Rachel’s Defense Mechanism
Even though she knows that her decision means sacrificing her old planet and lots of other human and animal for the sake of living peacefully along with
several others earth creature. Asides from withdrawal, Cassie also seems to utilize Altruism, Altruism is a defense mechanism in which the users will feel more relax
when they give service to other people. Cassie’s kind and caring attitude make her unable to leave her friend whenever they are is faced with certain danger. As
stated above both in book fourth and twenty first, she is the one who always be there to help whenever her friends is in some kind of trouble in her belief. In
book fourth she decides to come into Marco’s house in order to make sure that Marco doesn’t get traumatized after nearly killed by a shark.
Her desire to help those who needs to be saving not only just for her friend, Cassie also determined to save any animal that need to be saved. She will
be troubled whenever she learns that there is an animal is in some kind of trouble. In book ninth, Cassie learn that a group of skunk babies are in danger. Because of
this Cassie becomes greatly concerned about the wellbeing of the babies, that she is worried about the wellbeing of the skunk babies.
Another instance of Cassie’s altruism is on book fifteenth. Cassie convinces her friends to help her saving some parrot who she believes to be
mistreated by a restaurant. From the explanation above, it is safe to assume that Cassie
is the person who can’t put her mind at ease until she is one hundred percent sure that someone or something close to her is safe. If she deems someone
or something to be in danger, she will be distraught by it and will do her best to take care of them.
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