CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two parts. The first part, conclusions, concerns the answers of the questions formulated in the problem formulation. The second part is
suggestions. It is divided into the suggestion for the future researchers and the suggestion for teaching-learning process.
A. Conclusions
A childhood period is the most important period for children. During this period, children will easily absorb all forms of stimulation from people and
environment around them. They respond any impulses that come to them. From those impulses, they will develop their identity and their emotion. So at this period, careful
attention of the parents is needed for the children, because it is the most affecting factor which impacts
children‟s development. Based on the analysis, Phili
p‟s life is too dominated by his father through their close relationship. So, it causes
many complicated problems in Philip‟s future life. The relationship between Philip and his father is very close. Philip‟s father always
involves Philip in every activity that he does. When Philip comes home from his school, he always spends his time on helping his father‟s job. It is clearly shown that
Philip‟s father indirectly controls Philip‟s life. Philip‟s father always serves the best attention to Philip‟s life and gives some advices about what he should do. He even
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dominates Philip‟s life. The domination is considered as an excessive attention and expectation. As a result, Philip then becomes a young man who cannot rely on his
own strength. The relationship also ma kes Philip‟s untrained to recognize social life
because he always spends his time with his father. It makes Philip grow to be someone who experiences lack of social environment.
Secondly, it concerns the influences of the relationship on Philip‟s life. The influences are on Philip‟s desire for a figure of a father, on Philip‟s attitudes and on
Philip‟s sexual life. In his adulthood period, Philip must live without his father because his father has died. He then lives with a doubtful and unclear feeling because
he continuously thinks about his father. He also has a deep sense of loss because of his fathers death. He experiences identity foreclosed, that is he seems to know what
he wants but in fact it is what his father wants him to. The figure of his father haunts his heart and mind. It becomes the reason why he has a desire to look for a mentor to
guide him as his father does. Then, he finds Bruce Quantock, a man who manages to make him at ease. He finds many things in Bruce which are similar to his father
‟s. The relationship between Philip and his father also affects Philip‟s attitudes.
Philip cannot understand his own feeling. His life becomes a confusing thing for him. He often feels something wrong in his heart. He is unable to decide his own path. He
is even not easy to find what he really wants and needs. He becomes an awkward person. Instead of being an awkward person, Philip also becomes a timid person. He
is afraid to socialize. His close relationship with his father covers him from a chance to develop his socialization access. He feels that he is all right on his own. He limits
his social relation and even refuses to socialize. He does not want to meet Bruce‟s friends. He even Prohibits Bruce to socialize. In his childhood, Philip is always happy
and safe with his father. It makes Philip‟s untrained to communicate with other people. He never has courage to do it. Besides becoming an awkward and timid
person, Philip also becomes a dependent person. It is because he always relies on his father‟s strength when he is child. His father always helps him to do what he wants
and needs. Thus, Philip grows to be a dependent person. Therefore in his adulthood he invites Bruce, his life partner, to determine what he wants and what he should do
everyday. Fur
thermore, Philip‟s close relationship with his father also influences Philip‟s sexual life. He prefers to choose a male figure than a female figure to
accompany his life. It is proven when he chooses Bruce Quantock, who is a homosexual, to become his life‟s partner. Bruce treats Philip as Philip‟s father does,
so Philip can feel comfortable with him. Bruce can provide all which are wanted by Philip and Philip finds the compassion of a father in Bruce. Finally, because of his
bad relationship with his mother, which makes him get vindictive about women, his father‟s love to him which makes him feel comfortable with a male figure, and his
love to Bruce which makes him absorb the knowledge of Bruce and imitate his personality, Philip becomes a homosexual.
B. Suggestions
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