4.4 Bryce Is In Conflict With His Life Principle
As the concept of the novel is Flipped then some opposite reality describe in this novel. From the perspective of a little boy, humiliating of being a couple are
really nightmare and disaster to them. As Juli had her own perspective of Bryce, Bryce’s perspective about Juli is also described by the author. One of the major
conflicts which lead Bryce to hate Juli is because of that he has his own perspective and he just cannot understand the concept of Juli’s thinking.
As the tree incident for instance, Juli asked Bryce to help her by climbing the tree, but he denied her and went to school with his friends instead. It was because he
doesn’t get the way of Juli’s thinking upon the tree. “For a second I considered it. But then the bus arrived and I talked myself
out of it. It wasnt my tree, and even though she acted like it was, it wasnt Julis, either. We boarded the bus and left her behind, but school was pretty
much a waste. I couldnt seem to stop thinking about Juli. Was she still up in the tree? Were they going to arrest her? When the bus dropped us off that
afternoon, Juli was gone and so was half the tree. It was like watching someone dismember a body, and for the first time in ages, I felt like crying.
Crying.Over a stupid tree that I hated. I went home and tried to shake it off, but I kept wondering, Should I have gone up the tree with her? Would it have
done any good? I thought about calling Juli to tell her I was sorry theyd cut it down, but I didnt. It wouldve been too, I dont know, weird.” p.30
Based from the quotation above it can be seen that something different from Bryce usual reaction towards Juli. He felt depression and stress because of Juli’s
never end chasing toward him. But when Juli asked him to climb the tree to save it to be chopped, for a second he considered it. It is definitely an opposite reaction toward
his feeling to Juli. He was worried toward Juli as well whether she would be arrested and ended up regretting his own decision. He even felt like crying. His opposite
reaction was definitely a surprise for him as well. This is one of the proof that Bryce
has an obvious conflict of him self that he showed that he hated Julibut he actually started to care about Juli.
The eggs accident was also a turning point to Bryce. As in the story, he threw all of Juli’s eggs that she has given to him every day for almost two years. Bryce did
not dare to tell Juli that his family questions about a virus that might be contained in Juli’s egg. It was happened because Bryce lied to his own family about Juli’s
backyard of being dirty and mess thus his family felt suspicious toward the eggs. In fact, Juli’s backyard is doing alright.
“Well, guess whos just standing there like a statue on my porch?The Egg Chick.I about spilled the trash all over the porch. “What are you
still doing here?” I asked her.“I…I dont know. I was just … thinking.”“About what?” I was desperate. Seriously. She stepped right
in my way and put her arms out like shesguarding the goal.She chased me and blocked me again. “What happened?” she wants to know. “Did
they break?”Perfect. Why hadnt I thought of that? “Yeah, Juli,” I told her. “And Im real sorry about that.”
“…Why did you throw them out?” she asked, but her voice didntsound like Juli Bakers voice. It was quiet. “Do you realize Ive lost over a
hundred dollars giving these eggs to you?” Why hadnt I just stood up and said, No thanks, dont want em, dontneed em, dont like em….
Give them to the snake, why dont you? SomethingWas I really afraid of hurting her feelings?Or was I afraid of her?” p.55
Based on the quotation, it can be implied that Bryce has obvious conflict with himself toward his own principle and his own deep feeling inside. He threw all of the
eggs that Juli has been given since Juli has brought many conflict with his friends. Obviously according to him, Juli has ruined his youth life. But when Juli found out
that he has been thrown all of the eggs that she has been given, deep down inside he felt really guilty. He felt confuse whether he was afraid to hurt her feelings or he was
afraid of her plainly. This condition leads to the fact that Bryce has his own conflict against himself and his feelings toward his reaction to Juli. It seems that he does not
only feel hat to Juli but he also has other opposite feeling to her which he, him self, does not realize it yet.
The conflict that Bryce had is also derives from his character. He was described as a quite and shy boy. He hardly expressed him self. From the quotation
above, it may be seen that way since he made the dialogue with him self, he communicated with him self as one of the characteristic of someone who likely to
hide his own feeling. The fact that he never said anything toward his friends who kept yelling him and Juli as a couple, for a boy it must have been an inconvenient
situation that he should react but he was just being quite instead. He never told Juli directly about his inconvenient feeling to her either which might be a reason Juli
continued her crush to Bryce. If Bryce directly was honest and told Juli the way he felt, the different would be different for sure.
This part of the novel is the turning point of both Juli and Bryce. On the side, Juli was really disappointed toward Bryce’s action because she cared to Bryce.
Meanwhile, Bryce has realized something contradicted in him self when he saw Juli was hurt and disappointed. This Flipped concept, as the tittle of the novel it self, is
describing in the unique way through the story line which become the power of this novel.
The climax of the story isin the charity show, the basket boy’s event. As it has been explained earlier that Bryce was a quite andshy boy which was rarely to
express his own feeling as well. Actually, hehatedthe charity show. The story was continued withBryce heard something from Garrett that the two popular girls in
theschool, Shelly and Miranda were having bid on him. There is an interesting fact in this chapter that it mentions that Bryce hopedthe different condition. Whereas he
was in the event with the two most popular girls in the school, in his heart he hoped that he was with Juli instead. The conflict of Bryce with him self has brought the
reader to assume that new fact that he actually had deep feeling to Juli. He has flipped as the matter of fact.
Considering of the previous accident and the disappointed feeling that she had with Bryce, Juli had ignored Bryce the whole time. She tried to proof to their
friends that she could move on from him. Juli tried to erase her crush and considered him as a friend only. Thus Juli asked Jon Trulock, an unpopular nerd to go with her
to the even. Knowing the fact, Bryce gotconfused and angry. By lunch time, Bryce could not get his mind from Juli. He kept lookingatJuli while in front of him there
were Shelly and Miranda who was talking about unimportant things. Suddenly, Bryce took an action, he pulled Juli from her chair and then tries to kiss her. Juli
refused and then run to her house leaving Brycealone. This time, Bryce definitely acted differently from his own principle. He finally showed the way the actually felt
to Juli and even doing unexpected action by trying to kiss her.His feeling toward Julis has flipped him into different person because of jealousy.
“So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was “the man,” the envy of every other guy in school. Buddy, I was miserable. I
mean, these two girls may be gorgeous, but what was coming out of their mouths about Jumbo Jenny was embarrassingly ugly.”
I took this opportunity to leave my table and head for Julis. I grabbed her by the hand and said, “Ive got to talk to you.” She sort of half-stands and says,
“What? Whats going on, Bryce? Why are they fighting?” “Excuse us a minute, would you, Jon?” I pull her away from the table, but theres no place
to go.
“…..“Bryce,” she whispers. “Whats wrong?” I can barely breathe as I ask her, “Do you like him?” “Do I… you mean Jon?” “Yes” “Well, sure. Hes
nice and —” “No, do you like him?” My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited. “Well, no. I mean, not like
that….” No She said no I didnt care where I was, I didnt care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then … She
broke away from me.”
“I sat there by myself and didnt even care about covering up. I just wanted to be with her. To talk to her.To hold her hand again.Tokiss her.” p.66
From quotations above, it is obvious that Bryce has fallen in love with Juli. He felt miserable of being with two of the most popular girls in on campus which
some other boys were really envy of him. He just realized the fact that Juli who was talking and smiling in front of another boy so he could not stand it anymore. He
pulled Juli and tried to kiss her. This reaction is definitely opposite of Bryce character, it seemed that Bryce could not hide or control his real feeling toward Juli.
At the end of story, Bryce triedto apologize to Juli. He knocked her house, he calledJuli, and even he sneaked to her window to see Juli. Unfortunately, Juli’s heart
has been broken. Juli refused to see Bryce and locked herself. Until one day Juli saw Bryce who was digging Juli’s front yard. Juli was very angry about it. But her dad
says that he has given permission to Bryce to do that. Juligotconfused. And then finally she saw Bryce who is planting atree in their front yard. Surprisingly, it’s a
sycamore tree, same typical tree that Juli loved but it had been cut even when she tried to save it. Juli was feeling moved and went out of the house and helped Bryce
to plant the tree. Bryce and Juli were getting close. As the typical of popular romance novel, the story ends with a happy ending
as it predicted. Even though Juli has received so many rejections from Bryce she
forgave Bryce. If it compares with the reality, it must have different result. A human being would be really hard to forgive other person who has humiliated himher many
times. As the matter of fact, a human has its own dignity. In this novel, the writer sees that the way we treat someone will effect to how
someone will treat us back. People are usually hard to believe and feel. People will easily judge and dislike someone without knowing the person first. In this novel,
religion does not take a part. For the examples, when Bryce and his family are unpacking their stuffs, Juli wants to help their things but Bryce father refuses it and
says that instead of helping, Juli just makes a mess. The writer sees that Juli has a pure heart to help. Juli never thinks to make a
mess. Society in common way is pictured in this story. Bryce’s father directly judges and dislikes her. A culture of judging is become a habit in our daily life. And the
writer sees that Bryce is similar with his father. If a family cannot give a good example about how to treat people well, children will imitate it. Children are tend to
imitate what their parents do. Judging is just a habit that we can get by looking others judgment. If people still judge and look down to other people, how many
people will be suffering? We must not be like this anymore. Let Bryce and his father just be in this novel. Let him exist in a fiction. The writer thinks that we should not
let Bryce become a real character in our life. The character means here is a character that will judge and spend his or her life just for madness and anger.
At the end of this story, the writer sees Bryce’s regret feeling. We have known that Bryce wastes all Juli’s goodness. But the good thing is Juli is truly has a
pure heart. She forgives for all that Bryce has done on her. It is very hard to find a person who has a big heart like Juli.
After all of these explanations, the writer can conclude that Bryce is the source of all the conflicts. If Bryce and his family welcome Juli from the first time,
there will be not so many conflicts. And if Bryce tells what he really thinks, there will be no more complicated conflicts. People can be a Bryce even worse if they do
not know who they are exactly and where their places are. In addition, there is no happiness in judging.
The last but not the least, we human should be honest to our feelings. Bryce has lied to himself. Bryce has done something that causes a heart break to other
people. Bryce has been judging before knowing who exactly Juli is. We cannot let this happen to ourselves. After all, honesty makes everything better.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusions
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