they feel sorry for themselves. Crying is not only for women. Crying is one of the ways to make people feel sorry.
B. Approach of the Study
In order to have a profound analysis on Mitch Albom novel Tuesdays with Morrie
, this study applies psychological approach as the appropriate approach to deal with the self-actualization depicted in the character of Morrie Schwartz.
Rohrberger and Woods 1971: 31 define psychological approach as follows Psychological approach is the effort to locate and demonstrate certain
recurrent patterns, but from a different body of knowledge that is psychology. This approach uses the psychological theories to explain
human motivation, personality, and behavior patterns written in literary objects.
The definition above about psychological approach will help the writer to
explain Morrie Schwartz’s characteristics. The analysis will focus on the characteristics of Morrie Schwartz. The characteristics will show how the
character, Morrie Schwartz, is presented in the story. Moreover, analysis will concern with the revelation on the self-actualization of the character, Morrie
Schwartz, is showed to present himself as psychologically healthy human being that is capable of developing himself. Therefore, psychological approach is the
most appropriate approach in this study.
C. Method of the Study
In this undergraduate thesis, the method that was used was library research. The primary source was the novel itself, Tuesdays with Morrie. The
secondary sources were Duane Schultz’s Growth Psychology: Models of the Health Personality
, Floyd L. Ruch’s Psychological and Life, Murphy’s Understanding Unseen
, Stanton’s An Introduction to Fiction, Abram’s A Glossary of Literary Terms
, and Barnet et al’s Literature for Composition. The first step was to understand about the content of novel, it was an
intrinsic element. It meant to know about who the characters were, where the setting was, what significance was, and what new knowledge that could be
obtained from the novel. The writer applied the first step by reading the novel thoroughly.
The second step was answering the first problem, which was the characteristics of the character, Morrie Schwartz. In this step, the writer would
apply Murphy’s theory in finding the characteristics of Morrie Schwartz in the analysis. Morrie Schwartz’s characteristics could be seen from another person’s
opinion about him, the speech of him, his life in the past, his reactions in situations and events, the author’s comments directly, and Morrie’s thoughts.
The third step was answering the second problem, how the character, Morrie Schwartz, revealed the self-actualization. In revealing the self-
actualization of Morrie Schwartz, the writer would apply Abraham Maslow’s theory of self-actualization in the analysis. The writer would apply it by finding
the characteristics of Morrie Schwartz that were the same with the characteristics of self-actualizing person which were formulated by Abraham Maslow.
The last step was drawing a conclusion of the research which contained the review of the previous discussions. The discussions here were the first and
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