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The emotional condition and social development of a child are influenced by the mother’s attitude. If a young mother has happy memories of her childhood
and feels good about the way in which she is connected to her parents and siblings and they are to her, she will look for ways to recreate that experience in her own
family. She may model the upbringing pattern of her mother. Parents have big contribution toward their children. This is because the
children first social environment is the home where they live. Family and parents will determine the first attitude toward others and social activities. Positive or
negative development that the children have depends on what the parents to do to them. That is why the parents must play their role in proportional manner in order
to get the best result of their children’s personality. Crow and Crow mention that a child’s behavior is influenced not only by the family attitude toward the treatme nt
of himself but also the attitude displayed by the various member of the family toward one, another, their behavior at home, and the relationships to person and
things outside home 1983: 167 . Grandparents also play an important role in shaping one’s personality. The
influences of grandparents depend on how long they live and what roles they play in one family. The longer they live, the greater the influences they bring toward
their grandchildren Hurlock, 1974: 505.
B. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Theoretical framework of the study is used as the basic guidance of the analysis of the novel. First, the writer uses theories of character and
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characterization to support the analysis of Hannah’s, Eva’s , and Sula Peace’s
characters. The writer is able to describe character and characterization of Hannah Peace, Eva Peace, and Sula Peace through some methods. The theory of
personality consists of some factors which influence one’s personality but the writer is only going to use the factor of family as the dominant one. In this theory,
there will be a description about the roles of parents which can be used to explore what kind of parent Sula’s mother is. The impacts of parent’s rejection toward a
child. The influences of grandparents on their grandchildren’s personality. By using those theories, the writer is able to reveal the influences of family on Sula’s
personality.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the writer will discuss three parts namely subject matter, approach and method of the study. The subject matter deals with the major subject
of the study. The approach concerns with the literary approach that the writer used to analyze the novel. Method of the study deals with the sources that the writer
used in analyzing the study and the procedures concern with the steps used in completing the study.
A. Subject Matter
The thesis studies the novel, Sula, written by Toni Morrison. The novel tells about the frie ndship between two black women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
They have different personalities because of the ir different pattern of upbringings. Sula lives with her mother, her one-legged-grandmother, and some outsiders in
her grandmother’s big house. She grows up as a wild and defiant woman later on because of some experiences in her life. When she is an adult, she imitates the
way of her mother’s life. When her best friend, Nel Wright decides to marry a man named Jude Greene, Sula moves to the big city to continue her study. After
having many affairs, she becomes bored by the people of the big city who are all the same and she goes back to Bottom. Sula is regarded as the personification of
Evil by the society because she has many affairs with Whites and also w ith her best friend’s husband, Jude Greene. Since her affair with Nel Wright’s husband,
