be cured. Even though Polly still has Charlie, her son, but her world will not be complete anymore. Two is better than one. To imagine that she will lose her daughter
becomes a pressure for her. The pressure from the society also makes her depressed. When the community
knows Amanda’s illness, they start to reject her. The parents in where Amanda goes to school do not allow her to join the learning and teaching activity. The family has to
survive from the rejection of the community. Her partner, Betty, does not allow her son to play with Charlie. Betty also prepares to stop their business relationship. The
situation is hard for Polly and she has to handle by herself. The condition that is emerged by Amanda’s illness makes the changes in Polly’s
personality. The point that the writer would like to analyze is Polly’s personality changes. The problem that Polly has to face is so real, so close with our lives. We can
find such problem in our community, and that is the reason why the writer would like to analyze it. Hopefully by reading this novel the reader will get the moral values and a
description of people who is living with AIDS and. One of them is not keep a distance with the victim. They have already suffered with the illness and do not make it worse by
rejecting them.
1.2 Objectiges of the Study
This study aims to find out how Polly Farrell’s character is described in the novel. The second aim is to seek the changes on Polly’s personality caused by her
daughter illness. Therefore, this study will focus on Polly’s character and her personality changes.
1.3 Problem Formulation
Based on the previous background, the problems can be formulated as follows: 1. How is Polly’s personality described?
2. What are Polly’s personality changes?
1.4 Benefits of the Study
Through this study, there are some benefits can be acquired. First, the writer will get better understanding related to the characters and the personalities. Those
understanding will improve the writer’s knowledge in literary. Second, the students of English Education Study Program can use the topic of this study as an alternative
material in teaching learning activities. Third, the other writers can use this study as a source or as a comparative study. Fourth, we can learn the moral value, i.e. that is not to
keep a distance with the AIDS’s victims and try to respect them.
1.5 Definition of Terms
1. Character Abrams defined “character” as the persons presented in a dramatic narrative
work, who are interpreted by reader as being endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say, the dialogue, and by what they do or the
action :1981:20. 2. Personality
“Personality” is the whole integrated pattern of behavior, which distinguishes one man from another as uniquely as fingerprints and as distinctively as photographs
:Lazarus, 1976: 9. Meaning to say that personality becomes tool to differentiate between one people to another because of its uniqueness.
3. Changes Hurlock in Personality Development states, “change” means to alter or vary; it
does not necessary mean that the alteration or variation will be complete :1974: 108. 4. Personality Changes
Hurlock :1974: 108 proposed “personality changes” as the personality pattern, which can change in some areas and remain persistent in other as well. The changes
itself is not synonymous with the improvement but can either for the better or for the worse. Therefore, personality changes are the changes of human behavior in dealing
with the way they adjust to the world.
