Going to the private school is not as easy as that. For Kimberly, the private school means a lot of money. She and her mother does not have a lot of money
since they only work at the factory and they still have to pay their debts to Aunt Paula. It creates an intrapersonal conflict for her. Actually, she really wants to go
to the private school but she realizes that she has not much money to pay the school fee p. 38
When Mrs. LaGuardia asks Kimberly if she wants go to the private school, Kimberly answers that she wants it but she also considers the school fee.
However, Mrs LaGuardia says that the private school will naturally have to offer her a scholarship. She says that no one will expect Kimberly and her mother to
pay for it by themselves. It means that the private school will naturally have to offer Kimberly a scholarship. She cannot fully guarantee about the scholarship but
she believes that there is a opportunity for Kimberly p. 38. From the situation above, Kimberly encounters double-avoidance
intrapersonal conflict. There are two types of double-avoidance conflict. The first has two purposes. They are bad and good features. There are also two purposes in
the second type but every purpose has two bad and two good features. Kimberly experiences the first type of double-avoidance conflict. she has to choose two
choices. Each of them has two possibilities. The first choice is Kimberly chooses to continue her study in the private school and she can improve her English skill
and has the opportunity to get a better future. However, if she chooses the private school rather than the public school she has to pay a lot of money. Second choice
is she chooses to continue her study in the public school and she does not have to
pay a lot of money but she may not be able to improve her English skill and she may not have the opportunity to get a better future.
5. Keep Using Handmade Underwear or Buying the New One
The fifth intrapersonal conflict is about Kimberly‟s underware. All the
girls in her school wear beautiful and expensive underwear. It is really different from hers which is only made by her mother. Kimberly feels ashamed whenever
she changes her clothes because all the girls usually change their clothes together in one room. Kimberly really wants to wear the new one but her mother does not
understand and it is also rather difficult to afford the new underwear. That situation causes intrapersonal conflict in Kimberly self. Therefore, in this sixth
intrapersonal conflict, the writer will discuss what conflict Kimberly faces when she finds that her underwear is different from other girls underwear.
Kimberly gets some new experiences in her Junior High School. One of her new experiences is so embarasing for her. Because of her proverty she rarely
wears good clothes even underwear. She never worries too much about it until she finds that before and after gym subject the girls change their clothes together
in a toilet stall. But it was after we lined up to be given our gym uniforms green T-shirts
and the wide shorts I had seen earlier and crowded into the locker room that I knew I was really in trouble. All the other girls began stripping
down. We‟d never had to change for gym at my old school. We‟d only had to switch to sneakers if we weren‟t wearing them already. I clutched my
new clothes as I saw everyone else was wearing store-bought panties. Some even had on cotton bras or sleeveless camisoles. All of their
underwear was colorful and expensive p. 52-53.
Kimberly is so surprised when she sees other girls underwear. They wear colorful and expensive underwear and it is so different from hers. She only wears
her mother‟s handmade underwear. All the things under her clothes have been made by her mother. Hence, it is badly sewn. A pair of thick cotton shorts
unevenly decorated in red for good luck, a marked and pilling long-sleeved undershirt p.53. Therefore, it does not look like other girls underwear.
Moreover, in that changing room the girls are checking out one another. Her handmade underwear becomes a matter for her because she is afraid
of being insulted by her friends. She has already told her mother about her problem but as usual her mother still thinks that a nice girl should change in a
place which cannot be seen by everybody. Her mother does not understand they way of changing clothes in Kimberly‟s school.
Later it becomes a more serious matter for her because her friends look at her handmade underwear as something funny. It happens when she is changing
her cloth in the toilet stall. Suddenly Kimberly sees shadows which are moving from a large skylight. One of her friends says that the it is the shadow of the boys.
Kimberly also hears the sound of laughter and footsteps. Nevertheless Kimberly does not realize what is going on until the next day. When Kimberly is passing by
the hall, she is riduculed by Greg, her friend, for her underwear in front of their friends.
A few weeks later, I had just finished dressing in the toilet stall when I
heard a noise from above. There was a large skylight in the ceiling and I saw shadows moving in it. One of the girls shrieked, “Boys” There was
the sound of laughter and footsteps above our heads, and then the shadows disappeared. Instead of being upset many of the girls seemed pleased by
this event and there was a great deal of whispering. The next day, Greg
