communicated with her classmates and her schoolmates, her friends also
appreciated and avowed her existence. In their graduation day, Francie accepted many appreciations from her friends even that she did not know them one by one.
This can be seen from the quotations below : “ Francie got her pencil box and autograph book from her desk. She started
to say goodbye to the girls. They crowded around her. One put her arm around her waist and two others kissed her cheek. They called out goodbye
messages. They wrote in Francie’s all but empty book. Some wrote small and cramped; others, loose and sprawling. Francie read as they wrote : I
wish you luck, I wish you joy. When night draws back the curtain, and pins it with a star. Remember I am still your friend, though you may wander far.
Way back here and out of the sight. I sign my name, just for spite
.” Smith, 1947: 469
While she has graduated from her school, Francie seek a job. Since she worked, she likes changing her job each chance she got. She could say she had
tried every work there was. In her working, she also got her existence from her society there. Her potency always made her avowed easily. This situation can be
seen from this quotation : “ Francie got on to the filling system very easily. In two weeks,
she had memorized the two thousand or so names or headings on the file box. She was fresh to the work, anxious to please,
had strong clear eyes she was the only reader not wearing glasses and had developed a photographic eye very quickly.
She read between a hundred and eighty and two hundred newspaper a day. Yes, Francie was the fastest reader in the
Bureau.” Smith, 1947:497
Francie got her existence from every people around her, when she was a student and when she was a worker. But there someone that never avowed her
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existence, she was her Mother, Katie Nolan. Althought her father, Johnny Nolan was a drinking, Johnny Nolan was the one who supported Francie and well known
Francie. Yet her mother was different. Her mother loved Neeley than Francie. Until Francie grown up, Katie Nolan done the same. This is can seen from the
quotes below : “ No, I can’t see. I can only see that you favor Neeley more than
me. You fix everything for him and tell me that I can find a way myself. Someday, I’ll fool you, Mama. I’ll do what I think is right
for me and it might not be right in your way.” Smith, 1947:512
During her figting, Francie always trying hard for make her Mother proud of her. And her struggle was useless. At the last, after Francie got a good
job and become a writer, Katie Nolan as her mother avows her existance. This can be seen from the quote below :
“ I know. And I’m pleased that you can and will fight for what you should have. And you’ll always come out all right-no matter what.
You’re like me that way. We’re too much alike to understand our own selves. Mama said.” Smith, 1947: 514
The existance of women need to be avowed from every person around them. Francie successfully fought her existence through her skills that she has got
in her self. Her family, her friend, her society at last avowed her existence. A capability can make people show her existence and will be avowed by people
around them. Actually, the capability has a big role to make someone achieves transformation for her life. Francie has proved it. Even she was not a rich person,
but her society avowed her present through what Francie has done for her society. Capability, skills, talents and the others similar name help women to survive her
feminism and her existence. Women need to know what skills that they have.
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5. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 5.1
