CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
The chapter is the discussion of the paper with reference to the research question and the implementation of the concepts and also theories from the
chapters before. In the first part of this chapter will be described the major character from the novel. To analyze the cause of the miss sex-typing in
identification process of Liam O’Neil in Luna novel, it is needed to convey the description of his characteristic first.
A. Data Description
No. Corpus Description
1. Katie Mrs. Camacho’s daughter, was
shouting to her mom “watch this, mommy…” she said, and jumped to the
kiddie pool and makes a big splash. “That’s nice, honey.” Mrs. Camacho
replied. Liam shouts to his mother too.
“Mommy, watch me…” and then he jumped in pool and made a bigger
splash. his mother didn’t respond. Peters 2004, 225
First evidence of Liam’s Absent Mother
when his mother did not respond him. While
this is the phase where Liam is in his Oedipus
complex phase, therefore he needs
attention from his mother.
2. “Liam pretends to tread water, but I
know he’s really sitting on the bottom. He can’t swim yet. He looks at Katie,
then me. I show Katie how to be Salamander and we skittle around the
Liam’s first anxiety about the difference of
genital of girl and boy. This also first Liam’s
experiencing the state
pool. A movement makes me look up. Liam’s trunks are around his ankles and
he’s kicking them off. For a minute he just stands there in the water, looking at
himself.” Peters, 2004: 26 of Womb Envy. In
which he views that the possession of
vaginawomb can bring the attention from his
mother.
3. Liam grabs his penis and starts to pull.
“Take it off,” he says, almost in a whisper. He sloshes toward Katie and
repeats, “take it off.” “Take it off,” Liam says to his mother.
“Take what off? Where are your trunks?”
“Mommy, take it off.” Liam pulls at himself again.
“Stop that.” Mom slaps his hand away. “That’s nasty.” She retrieves his swim
trunks from the lawn and shakes them out. Liam backs away from her. “No.”
he whines. “I want it off. Take it off, take it off, take it off.” He starts slapping
at his penis and stamping his feet, throwing a fit. Peters 2004, 226
In experiencing the Womb Envy, Liam tries
to castrate himself, because he thinks that
his penis is the cause of why does his mother
being indifferent to him.
4. “What have you done? Oh my god. Put
that knife down.” She appears behind the screen, clutching Liam in her arms.
“Connie, I need to run Liam over to the emergency clinic.
Mrs. Camacho rushes across the yard, “what happened?”
“He cut his… his leg. Will you watch Regan?” Peters 2004, 227
Liam’s first extreme way in castration, that
later when he grows, this kind of extreme
way replaced into his eagerness to do the
sexual changing surgery.
5. “Her outfit was new—a short jeans skirt
and yellow sweater set. She’d chosen the brown curly wig… she sings softly
‘Happy birthday to me…’”. Peters 2004, 221. “I’d like to change my name
to Luna, with your blessing to father. And yours blessing, Mom.”
Peters Liam’s first showing
off his identity in his family.
2004, 221.
6. “Mom’s smart, in case you hadn’t
noticed. She has a brain. She could’ve accomplished something if she’d
finished college, chosen a career path instead of full time motherhood. I think
she feels her talents are wasted on perfecting the art of homemaking.”
“She only wants to be fulfilled. As a whole person. She wants her life to
count.” “Mom is reshaping her destiny. Or
trying to. We should all be given that opportunity.”
Peters 2004, 59-60. Liam’s adoration
toward his mother that implicitly stated the
condition of how he envious the possession
of the womb, because it brings the power that he
eager to have.
7. “…You don’t even know what I do all
day. You can’t even appreciate the drudgery of cooking and cleaning and
catering to you and the kids. It’s mindless. It’s stifling.”
Mom charges out of the kitchen. I think she’s going to hit dad, but instead, she
stops and grabs Liam’s picture off the buffet. She smashes it to the floor and
the glass shatters. “I’ve had it with you. I’ve had it with
you and these kids and my life. It isn’t enough. I keep telling you that, but you
won’t listen. I’m dying inside. I just want out” Peters 2004, 138
The rejection that Liam’s mother shows
which Liam concludes that his presence is
unwanted. Also this is the motivation for Liam
in getting back the love of his mother.
8. “Liam’s yelling and kicking this man
and I Regan am falling and someone is lifting me up and Liam’s hugging me
hard and I’m crying and he’s saying, “It’s okay, Re. I’ve got you now. It’s
okay.”
Mom lunges off the escalator and yanks me out of Liam’s arms. She hoists me up
and clutches me to her chest. She yells at Liam, “Why did you let her out of your
sight? I can’t trust you for a The formation of
Liam’s superego where he sees his mother as
the source of power, therefore he fears her,
in the same time wants to be like her. It also is
an ironic situation in which Liam was
blamed for doing something proper for
minute”Peters 2004, 127 his gender role which
made him thinks that his behavior was
wrong.
9. “Liam, however, seemed enthralled. Not
in Mom’s career, especially, but in watching her. He was girl gawking,
which is what I called it, where he sat mesmerized studying how girls talked
and gestured and moved. Absorbing, memorizing, imitating. He had Aly
down perfectly. The way she tossed back her head when she laughed….. he could
do Mom, too”.
Peters 2004, 55-56 Liam’s evident of first
process of being transgender.
10. “Grandpa was always nice to us. To me
Regan, anyway. He used to tease Liam about being a sissy. Spar with him;
punch him in the stomach. There was an argument once. Loud. Grandpa hit Liam
so hard he fell down and Dad charged across the living room, spinning grandpa
around and threatening him with a fist. ‘Keep your hands off him,’ dad said.
‘Don’t you ever touch my son again’” Peters 2004,
108-109
11. “All these years he’d Liam’s father
tortured Liam with the sports, the sports. His unrealistic expectations. He’d made
Liam feel like a failure, feel inadequate as a son.” Peters 2004, 228.
12. “Liam. Who’s that? A caricature I’ve
created. A puppet, a mime, a cartoon character. I’m this male macho version
of a son that Dad has in his head.
” Peters 2004, 18
Liam’s father is humiliated by the fact
that he has failed to put the proper gender role
to his son. This excerpt is the justification that
Liam’s father is agreeing with that. It
then leads him into being harsh to Liam, in
which Liam consider as his father does not love
him. Plus that Liam’s father is not working,
Liam now sees that the possession of Penis—as
his father does—no longer needed. This is
the state where the Penis has lost its
function.
B. Characteristic of Liam
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