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1. Character
Character is a quality of a distinctive type of a person which implies a moral standard and involves a judgment of value Hurlock, 1974, p. 8. In a
literature work, character is created by the author that should be understood by the reader. The author uses some kinds of characters. The quality of a character can be
seen in every single action, speech, or thought of the person. The reader can interpret those characters by seeing their moral expressed when they are doing
dialogues or actions. The reader has a freedom to decide whether the characters have bad or good qualities in the novel.
2. Personality
As Hurlock 1974 says, personality is a kind of individual differences that can affect the individual itself or others p. 8. As human beings, people always
have a relation with other people around them with their own uniqueness, talents, and personalities. Sometimes, the differences make a conflict around them and
need some efforts to solve it. Those problems can change someone‟s personality. The process of chang
ing of someone‟s personality is called personal development p.6. The changing of someone‟s personality is based on the factors that will
affect someone‟s life. It means that the changing of someone‟s personality can be worse or better.
3. Motivation
Maslow states that motivation implies that energy is involved to activate the individual to a level that enables the performance of the appropriate behavior
as cited in Feist Feist, 2010, p. 279. Motivation is also regarded as causes of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
6 someone‟s behaviors. People often use the concept of motivation to indicate the
direction of their behavior Petri, 1981, p. 4. It means that motivation involves the persistence of someone‟s behavior. They would be satisfied with various personal
needs in the context of their work. Motivation is one of the personal needs. People can get the motivation from many things. It can be from a conflict that happens in
someone‟s life because every single moment can give significant effect to human‟s personality. Skinner says that there is another part besides conflicts that
can motivate someone. Society also plays big roles in developing someone‟s
motivation as cited in Feist Feist, 2010, p. 463. It means that it is true when someone can face his problems, he can be a model or motivation for other people.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter consists of three sections. They are review of related studies, review of related theories, and theoretical framework. In the review of related
studies, the researcher reviews some of the criticisms of the novel. The review of related theories is used to review the theories which are directly relevant to the
study. The last part is the theoretical framework. In this part, the researcher states the contribution of the theories and reviews in answering the research questions of
the study.
A. Review of Related Studies
Facing the Giants
is a motivating novel. It shows how a football coach is able to motivate his team that has never won a single game in six years. There are
very hard processes that are done by the coach and his football team. Finally, at the end of the novel, the coach succeeds in bringing his team to become a winner.
They have done very hard works in reaching their victory. Therefore, this novel is very interesting to discuss. There are some people who have criticized this novel.
The first criticism was written by Jessica Lu. It was written on June 10
th
2013. Jessica analyzed the value of the novel. Jessica said that the novel gave some motivating lessons for her. The motivating lessons were about faith and
attitude. After reading
F acing the Giants,
Jessica said that people should prepare the fields as an act of faith for the rain. It means that people should have faith that
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