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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS
A. Analysis of The Main Character
Juno is the teenage movie which is full of teenager’s problems. It tells us the story when a teenage girl faced an unexpected pregnancy; she enlists the aid of her
best friend in finding the unborn child. Juno may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker, the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little
she really knows about life. In this chapter, the writer discusses Juno as a main character in Juno film. As
a main character, Juno is described as a teenager in a middle period of adolescence which in her middle period of adolescence Juno starts to develop his deportment,
learning how to control impulsivity, and making early decisions for the things she wanted to achieve.
Firstly we can see that Juno is not a popular girl in her school, we can see
her through appearance on the way she brushes her hair. She does not arrange her hair well; she just cuts her hair from the centre and binds her hair back picture 1 and 2.
She also does not care about what she is wearing and dress up just as she wants; she wears shirt under her cardigan and also wears sweater upon her cardigan Picture 3.
She is also described as a boyish teenager. Even though she has a slim figure
that can wear any kind of cloths, but she used to dress like a boy. She used to wear
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big sweater when the other girls use the fit one, wearing a big man’s shirt under the sweater, and she wears short skirt upon her jeans instead using it upon a stocking.
Juno is different from other teenage girls. She has her own type. From the way she dress see pictures 2 and 3, and the way she decorated her room see picture 4;
From the description and the pictures about her room on appendix, we can
know that she loves punk things, she has her band’s photo in her room, she decorates
her room wall with punk band posters and other unordinary posters and things such a hamburger-shaped phone that regular teenage girls rarely put those things on as we
can compare it with Leah’s room see picture 6.
Juno has a cool way of speaking, we can know from the way she explains the
adrenal’s effect that she used to drink to Su Chin below: JUNO : Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freak out because
she took too many behavioral meds a tonce. She took off her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, Blaaaaah Im
a kraken from the sea SU-CHIN: I heard that was you.
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And based on her family, she is a broken home teenager who lives with her
father and when she was 6 years old her father got married with Brenda. JUNO : He and my mom got divorced when I was five. She lives on a Havasu
Reservation Arizona with her new husband and three replacement kids. Oh, and she inexplicably mails me a cactus every Valentine’s Day. And I’m like,
“Thanks a cheap, Coyote Ugly. This cactus-gram stings even worse than your abandonment.”
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In the way she explains her mother attitudes to her, we can see her disappointment on her brief explanation that she is being abandoned by her mother by
does not visit Juno since her mother has a new family with her three children and she just telling her existence by delivering cactus every Valentine’s Day, and she is mad
of that. Juno lives with her dad, stepmom and her stepsister. They live in peace, even
though Juno does not really close with her stepmom. Here we can see how much her stepmom cares about Juno by telling her not to go to the Lorings, but Juno seems feel
burden with her stepmom’s words: BREN : You don’t understand. Mark is a married man. There are boundaries.
JUNO : Oh come on…Listen, Bren-duhhh, now youre acting like youre the one who has to go through this and get huge and push a baby out of your vag
for someone else. Besides, who cares if hes married? I can have friends who are married.
BREN : It doesnt work that way, kiddo. You dont know squat about the dynamics of marriage.
JUNO : You dont know anything about me BREN : I know enough.
00:49:56 And when she has to take care of her step daughter from dog’s saliva_ the pet
she wanted to have very much. As her stepmom, Brenda acts just like her real mother who takes care of her stepdaughter by not having a dog, the pet she loves, in their
home because of Juno’s allergic. JUNO : gesturing to the magazine We dont even have a dog
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BREN : Yeah, because youre allergic to their saliva. Ive made a lot of sacrifices for you, Juno. And in a couple years youre going to move out -- and
Im getting Weimaraners. JUNO : Wow, dream big
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And she is described as a stubborn girl. Even if she is being told by her
stepmom how to behave with Mac that has already married, she is still continuing their relationship.
BREN : That was a mistake, Juno. Mark is a married stranger. You overstepped a boundary.
JUNO : Listen, Bren-duhhh, I think youre the one overstepping boundaries. Youre acting like youre the one who has to go through this and get huge and
push a baby out of your vag for someone else. Besides, who cares if hes married? I can have friends who are married.
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Seeing from dialog above, Bren warns Juno to make a space between her and Mark so there will not be special feeling rose between them. Juno who is never
having a thought to have a special relationship besides being a friend with Mark keeps on her thought that everything is and will be in the line.
When she is faced by her own worry for aborting the baby, she chooses to give it to the aspirant parents. From the dialog below we can know that she is
described as an ignorant teenage girl.
JUNO : What does that even mean? Anyway, I got to thinking on the way over. I was thinking maybe I could give the baby to somebody who actually
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likes that kind of thing. You know, like a woman with a bum ovary or something. Or some nice lesbos.
LEAH : But then youll get huge. Your chest is going to milktate. And you have to tell everyone youre pregnant.
JUNO : I know. Maybe theyll canonize me for being so selfless. LEAH : Maybe theyll totally shit and be super mad at you and not let you
graduate or go to Cabo San Lucas for spring break. JUNO : Bleeker and I were going to go to Gettysburg for spring break.
00:20:04 She is still keeping the pregnancy even though she had been told by Leah that
her body will exploded and she has to tell everybody she is pregnant and the possibility that she will be treated badly by people around. But Juno just answers and
says calmly that maybe people just will canonize her for being so selfless and when it born already they just can pretend that it never happened.
B. Analysis of the Factors that Influence the Main Character in Making
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