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F. Interpersonal
Personal means relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs. And interpersonal means existing or done between two or more
people where one of them can be leader and dominant. Based on Janet’s concept, the interpersonal is a leader, dominant, discipline, independent, and individual.
Tim Thomas is showed as a leader in his work. This is also seen in its mission to help seven people. He tried every way how to help them. He set all the way with
his own way. He also asked his friend to help him in doing his mission in order to run well. Tim Thomas is a kind of an independent and individual person. He lived
alone. Although he has a brother but he did not want to stay with him. Even when his house has been given to others, he stayed at the motel and Ben did not know it.
He did not want to rely on his brother to stay with him. He also made his entire mission alone. Although there are suggestions from some friends, but in his
actions Tim Thomas always set up and run it.
G. Other Personal Characteristics
Men have strong characteristic through Janet’s concept, it includes of success-orientation, ambitious, proud, egoistical, moral, trustworthy, decisive,
competitive and adventurous. The movie represents the characteristic through Tim Thomas character. Tim Thomas as success oriented person who do his mission
successfully; he can face the problem in his life. Tim Thomas is a kind of trustworthy man. Tim Thomas is ambitious. Tim is very ambitious to do his
mission to atone for his mistake. Tim is very brave in taking action, although he
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did not know the risks. He is very confident to do that, even if the risk is very hard for Tim Thomas. Adventure does not mean just an adventure from one place to
another place. But it can mean brave in doing risk. An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking,
with an uncertain outcome.
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Tim Thomas is adventurous. It is seen from the way he is responsible for the mistakes he had done. He dared to do anything to redeem
his mistake. It started with he helped her brother to donate lobes of his lungs. He donated his heart to Emily Posa, his cornea to Ezra, the right of his liver to Holly,
his kidney to George Ristucia, his bone marrow to Nicholas and he gave his home to Connie. All this he did without any concern for the fate of his own. All of that
is very high risk and hurt himself; even it is the reason for he is being suicide.
H. Conclusion and Suggestion
1. Conslusion
The writer analyses the Masculinity in Seven Pounds movie that is on the how the masculinity of Tim Thomas is represented in Seven Pounds movie based
on Janet Saltzman Chafetz’s concept of masculinity. This research is to describe the masculinity through the main character “Tim Thomas”. Seven Pounds movie
represents traditional masculinity than modern masculinity. The traditional masculinity is based on Janet’s concept that consists of seven areas; they are
physic, function, sexual aggressive, emotion, intellectual, interpersonal and other
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http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiAdventure. Accessed on January 26, 2011
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personal characteristics. The writer found that masculinity is shown by the main character that using Janet Saltzman Chafetz’s concept.
2. Suggestion
In analyzing the masculine characteristics, the writer suggests to the other researchers to develop their knowledge the concepts of masculinity that will help
the issue of movie. Through this study, the writer hopes that this paper can be useful to all students who want to study in depth about the masculinity. Finally,
the writer hopes that this study will be useful the future improvement of studying masculinity, especially for the students of English Letters Department who want
to do the similar research.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Literature is a form of human expression; it gives a big contribution for development of science and art for many years until now. From literature people
not only know the way to express what their feelings, emotion and their experience, but also open their mind about their culture or another country’s
culture. Besides that literature is the main center of written works such as drama, short story, novel, and poetry.
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Literature is a reflection of civilization in human life. The progress of a civilization can be seen from the appreciation of a literary
work. One type of literature that gets much attention from the public is a movie. The movie has a lot of understanding of each means that can be described
extensively. Movie is a medium of social communication that is formed from the merger of the two senses, sight and hearing, which has a core or theme of a story
that many express social realities of the environment around the place where the movie itself grows.
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One of the movies that got peoples attention, especially in the year 2008 was Seven Pounds movie. The movie was released on December 19, 2008. This
movie was directed by Gabriele Muccino. The movie has drama genre and starring Will Smith as the main character. This movie tells of a man, Tim Thomas
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Chris Baldick, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, p.25
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http:raachaan.multiply.comjournalitem2 Accessed on January 2, 2010
Will Smith who has a tragic experience with his girlfriend, played by Sarah Jenson Robinne Lee. When they are in travel, they suddenly have an accident
that causing 6 people were killed and his girlfriend was also killed. How sad that Tim Thomas when he knew his girlfriend was killed and he thought that he had
killed his happiness only on 7 seconds. During that time, Tim decided to make atonement for his mistake for the accident which causing 7 people killed. He
decided to help the 7 life’s strangers, even though he was not familiar with them. He started redemption accident by donating lung lobe to his brother, Ben Thomas
Michael Ealy. Six months later he donates part of his liver to a child services worker named Holly Judyann Elder. After that, he begins searching for more
candidates to receive donations. He finds George Bill Smitrovich, a junior hockey coach, and donates a kidney to him, and donates bone marrow to a young
boy named Nicholas Quintin Kelley. Then, Tim continued to search for the next other people who deserve his helps.
Character is one of the intrinsic elements contain in literary works. The term character is usually used in two contexts. The first context, the characters
refer to individuals who appear in the story. The second context, it refers to the mixing of characters from various interests, desires, emotions, and moral
principles of the individual.
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Characters in a story must have a characterization. Characterization describes the character or physical condition, psychological and
sociological of the character.
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Robert Stanton, Teori Fiksi Robert Stanton Yogyakarta: PUSTAKA PELAJAR, 2007, cet. ke-1, p. 33.
Characterization describes the detail how the actual character. Based on these reasons, the writer wants to analyze the characterization of the main
character. The main character in this movie is a man, and the character of this man represents masculine character. Masculine is considered typical of men and
feminine is considered typical of women. In essence the nature of a man is above the female. Men tend to do things or work outside the home, while women work
at home or take care of the household. Although it has now undergone many aspects of change, but the actual nature of man is to become a leader for women.
In general, the masculine is defined as something that has the properties of masculinity, whether in the form of personality, behavior, occupation, or other
objects. For example, aggressive, dominant, ambitious, without emotion, motor racing, ride a big motorcycle, guns, boxing, body building, construction workers,
truck drivers, are the things that are considered masculine. Masculine today has undergone changes in many aspects. The first assumption of masculine is a strong
man, brave, look for the livelihood in the outside of home and others, and not related to women’s matters. Masculinity is the quality of being masculine.
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The main character in Seven Pounds movie shows masculinity. For example, Tim
Thomas has a muscular body, it describes that he is strong. He also has the others characteristics of masculinity.
From the explanation above the writer wants to analyze masculinity that showed by the main character, Tim Thomas in Seven Pounds movie.
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Oxford University Press, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary New York, 2005, 7
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edition, p. 942.
B. Focus of the Study
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