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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1 Process of Love in Cecelia Ahern’s Novel: Love, Rosie
This is the story of Alex and Rosie‘s lives, told exclusively through letters,
emails, instant messages and texts sent between them, and their wide assortment of family and friends. Rosie and Alex are inseparable best friend who are one day
forced apart when Alex ‘s family decided to move from Dublin to Boston. The story
guides us through their relationship as it continues to change due to distance, new relationships, and circumstances that keep them apart. Life for Rosie and Alex,
childhood best friend, begins and ends with one thing: their unfaltering loyalty to one another. In the novel Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern, the process of love is
conveyed by a sense of affection, attraction, and leads into an intimacy.
4.1.1 Affection
Affection is a process of social interaction between two or more organisms. Affection denotes a feeling of love, amounting to more than goodwill or
friendship. It communicates by words, gestures, or touches. This process of love is more emotional rather than sexual or biological need. This story begins by two
young children who are the best friend. Their names are Alex and Rosie. Alex Stewart and Rosie Dunne have been best friend since they were childhood. They
often spend time together as children. They are always together and do everything
together. They do not care about other friends, who also wanted to be friends with
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them. Everything about Rosie and Alex, Alex and Rosie, nobody else
.
One day Rosie invited Alex to 7
th
Rosie‘s birthday through a letter.
It can be seen as follows: To Alex
You are invited to my 7th birthday party on Tuesday the 8th of April in my house. We are having a
magician and you can come to my house at 2o‘clock. It is over at 5 o‘clock. I hope you will come,
From your best friend, Rosie Cecelia Ahern, 2005:3
Alex replies Rosie‘s letter: To Rosie
Yes I will come to your brithday party on Wensday.
Form Alex Cecelia Ahern, 2005:3
From the conversations through Alex and Rosie above, it is not grammatical errors, but it shows how children‘s action when they‘re at the age of
seven. Their writing is not still with true words. Alex and Rosie often keep each
other up all night with many jokes, that‘s so much fun for them.
When they become teenager, Alex and Rosie grows being naughty and rebellious. They often expose to detention and punishment from their teachers
because their behaviors are not polite. Even in Rosie‘s birthday at the age of sixteen, they make a false license and go to a nightclub to celebrate Rosie‘s birthday.
Dear Ms. Quinn Alex will be unable to attend school tomorrow, the
8th of April, as he has a dental appointment. Sandra Stewart
Dear Ms. Quinn,
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Rosie will be unable to attend school tomorrow, the 8th of April, as she has a doctor‘s appointment.
Alice Dunne Cecelia Ahern, 2005:10
Unfortunately for Alex and Rosie, those letters which led to the suspension. Their principal
requests a meeting with Alex and Rosie‘s parents at the
school immediately. It can be seen as follows: Dear Mr. and Ms. Dunne,
Following the recent actions of your daughter Rosie we request a meeting with you at the school
immediately. We need to discuss her behavior and come to an agreement on a reasonable punishment. I have no
doubt you understand the necessity of this. Alex
Stewart‘s parents will also be in attendance. The scheduled time is Monday morning at 9 a.m.
Yours sincerely, Mr. Bogarty
Principal
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:12 As teenagers, they also tell their boyfriend and girlfriend respectively.
Alex later tells her that an attractive and out of his league girl named Bethany wants to go with him. Alex meets Bethany, after that he tells Rosie through an
instant message when they‘re in classroom. It can be seen as follows:
Alex: Hey there Rosie got some news for you. Rosie: Leave me alone please I‘m trying to concentrate
on what Mr. Simpson is saying. …..
Alex: Well you can eat your words my friend, because virgin boy is no longer.
Rosie: Is no longer than a what? Baby sweetcorn? Alex: Ha ha is no longer a virgin boy.
Alex: Hello? You still there? Cecelia Ahern, 2005:15
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But there are times when Rosie seemed jealous of the love life of Alex, Rosie thinks his girlfriend disturbs their friendship. Rosie misses Alex so badly as
her best friend, as stated Rosie in the following letter:
To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend, I‘m writing you this letter because I know that if
I say what I have to say to your face I will probably punch you.
I don‘t know you anymore. I don‘t see you anymore.
All I get is a quick text or a rushed e-mail from you every few days. I know you are busy and I know
you have Bethany, but hello? I‘m supposed to be your best friend.
...... Anyway, my point is I know, I know, there is
one, I don‘t want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends
forever, Alex. Cecelia Ahern, 2005:20
When Alex is eighteen, Rosie wants to celebrate Alex birthday with her and she wants to go out to have some legal celebrating together. But so sadly, Alex
says that he celebrates his birthday with Bethany‘s parents that taking him and his
parents out for dinner to the Hazel. Alex is so surprised, but Rosie is so angry and disappointed, until Rosie was sending an email with bad words to Alex, but she
deletes again and changes it with better words. Rosie hides her disappointment. It can be seen as follows:
Dearest Alex, Well whoopdeedoo for you
Fuck Bethany Fuck her parents
Fuck the hazel And fuck you
Love your best friend Rosie
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From: Rosie
To: Alex
Subject: Happy Birthday
OK then well, enjoy the meal. Happy birthday Cecelia Ahern, 2005:23
But, no one can separate a friendship of Alex and Rosie. They always find a way to be friends again, and do action together. Until one day, just a year
before their graduation from high school, Alex had to leave their hometown, Dublin, Ireland to follow his father to get a job in the United States.
From: Alex
To: Rosie
Subject: Re: DISASTER
I‘ll call you when I get home. It‘s true. Dad was offered a job doing something that sounds incredibly
boring . . . I don‘t really know, I wasn‘t listening. I don‘t know why he has to go all the way over to Boston to do
a boring job, there‘s plenty of them right here. He can have mine.
Oh Rosie, I‘m so pissed off. I don‘t want to go. I only have a year left in school; this is such the wrong
time to leave. I don‘t want to go to a stupid American high school or whatever it is they call it. I don‘t want to
leave you. I‘ll call you later and we can talk about it. We have to think of a way that I can stay. This is really bad,
Rosie.
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:24 Rosie is so surprised directly and she can‘t hide her sadness when she
knew her best friend must move to Dublin to Boston because of Alex‘s parents job. Rosie wants to stay with Alex in Dublin, it is like their wish to live together when
they were kids. She sends a letter to her best friend and tells her sad feeling.
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From: Rosie
To: Alex
Subject: Stay with me
Don‘t go Mum and Dad said that you could stay here for the year Finish school here and then we can
both decide what to do after that Please stay It will be so brilliant, us living together. It‘ll be just like when we
were young and we used to keep each other up all night with those walkie talkies Remember them? If you stay
with us Alex we‘ll be able to just talk all night Oh it would be so much fun. When we were kids we always
wanted to live together, now‘s our chance . . . Cecelia Ahern, 2005:25
Alex and Rosie can‘t do anything. Alex must be moved to Boston. Thus,
they are suddenly separated. Rosie feels
like she‘s missing something. She knows that there‘s something not right, and it takes her a while to remember what it is.
Then she remembers, her best friend is gone. Her only friend. In high school graduation party, Rosie finds a partner, she meets Brian
Greg, Alex and Rosie‘s classmate, he is so naughty. Because of necessity, Rosie finally goes to the event with Brian, an option which she will regret, because she is
not with Alex. Because Alex with Bethany. Later, Rosie gets good news. She receives a letter telling her that she has
been accepted into Boston College, USA, while Alex has been accepted in the medical faculty of Harvard University.
Alex and Rosie are very happy. They make those plans together. Rosie is also ready to go to America and meet Alex again.
From: Rosie
To: Alex
Subject: Boston here I come
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I GOT IN Boston College, here I come WAHOOO The letter just arrived for me this morning and I am
soooo excited You better not move a muscle, Mr. Stewart, because I am finally
coming to see you. It‘ll be great, even though you and I won‘t be studying in the
same college Harvard is far too distinguished for the likes of me But I think it‘s just as well because I don‘t
think we can really afford to get suspended again. I‘m so excited. Are you??? E-mail or call me as soon as
possible. Cecelia Ahern, 2005:30
Alex replies Rosie‘s letter directly…
From: Alex
To: Rosie
Subject: Re: Boston here I come
This is brilliant news I can‘t wait to see you too
Harvard isn‘t too far away from BC well in comparison to being a whole ocean apart
—can you believe Harvard accepted me? It must be the intellects‘ idea of a hilarious
joke. I‘m too excited to type, just get over here When are you coming?
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:30 But sadly, Rosie becomes pregnant because when high school graduation
party, Greg and Rosie got a private room. They had sex but due to Gregs inexperience, the condom comes off and gets stuck inside Rosie. These conditions
turned out to bring Rosie at the beginning of the ground up. And Alex is so worry about Rosie, why Rosie does not come to Boston as he thinks.
From: Alex
To: Rosie
Subject: You‘re not coming to Boston??
My mum told me today that you‘re not coming to Boston. Please tell me what‘s happening. I‘m so
worried. Did I do something wrong? Was it because I missed the debs? Because you know I am so so sorry
about that but they just couldn‘t get me on another flight. You know that. I am always here for you when you need
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me. Whatever it is Rosie please no that I will understand and will always be here to help you. Please let me no
what is happening, I‘m going out of my mind here. If you don‘t get in touch with me, I‘m booking a flight
back to Ireland and I‘m going to see you myself. Love,
Alex Cecelia Ahern, 2005:40
All the plans that have been created by Rosie destroyed in an instant because of her pregnancy. Seat of Boston College she left, plans to meet with Alex
in America have vanished. Rosie gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Katie, and decides not to give her up for adoption despite prior plans. Rosie raises Katie as
a single mother. Rosie must take care of herself and her baby alone with his parents
because Brian chooses to leave the city, leaving Rosie, and leaving their babies. Rosie can no longer live like other 18 years old girl.
Rosie tells her sadness in a letter to Alex: Alex,
It was good to see you again. Please don‘t be a stranger. I‘m really going to need all the friends I can get
right now. Thank you for being so supportive last week, I honestly think I will go mad without you sometimes. I
always give up, Alex. What have I ever had to do in my life that really needed to be done? I always had a choice,
and I always took the easy way out
—we always took the easy way out. At our age the burden of double maths on a
Monday morning and finding a spot the size of Pluto on my nose was as complicated as it ever got for me.
This time round I‘m having a baby. A baby. And that baby will be around on the Monday, on the Tuesday,
on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I have no weekends off. No three-month
holidays. I can‘t take a day off, call in sick, or get Mum to write a note. I am going to be the mum now. I wish I
could write myself a note.
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I‘m scared, Alex. Rosie
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:42 The process in this type begins from a sense of affection to show care
and attention for something better to show friendship or closeness. This process is released from passion, but it comes from consciousness that shows mutual caring,
compassion, respect and concern for other people. In this story,
Alex always there to support Rosie and makes Rosie be happy, even though they are on different
country. He motivates Rosie so that Rosie being brave to live her life with Rosi e‘s
baby. It can be seen through Alex‘s letter to Rosie as follows:
From: Alex
To: Rosie
Subject: Baby talk
A baby will fill you with love and pride, make you laugh, make you cry, make you strong, and help you
to be more independent. You will learn far more from this experience than a maths class. I am here for you for
whenever you need me. Boston College can wait for you, Rosie, because you have far more important work
to do now. I know you will be just fine. Cecelia Ahern, 2005:43
Rosie trusts Alex to be godfather to his daughter, Katie. In contrast to Rosie‘s struggle that must protect her baby and looking for a job so that she can be
independent and does not bother her parents. Alex studies at Harvard University well, and has planned to engage with a
friend in college, Sally. Sometimes Rosie feels jealous of Alexs life and imagine what would happen if she could fly to America and studies at Boston University.
Something happen when Rosie decides to leave all of her sadness in Dublin for a
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while and visit Alex in America. After they meet together, Rosie kissed Alex. Rosie knows the person who being kissed by her is her best friend. But Rosie feels
something different when a silence, a silence that feels very reasonable ambush them. Rosie did not know what happened to her, but she does not regret having done
it. Rosie begins to fall in love with Alex, but Alex considers that happen to him and Rosie is wrong, because they are best friends. Moreover, Alex also has a fiance.
Rosie comes back to Ireland with a broken heart. Alex married with Sally and Rosie appoint her as the best woman in
marriage. They were both standing at the altar, but they didn‘t united. In Alex and Sally marriage, actually Rosie feels so jealous, but Rosie says:
Now Alex ha s that life and I‘m so proud of him.
I‘m so happy that he‘s found his best woman and his best friend in perfect little brainy and annoying Sally.
I ask you all to raise your glasses and toast my best friend Alex and his new best friend, best woman, and
wife, Sally, and to wish them luck and happiness and divorce in the future.
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:73
Rosie begins to forget her feelings to Alex, and then she married with a man named Greg. Alex and Sally were invited on Rosie‘s wedding. And here the
invit ation of Rosie and Greg‘s wedding:
To Alex, Sally, DENNIS ALICE DUNNE
Proudly invite you to the marriage of their beloved daughter
ROSIE TO GREG COLLINS On April 8th of this year.
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:117
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This time, Rosie pointed Alex as his best-man. Once again, they stand at the altar, but they were not united. Actually, Alex can‘t hide his sad feeling
especially when Rosie married with Greg. Finally Alex realized it was jealousy he felt at Rosie‘s wedding, he finally realized he and Rosie were made for each other
He thinks that Rosie also had same feelings when his wedding day .
Dear Rosie, I got the oddest feeling when you turned your
back to me to walk down the aisle with Greg. It was a pang of jealousy. Is that normal? Did you get that feeling
on my wedding day, or am I going completely crazy? I just kept thinking over and over in my head, ―Everything
is going to change now, everything is going to change.‖ Greg is the man for you, now he gets to hear all your
secrets, and where does that leave me? It was a weird feeling, Rosie, one that eventually passed but one that
was present all the same.
I didn‘t dare talk about it to anyone, especially Sally, because then she would be only too delighted to
think that her little theory of men and women being un
able to be ―just friends‖ was correct. It‘s not like I was jealous because I wanted to be your husband, it was just
. . . Oh I don‘t know how to explain it. I suppose I just felt left out, that‘s all.
Cecelia Ahern, 2005:119 Rosie starts a new life that is happy with Greg and Katie.
She has realized that Katie and Alex are a team and if they can‘t love them both, then they can get
lost. But this time for Alex is being unlucky. After his marriage with Sally, the
intensity of meeting Alex and Sally become dwindle because of their busy respectively. Alex and Sally decide to divorce.
Rosie has just begin to compose his life from the beginning, her heart hurts back when she knows Greg has an affair with another woman. They almost
divorce, but Rosie tries to fo rgive him and live her life, although Rosie can‘t stop
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his disappointment. Then Alex sends her a letter saying that she deserves better and he believes he can be better man. He expresses his deep feelings to Rosie. It can be
seen as follows: Rosie,
…I can see the sadness in your eyes. I no that Greg isn‘t away working for the weekend. You never could lie
to me; you were always terrible at it. He is the luckiest man in the world to have you, Rosie.
I no what that feeling was at your wedding —it was
jealousy. My heart broke when I saw the woman I love turning away from me to walk down the aisle with another
man, another man she planned to spend the rest of her life with. Years ahead without me being able to tell you how I
feel or hold you how I wanted to. Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it
wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for
my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. Give me a chance to make them up to you. I love you, Rosie, and I
want to be with you and Katie and Josh.
Always. Please think about it. Don‘t waste your time on
Greg, this is our opportunity. Let‘s stop being afraid and
take the chance. I promise I‘ll make you happy. All my love,
Alex Cecelia Ahern, 2005:136
Unfortunately for Alex, the letter never gets to Rosie‘s hands. Greg intercepts the letter and hides it from Rosie, and Alex was too scared to tell Rosie
directly about his feelings. So, Rosie doesn‘t know what Alex feels to her. Greg ruined everything. Everything Rosie is back with Greg and Alex begins to accept
what will happen. For the second time, Alex is married to a woman named Bethany, his ex-girlfriend in high school, a woman who also hated by Rosie.
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Good fortune seems never comes to Rosie. Greg repeats his wrong action, he has booked the bridal suite, assuming it is for their anniversary however after
receiving a call from him saying that he will not be home, Rosie realizes he is cheating. And this time for Rosie, it is enough to survive with Greg. They finally
divorce. Rosie is back to work hard to support herself and Katie. Rosie learned to be a strong woman, a strong mother for her daughter. Years, with a very different life,
Alex and Rosie never disconnect. Their friendship became stronger as the problems in their lives become complicated. Rosie is being worrying when Katie starts
growing adolescent. Katie afraid she will suffer the same fate with her. But Katie convinces Rosie that she will not disappoint Rosie.
Rosie now starts her life back, little by little. Trying to get what is appropriate for her, and grab what was taken away from her before. While Alex, his
marriage is being unwell. Alex and Bethany have divorced.
4.1.2 Interpersonal Attraction
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