Introvert The Description of Jam al Malik’s Characteristic
35 Malik’s motivation in joining Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz can be found by
reading the script because it is written there. Freud 1923, in McLeod 2016 states that personality has three structures.
Those are the id, the ego, and the superego. In his theory, Freud describes superego’s function to control the impulse of the id. The ego is the part of the id
which has been modified by the direct influence in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. The ego operates according to the reality
principle which will help the id to be satisfied. It ma tches to Jamal’s surface
meaning in joining the quiz in order to meet the girl he loves. After Jamal’s mother is killed in a religious attack in his village, Jamal
continues his life together with Salim. However, he meets a girl named Latika while running away from the riot. Since then, the three of them start to do their
activities together, even though Salim does not let her join them at first. After Jamal asks her to join them, they start to mention themselves as the three
musketeers. When Jamal is growing up becoming an adult, Who Wants to be a
Millionaire quiz is really a big hit game show in the country. Many people are
competing in order to become the contestant of the quiz. People in Jamal’s office
are also going crazy with the quiz program. They are competing to become the contestant in order to get the top prize. On the other hand, Jamal Malik, the one
who at first does not care about the quiz program, finally joins the quiz and competes there.
36 Jamal Malik is an uneducated person who lives in a slum area since a kid.
He grows up alone because he is left by his brother, Salim, and gets separated from Latika, the girl he loves. One day, Jamal decides to join the Who Wants to be
a Millionaire quiz and successfully wins the top prize. However, his decision to
join the quiz has another purpose more than just getting the money like everyone does.
After Jamal’s mother dies, Jamal goes everywhere together with Salim and Latika, until one day Latika is caught by Maman. Being separated with Latika
makes him always think about her. After he gets some money from being a fake tour guide and selling some stolen shoes, he asks Salim to come back to Mumbai
to find Latika. Jamal and Salim find Latika in Maman’s house and ask her to go with them. After Salim kills Maman, they run together to a hotel to make them
safe. After in the hotel for a while, Salim goes somewhere while Jamal and Latika are having conversation.
LATIKA You came back for me.
JAMAL Of course.
LATIKA I thought you’d forgotten.
JAMAL I never forgot. Not for one day. I know
I’d find you in the end. It’s our destiny.
LATIKA Destiny. Yes I, CVI, 71.
Jamal never forgets Latika at all. He is willing to look for her during their separateness. Even when Jamal is making money from being a tour guide, he
wants to come back just to find her. He does it because he always thinks that PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI