against Anna’s party. She tries to instills an understanding of the consequences will be if Anna does not give her kidney.
This novel has a surprised ending. The Judge declares that Anna has her own decision for her medical emancipation. Meanwhile, Alexander becomes the
one who helps her take a decision for bodily organ donation. In a trip to the hospital, Anna gets an accident that makes her brain die. Anna’s lawyer takes a
decision to have the doctor take her kidney. Finally, Anna dies and Kate sirvives.
B. Approach of the Study
In order to have a better understanding of a literary work, applying critical approach is required. Rohrberger and Woods, Jr. 6-15 propose five kinds of
critical approaches namely the formalist approach, the biographical approach, the socio cultural-historical approach, the mythopeic approach, and the psychological
approach. Since psychological approach focuses on identifying any aspect of human psychology which involves pattern of behavior, thought, and feeling
underlying a work of literature, I use it as the basis of the analysis. To know the deep meanings of Sara’s love, it is important to understand
the relationship between Sara and her children. As mother’s love and mother- children relationship are parts of psychological aspect, it will be beneficial to
apply psychological approach in this study. Psychology is a study that deals with mind and how it influences behavior. Throughout psychological approach, I can
dig out the stated mind of characters which influences the way they behave and interact with others. The ways they think, behave and interact give description of
their relationship. Furthermore, this approach is used to analyze the meaning of
Sara’s love to Kate, her dying daughter and how love influences her behavior to her other children.
C. Method of the Study
This section presents the procedures that were used in analyzing the novel. In conducting this study, I used library research method. The main procedures that
I used to gather the data were reading and taking important notes from many written resources which were related to the object and the topic of the study. The
primary data was My Sister’s Keeper, a novel written by Jodi Picoult. The secondary data were taken from some books and other resources from the Internet
which were beneficial to analyze topic of the study. There were some steps in conducting this study. The first step was reading
the novel, My Sister Keeper as the primary source. I read the novel for many times to get good understanding. After reading it repeatedly, I found some important
points that were interesting to discuss deeply. I was more interested in Sara’s love to save Kate, her dying daughter. She faces difficult choices to give her children
happiness. She loves her children, but she devotes most of her love to Kate and endangers Anna’s life by asking her to donate her human organ and steam cells
for Kate. It was the good one to discuss, to find out the deep meanings of motherly love. I found how the relationship between Sara and her children were
portrayed. From their relationship, I could understand the meanings of Sara’s love to Kate.
The second step was formulating what I found after reading the novel into a formulated problem that covers the description of main and minor characters,
the description of mother – children relationship and the meanings of Sara’s love to Kate. In the next step, I collected and read the secondary data that were related
to this analysis. I took literary and psychology books that were useful to analyze the novel. They were theory of character, theory of love, theory of motherhood,
and theory of mother-children relationship. In order to gain better understanding about the novel and more information
of the theories used to investigate and answer the problems, I also looked for and took the data from the internet. I also would like to take notes of quotations and
useful information from many sources. After collecting and reading the data, I started to analyze the formulated problem by applying those theories. At first, I
tried to find out the description of main and minor characters. Then, I analyzed the relationship between Sara and her children. After finding those things, I analyzed
the meanings of Sara’s love to her dying daughter. The last step was drawing conclusions of the analysis. I included some
suggestions for future researchers who aim to conduct analysis on the same novel. Moreover, I proposed teaching learning process on Public Speaking 1 using My
Sister’s Keeper as the material.
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