Object of the Study

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 second problem formulations which have been answered in the analysis. Then, those answers were concluded.

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chapter will answer the problems that have been proposed already in the previous chapter. There are two problems that need to be analyzed. The first problem is what the characteristics of the character, Morrie Schwartz, are presented in Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie. The second is how the character, Morrie Schwartz, reveals his self-actualization.

A. The Characteristics of Morrie Schwartzs

Physically, Morrie has funny characteristics that can make people smile when see him at the first time. Generally, he is just the same with other people, but his size of body, his teeth, his ears, and his nose that can make people laugh. However, he likes everything in his body, especially because it can make people feel happy by smiling at him and once again, he will not be angry. He is a small man who takes small steps, as if a strong wind could, at any time, whisk him up into the clouds. He has sparkling blue-green eyes, thinning silver hair that spills onto his forehead, big ears, a triangular nose, and tufts of graying eyebrows Albom, 1997: 3. Morrie is a kind of person that likes to smile too. When someone meets him and talks to him and then what is been talked about makes him smile, it is like when he is talking about jokes. It means that when he smiles or even laughs, he always does that things with all of his heart and he will never be hypocrite. Although his teeth are crooked and his lower ones are slanted back-as if someone has punched them in-when he smiles it’s as if you’d just told him the first joke on earth Albom, 1997: 3-4 27 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI