groups of people where both of the party have their own idea, and behavior which clash with the idea or behavior of the other party. In addition, conflict such as
ideas, public opinion, and behavior may also happen between the individual and the other forces.
2. Domestic violence
The term domestic violence that is used in this thesis is the experience in which women are in the rude treatment from the society especially in the family,
they were battered and abused with the man who is also their partner in life. This term is then supported as follows:
“a pattern of coercive behavior used by one person to control and subordinate another in an intimate relationship. These
behaviors include physical, sexual, emotional, and economic abuse. Tactics of coercion, terrorism, degradation, exploitation, and violence are used to engender
fear in the victim in order to enforce compliance” McCue, 2008:3. From the qoute, domestic violence is a situation in which a partner in an intimate
relationship behaves in a abusive pattern in order to conquer another partner. Moreover, the victim in most cases of this kind of violence are women.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
A. Review of Related Studies
In this part the writer is going to qoute the studies related to the novel used in
this thesis writing from other researchers. The studies can be the research on the same author of the novel and criticism from the people who have read the novel.
The purpose of collecting the studies is that the writer wants to have another perspective on the object of studies. The writer is sure about the criticisms to the
novel have the purpose on clearing the idea of the novel, and to help the author to know how his work is accepted in the society. Furthermore, criticisms also mean a
remarkable attention from the people towards the novel, the much more criticisms from the people mean the much more people pay attention to the novel.
A study based on the same author of the novel is taken from a thesis written by Puput Trisanti Arini, who is an alumnus of Sanata Dharma University, entitled
The Influence of Jamie Sullivan on Landon Carter’s Personaliy Development Seen in Nicholas Sparks’s A Walk to Remember. This thesis analyzes the
personality of the characters, go deeper the study is about how a character’s
personality can influence t he other character’s personality. The study is stated as
follows: From those changes the development of
Landon Carter’s personality from negative into positive
, it can be concluded that Landon Carter’s personality development is influenced by significant person that is Jamie
Sullivan. Jamie Sullivan makes Landon Carter’s personality becomes
better and undergoes qualitative, and slow development Arini, 2011: xi.
The other study which is also about the same author of the novel comes from a thesis written by Ika Tri Hastanti, the alumnus of Sanata Dharma University,
entitled A Study of The influence of Taylor Mc Aden’s Guilty Feeling upon His
Relation with Others as Seen in Nicholas Sparks’ The Rescue. The study is about the cha
racter’s guilty feelings which were conducted from the experience where the character’s father was killed when he saved him from the fire. The feeling gets
deeper when his best friend, Mitch, died. The guilty feelings had created Taylor as stubborn, sensitive, hopeless, and temperamental person. The study is stated as
follows: Based on the analysis, the write
r can conclude that Taylor’s guilty feeling give major influence to his characters that tend to be negative which then
will also give bad influences upon his relation with other characters in this novel. What Taylor does in the present time is a result or an effect of his
past Hastanti, 2005:xii.
Another criticism from http:elaccampusnews.com20120425the-lucky- one-paints-picture-for-romantic-viewers is about the story of the novel in which
the critic found nothing special on the novel than any other romance story, it is when a boy meets a girl, they fall in love and then they together fight for their
love, that is why the readers can obviously imagine how the story will come to an end from the beginning they read the novel. The comment is stated as follows:
The story is predictable. We all clearly know that Logan finds Beth and the two will fall in love and, as with every other romance, we find the two
lead characters fighting for their love. Whether or not this latest book- turned-movie attempt stayed true to the novel it was based off of is
questionable Lopez, 2012.
The criticism and the two studies above are about the same novel, and also about the same author of the novel which is used as the object of the study in
