Self Image Psychological Life

9 1. For the readers a. Especially for those who are willing to study Judith Clarke’s Night Train. This study will help them in studying the literary work itself, since it will give them some additional information in understanding this novel particularly in analyzing the central character and the psychological aspect upon which it is involved. b. To be more general, this study can give beneficial information about children psychology for novice parents, so that now or later this valuable lesson can be well-applied in educating their children. 2. For PBI and PBI students a. For PBI students, this study provides lots of additional information in understanding the novel as one reference to improve reading skill, both in terms of vocabulary and reading comprehension. b. As teacher candidates, PBI students are supposed to be ready in teaching school students later, not to mention adolescents. They have to own such deep understanding about adolescent’s development and how to cope with that. Given this study, much information about adolescent’s psychological life can be obtained in order to help them face the real problems later. 10

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter’s points are to explain some theories that are related to this study. It is divided into three parts. The first one is the theoretical review used to support the analysis, including theory of literature and theory of psychology. In the theory of literature, there are theory of character, characterization, and critical approaches, while theory of personality, motivation, adolescent development, self-esteem, and social pressure are presented in the theory of psychology. The second part states criticism which conveys some criticism about the novel of this study. Those theories function are thus covered in the theoretical framework.

A. Theoretical Review 1. Theory of Literature

a. Theory of Character

A character is an important factor in fiction. It is needed as the introduction given by the author for the readers. Furthermore, character is placed in human situation. Thus, it makes them behave like actual human being. It means that each character in the literary work is the reflection of people in life. People’s thought, speech and behavior are described verbally in the literary work in the form of dialogue and action by the author De Laar and Schoonderwoerd 170,