Slothful The Description of Characters 1. The Description of Joy
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“Joy : No wait... stop it No Ahh
Joy leaps to the holder and pops it open, preventing the new blue core memory from going in. Joy grabs it.
She pushes the end-of-day “memory flush” button. The tube comes down from the ceiling.
Sadness : trying to take her memory back from Joy Joy, no. That’s a core memory, Joy
Joy : Hey Stop it. Let go.
As they struggle, they bump into the Core Memory Holder, knocking all of the core memories out onto the floor.” pp. 42 - 43
In the Headquarters Joy has big roles and responsibility to take. It causes imbalance condition between the two of them. The powerful roles of Joy has made
her control here and there. She, unconsciously, takes control on which emotions that able to touch the console. The power she has allows her to prevent Sadness from
touching the console. Every emotions in Headquarters give their trust to Joy so that everybody becomes depending on her.
Compare to other emotions, Sadness almost never touches the console. The very simple reason she can not touch the console is that she does not make Rilley happier.
Disgust even states that the moment Sadness touches the memory, Rilley become sad. “Joy
: What did you do? Sadness : I just touched it.
Joy : That shouldn’t make it change.
Fear : Change it back, Joy
Joy rubs it, but the memory stays blue. Joy
: I’m trying. Anger
: You can’t change it back? Joy
: No, I guess I can’t Disgust : Good going Sadness. Now when Riley thinks of that moment with
Dad, she’s gonna fee l sad. Bravo. Sadness : I’m sorry Joy... I don’t really know-- I thought maybe, if you-- if I-
- if... I” p. 22 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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The last but significant reason why the conflict always occurs because Joy does not put trust on Sadness. Joy doubt Sadness over everything Sadness does. This
doubtful thought of Joy makes her and Sadness apart. It also makes Joy never communicate with Sadness and she even never ask Sadness for suggestions when
she faces with problems. This lack of trust and communication bring them to a bad relationship. Eventhough they are together, in a same place for a quite long time,
they never understand each other.