summer holiday, Ronnie also has a relationship with Will Blakelee. It means that Ronnie tries to seek attention from male because she cannot get affection from her
father figure.
4. She becomes rebellious girl
Ronnie is not only has problem with her parents, she is also involved in delinqu
ency. After Kim arrives in Steve‟s house, they talks about Ronnie. “What did the judge say about her shoplifting?”
“Just what I told you on the phone,” she said with a resigned expression. “If she doesn‟t get into any more trouble, it‟ll be expunged from her record. If
she does it again, though...”she traild off. “You‟re worried about this,”he started.
Kim turned away. “It‟s not the first time, which is the problem,” she confessed. “She admitted to stealing the bracelet last year, but this time, she
said she was buying a bunch of stuff at the drugstore and couldn‟t hold it all, so she tucked the lipstick in her pocket. She paid for everything else, and
when you see the vi deo, it seems to be an honest mistake, but...”
“But you‟re not sure” Sparks, 2009: 23-24. From that conversation, Ronnie involves in delinquency two times. During
the holiday, Ronnie is also arrested by the police because of Blaze. Blaze puts something i
n Ronnie‟s bag when they meet in the shop. According to Rice in theory of adolescence, adolescents from father‟s absence family had a higher case
of delinquency that adolescent from intact families Rice, 1996:125. Ronnie as children without father because of the parental divorce associated with
delinquency. Divorce or separation brings with it loss of environmental control. Mothers
report being less able to discipline or influence their children after divorce, partly because the children are upset, partly because they put a lot of the
blame for the absence of their father on the mother... Rice, 1996:126
Ronnie does not have a good relationship with her mother. Ronnie is upset with her mother and blames her parents about the divorce.
Besides delinquency, Ronnie often goes to the clubs with her friends. “Don‟t you mean you‟d rather spend all night at the clubs? I‟m not naive, Ronnie.
I know what goes on in those kinds of places” Sparks, 2009:11. In adolescent‟s theory, Rice explains that adolescence who experiences parental divorce will find
something new that can divert their attention from parental divorce. Ronnie becomes a rebellious girl as her escapement from the reality.
Young children, because of their limited capacity to understand what is happening, are especially prone to unrealistic feeling of anger and guilt, and
they often revert to whinning, clinging, infantile behaviour that they had previously outgrown Kimmel and Weiner, 1985:262.
The reason why Ronnie becomes rebellious girl because she does not really
understand what happens to her parents. As a children, she does not understand why divorce can happens and breaks her family. When her
parents‟ divorce, they do not tell their reason to their children. Ronnie blames her father as the reason of
the divorce and does not get along with her mother. Ronnie repress all traumatic past events into her unconsciousness. In theory
repression in psychoanalysis, anything you forget, anything from which you divert your attention until it is forgotten becomes unconsciou
s” Jung, 1948:362. But if unconscious brain can no longer accommodate all of that, then the anxiety that
will come to the surface in the form of over action. This theory explains why Ronnie changes. For Ronnie, her parental divorce is a painful moment in her life.
“Divorce is typically part of larger problem in psychological and emotional
health” Greetman and Dunne, 1990:9. She must live with mother and her brother, she also loses her father figure after the divorce. She tries to divert her
attention from that problem. As the result, she becomes worse than before.
