2. Personality Taken from APA Dictionary of Psychology, the writer provides a definition of
personality to help the reader’s understanding. Personality is the configuration of characteristics and behavior including life, major traits, interests, values, self-concept,
abilities and emotional patterns. Personality is viewed as a complex and dynamic integration which is shaped by hereditary, constitutional tendencies, early training,
identification with significant individuals or groups and critical experiences and relationship 2007:689.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
In this undergraduate thesis the writer uses two undergraduate theses and a journal as related studies. Those undergraduate theses are Kurniasih’s The influence
of Amir’s guiltu feeling upon his self-concept in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Guritno’s The Influence of Amir Khan’s personalitu development in facing his
conflict as seen in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. The last is the journal written by Wellney Yarra entitled
Khaled Hosseini’s
And The Mountains Echoed in a Feminist Perspective.
Kurniasih analyzes Amir, the main character in the novel The Kite Runner, has self-concept that is influenced by his social interaction and also conflict that is
experienced by him which cause his feeling of guilty. Amir’s guilty feeling which affects his self-concept gives significance impact to him. Because of that he also
suffers from physical disorder. Kurniasih also says that the main character uses some defense mechanism to protect and retain his positive transitory self-concept.
He suffers from physical disorder from getting headache, getting a difficulty to breathe to becoming an insomniac. Moreover, to protect and retain his positive
transitory self-concept, he uses some defense mechanism to make him feel better. He does the rationalization by convincing himself that Hasan is just a Hazara
who is that important to be stood up for. Amir uses fantasy by removing Amir himself from unpleasant reality into a more pleasant world of fantasy by reading
stories, writing stories, and drawing 2008:54.
