Method of Study METHODOLOGY

victim of bullying done by her classmates. She hardly can be accepted by her friends because of her physical appearance. She has bigger body than anyone else, so people close one eyes while seeing at her. Elsie herself thinks that her physical appearance makes her new classmates staying away from her. She thinks that she is too fat to be seen. .... To be polite, Marianne asked Elsie what movies she’d seen lately. Elsie said her little sister and her mother had seen a show over the weekend, but she didn’t go. “How come you didn’t go?” Diane asked. “Mama has a sports car and it holds only two,” Elsie said. “Then you get to go next time,” Marianne said. “I don’t think so.” Elsie shook her head slowly. “Why not?” Diane asked. “Well, Mama says I’m big enough to stay home alone and my little sister isn’t,” Elsie explained. ...... “I don’t think she wants anyone to know I belong to her. I’m too fat, I guess.” DeClements, 1981: 14 Elsie is left alone when her mother and her sister go to see a movie. Putting aside the fact that a sports car holds two people only, Marianne tries to defend Elsie by saying that Elsie can go on the next time. Here, Elsie feels that the fact that she is fat makes her mother does not want other people to know that Elsie is her mother’s daughter. She thinks that her mother cannot stand on her physical appearance. This case shows that Elsie is a lonely girl. She feels alone because her mother oftenly leaves her herself, on the contrary, her mother asks Elsie’s sister to go with her. Being left home alone makes Elsie feeling no one likes her more. She even feels that she can be taken outside like a kitten when her mother wants to. Here, she shows that she feels no one is around her and tries to get her close with her surroundings. I watched Elsie separate a yellow curl from the rest of her hair, twirl it around a thick finger, and yank on it. I guess Marianne saw this, too, because she suddenly asked me how my kitten was doing. I told her she had a sleeping box on the back porch. She had to stay outside all the time except when I was playing with her. “I bet Mama would like to do that with me,” Elsie said. DeClements, 1981: 14 In the beginning part of the story, she steals her new classmates’ lunch money so she can buy any meal to overcome her hunger. Her mother places her in a diet and diversed life condition. The diet results bad actions, such as stealing friends’ money, being sad and introvert. In the story, Elsie is describes as a noncompliant girl. Being noncomplisnt here means she tends to fail or disobey orders given to her. In the story, because Elsie is fatter than her classmates, her mother pushes to put her on strict diet. She can only eat the meals put in her meal box. However, she breaks her diet by asking other’s meal. This behaviour, breaking the diet, raises effects on her learning process at her new school. Besides being rejected at first by her new classmates, the teachers and the principle of the school keep their eye sharply on her. Elsie’s mother leaned over her and tried to talk quietly to Mrs. Hanson. We were all staring silently, though, and heard every word. Mrs. Edwards told Mrs. Hanson that Elsie was on a special diet. She was not to eat anything except what was in her lunch box. I thought to myself that it would take some special diet to melt off all that blubber. DeClements, 1981: 4 This is the condition showing Elsie is on a diet. Elsie cannot eat anything except the meals served in her lunch box. Mrs. Edwards, Elsie’s mother, tells Mrs. Hanson, the teacher in Elsie’s new school, the condition Elsie must obey. As a teacher, Mrs. Hanson stands on this request. The way she becomes severe and the part showing that Elsie is noncompliant can be seen in the story. ........ Mrs. Hanson asked Elsie what she was eating. Elsie swallowed. “Lunch.” “Whose lunch?” Mrs. Hanson wanted to know. “It’s just some cornbread,” Elsie said. Her cheeks had turned red, and the color dripped down her chins. Everyone was watching. “Elsie, your mother said you were on a strict diet. In this room you eat what your mother puts in your lunch box. Do you understand?” Mrs. Hanson looked directly into Elsie’s eyes. “But I get so hungry,” Elsie whimpered. She sneakes a look around the room. ............ DeClements, 1981: 7-8 In this part of story, Elsie shows her noncompliant behaviour. She is hungry then she tries to break the diet rules. She cannot stand on it. She always tries to get more meals to fulfill her willingness to eat. She does not really obey the rule her mother and the teacher make. It is not only about eating cornbread, but more than that, it is about a girl who cannot control her desire. Elsie, as a child, tries to fulfill her needs of eating. This action results a viewpoint of the reader considering Elsie as a noncompliant girl. ..... She got up to throw her napkins in the wastebasket. On the way back she stopped at Marianne’s desk. Marianne’s cornbread was on her tray. Marianne was watching Jack cut up milk straws for spit wad shooters. “Say, are you going to eat your cornbread?” Elsie asked. Marianne continued to watch Jack. Elsie didn’t know Marianne’s name so she poked her in the arm. “Are you going to eat your cornbread?” Marianne, surprised, lookep up at Elsie. She shoved the tray forward. “No, take it,” she said. DeClements, 1985: 6-7 n Elsie asks everybody about their meals, in this case, cornbread. She asks her classmates whether or not they will eat their meals. The classmate who can understand that she is hungry gives her some, but they who cannot fulfill Elsie’s