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‘Maybe not. Just as well for her. You might have hurt yourself or the place caught fire.’
She thought but didn’t say, the place burning down would have been a bigger tragedy for Eve. Shrove on fire would be worse than Liza dying in
it. p.106
Sean never really believes that Eve only thinks about Shrove and nothing else. So he tries to find information to make sure that what Liza is thinking is wrong. He
asks Liza whether Eve tries to contact Tobias or not. This is to see whether Eve is actually loves Tobias or Shrove.
‘Well, she never did, no. At least, so far as I know she didn’t. she didn’t get a chance, did she, with him so far away and we weren’t on the phone,
we hadn’t a car, we were trapped down there in a way.’ ‘But wasn’t that was what she wanted?’
‘Oh, yes, it was what she wanted. She wanted to be at Shrove and be undisturbed and isolated but what she’d wanted most was to own Shrove. I
think she gave up that idea when he got married. I mean, she gave it up for a while. It was very hard for her, she’d counted on it for so long, but she
had to give it up. Of course I don’t know what went on in her mind, I was only a child, but I think she regretted a lot of things, she had bitter
recriminations.’ p.130
Maslow 2002:14 writes that one of the needs that motivates someone to do something is his or her love and belongingness, that is a feeling that one
belongs. Based on the descriptions we can see that one of the reasons behind choosing her lifestyles is Eve’s love of Shrove. Eve feels that she belongs to
Shrove and Shrove belongs to her. She isolates herself and her daughter at Shrove because she loves Shrove much. It is the only place she considers as the best place
to live because of the beauty of the nature and the location which is far from anywhere. She also considers Shrove as her sanctuary since it is the place where
she grows.
c. Eve’s Love to Liza
It is true that every mother should love their children because it is the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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nature of a mother. As a woman, Eve has a parental force that leads her to do something to protect her child. It is not a duty but a need. As previous
analysis, this is what Maslow calls as love and belongingness needs 2002:14. In this case, Eve’s mother instinct directs her to choose her unique lifestyle
in order to guard her daughter from the contamination of the world by employing the simple life.
Also, the cognitive processes within ourselves make significant different in the development of motivation Petri, 1981:6. That is why intellectuals gain
more than those who do not taste education. In choosing her lifestyle, Eve is somewhat influenced by her thought. Her consideration about having a baby and
leaving her study makes her choose her unique lifestyle. She does not want to have an abortion and even never thinks about that. Her experience of seeing the
babysitter who leaves the children in front of television and does not take care of them makes her choose to raise her child by herself. Her bad experiences in outer
world make her think that the best place to grow for her child is at Shrove. She thinks a lot and her thinking leads her to choose the simple life lifestyle.
To keep her and her daughter isolated, she tells lies to everyone but Liza. The ways she tells Liza about her dishonesty shows her closeness to her daughter.
It is showed in this quotation: ‘And didn’t you never go to school?’
‘No, I never did. Mother taught me herself at home.’ ‘It’s against the law, that.’
‘I expect it is. But you know where Shrove is, the back of beyond, far away from just about everywhere. Who would know? Eve told lies about
it. She was very open with me. She said it was important not to tell lies unless you had to, but if you had to the important thing was to know they
were lies. She told some of the people that asked that I went to the village school and the other people that I went to a private scdakhool. We met
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Diana Hayden in the lane and Eve told her we were in a hurry because she was taking me to catch the bus for school.
p. 88
Lies are repeatedly told, whether they are apparent or hidden. When Matt, the bricklayer, wants to know why Liza is not at school, Eve says coldly, ‘It’s
Easter. The schools have broken up for Easter’ p. 97. Liza, who never knows what Easter holiday is, realizes the vital fact about the statement that her mother
has made years after it. She realizes that Eve has not told a lie because it is the Easter holidays. However, the impression she has given Matt is the false one.
Later on, Eve’s habit on telling lies is learned by her daughter; Liza becomes acquinted in telling lies too.
Her love to Liza is also the reason why Eve does not try to find a boyfriend or a husband to live with. She wants to protect Liza from anything that
can pollute her purity. When she has Bruno as her boyfriend, it is not her who tries to find him but it is Bruno who finds her.
Since Eve does not have a husband, it creates her hunger of affectionate relationships with a man. However, Eve’s close relationship with Liza can reduce
a lonely feeling that comes to her. Weiss in Paloutzian and Janigian 1989: 32 writes that there are two kinds of loneliness: emotional loneliness and social
loneliness. Emotional loneliness is a state where someone feels lonely though he or she is surrounded by many people, while social loneliness is a state where a
person is lonely because of social isolation. Since human is social animal, he needs to have social relationship with his social surroundings. In the novel, to be
isolated physically in a remote area apparently causes loneliness to her, emotionally and socially. Hojat 1989:93 says that loneliness is hard to
