25 11, Chick begins to build his resentment to his father unknowingly. At the same time,
his mother takes care of the family bravely. She gives her best to make her children happy. However, for some reasons, Chick remains unsatisfied with all of her efforts.
He is even ashamed of his mother and resents his incomplete family. Chick spends much of his life chasing the elusive love of his father. However, decades later when
his mother dies, Chick has just realized his big mistakes. His resentment turns to regret and haunts him for the rest of his life. It leads him to depression and
alcoholism, which later ruins his life. He leaves his own family and one day he decides to take his own life. In his unconsciousness, he meets his mother and spends
a day with her again. It changes everything.
B. Approaches of the Study
This study focuses on Chick’s intrapersonal conflicts which influence his personal life. Conflict is a part of psychological aspects. Thus, the psychological
approach is applied in accordance to the topic of the study. In addition,
psychological approach reflects life and represents human motivation and behavior which is suitable to analyze the influence of intra-personal
conflicts in someone’s personal life. This approach helps the writer to obtain deeper
understanding and description of the character’s thought, motivation and behavior in the story.
C. Method of the Study
26 Some steps were employed in conducting this study. The first step was
reading the novel For One More Day many times to gain better understanding about the content of the story. While reading, some important notes of the story were taken
for the analysis. The notes included each aspect of the story setting, character, theme, plot, conflicts, and point of view. Afterward, two problems were formulated
to be discussed further to analyze the intra-personal conflicts experienced by the main character.
The second step was trying to collect some references and theories related to the object of the study. Since the object of the study was a literary work, in form of
novel, literature theories were applied. In this study, psychological references were
also reviewed to gain more knowledge about family relationship. Besides, internet sources were also accessed to obtain some information related to this study.
The third step was analyzing the novel. The novel was analyzed in order to answer the two questions formulated in the problem formulation. The last step was
making a conclusion, it includes the result of the analysis and the suggestions. The suggestions were for reference of the future research on the same novel and for
improving teaching learning process in the future by using this novel as teaching material.
