is a place where Jamee met her father in their last meeting. She remembers the tree where her father made her a princess. Jamee is found in bad condition, she is
unconscious and almost died. Darcy regrets that she does not forgive her father, she wish she can say something good to him because her father still remembers
where the Giant cedar is. Her father stills remember the things that ever happened in his life. That moment might be something which is hard to forget and he save
all of memories about his family in his heart. Then Jamee is taken to the emergency room where her mother works. The meeting between her parents is
something which happens unexpectedly. Behind the loss of Jamee, her father comes back to the family. Now, Darcy feels so happy because her sister is safe
and she has three loyal new friends who come into her life.
C. Messages as Revealed by the Way the Main Characters Solve the
Conflicts.
There are many conflicts which happen to the main characters in this novel.First, the conflicts happen between Darcy and Jamee, Darcy and Jamee are
sisters who have different ways of thinking and attitude. They clashed because Darcy feels angry when Jamee gets bad score in her report card, then Darcy also
feels angry when she heard that Bobby asked Jamee to steal a CD in the Book Store, and then Darcy suspects Bobby Wallace as the person who beats and hits
Jamee because Jamee has bruises in her body. Then Darcy runs away from home, because there is miscommunication between Darcy and Jamee. The messages
from those conflicts are: A good communication is needed in the relationship, including relationship between sisters. With good communication, we can trust,
care and understand each other. It is proved when Jamee feels angry to Darcy because she scolds Jamee for her bad score. Jamee feels angry because she thinks
that her sister blames her for her bad score in the last report. Darcy has her own purposes to scold Jamee, Darcy cares to her sister, but Jamee has different
perspective. It is better if we communicate our needs to our friends, partner or sister so they will understand what we want and it is also good to tell the purpose
behind our actions. Second, the conflicts happen between Darcy and her friends. Darcy feels
lonely because she does not have any friends; Darcy only has one friend, who is Brisana. Both of them always mock other people behind their back and they do
not want to make friends with people with lower social status.In the end of the story, Darcy changes her mind set about other people with lower social status and
grades. It is seen when Darcy talks about her father to Tarah, she feels comfortable to share about her family problem to her. It is also seen when Darcy
is in dangerous situation, she is kidnapped by Bobby Wallace and his friends. Then Cooper and his crew help her, they hit Bobby and his friends. It is also seen
when Jamee runs away from home, Tarah, Cooper and Hakeem help Darcy to find her sister. From those conflicts, it can be seen that Darcy feels more comfortable
to share about her problems to Tarah than Brisana. Even though Tarah, Cooper, Hakeem are ugly, stupid and has lower social status, but they are loyal friends
who always support and help Darcy anytime. Darcy is aware that friendship is not only about the social status or mocking other people but it is about understanding,
supporting and loving to each other. Now she has three loyal friends who always
support her and stay beside her. The message of the conflict is that we should not discriminate people by their looks and social status. People with good looks and
high social status are not always good enough to be our friend. Sometimes, those people we always underestimate are the ones who unexpectedly good and care to
us. The other conflict is between Jamee and Bobby Wallace, it shows that
Jamee does not even love and respect herself. It makes her easily traps in an abusive relationship. She thinks that Bobby loves her very much; she does not
have any courage to fight against him because she does not respect herself enough. Her loss of father figure makes her unloved and she tries to find love in a
wrong way which leads her to a wrong man. The message from Jamee‟s and
Bobby‟s conflict is that we should love and respect ourselves, so we will not trap in an abusive relationship.
There is also conflict between Darcy, Jamee and their family. Although their father has left them for 5 years and they got hurt but they want to forgive
their father. The message is everyone deserves a second chance to clean up their mistakes because they forgivetheir father and give him chance to clean up his
mistakes. Now they can live together with their family and livehappily ever after. From all the conflicts and the messages served in the story, the main
messages which we can conclude from all the conflicts above is related to the title of the novel Lost and found. The title Lost and Found means that behind a loss of
something we can find something new which is better than before. We should be grateful of everything which happens in our life because it gives us a lesson to our
