2. She does not get along with Kim, her mother
Besides having negative feelings towards her father, Ronnie also does not get along with Kim. Ronnie never obeys her mother‟s rules anymore. She breaks
the curfew, she does whatever she likes, and she never pays attentions to her mother anymore. After Ronn
ie and Jonah arrived in her father‟s house to spend their holiday, Steve asks Jonah about Ronnie and Kim. “...Mom and Ronnie
fought the whole time” Sparks, 2009:19. Ronnie and Kim also fight because of the simple things. When Ronnie snaps her gum on the
way to Steve‟s house, Kim is also angry with Ronnie Sparks, 2009:9. Ronnie knows her mother hate it but
she still snaps her gum like that. It is their second fight when they are on their way to Steve‟s house. Their first fight is when Kim plays Mozart‟s Sonata number 16.
Ronnie does not like that because she played it in her performance at Carnegie Hall four years ago, before the divorce happened Sparks, 2009:8.
Fatherless children may develop a number of problems. Sometimes they become excessively dependent upon the mother; sometimes they grown
rebellious and defiant, difficult for the mother to control. Antisocial behavior in the form of stealing may also break out the following the loss of
father Martin and Stendler, 1957:331. Kim finds it difficult to control Ronnie after the divorce. Ronnie becomes a
child who never listens to her mother again. “After separation occurs, adolescents
have to adjust to the absence of one parent, often one on whom they have depended deeply for affection and h
elp” Rice, 1996:120. Kim is the only one parent who lives together with Ronnie because after the divorce Steve leaves
alone. Kim has double role, as a father and as a mother. In fact, Kim has a new boyfriend. She dates with Brian. She will get married with her new boyfriend in
January Sparks, 2009: 22. Jonah can accept it, he likes her mother‟s new
boyfriend. But Ronnie really does not care about it. She refuses to meet Brian if he comes to her house. Theory of adolescence explains that children will be
jealous if their parents date with someone else. “If parent begin to date again and
get involved with another person, adolescents may become jealous and resentful because they have to share their parent w
ith another adult” Rice, 1996:120. The presence of someone else will give effect towards children. Children must learn to
accept it and share their parents with stepmother, stepfather, stepbrother or stepsister.
3. She becomes cynical about whole things
Ronnie losses her father figures because her parental divorce. According to Kimmel and Weiner, father absence resulting from divorce is more likely to have
negative effects than the father‟s dying Kimmel and Weiner, 1985:258. Because the absence of father figure because of dying is more understandable than the
absence of father figure because of the divorce. After her parental divorce, Ronnie becomes cynical about whole things.
She figured they were in college-they were only a couple of years older than her-but there was an easy affection between them that she had yet experince
in any of her own relationship. Yeah she‟d had boyfriends, but she‟d never been in love, and sometimes she doubted whether she would be. After her
parents divorced, she‟d been kind of cynical about whole things.. Sparks, 2009: 135.
Ronnie has boyfriends, but she never loves them. She just tries to seek
attention from her male friends. “They begin dating early and are likely to
engange in sexual intercours e at an early age” Rice, 1996:125. During the
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