Becoming Lonely The Description of Major Character’s Development
She hates her old images and does not want to go back to her old images. She feels her condition now is much better. Everyone pays attention to her at school. She
can date her dream man. She is slim and perfect now. These reasons make Hanna does not want to go back to her seventh-grade image.
For maintaining her condition, she always lives in worried. She is being worried that she will become chubby and unpopular again. Because of that, she has a
habit of checking her appearance all the time. At the beginning, she is never worrying about her appearance even though she is chubby. Now her appearance becomes
number one. After her transformation, Hanna had been neurotically careful about not only
looking cool and perfect at all times, but being cool and perfect, too. Terrified that the tiniest mistake would send her spiraling back to dorkdom, Shepard,
2006: 121
She always checks her appearance from time to time and gives the questions to herself that she still has a good body or something wrong happen to her body.
She stopped at the mirror in the hallway and pulled up her shirt to examine her taut stomach muscles. She swiveled sideways to investigate her small, round
butt. Then she bent forward to look at her skin. Yesterday‟s blotchiness was gone. She bared her teeth. One bottom front tooth crossed over a canine. Had
they always been that way? Shepard, 2006: 154-155
Hanna thinks that what people see more important. Because of that, she tries maintaining her appearance and hides her true self in the secret room. It is because
Hanna does not want people to know herself and her past life. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
At the moment she steals jewelries from the shop, she picked up by the police. She is really worried. It is not because she steals the jewelries from the shop but she
worried if there is someone who sees her picked up by the police. Then those people tell the story in the school about what happens to Hanna. Next, her friend and her
boyfriend will leave her alone. These things make Hanna worried and afraid all the time.
Hey Hanna, Since prison food makes you fat, you know what Sean‟s gonna say?
Not it –A
She was so startled that she stood up, thinking someone might be across the room, watching her. But there was no one. She closed her eyes, trying to think
who might have seen the police car at her house. Shepard, 2006: 96
Hanna efforts to keep her friend and her boyfriend stay around her make her worried all the time. The reason of her worries because she realizes she does not
show her true self. She hides something and does not want people to know about it. Hanna keeps it because she thinks herself is nothing without her beauty, her body, her
friend, and her popularity. Hanna considers herself lack of the quality which is demanded by the society.
When she has already achieved the standard demanded by the society, she does not want to lose that. She holds it tightly. If there is an opportunity will make her to go
back to the lower position, she will be worry. This thing happens many times and makes her does not live in ease.