Background of the Study

B. Problem Formulation

1. How does Tsukuru Tazaki ’s personality develop in the novel? 2. How does Tsukuru’s personality development reveal the importance of Sara Kimoto?

C. Objectives of the Study

Based on the problem formulations above, this study has two objectives. The first objective is to identify the development of the main character’s personality. The second objective is to reveal the importance of another character towards the main character’s personality development.

D. Definition of Terms

There are several terms that are used in this study. They are personality, and personality development . However, to avoid misunderstanding, the writer needs to define all of the terms. The firs t one is personality. As Allport in Hurlock’s book defines that “personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought” Hurlock, 1974: 7. In this study, personality means the psychological system that every person has and it determines his or her characteristic behavior and thought. The definition of personality by Allport is used to help the writer in analyzing the main problems. The second one is personality development. Personality development, as Allport defines in Hurlock’s book, is “a stage in growth of a constantly changing and evoking process within an individual. It determines the person’s uniqueness in speech, in reactions to people and things, in mannerism, in fantasy, and in any other ways directed toward the specific goals to adjust to the environment” Hurlock, 1974: 7. Briefly, personality development means the changing of the personality which can determine someone’s behavior in order to adapt to the environment. 7

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE

A. Review of Related Studies

Since the book is interesting to be discussed, there are many comments and review about this novel. In this chapter, the writer found that there are some articles discussed Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and a study related with the topic of this study. They can help the writer in analyzing this novel as the reference. Patti Smith from The New York Times, reviews about how Sara in some ways has influence d Tsukuru’s personality. Sara encourages Tsukuru to see his former friends again. Tsukuru’s girlfriend Sara, has no color in her name, but she is definitely color- coordinated. When she prods him about his early life, Tsukuru hesitantly relays the scarring story of the loss of his four friends. She senses he will not be whole until he confronts the submerged questions of his past, which seem to be coursing toward the future. As wounds develop a protective crust, the soul flows dangerously beneath them. Sara sometimes seems more therapist than love interest, but he is deeply drawn to her. He expresses love, she fondness. But her driving curiosity spurs him to action. It is not the acuteness of suffering but desire that propels him. With Sara’s assistance he systematically finds his friends, located as close as his boyhood home of Nagoya and as far afield as Finland. To tackle the unresolved takes tremendous courage. He boldly seeks out each finger of the once harmonious hand, inadvertently unveiling its terrible secret nytimes.com, 2016. In his review, Smith emphasizes that Sara seems more like love therapist rather than love interest for Tsukuru. Meanwhile, the writer disagree because the writer sees Sara, who is Tsukuru’s girlfriend, as the significant person in Tsukuru’s life. She helps him to develop his personality.The result of the relation between them shows that love can heal his personality. The writer wants to show that Tsukuru’s personality can develop because he really love Sara and he considers her as the important person in his life. Another article that discusses about Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is proposed by Toby Lichtig 2014: The grace with which Mr. Murakami builds to this uncomfortable realization is characteristic of this tender novel. So too is the authors hold over his readers as we urge Tsukuru on. It is through the liberation of love that he may find his place in the world. Tsukurus —and our—relief when he finally submits to desire, to the messy multiplicity of life, is palpable. We are told: It was a wonderful thing to be able to truly want someone www.wsj.com, 2016 His quotation above shows that he can find his place in the world through love. While the writer sees that it is not only a place in the world that Tsukuru is looking for, but also the truth that his friends leave him sixteen years ago. Because after all these years, he is still questioning why the four of them leave him behind without any explanation. With Sara’s help, he can finally meet his friends again. It shows that the love that he feels to Sara makes him believe that this time he will fight for the one that he loves. Meanwhile, there is a study from Tyagita Ratna Wardhani that is related to the topic of this study. In her thesis, she analyzed the factors influenci ng Jacob’s Personality Development in Stephanie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn. Firstly, the researcher analyzed the personality of Jacob in Breaking Dawn by mentioning his characteristics before it develops. Jacob’s characteristic before changing are free, bad-tempered, sarcastic, pessimistic, and inferior. Secondly, the researcher mentioned the characteristic of Jacob after it develops. His personality is changed into rebellious, calmer, polite, optimistic, and superior. Thirdly, the researcher revealed the factor s that influence Jacob’s personality development. In her thesis, Wardhani mentioned that there are three factors which infuenced Jacob’s personality development; family, environment, and emotion. Jacob and the members of his family is not really close thus it influenced Jacob’s personality who at first is a free person becomes rebellious. The environment where he lives also influenced his personality who at first is a bad-tempered person becomes calmer. Jacob who is sarcastic, pessimistic and inferior changed into polite, pessimistic and superior. The last factor that influenced his personality development is emotion. Because of Jacob loves Bella, he becomes calmer and superior. On the other hand, there is a difference between this study and Tyagita Ratna Wardhani’s undergraduate thesis. Wardhani in her thesis, wants to find out the factors that influence the personality development of Jacob in Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn. The factors that influence Jacob’s personality development are family, environment and emotion. This study is different from the previous study. In this case, the writer finds out that it is not only family, environment and emotion which influence someone’s personality but also the significant people can cause someone’s personality to develop. The writer focuses on the way Sara, who is Tsukuru’s girlfriend becomes the significant person, come into Tsukuru’s life and helps him to develop his personality to be better.