the one thing that makes it impossible for evil to live long in anybody: true and self-acceptance, which is the work of unconditional love. Van Raay 407.
After experiences all above, Carla finally gains what a blessed life is so that she feels happy and full of joys.
Carla’s feeling of being able to enjoy whatever the moment brings shows that she has found the meaning of her life.
There is no suffering anymore. Frankl 172 states that a man must find his meaning of his life responsibility.
In this case, Carla’s self-acceptance and accepting everything that has happened in her life show that Carla can answer
what life asks her. She does not regret to every moment she has passed through her lifetime. She feels truly blessed to have heard the call to wake up to her true
self. The feeling of blessed is a reward of her finding the meaning of life. After a long journey dealing with her struggles to find the meaning of life, finally Carla
finds it so that she has the meaningful life as God’s girl.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part presents the conclusion of the analysis and the answer of the problem formulated, which
outline Carla’s characterization and Carla’s quest for the meaning of life. The second part presents the suggestions for future researchers who want to conduct
researches on Carla Van Raay ’s God’s Callgirl and recommendations for teaching
and learning activities.
A. Conclusions
This thesis deals with two problems. The first problem is how Carla’s personality is portrayed in the novel. Applying the theory of character, Carla can
be classified into a major character because she appears in the novel more than other characters. She is also a round character because she has complexity in
temperament and motivation. She changes in the flow of the story in the novel. Based on the analysis using the theory of characterization to dig out Carla’s
personality traits, Carla is described as self-reproachful, naive, introvert, vengeful, and open-minded.
The second problem aims to analyze Carla’s quest for the meaning of life. Her will to meaning can be seen through her struggle to find the meaning of life.
She tries to find the meaning of life in each moment of her life since every moment represents a challenge and problem that reserve a question of the
meaning of life. Carla’s will to meaning directs her to struggle such as by being a good child for her parents, be
ing a good nun for God, and being God’s Callgirl. When Carla is a child, she tries to be a good child for her parents,
especially her father. She wants to make her father proud. Carla’s struggles to be a
good child for her father can be seen on her effort to be a son for him and to keep
the secret that he has done sexual abuses to her. Unfortunately, keeping the secret from anyone, especially from a priest, makes her feel sinful. Then, she asks the
devil to help her keep away from death. She is afraid of entering the hell because she is a sinful person. Asking the devil’s help becomes a problem for Carla. She
feels guilty. She feels she has hurted Jesus by making a deal with the devil. When Carla is thirteen, she decides to be a nun. Her willingness to
meaning directs her to be a good nun for God who really loves her. She tries to do as well as she can do by doing duties and obeying the rules of living in the
convent. She feels happy at the first time, especially when she knows that her father is proud of her, but she faces some problems next time. She cannot take a
stand when she finds refusal of her willingness to learn to play piano and to learn to drive a car. It makes her do not have the Spirit of the Society longer. She gets
feeling of boredom there and then finally she decides to leave the convent. After Carla leaves the convent, she continues her life into the secular
world. She gets married with James and has a relationship with Hal but unfortunately, all is over. From her marriage, she has got a daughter named
Caroline who decides to live with James. Then, from her relationship with Hal,
she has a daughter named Victoria who lives with her after her relationship with Hal ends.
As a single parent, Carla needs a job to support her life with. She looks for a job that is easy to get a lot of money and then she decides to be a prostitute. Her
willingness to meaning motivates her to find an inspiration for her work as a prostitute. Then, she finds her inspiration unexpectedly at an exhibition of ancient
C hinese vases in Perth by naming herself as God’s Callgirl with a vision. From
her vision of becoming God’s Callgirl, Carla shows that she can give herself and others something valuable by her work. Unfortunately, she finds some problems
of her work as God’s Callgirl that takes her into a condition of noogenic neurosis. She does not get the happiness anymore, even the greatest guilt in her life. It
brings her to the meaningless life. The will to meaning motivates Carla to find the meaning of life. She receiv
es Hal’s suggestion to go along therapies to solve her problems so that she can find the meaning of life.
Finally, Carla can find the meaning of life. She is in conscious control of her life without her father’s threat to keep the secret anymore. She is not
determined by force outside herself after she breaks her deal with the devil. She is free to choose her own course of action. She has her own freedom in choosing
acts with her personal responsibility for the conduct of her lives and the attitude she holds towards her fate by forgiving her father and accepting her past life. It
also shows that she is able to manifest attitudinal values. She has transcended the concern with self by accepting herself as she is. That becomes her starting point to
continue her meaningful life. By changing her career better as a writer, she shows
that she is able to manifest a creative value. She has found a meaning in life that suits her as God’s girl, which shows that she is able to manifest an experiential
value. Next, she d irects herself toward the future goals and tasks as God’s girl to
follow the call of God as best as she can.
B. Suggestions
This part is divided into two points. The first point proposes the suggestion for the future researchers that will use Carla Van Raay
’s God’s Callgirl as an
objest of the study. In this study, the researcher takes the case where the main character searches for the meaning of life. However, there are other cases that are
interesting to discuss from the novel. The second point presents the implementation of using literary works for teaching learning activities. As a
literary work, novel can give benefits to teachers and students through teaching materials. The first is teachers can help the students to explore the content of the
novel to gain more comprehensive knowledge. The second is the teacher can gain the example of life experience in order to teach values of life for the students.
1. Suggestion for Future Researchers
Carla Van Raay ’s God’s Callgirl is an interesting novel to discuss since it
is based on real life story of the author. In this study, the writer discusses how the main character, Carla, searches and finds the meaning of her life.
The writer suggests two aspects which can be discussed by future researchers who want to take Carla Van Raay
’s God’s Callgirl as the object of the study. The first aspect is that the future researchers may use the psychological
approach to analyze the influence of sexual abuses on Carla’s life. The second aspect is that the future researchers are also possible to conduct an analysis on the
meaning of becoming God’s Callgirl for Carla.
2. Suggestion for Teaching Learning Activities Using Literary Works
Literary works such as novels has many advantages for teaching learning activities. As portrayals of real life experiences, they provide the value of life for
students. As sources of teaching learning activities, they also broaden the students’ knowledge from which the students can enrich their vocabularies,
explore the style of writing and improve their mastery of language structures. Besides, novels may also become good models of writing that inspire the students
to produce creative writings. Considering the advantages of using novels as the source of teaching
learning activities, the researcher proposes parts of Carla Van Raay’s God’s
Callgirl to teach short essay 1. Part One on Chapter e
ntitled “Life in a New Country” which consists of 3 pages is taken as the material since this chapter can
be regarded as a good model of recount text. It is supposed to help the students to recognize and analyze the recount text. Furthermore, this model is also hoped to
inspire the students to produce their own past experience to compose a recount text. The materials and lesson plan are attached in the appendixes. The procedures
of teaching short essay 1 are ordered as follows: 1.
The teacher selects a reading passage from the novel as the model of recount text
. It is taken from Part One on Chapter entitled “Life in a New Country” which consists of 3 pages p.63-65.
