35 That Chick is a wishy-washy person can be seen when Chick finally decides
to go and join the Old Timer Game based on his father’s wish. Whereas, his father has left him after his baseball career fades. Chick also has started his new life by
opening sports bar. Considering the things that his father has done to him, Chick can just refuse his father. Yet, he lets his father influence him again.
There are a lot of things I wished I’d asked him. Instead, I said I’d call him back. I hung up the phone. And I let the opportunity my father had “finagled”
dance around my head… I tried to focus. I tired to wrap my mother’s birthday party around me. But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my
concentration. Before the paper plates were tossed, I was down in the basement, on the phone, booking the last plane out Albom 160.
If Chick has his own principal, he will not let his father influence him easily. He would have refused his father’s wish and continued his life peacefully. Moreover, his
father never gives him any appreciation and affection to him, even his father has hurt him and family by leaving them. However, in fact, Chick decides to go to fulfill his
father’s wish again. His father has succeeded in controlling Chick’s life again.
B. Chick Benetto’s Intrapersonal Conflicts
Since each person in this world has hisher own thought, feeling and opinion toward something, conflict always exists. Human life and conflict cannot be
separated. Conflicts always exist when there is something undesirable happens. External factors and internal factors can trigger conflicts to arise. Thus, Redman in A
Second Book of Play divides conflict into external conflict and internal conflict. An external conflict or interpersonal conflict is defined as a struggle between the major
36 character and an outside force and an internal conflict or intrapersonal conflict is a
struggle in the heart and mind of major character Redman 363. Furthermore, in Understanding Social Psychology, Worchel and Cooper
divide conflict into interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts. Interpersonal conflict is a conflict between two or more persons Worchel and Cooper 462. On the other
hand, intrapersonal conflict is a conflict experienced by an individual when making a choice between two or more alternatives Worchel and Cooper 458.
In Mitch Albom’s For One More Day, the main character in the story, Chick Benetto, experiences conflicts throughout the story. Conflicts that he faces are mostly
intrapersonal conflicts. Chick Benetto’s intrapersonal conflicts in the story are interesting to discuss because it represents conflicts that might happen in the real
family life. Thus, we can learn the values and reflect them in our own life. For One More Day is a novel which tells a story about a family life and its
conflicts seeing from a son’s point of view. In real life, the society already has people based on their gender. It also happens in a family life. Commonly, a boy
should be daddy’s boy and a girl sho uld be mama’s girl. It means that, a boy should follow his father and a girl should follow her mother to imitate in the way they
behave. It is considered embarrassing for boys if they tend to have a closer relationship with their mother. However, those two figures, mom and dad, cannot be
separated. They complete each other and children need both of them to be the models. Yet, this social construction requires the children to stick on one out of two
