Darcy had never talked to anyone. Not even Brisana, about her father and the hurt he had caused p.88.
Darcy never talks about the pain that Darcy ‟s father caused to her family.
Although, Brisana is Darcy‟s close friend, but Darcy feels that Brisana is not
someone she can talk to. She cannot share her feelings to Brisana. Darcy feels more comfortable to talk with Tarah than Brisana.
In the beginning, Darcy does not have friend except Brisana, because in Darcy thinks she does not want to make friends with someone who has lower
social status, but Darcy changes her mind set about then in the end of the story. Finally, she has three new loyal friends Tarah, Cooper and Hakeem who accepts
Darcy without looking at her social status.
4. Conflicts between Darcy and Jamee with their family
Another conflict is when their father has been left his family for younger woman 5 years ago. Besides that, Darcy and Jamee lose the figure of father. The
effect is that Jamee becomes a temperamental and stubborn girl. Jamee grows up without guidance of her parents because her mother is busy working in
Emergency Room at hospital. Even though they hate their father, they also miss him. Jamee was closer to his dad than his mom.
Unlike Jamee, Darcy grows up to be a girl who cares more to treat her family because her father left them. Her mother works hard in ER at hospital so
she is very busy and tired. Besides that, grandma got stroke, so Darcy must treat and help her grandma because she cannot do anything by herself.
The conflicts begin when Darcy is stalked by a mysterious man with silver Toyota. He always stalks her everywhere she goes. She is afraid and then calls the
police. T he police claims that he is a Carl wills, Darcy‟s father. Jamee begins to
change because she lost her father, slowly she has a bad temperament. Jamee was close to her father.After their father left his family, Darcy and Jamee forgot their
daddy and Jamee wished that her father was dead. „‟I don‟t ever want to see him in my entire life,‟‟ Jamee asserted with
sud den, unexpected passion. „‟I hate him. I wish he was dead. I wish we
had gotten his death notice.‟‟ p.76. They do not know why their father suddenly come and appear in their life.
After the pain that he causes to their family, he comes back again and tries to apologize to his family.
He took a deep breath, wi ped his eyes and continued. „‟ Darcy, I am so
sorry for the pain I caused you. nothing I can say right now is going to take it all away. And I understand if you never forgive me. But I am here for
you. you might not believe me, but it‟s true. I am here‟‟ p.121 Daddy suddenly comes and tries to apologize to them after everything he
has done. Darcy does not answer and talk at all. In that condition, she still feels hurt because her father left their family for younger woman. The other conflicts
are when Jamee runs away from home and her family cannot find her. „‟Jamee took all her favorite stuff and she run away, Mom‟‟. Darcy said.
„‟Ran away? Lord in heaven, why would she do that? She is only a baby‟‟ p.107.
Jamee runs away from home, she takes all her favorite stuff and T-shirt. No one knows where Jamee is. Then
Darcy‟s friends help to find Jamee.In the end of the story, Jamee is found in the mountain at the Giant cedar by her father. That
is a place where Jamee met her father in their last meeting. She remembers the tree where her father made her a princess. Jamee is found in bad condition, she is
unconscious and almost died. Darcy regrets that she does not forgive her father, she wish she can say something good to him because her father still remembers
where the Giant cedar is. Her father stills remember the things that ever happened in his life. That moment might be something which is hard to forget and he save
all of memories about his family in his heart. Then Jamee is taken to the emergency room where her mother works. The meeting between her parents is
something which happens unexpectedly. Behind the loss of Jamee, her father comes back to the family. Now, Darcy feels so happy because her sister is safe
and she has three loyal new friends who come into her life.
C. Messages as Revealed by the Way the Main Characters Solve the
Conflicts.
There are many conflicts which happen to the main characters in this novel.First, the conflicts happen between Darcy and Jamee, Darcy and Jamee are
sisters who have different ways of thinking and attitude. They clashed because Darcy feels angry when Jamee gets bad score in her report card, then Darcy also
feels angry when she heard that Bobby asked Jamee to steal a CD in the Book Store, and then Darcy suspects Bobby Wallace as the person who beats and hits
Jamee because Jamee has bruises in her body. Then Darcy runs away from home, because there is miscommunication between Darcy and Jamee. The messages
from those conflicts are: A good communication is needed in the relationship, including relationship between sisters. With good communication, we can trust,
