At the moment she steals jewelries from the shop, she picked up by the police. She is really worried. It is not because she steals the jewelries from the shop but she
worried if there is someone who sees her picked up by the police. Then those people tell the story in the school about what happens to Hanna. Next, her friend and her
boyfriend will leave her alone. These things make Hanna worried and afraid all the time.
Hey Hanna, Since prison food makes you fat, you know what Sean‟s gonna say?
Not it –A
She was so startled that she stood up, thinking someone might be across the room, watching her. But there was no one. She closed her eyes, trying to think
who might have seen the police car at her house. Shepard, 2006: 96
Hanna efforts to keep her friend and her boyfriend stay around her make her worried all the time. The reason of her worries because she realizes she does not
show her true self. She hides something and does not want people to know about it. Hanna keeps it because she thinks herself is nothing without her beauty, her body, her
friend, and her popularity. Hanna considers herself lack of the quality which is demanded by the society.
When she has already achieved the standard demanded by the society, she does not want to lose that. She holds it tightly. If there is an opportunity will make her to go
back to the lower position, she will be worry. This thing happens many times and makes her does not live in ease.
C. Moral Values Reflected through Major Character
Literature is used by the author to deliver many values, messages, and critics. It proves literature plays important rule to teach some values and touches the heart of
the readers. The authors have their purpose when they write literature works and it is interesting to analyze the literature works.
Sara Shepard through Pretty Little Liars also wants to deliver some values through major character. If we read the novel, it seems to talk about the life of the
teenagers only. More than that, this novel brings a lot of values related to the life of the teenagers. A teenager faces some obstacle in the society and finds their true
identity especially. During this stage, a teenager needs a lot of support from their surrounding and
their society. This stage is a crucial moment for a teenager. They need an extra attention from their families, their friends, and their societies are the case that almost
happens all the time, a teenager gets the lack of attention at the time they need more. This brings effect to the teenager personalities and their developments.
Pretty Little Liars brings some values that we need to pay attention more.
These values sound common in our ears. In fact, we neglect it all the time and we do not realize if this neglect action brings some impacts.
1. Everyone need parent’s love
Sara Shepard draws the major character as a teenager girl who looks like has everything in her life. Then a question pops up in the writers head. What does make
this book and the character special? At the beginning, the writer thinks it is just a common story. A story about teenagers live and their naughtiness but the writer
realizes that Sara Shepard wants to share the values that we must be realized.
Sara Shepard through Pretty Little Liars tries to tell some values should be existed in the society but the society tends to forget if they have walk away from
these already. People are busy to make money for surviving in this world. They think wealth will bring the comfortable life because we will not live in worries. Because of
this reason, people work harder than ever. For achieving a better life, people can do everything especially someone who
has already married and has children. They realize their responsibilities are big and hard. Parent tends to give the best thing to their children and this brings big effort.
For giving a good education to their children, parent needs to earn a lot of money. For making their children dream come true, parent needs to spend more time in
workplace. These situations are the realities that we cannot deny and these realities also bring another concern.
If the parent spends more time at workplace, that mean their time for the children reduced. On the contrary, the children just do not need money from their
parent but also love, care, and attention from their parent. At time the children lack of attention from their parents, they will try everything to get it. They can do good
things to achieve acknowledgment from their parent or bad things to attract attention from their parent.
