CHAPTER 3 DATA DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS
This chapter would analyze the main characters’ anxiety and their defense mechanisms as the way to reduce their anxiety. The analysis on Jesse and Leslie’s
anxiety is based on the type of their anxiety. From the type of their anxiety, the causes of their anxiety can be revealed. As their anxiety brings painful and
uncomfortable feelings, they used defense mechanisms to reduce their anxiety. Before the analysis of the characters’ anxiety and defense mechanisms is
explained, the analysis on the main characters’ characterization will begin this chapter because it is necessary to know their traits deeply.
A. Data Description
1. The List of Main Characters’ Characterization
Character Corpus Characterization Page
Jesse Aarons It made Jess ache inside to
watch his dad grab the little ones to his shoulder, or lawn
down and hug them. Jess put both arms over the
paper and brought his sneaker heel crashing down
on Gary Fulcher’s toe. Jess had written about
envious Sensitive
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football, which he really hated, but he had enough
brains to know that if he said drawing, everyone would
laugh at him.
Leslie Burke The person had jaggedy
brown hair cut close to its face and wore one of the blue
undershirtlike tops with faded jeans cut off above the
knees. He couldn’t honestly tell whether it was a girl or a
boy. The reaction didn’t seem to
bother her. She stood there in front, her eyes saying, ‘OK,
friends, here I am,” in answer to their openmouthed
stares….
“Yeah. I think all the schools did. Or most of them
anyway.” She sighed. “I really miss it. I’m pretty
good at gymnastics.” Tomboy
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2. The List of The Main Characters’ Anxieties
Character Corpus Anxiety
Page Jesse Aarons
This was the day he was going to be champion
―the best runner of the fourth and
fifth grades, and he hadn’t even won his heat. There was
no cheering at either end of Neurotic Anxiety
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the field. The rest of the boys seemed as stunned as he. The
teasing would come later, he felt sure, but at least for the
moment none of them were talking.
When you were the only boy who smashed between four
sisters, and the older two had despised you ever since you
stopped letting them dress you up….
It made Jess ache inside to watch his dad grab the little
ones to his shoulder, or lawn down and hug them.
He would like to show his drawings to his dad, but he
didn’t dare. When he was in first grade, he had told his
dad that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. E’d
thought his dad would be pleased. He wasn’t. “What
are they teaching in that damn school?” he had asked.
“Bunch of old ladies turning my only son into some kind
of a
―” He had stopped on the word, but Jess had gotten
the message. It was one you didn’t forget, even after four
years. Moral Anxiety
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Leslie Burke …, he could see that Leslie
was surrounded by a group of girls led by Wanda Kay.
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He couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he could tell
by the proud way Leslie was throwing her head back that
the others were making fun of her.
3. The List of Main Characters’ Defense Mechanisms
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