40 God’s mercy 136. Janice follows what the priest has said, although it means that
she has to change her belief. One night, Ivy gets her nightmare and Janice cannot overcome it. She prays to
God “Oh, God she said, nearly voiceless, her eyes blurring with dizziness” 141 and to Holy Mary, asks some help”Help me” she cried to herself “Dearest Mary,
help me to help my child” 141. Suddenly, Hoover comes and wants to help Janice. Janice thinks that her prayer has been answered “She had asked for God’s
help, and He had answered” 144. God has sent Hoover as a helper for Janice and her daughter. Janice will do anything in order to heal her daughter, included
opposing her husband’s way of thinking. Her husband is angry with her because of her reaction to let Hoover helps herself and her daughter. Janice is disappointed
with Bill. She thinks Bill do not care with their daughter. Janice says that she has no choice at that time. She is afraid about Ivy’s condition which will kill herself if
it cannot be stopped “For God’s sake, I was there, you weren’t Ivy was going crazy, I was afraid she’d kill herself” 172. Furthermore, Janice has a reason why
she did that “I had to let him in because only he could help her Is it possible you still don’t understand that?” 172. Janice wants Bill to understand and accept the
reality that only Hoover who can help Ivy from her unusual nightmare.
6. Reclusive
Janice Templeton is reclusive because she does not want others to know about her problem. She likes to hide her true feeling. When Hoover asks her to believe
his belief, she is always saying no, but Hoover knows that actually she starts to believe in what he said. She tries to cover what she feels inside. Although for the
41 first time she does not believe in what Hoover’s said about reincarnation, but
Ivy’s nightmare every night and also Ivy’s unusual behaviors force her to believe in Hoover’s claim 135. She always says that she does not believe in him, but
Hoover knows she think differently. Janice hides the truth in front of him. She just wants to show that she is a rational woman and does not want other people know
that in her mind, she feels vague about the psychiatrist’s and the doctor’s theories. Janice individually starts to give explanation for Hoover’s claim.
Janice shook her head dazedly and wondered which was the more incredible: that it could all be true, or that she was willing to accept it as being true? She
was not a gullible person, had never been a believer in the occult or the supernatural. But this was different. She was directly involved, an eyewitness,
a participant in Audrey Rose’s little game of spiritual hide and seek. But deep inside, she knew differently. And Hoover knew that she knew. ………….your
fear keeps holding you at arm’s distance from what…you know…to be truth. He was right. 154-155
B. Elliot Hoover’s Claim that Ivy Templeton is His Daughter’s Reincarnation as Janice Templeton’s Motivation to React
In this analysis, theory of psychoanalysis and theory of motivation are applied. Theory of psychoanalysis by Freud is used to understand deeper about someone’s
reactions. Atkinson 1981: 395 states that there are three major systems in personality. Those are id, ego, and superego. The hierarchy of needs by Maslow is
also applied to analyze the problem. Maslow as quoted by Petri 1981: 302 shows the level of needs. The first is physiological needs, the second is safety needs, the
third is love and belongingness needs, the fourth is esteem needs, and the last is self-actualization needs. Through these theories, the deeper analysis on how
Janice Templeton reacts toward Elliot Hoover’s claim for her daughter is
explained.
42 Janice Gilbert Templeton, the main character in the Frank De Felitta’s Audrey
Rose, is a rational woman. She does not believe in any belief, religion, and faith because she has a traumatic experience when she was a child. Janice was born in a
religious Catholic family. When she was a child, she was frightened by the nun’s talk about death and resurrection. Janice always thinks that her church, St.
Andrews which is hewn out of ancient and silent stone and also covers with fungus, looks like a Dracula’s castle. She leaves her church and all rituals before
high school. Of course her parents are pained by her decision, but they do not say a word 105-106. Janice meets her husband who is also a rational person and
does not believe in religion. It makes her think more rationally. When a mysterious man, named Elliot Hoover, claims Ivy Templeton, Janice’s daughter,
as his daughter’s reincarnation who died ten years ago in a burning car, Janice does not believe it. Later, she has a problem in her life that she has to believe in
what she cannot believe in order to save and heal her daughter’s life. Janice is described as a modern woman. She is beautiful with her soft brown
hair and lightly cosmeticized skin 47. Like her husband, she cannot abide TV, loves bridge, and owns a fabulous library of records. She has a husband named
Bill Templeton, and their only daughter, Ivy Templeton. Ivy is the prettiest and happiest daughter in all New York. Janice always thinks that she is the luckiest
woman in New York, because she has everything. Money, security, and prettiest Ivy are Janice’s valuable things. She will do anything to make her family happy.
Her smile deepened with the memory of the joy, the fun, the perfect sweetness of their life together, high in the centre of Manhattan, in the dreamy duplex
they owned. How perfect their life had been. How safe and protected. No frights, no miseries, no sudden shocks. 17
43 Janice never worries about anything related to her family, except one problem
which has to be faced. Ivy, her daughter, has a nightmare when she was two years old. The nightmare is not a usual nightmare. Ivy attacks herself unconsciously in
her nightmare. One day, a man, named Elliot Hoover, claims Janice’s daughter as his daughter’s reincarnation who died ten years ago in a burning car “In effect,
you are saying that our daughter, Ivy, is really your daughter, Audrey Rose” 71- 72. Hoover is very certain about his claim after he has observed from Ivy’s
habits, appearances, and behaviors for many years, in order to convince that Ivy is really his daughter 89. After Hoover comes to Janice’s family and claims Ivy as
his daughter’s reincarnation, Ivy’s nightmare starts over again and happens almost every night. In her nightmare, sometimes she scraps her hands of something,
sleepwalks or even runs around her bedroom, falls over furniture, shouts, sobs, pleads and babbles repeating words “Daddydaddydaddyhothothothothot”, and
also the worst things happened are that she tries to get to a window, then pulls away, and seeks to get out or even burns her fingers and pounds on a mirror in her
bedroom until her fingers are bleeding 139-144. As a responsible and affectionate mother, Janice wants to heal Ivy. She is afraid of Ivy’s condition and
health will be worse if the nightmare happens for a long time. Janice’s first reaction is refuses Hoover’s claim. She does not believe in
Hoover’s claim. She is asking him on how he is so sure that Ivy is the reincarnation of his daughter. Hoover explains that he has met two psychics and
both of them tell him that his daughter, Audrey Rose, is still alive and living in New York. They also say that her name is Ivy. Hoover tries to do some
investigation in some hospitals and finds that Ivy Templeton is the only child who PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
44 was born at the same time, the same date, month, and year when Audrey Rose
died “But only one was born at the moment of her death. Your daughter” 90. Since Janice is a rational person, she refuses the man’s claim and says that he is
nut and insane. She says that she has a perfect family that cannot be destroyed by anyone, including him. Hoover tries to convince her that actually Ivy’s nightmare
is caused by Audrey Rose. It is because Audrey Rose will continue to abuse Ivy’s body until Audrey’s soul is set free. Janice says to Hoover that she does not
believe at all in Hoover’s claim. Besides, Janice and her husband try to heal Ivy in a medical science way. She carries Ivy to a psychiatrist and a doctor. Both of them
say that Ivy is expressing fears of loosing Janice, and Ivy appears the expression now to have mastered those fears, which children do as they grow older 105.
Janice believes in what the psychiatrist and the doctor said and pays no attention to Hoover’s claim. She asks Hoover not to disturb her family and stay
away from her daughter. Unfortunately, Hoover does not want to give in. He still tries to convince Janice and her husband that Ivy or Audrey Rose needs a help. He
is very persistent in his claim and very assured of himself. He says that only Janice, her husband, and himself who can help Audrey Rose to set her soul free
and help Ivy from her nightmare at once. Actually, Janice starts to believe in what he said. Moreover, her daughter’s nightmares become worse, while the medical
science way absolutely cannot heal her daughter to stop the nightmare. Janice’s husband does not want to trust Hoover and convinces Janice to pay no attention to
Hoover’s claim about Ivy. Bill says that they should not think seriously about Hoover’s claim. He says to Janice that everything in this world can be explained
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45 “For God’s sake Bill-“ Janice exploded. “You honestly think that what’s been
happening to Ivy is nothing more than a simple illness like…like the flu?” “Do it again”, Bill mumbled and, picking up the fresh drink, quaffed of it in
one gulp. “Let me tell you a little more about what I really believe. I am a firm believer
in things as they are.” He raised the glass and finished the drink down to the olive. “I believe that up is up and down is down. I’d believe that if I stood on
this table and dived off headfirst, I’d probably break my neck. There’d be no guardian angel around to cushion my fall. If I died, I would be either be
cremated or planted in the ground, and it would be the end of me. Finis 127- 128
Janice becomes more confident after Bill has said that everything in this world can be explained in a rational way, no exception. She tries not to pay attention to
Hoover’s claim about her daughter. She just cares about healing her daughter from the nightmare.
Janice tries another way to save Ivy. She sends her daughter to a parochial school which is led by a nun named Mother Veronica Joseph. Janice wants to
keep her daughter away from Hoover. She does not want her daughter know about Hoover and his claim. But this cannot work well, Ivy is sick. She has a fever and a
cold which developed into a severe bronchial infection. It is stated clearly when Janice is testified her evidence to support Hoover in a court that Ivy shows her
unusual behavior “Most of the girls at the school had colds, but Ivy’s cold developed into a
severe bronchial infection. She was up half the night-having terrible coughing spasm. And she had a fever.” 329
Bill, Janice’s husband, asks her to take Ivy back to their home, in order to see Dr. Kaplan, Ivy’s doctor. However, Janice is afraid to take Ivy back, because of
Hoover being there. Janice decides to take Ivy to a local hospital. When Janice and her daughter go to the local hospital, the fever is gone, and so is the bronchial
infection. The doctor who examines her daughter finds her perfectly normal. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
46 Then, they stay in a hotel. One night, Janice is awakened by a noise coming from
Ivy’s room. When Janice goes to investigate, she finds Ivy in the bathroom, is standing naked in front of the mirror, looking at herself, giggling and whispering,
“Audrey Rose”, as if Ivy is calling to her, as if Audrey Rose is hiding somewhere inside Ivy’s body and Ivy is trying to reach her. Janice sees the whole things
happened as a ploy caused by Audrey Rose to get Ivy back to the city where Hoover lives. Moreover, Ivy tries to hurt herself by walking into the fire when her
school friends are celebrating what is called “a crowning and melting ceremony”. Mother Veronica Joseph tells Janice that Ivy literary walks and then crawls into
the fire, and if it has not been for the custodian, Mr. Calitri, who rushes in after Ivy and pulls her out, she has been killed 332. Janice feels fear. She does not
want the worse things are happened again. Before everything gets worse, she decides to take her daughter back to their house.
Since Janice is a never give up person, she tries the other way to heal her daughter. She meets a priest and tells her problem about her daughter. Janice says
that she regrets her decision to leave her religion and church. She wants a help for her daughter. The priest asks what happened to her daughter. Janice tells the story
about her daughter’s nightmares and also Hoover’s claim that her daughter is a reincarnation of somebody. That for the first time Janice does not believe in what
Hoover said, but as time goes by, Janice finds that Hoover is right and she starts to believe him.
“And you believe what this man has told you to be true?” “Things…strange things have happened that convince me that it may be true,
Father.” “You must know the texts. The Gospels do not substantiate such a belief. We
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47 “I know, Father, and yet this has come into our lives…and I’m troubled…”
135-136 The priest cannot help Janice. He only suggests her to make confession and
believe in God. He blesses Janice and prays for her and also her daughter. After Janice tells her problem to a priest, she becomes more peaceful and tries to forget
what Hoover has ever said to her and her husband. She believes that everything will go normally as usual.
Janice’s expectation cannot be come true. Her daughter still has her crazy nightmare. Even, it becomes worse. Until one day, when her husband goes to
Hawaii for work, Ivy gets her nightmare again. Janice tries to pray and calls a doctor to come and help her as suggested by her husband before he left. It is
useless when her daughter cannot be awakened and cannot be stopped from the nightmare.
“Daddydaddydaddydaddydaddydaddyhothothothot” Ivy was now standing before the near window, in profile, whimpering in
terror, her bleeding hands making undulating, praying-mantis motions towards the dreaded glass, seeking, yet repelled by its proximity. Descending closer to
her, Janice could see that she had not escaped from her fall entirely unharmed. The left side of her face was badly bruised, and a thin line of blood trickled
from her nose. 142
Ivy’s unconsciousness in doing the action when she experiences the nightmare
makes Janice feel worried. She wants to stop it, but she cannot. Every time Janice will approach Ivy, she keeps running away from Janice 142. Until, Hoover
comes and offers a help for Janice. Janice says yes and lets him to help her daughter. Janice does not know again how to save and heal her daughter and
thinks that only Hoover can help her. Dominick’s voice answered, Miz Templeton, there’s Mr. Hoover down here in
the lobby.” PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
48 Janice tearstained face blanched, stiffened, then quieted. Her stark eyes became
impassive, while the house around her shook with the cries and bleatings of her one and only child. She had asked for God’s help, and He had answered.
“Miz Templeton?” “Yes” she said inaudibly.
“What’d you say, Miz Templeton?” “Yes, send him up” Janice cried, dropping the phone. 144
Janice’s reaction to let Hoover help her and her daughter becomes the beginning of her belief in Hoover’s claim. She starts to believe in what he said
about her daughter. She does not want her daughter get hurt anymore. Hoover tries to call Ivy, tells her that he is here now, and that everything is all right.
“Audrey Rose It’s Daddy Here, darling I’m here” “Daddydaddydaddydaddy”
NO HERE, AUDREY ROSE DADDY IS HERE, DARLING” Hoover remained kneeling, cradling the child in his arms, comforting her,
quieting her with gentle strokes and soft whispers. Almost immediately, her wet eyelids began to flutter and close in sleep. 145-146
Janice cannot say anything and starts to believe in what she has to believe that
only Hoover who can calm down Ivy when she gets her nightmare. Later, Janice tries to convince her husband to let Hoover help Ivy in healing her condition.
Janice’s husband, Bill, does not want to believe what Janice asks. Bill still refuses Hoover and gets angry while Bill knows that Janice lets Hoover to help
her and her daughter. He says that Janice has to wait for the doctor, not permitted a stranger, like Hoover, to come and help his family. Janice is angry with Bill. She
has a reason why she did the action. Her fearful that Ivy will kill herself makes Janice to hope a help from Hoover. Ivy is going crazy and only Hoover can help
her at that time. Janice wants her husband’s understanding, but Bill does not want to understand. Janice feels disappointed with Bill. She says that when she needs
someone to help her, her husband is not beside her. She is unaccompanied in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
49 solving the problem and her husband chooses to ignore the big problem that
comes to their life. “Not because I’m afraid he’s nut, but because I know he’s sane. Because I
believe what he believes is true. Because I accept the fact that our child is the victim of some cosmic screw-up. But the most terrible and frightening thing of
all is that I’m completely alone in all this…that with all you’ve seen and heard, with all the evidence clearly stated before your eyes and ears, you still choose
to ignore it. Bill, we’re in trouble Sooner or later, you’ve got to come out from under that fig leaf of yours and face it” 172
Janice starts to believe that Hoover is right. She is aware that she has to face
the reality that her daughter is a reincarnation of Hoover’s daughter. Janice’s husband does not want to believe in Hoover because her husband is afraid to face
the reality. Although Janice does not want the reality really happened, but she has to face it. Hence, she opens her mind and changes her rational thinking. She hopes
that after changing her rational thinking and lets Hoover to help her daughter, her daughter’s condition will be better and also Audrey Rose’s soul will be set free.
When Hoover is thrown into jail by Janice’s husband and judged on a charge of kidnapping attempt on Ivy, Janice becomes a witness who supports Elliot
Hoover. She says that Hoover is not guilty. Q Mrs Templeton, do you believe that your daughter, Ivy, is the reincarnation
of Mr. Hoover’s daughter, Audrey Rose? A Yes, I do
Q Mrs Templeton, do you believe that Mr Hoover kidnapped your daughter? A No, I do not. I believe he was doing a humanitarian thing and had every
right to go to her bedroom that night to help her, to see her, to take care of her, because I believe that what he says is true. I believe that the only help my
child will ever get on this earth will be through Mr Hoover. The only chance she has of living is if this man is released from jail Witness overcome by
tears. 332-333
Janice does not want everyone else, except Elliot Hoover, to help her daughter. Janice lets Hoover help her daughter although it destroys her perfect family. She
50 feels desperate and does not know what to do. Some ways have been tried and
done, but all of them are unsuccessful. She believes that only Hoover can help her daughter. Her desire to heal and save her daughter changes her rational thinking to
believe in what she cannot believe for the first time “I know you love your daughter, and are seeking what is best for her. Love tries, love is so desperate to
help, but it must also question and take chances until no more cries are heard” 150. In addition, it is said that Janice and Hoover try to heal their daughter
together. From the analysis, Janice Templeton in Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta is
described as a modern and rational woman who is affectionate, responsible, never-give-up, calm, and reclusive woman. Janice loves her perfect family,
especially her only daughter, Ivy, very much. A man, named Elliot Hoover, claims that Ivy is his daughter’s reincarnation who died ten years ago in a burning
car. Janice first reaction is refuses on Hoover’s claim. She does not believe in Hoover saying about reincarnation and says that Hoover is a crazy man. After
Hoover claims Ivy as his daughter’s reincarnation, Ivy starts to have a nightmare which happens almost every night while she is sleeping and attacks herself
unconsciously in her nightmare. Janice worries about Ivy’s condition. Ivy’s condition makes Janice’s needs in
life cannot be fulfilled completely. The needs which cannot be fulfilled completely are the needs of love and belonging. Love and belonging needs
involve a hunger for affectionate relationships with others, a need to feel a part of a group, or a feeling that one “belongs”. Janice loses a good relationship with her
daughter and loses her daughter’s attention. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
51 According to Maslow, as quoted by Kalish 1973: 44, love and belonging
needs include motives such as love and affection. Janice Templeton loves her daughter very much. She will do anything to save and heal Ivy, her daughter.
Janice takes Ivy to a doctor and psychiatrist in order to heal her daughter’s nightmare. When they cannot heal Ivy, Janice never gives up. She sends her
daughter to a parochial school which has a dormitory and led by a nun. Janice wants to save her daughter and keeps her daughter away from Hoover. She does
not want Hoover effect her daughter. Janice also wants Ivy act as a normal child. Janice does not want Ivy know about what happened to her when she gets her
nightmare. Moreover, Janice asks Hoover not to disturb her perfect family that she has had for ten years. However, in the dormitory, Ivy is sick. She has a fever and a
cold which developed into a severe bronchial infection. Ivy also shows unusual behavior like standing naked and speaking by herself in front of a mirror and
when Janice wants to cure her daughter’s illness by taking her to a local hospital, suddenly her daughter’s illness is gone. The doctor, who examines Ivy, finds her
perfectly normal. Moreover, the worst thing happened is that Ivy tries to kill herself by walking and crawling into a fire. Janice is afraid everything can be
worse. She decides to take Ivy back to their home. Then, her desire to heal and save her daughter makes Janice to meet a priest.
She hopes the priest can help her daughter, but the priest cannot help her. The priest only suggests Janice to pray and make confession on her sins, because she
has left her belief. However, Hoover still tries to make Janice sure that Ivy is the reincarnation of Audrey Rose, his daughter. Besides, Ivy’s nightmare becomes
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52 Hoover. Janice realizes that her daughter does not want to be far from Hoover.
Janice believes that only Hoover can help her daughter. It can be said that the failure to satisfy the need of love and belonging with her daughter results on her
irrational thinking. Janice considered the question-a question unanswerable to all but herself-and
one other person. As Elliot Hoover had warned, “She will keep pushing Ivy back to the source of the problem
; she’ll be trying to get back to that moment and will be leading Ivy into dangers as tormenting and destructive as the fire
that took her life …”Yes, Audrey Rose clearly had no compunction about
showing her hand and would continue to have none. The consideration of how easily they could lose Ivy made her shudder. “Audrey will continue to abuse
Ivy’s body until her soul is set free …”There was nothing to hold her, nothing
to make her even hesitate. 304 Moreover, Janice’s safety needs also cannot be fulfilled. Maslow as quoted by
Petri 1981: 303 defines that everyone needs to feel safe from such harm as meeting with physical violence, having things he or she values taken away, or
losing the care of parents or other protectors. Janice is afraid she will loose her only daughter, Ivy, if her condition cannot be healed. Furthermore, one of the
ways in achieving safety needs is avoid unpleasant and unexpected things. Janice feels uncomfortable with her daughter’s condition. Her fear in loosing her
daughter has effected her reaction to believe in what Hoover said. Janice’s support for Hoover is also shown when she becomes one of Hoover’s witnesses in a court.
Hoover is arrested when he tries to heal Ivy by taking her away from Templeton’s apartment. Bill Templeton accuses Hoover of trying to kidnap Ivy. Janice believes
that Hoover is not guilty. She is certain that Hoover tries to help Ivy from her nightmare and unusual condition.
In addition, Janice is motivated to do certain reaction because of the love which she has for her only daughter. As stated in How to Analyze Drama by
53 Reaske 1966: 13, a character is motivated to do a certain action because of the
love which he or she has, the love which he or she wants, or the love which someone has for him or her. As a result, Janice believes in Elliot Hoover’s claim
in order to save and heal her daughter’s nightmare and unusual condition. In her mind, Janice wants one achievement that is healing her daughter’s unusual
condition and her daughter’s nightmare. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
