1. Innocent
Hanna Marin is described as an innocent teenager. She is common girl who has an imagination about her ideal man and wants date that man. Like in the fairytale,
the man is popular, handsome, and perfect. In the opposite, Hanna is not popular, chubby, and she only can dream about him.
She does not change her habit even though she falls in love. She is not hampered. She tries living in comfort and uses food to relieve her stress. She has a
simple image about the world and she easily believes what people said. The moment Ali tells her that Sean likes a girl who loves to eat; Hanna
‟s expression is so bright and she responds the statement in bright. She also trusts the
statement is correct. She believes that statement because it comes from people she believed, which that person is her best friend.
“You know what I heard?” Ali asked, flopping down on the couch. “Sean really likes girls who have good
appetites.” Hanna brightened. “Really?”
“No.” Alison snorted. Hanna slowly dropped the handful of popcorn back into the bowl. Shepard,
2006: 9 Hanna believes easily what her friend says. She does not say anything but we can
analyze it from Hanna reaction. She turns bright when Ali said that Sean likes girls with good appetites. Then she puts back her popcorn when Ali said “No”. She is just
an innocent teenager girl who believes what her friends say easily. It is because she thinks Ali as her shield and will never put her on disadvantage situation.
2. Not Confident
Hanna always thinks that she is embarrassing person. She thinks her size of the body makes her become embarrassing people and makes one of the reasons her
parents‟ divorce. She thinks her father does not love her because of that reason and decides to leave her. “This was why Dad left, she thought. He wanted a daughter who
wouldn‟t embarrass him.”Shepard, 2006: 158 Hanna feels that she is a useless person. She is an imperfect person and out of
perfectness standard. Because of that, she does not feel confident about herself. Under that condition, she has nobody to comfort her. Rather than comfort, her father makes
her more down. Her father called Hanna as Pig in front of her quasi-sister. This situation makes Hanna feels down with her imperfectness.
She can only imagine becoming confident. She cannot feel confident in herself because Hanna thinks there are no reasons for her to be confident. There are
no facts make her confident. Being confident is a dream that she dreamt only. “But
back then Hanna could only imagine what it would feel like to be so confident.” Shepard, 2006: 89
The one reason she can look stand up because of her popular friend, Ali, who has passed away. Ali is the standard of perfectness. She is beautiful, smart, and
popular. “She was perfect. Beautiful, witty, smart.Popular. Boys wanted kiss Alison, and girls-even older ones-wanted to be
her.” Shepard, 2006: 3 Ali is not just popular, but the person that makes Hanna feels she is a perfect people. Then Hanna lives under
Ali‟s shadow rather than gathers her courage to become confident. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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