34 immediately. His emotion is provoked easily when he knows someone is doing
something bad to Latika. Jamal’s reactive characteristic which is shown by the two situations above
can be seen through Murphy’s theory on thought, speech, and reaction. In this situation, the scriptwriter describes the situation directly about what Jamal thinks.
He can do what other people cannot do because of the different way of thinking. Jamal’s decision to punch Salim and attack Srinivas are out of the writer’s
expectation.
B. The Meaning of J amal Malik’s Motivation in Joining the Quiz of Who
Wants to be a Millionaire
This part discusses about Jamal Malik’s true intention in joining Who
Wants to be a Millionaire quiz
. There are two ways to find out Jamal’s true intention in joining the quiz. The first is by analyzing the surface meaning and the
second is by analyzing the deeper meaning. The surface meaning can be found explicitly from the movie script, while the deeper meaning can be found after
reading the script and understanding Jamal’s characteristics.
1. The Surface Meaning of Jamal Malik’s Motivation
Surface meaning is the literal meaning of the story. The readers can find the meaning of the story from the script itself. The surface meaning of Jamal
35 Malik’s motivation in joining Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz can be found by
reading the script because it is written there. Freud 1923, in McLeod 2016 states that personality has three structures.
Those are the id, the ego, and the superego. In his theory, Freud describes superego’s function to control the impulse of the id. The ego is the part of the id
which has been modified by the direct influence in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. The ego operates according to the reality
principle which will help the id to be satisfied. It ma tches to Jamal’s surface
meaning in joining the quiz in order to meet the girl he loves. After Jamal’s mother is killed in a religious attack in his village, Jamal
continues his life together with Salim. However, he meets a girl named Latika while running away from the riot. Since then, the three of them start to do their
activities together, even though Salim does not let her join them at first. After Jamal asks her to join them, they start to mention themselves as the three
musketeers. When Jamal is growing up becoming an adult, Who Wants to be a
Millionaire quiz is really a big hit game show in the country. Many people are
competing in order to become the contestant of the quiz. People in Jamal’s office
are also going crazy with the quiz program. They are competing to become the contestant in order to get the top prize. On the other hand, Jamal Malik, the one
who at first does not care about the quiz program, finally joins the quiz and competes there.
