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emphasizes on the human psychological and believes that human’s thought, creativity, behavior and another psychological aspect give
influence to literary work. This approach is relevant for this study because it helps the writer to analyze human motivation from the behavior and
struggle of the main character. All of them are related to psychology field. In this study James’ struggles and his motivation for becoming a
hard worker affects his psychological states. By using psychological approach, the writer can see deeper understanding of James’ motivations
for survival as seen in his struggles against poverty. Human motivation and struggle are parts of human psychology.
C. Method of the Study
This study is a library research since it relies to the book, as the sources, where took place in the library. The data is the novel itself,
Cinderella Man 2005 by Marc Cerasini that is used to analyze the problem. Because of this novel is adopted from the movie of Cinderella
Man so the writer chose to watch the movie. There were several books related to the theory of the literary term, the theory of character and
characterization, the relation between Literature and Psychology, theory of motivation, and theory of struggle.
There were at least tenth steps of conducting the study: first was reading the novel, second was examining the characters, the setting of
place and time, the plot, the conflict that happened in the story; third was
determining the topic which can be used to observe in this study; fourth was formulated the problem, fifth was searching the sources from the
library and studying it, and then choosing only the necessary sources; sixth was choosing the proper approach to study this novel in order to make
easy while observing the study; eighth was identifying the major character and minor characters using the appropriate sources and approach; ninth
was answering the problem which formulated by using the appropriate sources and approach; the last step was writing conclusion from the result
of the analysis.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the writer analyzes the novel Cinderella Man by answering two questions which stated in problem formulation. The first part focuses on the
characterization of the main character, James Jimmy Braddock. It presents how the author characterizes the main character of the novel.
In the second part, the writer tries to find out James’ motivation for survival as seen in his struggles against poverty. This analysis uses theories which
are explained above. The first problem formulation uses theory of character and characterization. For the second problem formulation uses theory of motivation
and theory of struggle.
A. The Characterization of James J. Braddock
According to Abrams 1981: 50-56, the terms of characters are categorized into two namely major and minor characters based on their
importance. Major characters are the ones that mostly appear in the novel. While minor characters appear in a certain setting or just become the background of the
major one. In Marc Cerasini’s Cinderella Man, the major character is James Jimmy Braddock. He does not only emerge from the beginning to the end but also
becomes the focus of the story. Then for the minor characters are Mae Theresa Fox as his wife, Jay as his first son, Howard as his second son, Rose Marie as his
third daughter, Joe Gould as his excitable little round-faced manager, and Max
