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needed by her sister such as leukocytes, bone marrow and her kidney. Surprisingly, she decides to stop her organ donation for her sister. Even, Anna
hires a professional lawyer to support her effort to be medically emancipated. She really wants to be free from the entire things related to the organ donation.
However, her parents cannot accept her risky action that will cause serious problem for Kate. Besides, Anna’s parents assume that a child does not have right
yet to make her own medical decision. Moreover, they think that what Anna does is an unthinkable action. They expect that Anna will continue to support her
sister’s life because the only one who can save Kate’s life is Anna. Despite Anna has already known about the consequences of her action that may cause her
sister’s death, she stands ground upon her decision. This study discovers Anna’s motivation to stop her organ donation for her
sister. It will analyze the factors that lead Anna to come into such peril decision that will give bad impact for her sister, her family as well as for she herself.
Moreover, this study will observe the Anna’s personality. The understanding of Anna’s personality is considered important because it will affect her motivation in
doing that action.
B. Problem Formulation
Referring to the background of study above, these following two questions are discussed:
1. How is Anna’s character portrayed in the novel?
2. What is Anna’s motivation in stopping her organ donation for her sister?
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C. Objective of the Study
Related to the problem formulation; this study answers both questions. There are two focuses of this literary study. The first one is to find out the
personality of a thirteen-year-old child named Anna, which is portrayed in the novel. The second one is to identify Anna’s motivation to stop her organ donation.
Personality and motivation are closely related each other. Someone’s personality may be driven by hisher motivation and motivation may affect someone’s
personality. Therefore, in analyzing Anna’s motivation, understanding Anna’s personality is important.
D. Benefit of the Study
This study is expected to give benefit for the readers, especially the readers of My Sister’s Keeper novel who want to explore deeper regarding to the character
and the issue of the story. Each person, certainly, has motivation in hisher life either positive or negative. Through reading this study, the readers are expected to
be more conscious and to be more concerned to someone’s motivation to achieve hisher goal and the reason why they behave that way. Besides, this work is
expected to give beneficial contribution to the future researchers who intend to have similar research to discuss human motivation as well as to analyze My
Sister’s Keeper novel.
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E. Definition of Terms
This part consists of some terms and their definitions to avoid the misunderstanding. There are four terms, which will be defined. They are
motivation, goal, organ donation, and medical emancipation. The first one is motivation. According to Stanton, motivation is the reason
why people behave as they do 17. In this study, Anna’s motivation is Anna’s
reason to stop her organ donation for her sister by sending a lawsuit against her parents to obtain medical emancipation.
The second one is goal. Goal, according to Hornby in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
, is something that you hope to achieve 577. In this study, goal is something that Anna hopes to achieve which is not to be her sister’s organ
donor anymore. The third term is organ donation. According to Mosby’s Dictionary of
Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health , organ is part of living thing consisting of
cells and tissue that perform specialized taskfunction in an organism like liver, spleen, reproduction organ, digestion organ, etc. 587. Meanwhile, the word
donation is derived from the word donor. Donor is a human or other organism who gives or donates an organ or tissue for others, for example blood for
transfusion or kidney for transplantation 1312. Organ donation is the removal of specific tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a
living donor, for transplanting them into other persons http:www.wordiq.comdefinitionOrgan_donation.
Here, organ donation is the
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transplantation of Anna’s parts of body into her sister’s body to safe her sister’s life.
The last term is medical emancipation. According to The New Oxford American Dictionary
, medical is of the science of medicine, of curing disease 728.
Meanwhile, emancipation is to set somebody free, especially from political, legal or social restriction 375. Medical emancipation is to set somebody free
from medical matter. In this study, medical emancipation is to set Anna free from medical donation for her sister and to give right to Anna to decide her own
medical matter.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
