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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter is divided into five parts. The first part is background of the study that describes the reason for conducting the study. The second part is problem
formulation that consists of the problem that will be analyzed in this study. The third part explains objectives of study. The fourth part describes benefits of study and the
last part concerns with the definition of terms.
A. Background of Study
Nowadays, parents are confused about the behavior of their children when the children have grown up. Some of them do not realize that the fact of growth they
have seen occurring on their children is the result of their involvement as the parents. Parents take an important role in the growth of their children. As we know, since the
first quarter lives of a child, his father and mother have already provided environments and experiences, which will be applied by the child in order to live
productively Bid 29. Parent‟s involvement is very important in children‟s life. The relationship
between parents and their children creates a particular influence on the children. A child needs some supporting actions from the parents to grow as a person. A father
and a mother have an important role in affirmating child‟s identity so the child can
grow up as person of a value Bid 36. A father teaches his son and investigates his expectations and a mother tries to examine the things needed by her daughter to be a
girl. A father will present emotionally as well as physically to be an example to see and so will a mother. When the needs of the son and daughter have been fulfilled,
they will try to keep their relationship with their parents in order to fulfill their sexual identity. That relationship then develops continually and influences their life Bid
36. Today, many cases have happened related to that issue. One of the cases relates
with the relationship between a father and a son. Many fathers do not recognize that their attachment to the son such as close guidance and control give impacts to the son
because the psychological development of the son as a man is developed based on the relationship between his father and him Sanford and Lough 187.
The relationship has an impact on the son in the process of his growth as a human. The son has a need
required by that relationship. It can either encourage or discourage father‟s involvement Marsinglio 16. However, father‟s involvement can give bad effect if it
is done excessively. A dedicated father who lives only for his son will make the son be as disastrous as a neglected child Bid 51.
A Way of Love
by James Courage is one of the novels which portray the relationship between a father and a son. It tells us about a young man named Philip
Dill who has a deep relationship with his father in his childhood. Philip Dill, a twenty- four-year-old young man is a provincial boy who comes to London in his
own right. He loves his father very much; his close relationship with his father makes
his father dominate his life so much since his childhood. They always do some activities together. His father seems to say what he should do and control his activity.
This relationship has a major impact on his life. It makes him tend to become a defensive young man because he used to rely on his father‟s command. He is not
confident to do things in his life because his father is used to control him. He always remembers his father all the time. His father‟s absence makes him turn out to be a
confusing person especially to determine his life goals. His grief on his fath er‟s death
makes him turn to look for another figure or idol as his father to help him in his maturity.
In this confounding process, he meets Bruce Quantock, a forty- nine- year-old bachelor who works as an architect in London and has lived as a homosexual for a
long time. Philip likes him and later starts to make a relationship with Bruce. Philip feels comfortable with Bruce and just begins his life as a homosexual when he
becomes Bruce‟s lover. Nevertheless, this relationship comes to the end. Philip decides to separate because he realizes that he wants a normal life. He just presumes
Bruce as a kind of foster parent not a lover to him. His relationship with his true father is the deepest emotional experience of his youth, a feeling and a dependence he
has later transferred to Bruce. This story is interesting to discuss since it reveals the influence of father-son
relationship on son‟s life. This story reveals about the bad impact on the son because his father has much involved in his life through their relationship. At the final part of
the novel, it can be seen that the son never reaches his maturity. When his father dies,
he is never ready yet to run away from his father‟s strength. He cannot cover his own life and always need somebody to guide him. He is even involved to a particular
relationship in which he tries to find his defensive and maturity.
B. Problem Formulation
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