Daughter as the main characters. Besides, this study also has the aim to find out the influence of the absence of love on the main characters’ behavior of those
three short stories.
E. Benefits of the Study
This study is expected to give benefits for the writers who conduct a literary study, the readers, and the students of the English Education Study
Program. For the writers who conduct a literary study, this study can make some additions and corrections to the relevant understanding and interpretation. For the
readers, this study is expected to enrich readers’ mind and point of view about the problem arisen in the three short stories, so they will get the better understanding
about the three short stories. For the students of English Education Study Program, this study may give inspiration to analyze the three short stories from
another point of view. Finally, this study is expected to contribute some thought or ideas to the English Education Study Program Department as the resource of
language teaching.
F. Definition of Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding about certain terms in this study, the writer states four terms to be clarified. They are:
1. Psychological Influence
Drever defines the term “influence” as follows, “any past or present condition, experienced as or actually playing a part in determining one’s behavior, or
course of thought, in the present: a common type of delusion” 134. In this study, it is related to the condition experienced in life which can determine
one’s behavior because of any human needs that cannot be fulfilled completely.
2. Behavior
Loftus states that behavior is a physical realization of someone’s psychological condition, meaning to say that people will behave based on their
psychological condition 155. Schwartz states the term behavior refers to how people think, feel, and remember 3. In this study, behavior means a human
psychological condition which can be identified through human action, feeling, and thought.
3. Absence of Love
Hauck defines that love is the powerful feeling we have for person, animals or things that has satisfied, is satisfying or will satisfy our desires and needs 16.
In this study, the writer states the absence of love as the situation in which a person loses of powerful feeling for person who satisfies the desires and
needs. 4.
Character Pickering states that the term character applies to any individual in a literary
work 19. In this study, the writer states character as a person who has contribution to develop the story and bring the soul to the story.
