Physical Abuse Psychological Factors

65 of the question why his mother did that to him and, he did not realize that slowly it started to disturb his mental health. The condition and situation that he faced at home with his mother made him fragile and depressed. In the story, besides love and care, his mother did not give him a comfortable condition that he dreamt of either until one day Kawashima met a woman named Yoko who then became his wife. Yoko gave everything that Kawashima did not get from his mother. That is why he did not want to lose Yoko. Usually, he would feel threatened if he thought someone would take Yoko away and if it is happened, he would be suspicious, anxious and fearful which would make him got hallucinations and delusions. Delusional is one of symptoms in schizophrenia. That symptom appeared because Yoko had everything that he needed to overcome him while his mother did not have. Besides delusions, his hallucinations also appeared. It appeared because he felt oppressed by any situations that might harm himself. It can be seen when Yoko murmured something to Little Rie. Here, he saw Little Rie as a threat p, 16. From the story, the writer concludes that Kawashima found an ideal figure of a mother in Yoko. For him, that was the right feeling that he had really wanted and dreamt of in his life. That is why when he thought that his baby could take her away from him, Kawashima felt oppressed by the environment around him. The stimulation from object in front of him then led him to get hallucination and delusions. Hallucinations are the result of his fear and anxiety that came in sudden. In Piercing, some types of hallucinations that appeared sometimes would persuade him to be violent; it looked like violent would be the only way to overcome his 66 fear. In short, the hallucination appeared because Kawashima’s thought had been disturbed by an object around his environment. Here, the environment where he stayed in when he was a kid had affected his mental health until he could not think logically. That is why he became paranoid, got delusions, hallucinations and violent. Another environment factor that affects his paranoid schizophrenia is found in Home a place for children who get abuse from their parents. The reason he stayed in Home was because his mother always locked him in the house when he was about five or six years old, and not long after that his teacher got him placed in Home for abused kids after knowing what his mother had done to him p.13. In Home, Kawashima showed a bizarre behavior by drawing nothing but pictures of narrow roads p.13. Thing that he did in Home actually was an early symptom that showed that he was different from other people. Pictures that he drew showed that he was feeling empty, fragile and lonely. Home actually was not a good place for him to recover his psychological stance from trauma that he got because in Home he met people who were the like him, children who were rejected and abused by their own parents. The atmosphere in the Home did not help him to recover trauma, but it only made him go insane step by step instead. In this study, the writer mentioned that one of Kawashima’s characteristics is violent. Environment holds a role in build someone’s characteristic and behavior. In Home, he stayed with people who were also sick because of the trauma that was left from being abused by their parents. Kawashima also learned much from his friends’ behavior there because as the 67 writer already said, kid is easy to remember events in front of him and sometimes she imitates it. One of his friends that was also violent and who appeared when he got hallucinations is Taku-chan. Here, Taku-chan killed his rabbit right before Kawashima’s eyes and for no reason p.23. Taku-chan’s behavior affected him to be violent as he started to build a perception that violence is common. In Piercing, other factor that showed Kawashima as an egocentric individual can be analyzed from the factor of environment. When he remembered his past life in Home, at the same time he felt what other kids felt toward their parents, and suddenly it made him think that he must avenge for all the pain to the parents who had abused them. Actually, the situation and condition in Home had already changed his way of thinking by concern to his own self; he thought of and did something based on his own decision. He could not think logically because he thought that he had once stayed there and that he had the right to take part to avenge for all the anger. In short, he thought that he was the representative person that could kill all parents who had already abused their children p.58. The desire to kill actually was not to help his friends but it was only words that suddenly appeared in his mind. 68

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION

This chapter accomplishes the whole undergraduate thesis. After doing Chapter IV, the writer sees that Ryu Murakami’s work entitled Piercing is an excellent work to analyze. It is worth analyzing because this novel reveals the reality of children who got abused from their parents. It shows an event where people still can find abuse in some families nowadays. In the story, the author describes a trauma that left in a man who got abuse during his childhood creates him into a person who has chronic disease of mental illness. As already explained in the introduction and the analysis, this study discusses factors that affect Kawashima Masayuki until he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. From the characterization of Kawashima in Piercing, he is described as an attractive person, a loving husband and a father who had a normal life and job. But, behind all his normal life and activities, he actually hid a weakness. Kawashima was a fragile man and sometimes he was violent. As a person who has a mental illness, Kawashima is categorized as a person with complex characteristics because he could be kind but, at the same time, he was also dangerous to the people around him. In the story, every time he faced a situation and condition that disturbed his thought and peace, he became anxious, afraid and did something that could lead him to do crime in sudden. From the analysis before in the previous chapter, it is concluded that Kawashima’s characteristics are included in a round character because the way the