Object of the Study
4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 33, and 34 The reason why only eighteen books were chosen is because the chosen book was
enough to describe each of the protagonists’ characteristic. The protagonists’ characteristic also doesn’t change at all. In book 15 Rachel is described as brave
and reckless, in book 54 Rachel is still brave and reckless. It doesn’t mean that
the other book doesn’t have any kind of description regarding the protagonists’ characteristic. It is just that if this study used all the data from the entire series,
this study will lose its primary focus and will just become a study about explaining Animorphs in general.
The secondary data are Peter Barry’s The Beginning Theory
, Edwin Bakker’s Towards a Theory of Fear Management in the Counterterrorism Domain: A Stocktaking Approach,
Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death,
and George Vaillant’s Ego Mechanisms of Defense: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers. Other sources also include journal and studies which
has relations to this study. The first step that the writer did was reading all of the fifty four Animorphs
novels. After finished reading all of the novels, the writer chose sixteen books from the fifty four novels which considered important in helping the writer on
working on this thesis and reread them thoroughly again in order to fully understand the problem which is faced by each of the protagonists. The writer
then studied from books, journals, and studies which has a relation with the problem on the novel. Finally the writer analyzed the relation between the
studiestheories and the novel. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS
As stated in the title, this research adopted the terror management theory to analyze the problem. Terror management theory concern with how to deal or treat
a psychological attack caused by various thing related to terror which in this study’s case is terror of death to human’s mind and analyze what happen inside
their mind when they are dealing with the trouble. This thesis also analyzed how the protagonists adopt defense mechanism in order to cope with the terror. The
analysis in this study will be split into several parts based on the number of problem that it has.