CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
A. Data DescriptionCorpuses
The writer would like to give a table of data description below that will simplify the explanation of the writer’s research finding in this chapter.
No Issue
Detail Corpus
Time- line
1 Phobia
Sparrow over-
reacts when he sees number 23
that is
coincidently formed by two
young-men who jog in a park.
00:30:17
Sparrow feels that number
23 terrorized his life.
Sparrow: “The number had gone after fingerling.
And now it was coming after me.”
00:53:48
2 Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder
Sparrow calculates
the number
of everything
that related to his life.
Agatha: “Walter, what are you doing?”
Sparrow: “Check this out. Walter Sparrow doesnt
work. But if I use my middle name; Walter=
5-1-1-9-7. isnt that amazing?”
Agatha: “What?” Sparrow: “Its all 23. My
birthday-- 23, drivers license, social security
number. Everything. I was born at 11:12 p.m.
11 plus 12.” 00:31:07
Sparrow believes that
Kyle is
innocent just
because of his name doesn’t add
Sparrow: “He was real convincing about his
innocence.” Agatha :
“well, killers usually
are. his
01:00:57
up to 23 fingerprints were on
the knife. her blood was on his hands when he
dialed 911.”
Sparrow: “no,
hes innocent.”
Sparrow shows Kyle’s name calculation that
he has count to Agatha
Agatha: “all because his name doesnt add up to
23?” Sparrow suspects
his wife is the one who has wrote
the number 23 novel because her
middle name is “Pink” which is
related to number 23 according to
Sparrow’s assumption.
Sparrow: “It was you. you moved the skeleton.”
Agatha: “Please dont do this, walter.”
Sparrow: “Then how did you
know, unless...
your maiden name is pink.”
…………………… ……………………
Sparrow: “You wrote it.” 01:14:30
3 Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder
Sparrow walks
out from a room where
some things
those stimulates
his trauma are saved.
Sparrow: “No Get out of here”
01:16:10
Sparrow tries to avoid
the stimulus that can
remind him about his
trauma; however
his traumatic
memories become
more intrusive.
01:16:25
In this chapter, the writer applies Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theory to analyze the scenes and the dialogues those describe the main character’s
neurotic problem. And before the writer is going to analyze the main character’s neurosis, he would like to discuss how the main character is described in the film.
B. Character Analysis