Despite Tobias’ tendency to dissociate himself from his friend, he has good deal of self esteem when it comes to fighting the Yeerks. Tobias rarely
shows his fear when it comes to fighting the yeerks. He always ready to help whenever he is needed without any second thought or fear in his mind.
Tobias found meaning in the war, he felt like he was a part of something. As explained before, Tobias had a quite miserable life before he become
Animorphs and involved in the war. His parents already passed away before the story began and he only lives with relatives who do not really care about his
wellbeing. Furthermore he is often bullied by other students at school. Therefore it can be stated that Tobias’ courage and willingness to fight against the yeerks is
caused by his belief that he is happier in his new life as part of the Animorphs compared to his previous life. Therefore because he belief that his current life is
more meaningful than his previous one, it become his motivation to always fight against the terror.
5. Cassie’s Defense Mechanism
Cas sie’s kind and caring nature often struggle with her condition of
fighting the Yeerks, in book nineteenth, she decided to quit the Animorphs because she cannot tolerate the violence of the war any longer. In that book, she
decided to quit the Animorphs and stop to be involved in the war against the Yeerks after she murder another alien creature
“ Maybe if I hadnt felt so hollow, so weak, so sickened inside, maybe I would have felt the extra set of eyes on me. But I wasnt paying attention. I
was done being afraid. I was done hurting other creatures. I was done, done, done being an Animorphs
.” Animorphs 19 : 6 Cassie can be considered as naïve; this is shown when she decided to quit
the battle just because she does not to be involved in the violence nature. Her decision book 19 shows that she does not really think about other things, like the
result if she quit the battle, the wellbeing of her friends, the fate of the earth. Cassie seems to adopt a defense mechanism called withdrawal.
Withdrawal is a mechanism in which the user tends to run away from a problem because he or she hates the problem.
Cassie’s withdrawal can be seen from how she prefers to avoid conflict and run away from it.
The example of her withdrawal can be seen from book 19, from how she decided to quit the battle against the yeerks because she cannot tolerate the
violence in it. Another example is from book 7, this is the same condition which Rachel
faced. The Animorphs are questioned by Ellimist whether they want to lived in a new planet by quit fighting against the Yeerks, or they can choose to keep
fighting. Cassie is one of the members who choose to live in a new planet because she believed that they do not have any chance to win in the war. Her decision
proves that she wants to quickly end the conflict and live in a peaceful state again. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Even though she knows that her decision means sacrificing her old planet and lots of other human and animal for the sake of living peacefully along with
several others earth creature. Asides from withdrawal, Cassie also seems to utilize Altruism, Altruism is a defense mechanism in which the users will feel more relax
when they give service to other people. Cassie’s kind and caring attitude make her unable to leave her friend whenever they are is faced with certain danger. As
stated above both in book fourth and twenty first, she is the one who always be there to help whenever her friends is in some kind of trouble in her belief. In
book fourth she decides to come into Marco’s house in order to make sure that Marco doesn’t get traumatized after nearly killed by a shark.
Her desire to help those who needs to be saving not only just for her friend, Cassie also determined to save any animal that need to be saved. She will
be troubled whenever she learns that there is an animal is in some kind of trouble. In book ninth, Cassie learn that a group of skunk babies are in danger. Because of
this Cassie becomes greatly concerned about the wellbeing of the babies, that she is worried about the wellbeing of the skunk babies.
Another instance of Cassie’s altruism is on book fifteenth. Cassie convinces her friends to help her saving some parrot who she believes to be
mistreated by a restaurant. From the explanation above, it is safe to assume that Cassie
is the person who can’t put her mind at ease until she is one hundred percent sure that someone or something close to her is safe. If she deems someone
or something to be in danger, she will be distraught by it and will do her best to take care of them.
