important. By telling the reason Jonathan hopes that seagulls can enjoy their life. His wanting to speak back to the flock wins the negotiation process.
b. Flying at night
Another intrapersonal conflict faced by Jonathan is influenced by his character as a curious and hardworking young seagull. He wants to know what
happens if he flies higher. Can he fly like eagles, fly in a high speed of perfect flying? He learns and practices every day. He practices from morning until night.
He fails many times but he never gives up. He keeps trying to explore his ability. Until he thinks that he is just a limited seagull.
As he sank low in the water, a strange hollow voice sounded within him. There’s no way around it. I am a seagull. I am limited by my nature. If I
were meant to learn so much about flying, I’d have charts for brains. If I were meant to fly at speed, I’d have a falcon’s short wings, and live on mice
instead of fish. My father was right. I must forget this foolishness. I must fly home to the flock and be content as I am, as a poor limited seagull. Bach
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Jonathan thinks that he will never reach his dream because he feels so tired with his body. He fails many times and still cannot find the answer of his question
of how an eagle can fly so high. On his way to home Jonathan still thinks all efforts he has done. Trying to
fly higher every times and then fails many times. Now, he decides to stop flying. He feels better when he decides to stop flying. He flies in the dark toward the lights
above the beach. Suddenly, he hears a hollow voice. This voice tells him that seagulls never fly in the dark. Yet Jonathan ignores it. The scenery at night is so
beautiful for Jonathan. Dark The hollow voice cracked in alarm. Seagulls never fly in the dark
Jonathan was not alert to listen. It’s pretty, he thought. The moon and the lights twinkling on the water, throwing out little beacon-trails through the
night, and all so peaceful and still… Bach 24. Jonathan is happy seeing the scenery. He likes this night. Night gives him a
new life. He can see something new that he cannot see at the day light. The more he looks at his surrounding, the more he enjoys flying.
The intrapersonal conflict becomes more intense when he hears the hollow voice again. That voice comes back and reminds him of his nature. It alerts him to
stop thinking about flying and get down as soon as possible. The voice tells Jonathan that a seagull is not deserved to fly in the dark like an eagle. It asks him to
get down because seagulls never fly in the dark. Seagulls do not have the eyes of an owl and do not have charts for brains. Seagulls also do not have short wings like a
falcon. This voice tries to make Jonathan stop his effort Bach 24. Here, Jonathan thinks about the reason why seagulls cannot fly in the dark
and do not have charts for brains. He thinks that the voice is right. He does not have eyes of an owl, charts for brains and falcon’s short wings. At the same time, the
voice gives him inspiration, a falcon’s short wings. A falcon’s short wings are the key to fly like an eagle. By knowing the key, Jonathan decides to keep flying in the
dark sky Bach 24. In this situation, Jonathan faces an approach-avoidance conflict. Worchel
and Cooper 461 state that a person faces the conflict when shehe has one goal which has both attractive and unattractive qualities. An approach-avoidance conflict
arises when someone wants to get the goal but on the other hand shehe wants to leave that goal, also. In this case, Jonathan has a goal and it has both attractive and
unattractive qualities. After the hollow voice telling him that he does not deserved
to fly in the dark because of his nature, Jonathan faces an intrapersonal conflict. He wants to be able to fly like an eagle. He also wants to keep flying in the dark night
like and owl. For the first time, he does not pay attention to the voice. Therefore, he continues to fly in the dark. Suddenly, the voice cracks again in his head and force
him to get down by telling his nature. A seagull is a limited creature by its nature. Since Jonathan is a hard worker he keeps flying even though he has to choose
between keeping trying to fly or get down and be a normal gull. Here, the attractive quality for Jonathan is his ability to fly in the dark night
and enjoy it. Then the unattractive quality for him is his thought to stop flying in the dark night and getting down, like the rest of normal gulls. Here Jonathan thinks that
he is trapped in his limitation. This problem is quite difficult to solve. In order to solve the conflict, Jonathan uses a distributive negotiation to
negotiate himself. Isenhart and Spangle 45-46 state that the distributive negotiation is a conflict resolution process where the participants bargain the
approach to resolve the conflict. They negotiate each other with goals and advantages they want to achieve in their goals. Here, they are less pay attention to
the relationship and interest. In this case, Jonathan decides to keep flying in the dark night because he
does not want to be a normal gull. Because of Jonathan’s personality, hardworking and stubborn, Jonathan decides to be an extraordinary seagull. In resolving his
conflict, Jonathan has to manage his conflict first. He solves it by managing the goals. Managing the goal is one of the ways of conflict managements purposed by
Beebe and Redmon 314-326. He is created to be an extraordinary gull. In this
bargaining process, Jonathan has to choose one of the most important for him.
Finally, since Jonathan is a smart and brave seagull he decides to choose his wanting to keep flying in the dark because he is able to fly in the dark. He knows
the key to do that. His desire to fly in the dark wins the negotiation process while his desire to get down and be a normal gull loses the negotiation process.
2. The Interpersonal Conflict
