Sophie and Natasha’s Thoughts
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great career, having someone who loves them, and being respected by others in their society.
Sophie’s life is not as brighter as Natasha’s. Sophie often gets ashamed being asked about her family and her education background. She is used to regretting her
misfortune that she couldn’t go to university because of the lack of her family financial since her mother got divorced. Therefore, one of her motivations is having a
great life by marrying a rich man or by getting a great job. Why hadn’t she worked harder at school and gone to university and got a
better job? …. Sophie asked herself these questions but she knew the answer, which was that
as long as she could remember she’d wanted to get married, hold cosy dinner parties, have babies and create the perfect family life she’d never had. And
she still would do that, everything would still come out all right. It had to. 92
Being an attractive and talkative girl makes Sophie always circled by people especially men. She has met so many kinds of man that makes her rethink her
decision to marry Olly, the man she depended her life on. Sophie changes her motivation about marrying a rich man to reach a wealthier and happier life. She does
not want to be ended up just like what her mother does. But somehow Sophie knew that even if this was just a crush, there would be
another one and another after that. That there was no way she could stay with Olly for the rest of her life. That if she did marry him, at some point she
would end up just like Mum embarking on one affair after another, in an attempt to be true to her real self, whom she’d lost sight of from the second
she’d accepted Olly’s proposal. And Sophie knew what she had to do. She just needed to summon up the
courage. 459
Getting good news that she has been accepted as a cooking leader in one of TV program raises her motivation to renew and cheer her life up. It helps her to
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manage her problems of her financial, her engagement with someone whom she doesn’t really love, and her problem with her best friend. Her new career brings her
new motivation of new life. It also helps her to find her identity, although she still wants to get a happy family at last. But at first, she wants to be respected as a
successful career woman that she will be an artist in a TV program that she hasn’t ever got before when she only was a secretary.
Sophie whooped so loudly they could have heard her in Uruguay. “I’ve got the job, Lainey. I’ve got it. I don’t have to be a secretary any more. I’m going
to be someone In television” ….
Pointless telling Lainey yet again that her life was perfect and Sophie would give anything to be her. And anyway, oddly, at this moment, with a broken
engagement behind her and her ex in her best friend’s arms, she was still suffused with a sense of well-being, a sense that there was one in the world
Sophie Matthewson would rather be than herself. Before she could completely relax, however, there was just one more thing
she had to do. 475-476
Meanwhile, Natasha has different way of life that as a very busy woman, Natasha concentrates almost her time to her job. She wants to be successful head of
drama TV program that she works very hard on it. She isn’t attractive enough to build relationship with a man as what Sophie does. For Natasha, she has motivation to have
successful relationship with a man whom she loves. Once Natasha got chance to have a relationship with a man whom she interested with, she had to let her hope away.
She has to force herself not to allow herself down on her unsuccessful relationship. Then she encourages herself to rise up and try to struggle for her life again.
And then, after an hour, she picked up the phone and called Sophie. Voicemail. “It’s finished,” she said. “But don’t worry. I’m going to be OK.”
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From the quotations mentioned above, it can be concluded that those motivations had by Sophie and Natasha not only change them into a better life, but also bring them to
find their truly identity for themselves.