Being Sensitive Sister Regina’s Personality .1
Sister Regina’s feeling is very sensitive. She is very sad when she looks at her two students who have been left by their mother forever. This time, she cannot
hide her tears. Meanwhile, those two little children still do not understand what is happening.
The death of Krystyna affects more than what Sister Regina thinks. She takes that matter too deep into her heart. She cannot understand why God takes
Krystyna from her family. However, Sister Regina tries not to think about it since she knows that she is not allowed to question about God’s will.
Sister Regina’s emotion is flared up. She cannot imagine what will happen to her two students. They are too young to accept all of this mess. Again, Sister
Regina’s heart is covered by sorrow when the children come to her and one of them says that her mother died innocently.
“My mommy died, that’s why we have to go home.” Anne nudged her and whispered, “Come on, Lucy, let’s go.”
Sister Regina thought surely her heart would explode into a hundred shards at the words of this child who still did not understand the import of today’s
tragedy. p. 30
The accident happened to Krystyna leaves a dark shadow in Sister Regina’s mind. It really makes her stressful. Her feeling is very sensitive that she cannot
accept a situation like this wisely. This disturbance also influences her activity at school. From her manner, we can know about Sister Regina’s feeling that is not
usual Murphy, 1972: 173. It had been a terribly distressing morning for Sister Regina. When she’d
tried opening the school day with a prayer, her voice had broken and she’d had to press her folded fingertips against her lips and begin again. p. 86
Just like other human being, Sister Regina can not only feel the emotion of sadness, but also the emotion of anger. Her sensitivity can break her feeling when
there is something quite disturbing her. In Sister Regina’s community, there is a Chapter of Faults where all nuns
express their sorrow to Mother Superior during a week. Here, Sister Regina shows her feelings including her anger. It can be seen through her conversation with
Mother Superior during the Chapter of Faults. According to Murphy 1972: 167, the conversation of other people and the things they say about can give us clues to a
person’s character. “Reverend Mother,” she murmured, “In the days since Krystyna Olсzak died
I have repeatedly questioned God’s wisdom in taking her. My sorrow over her death and the plight of her children has at times taken the form of anger,
and sometimes that anger has been directed at members of this community. p. 120
Sister Regina lives together with the other nuns in the community. Every nun has different characters that sometimes make Sister Regina feels inconvenient.
One of the nuns Sister Regina dislikes is Sister Mary Charles. In Sister Regina’s opinion, Sister Mary Charles is too cruel to her students.
Although Sister Regina is not comfortable with Sister Mary Charles’ habit, she keeps her anger in her heart. Then, when she comes to the Confession, she tells
her feeling to Father Kuzdek. From Father Kuzdek’s opinion, we can see that Sister Regina is too sensitive in facing a problem. Here, according to Murphy’s theory
1972: 162, a character can be described through the eyes and opinion of another. “I’ve begun finding faults with so much about my life within the religious
community ─the personal ways of all the sisters, their aggravating habits,
and the fact that we are allowed so little freedom. Then there’s Sister Agnes admonishing me not to get too wrapped up in the lives of the children I
teach, and this makes me angry, yet I’m not allowed to discuss it with PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
anybody. Holy rule says my anger is a sin. More and more lately I’ve begun to question Holy Rule and our Constitution, how they repress everything
natural, how they keep us in line. The very idea makes me angry sometimes.”
“Anger is human. How we manifest it dictates whether it’s a sin or not. Perhaps, you’re being too hard on yourself.” p. 145
From all above, everything happened around Sister Regina, especially unusual condition, may influence her feeling. Her feeling is very soft so that it can
be broken easily because of something contradicted with her heart.