Slothful The Description of Characters 1. The Description of Joy

49 “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 50 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.

1. Surface Meaning

In this part the researcher has more concern about the characters’ ego that can be seen from the screenplay and with support from the film. The surface meaning from Joy and Sadness’ interpersonal conflict is because there is no balance in controlling the Headquarters. The imbalance situation makes the condition even worse, they are being dragged even far away from the console. This imbalance situation caused by the will of Joy to power. Her insecurity comes out based on the situation that Sadness wants to take a control of the console and brings a blue core memory. Joy always becomes the one who leads everything. From the beginning of the film, Joy always thinks that she is the only one that can make Rilley happy. This habit of making Rilley happy makes her proud. In screenplay, Joy says “Anyway These are Riley’s memories-- and they’re mostly happy, you’ll notice, not to brag.” p.6.