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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This Chapter discusses an introduction about the final project containing the background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, statements of the problem,
objectives and significance of the study,and the outline of the study.
1.1 Background of the Study
We are familiar with the term of literature in our society. It is often related to our life. Francis Connoly says, as quoted by Koesnosubroto 1988:1, the following
statement: People read literature because of hunger of information,
or amusement, or solace, or because of an appetite for truth that seems to grow by what if feeds on. They read to
discover themselves and their world, to assess their special roles on the universe, to learn the meaning of the
personal struggles in which they are engaged. In other words, they want to share experience.
By reading literature we can learn many experiences of human life. This is accordance with Tirajoh Frederik
and advocate ideas. Literature helps us grow, both personally and intellectually. It provides an objective base for knowledge and understanding. It links us with the
cultural, philosophic, and religious world of which we are a part. There are so many literary works which we can find. For instances
novel, poetry, drama, film, song, etc. Such in novel Quiet Desperation, that novel tries to describe about a young girl as the main character who face a series of
tragedies which sends her into a whirlpool of difficult emotions. She cannot control her emotions by hurting herself when the tragedy happened to her. She
wreaks her emotion by cutting herself using a razor. As a teenage her behavior is very unusual.
Self-harm is an expression of personal distress, not an illness. Self- harmers use it like a way to express emotions they cannot speak about. There are
many varied reasons for a person to harm him or herself. Live in this world without getting problem is impossible. In the situation when people getting stuck
while trying to solve problems, this can lead to frustration or even depression and feeling out of control.
There are so many forms of self-harm such as cutting any area of the body, burning the skin, planned drug overdoses, over eating or dieting, scratching,
swallowing dangerous objects and the others forms which can take a high risk. Self-harm is common in younger people but it can be happened to older people
too. But, the most typically age range is between 16 until 25. In Quiet Desperation, Thiel
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1.3 Statement of the Problem
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