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she asks for a help to Jane Sprudell, the daughter of the family she works for, to send her to school since she has a lot of money from Eve’s savings.
‘Please can you arrange for me to go to school?’ It was relief that Jane felt. Liza could tell that. Whatever she had expected
it hadn’t been that. She had anticipated begging, request for money, time, attention – even perhaps, affection. p.358
Liza does not want to be weak. She does not want to make trouble of anyone. She is optimistic about her future,
Liza gave a great sigh. She was going to be all right and she wasn’t going to burst into tears or relief or make confessions. A good time was
beginning and she was going to think of that and be a Stoic. p.359
From the description in the last part of the novel, we can see that Liza is able to build her optimism of her future. She decides she will not cry or make any
regrets of her life and start a new life by going to school. Petri 1981:6-7 writes that human has what is called a cognitive process that causes significant
difference in the foundation and development of motivation. He also writes that human motivation can also grow to reach their full potential-physical,
psychological, and emotional needs. The way Liza chooses to start a new life shows that she experiences a cognitive process in her that later she is motivated to
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two sections. They are the conclusions that present the answers of the questions stated in the problem formulation and suggestions for
future researchers and for teaching-learning activities.
A. Conclusions
Based on the analysis, we can see that Liza and Eve are the main characters in the story. It can be seen from how the story focuses only to them.
They are also considered as round characters because they have a number of qualities and traits. However, Liza’s character is more dynamic than Eve’s
character because her character grows and changes until the end of the story. It also can be concluded that Eve employs several lifestyles in her life.
They are simple living, environmentalism, serial monogamy, and secularity. Simple living is shown through the way she lives simply although actually she has
more money. Environmentalism is shown in the way she loves Shrove. She also employs serial monogamy lifestyle in the way she changes her sex partner more
than one in her lifetime. Another lifetyle analyzed in this thesis is Eve’s secularity. Eve’s choice of secularity is shown in how she does not want to be tied in any
certain religion. Besides, Eve employs those lifestyles because of some reasons. One of her
reasons is because of her horrible past experience. She experiences some bad things in her life that leads her to choose her solitary life. Her love to Shrove and
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such life because she is motivated by her criminal acts that she has done. Living isolated makes her feel safer from the prisoning threats.
However, for Liza her mother’s choice of lifestyles brings some influences on her life. It influences her curiousity on new things, her understanding of some
concepts like marriage, death and love, her appreciation to the nature, her view about woman, and the way she sees her life.
Basically, Eve’s lifestyles influence Liza. Liza has been overtaking hard things in her life and receiving bad consequences of her mother’s choice of
lifestyles. However, she finally finds her own way to make her life better through her own thoughts.
B. Suggestions
I present two suggestions in this part. The first suggestion is for future researchers who will conduct studies on the same novel, and the second
suggestion is for English teaching-learning activities to use this novel.
1. Suggestion for Future Researchers
The Crocodile Bird is an interesting novel to discuss because it shows how
certain kinds of lifestyle can influence a person’s life. The novel also illustrates how a mother can raise her child in a unique way of living that other people may
think as a deviant way to live. However, the deviant way of life is unexpectedly able to shape the child’s thinking so that she has the capability to survive in her
life. This study focuses only to the lifestyle that has been chosen by the mother
and how that lifestyle influences the child’s life. Future researches may focus on other topics, such as a close relationship between the mother and the daughter, the
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personality development of the child, or focuses on the mother character, since she might suffer from some kind of personality disorder.
2. Suggestion for Teaching-Learning Activities
Since a novel potrays such life experiences as close to what appears in the actual world, people can learn much about life from reading literary works.
Literary works, especially novels, always bring moral values for the readers to learn. It also often brings moral values in the story. Since language is a very broad
subject, it can take many kinds of source. Here, novels are good sources to learn language because of the wide variety of themes we can find in them.
In this part, I suggest this novel to be used in teaching Speaking V for the fifth semester students of English Education Study Program.
The Implementation in Teaching Speaking
Since The Crocodile Bird has many interesting topics to discuss, we can use this novel to teach English, especially to teach speaking. One of the topics that
is interesting to discuss is the topic of killing in self-defense. The topic of killing in self-defense is a critical issue in nowadays world which is full of threats. The
students can practice their critical thinking as well as practice their speaking ability and learn from other’s opinion. Some activities for the debate are:
1. The teacher already distributes the literary text for the debate a week before the class. In this case, I choose chapter three of The Crocodile Bird
because it contains a plot when Eve has a rape trial and kills her assailant. Then, the teacher asks the
students to find and read more
information about the topic given and tell them to be ready for the next week debate.
