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charming, intelligent, cool, and other impressions.
9. Influence
As said in Hornby’s Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, “Influence means the power to affect somebody’s actions, characters, or beliefs, especially by
providing example for them to follow, winning their admiration or making them afraid to disagree” 437. Related to this study, influence is defined as something
that brings effect on ones’ life. It is related to Sophie and Natasha’s friendship, families, beliefs, views, motivation, desires, thoughts, and problems.
11. Internal Factors
From Hornby’s dictionary, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, internal is defined as thing derived from within the thing itself. Here, the internal factors of
self-searching come up from the inside of an individual itself, such as feelings, desires, and thoughts.
12. External Factors
From Hornby’s dictionary, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, external is defined as thing situated on the outside. For self-searching, external factors come
up from the outside of an individual such as the society, family, friends, and the environment that will influence the main characters’ searching for identity.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
This following chapter elaborates the five sections namely the Review of Related Theories, Critical Approaches, Theoretical Framework, Criticism, and
Context of the Novel. In this study, those five sections are used to analyze and comprehend Llewellyn’s novel, If I were You deeper.
A. Review of Related Theories
Here, the theories related to the study are going to be identified. To analyze the work of literature, such as novels, and short stories, this study needs to employ
theory of literature including Theory of Character and Characterization. The theory will be explained as follows:
1. Theory of Character and Characterization
According to Holman and Harmon, character is “The idea of moral or constitution of human personality, the presence the moral value of the creature in the
art in the form of human being. The character is also the description of a person who has some definite qualities.” 18
from reading a book of Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature 1995, there are found some definitions of the word of character. The first definition is
defining character as a descriptive, often satiric analysis usually in the form of short
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