She states that “kids of this age are seeking more privacy and independence, but they still need their parents to be involved and to
set boundaries” http:www.schoolfamily.comschool-family-articlesarticle10623-fifth-grade-
social-changes-what-to-expect. She also mentions that children in this grade wants to be with their friends.
They want to be with their friends. They often get upset when their longtime pals form new allegiances or if they feel they are not part of the
crowd. Your child’s social life may be constantly changing—today’s best friend is
tomorrow’s enemy. http:www.schoolfamily.comschool- family-articlesarticle10623-fifth-grade-social-changes-what-to-expect.
Helen Cowie and Dawn Jennifer state an addition information about the condition of fifth graders. They conclude that children of this age tend to tease
each other. They tend to be aggressive toward the others in kinds of manner. On some ways, physical aggression is done to tease and on the other ways, verbal and
relational bullying are chosen. An American study that investigated elementary children’s moral
reasoning about physical and relational aggression found that fourth and fifth graders tended to rate physical aggression e.g. hitting a peer as more
wrong and harmful than relational aggression e.g. excluding a peer from one’s group of friends. In addition, girls tended to judge aggression in
general as more wrong than boys did, and were more likely to believe that relational behaviours were harmful for the victim. 2008: 4
Considering the statement above, the writer sees that fifth graders are active children. They tend to move more and have more activity inside their peers.
The condition brings the need of good social interaction and good atmosphere in the peers. Good social interaction and good atmosphere may build good peers.
B. Problem Formulation
To conduct this study, there are three questions formulated to answer. They are:
1. How are the characters in the story described?
2. How is the social bullying revealed through the doers of social bullying
Elsie’s classmates? 3.
What are the impacts of social bullying experienced by the victim of social bullying Elsie?
C. Objective of The Study
The aim of this study is to find out the answer of the problem mentioned in problem formulation. The first objective is to find out the way the characters are
described in the story. The aim of the first objective is to understand the role of those characters in the story. The second objective is to find out the social
bullying happening in the story. The last objective is to identify the impacts of social bullying described in the story as a result of social bullying done.
D. Definition of Term
To understand the terms or words written in this undergraduate thesis, it would be better to know the terms of subject matter. In this study, the writer uses
the term social bullying. In Human Development: Ninth Edition, bullying is an aggression deliberately and persistently directed against a particular target, or
victim, typically one who is weak, vulnerable, and defenseless Papalia, Olds, and Feldman, 2004: 372.
Considering the meaning written above, social bullying can be understood as the action of bullying by the society done by the society.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
A. Review of Related Studies
The novel Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade is important to be studied. The book is a reflection of experience got by the writer, Barthe DeClements. It
happens because she teaches and faces the students directly. In Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, it is written that she goes not only as a writer or an author.
Barthe DeClements is a school counselor who has also worked as a teacher. While Ms. DeClements was teaching fifth grade, she wanted to make
spelling and composition more interesting to her students. She began a story by writing a paragraph on the blackboard each week. Her students
got involved in the story, and it eventually became Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, Ms. DeClements’ first novel 1981: 138.
Though this book has not been an object of study in Sanata Dharma University, there are students who have done studies on bullying. The writer also
does not find any study on Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade as an official study. Seeing this point, the writer decides the review or studies of Barthe deClements’
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, social bullying, and the impact of social bullying as the material to review to complete the review of related studies. Then, the
writer believes that the explanation or comparison given will help the writer to depart any chance of plagiarism.
Tia Ristiawati finds out that bullying happens in literature. Her research entitled Ijime Bullying in Japanese Children according to The Novel – Gakko No
Sensee: Literature Sociology Research is “to discover ijime or bullying that
happened in the novel Gakko No Sensee by Komatsu Eriko” 2007:xiv. From the research she has done, she concludes that ijime or bullying results bad effects.
The results of these researches are: first, ijime bullying in Japan is all kind of insults, exclusion, blackmail, and even violence done secretly many
times by group to one same object whom weak or ‘different’ from the others in the group. Second, the foundation of ijime’s mental is one of the
negative side which is appeared from some cultural values, such as: a uniformity and group oriented, b shame culture, and c family education.
Some factors made ijime’s mental developed are: a struggle in GNP, b academic stressing, c career women, and d teachers quality. And, third,
the effects of ijime often appears in serious way such as: tookookyohi school refusal, suicide, and murder Ristiawati, 2007:xiv.
Wahyu Putri has a study on the bullying behaviour on school students and she puts elevent grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 as her subject of the study.
This study aims to describe of level of bullying behaviour of eleventh grade SMA BOPKRI 2 in 20082009 academic year 2009:viii. From the study she has done,
she got points to bring. She concludes that the level of bullying behaviour of eleventh grade SMA BOPKRI 2 in 20082009 academic year is low. She also
states that this fact means that generally those students do not bully each other. But this problem may cause bigger crack without any control by the school
management and the parents of the students 2009: 67. On the study Senior High School Student’s Perception on Bullying
Behaviour in School: A Case Study at “Kolese De Britto” Senior High School and “Stella Duce 2” Senior High School of Yogyakarta, Benny Yuniarto brings
another tendency. For him, this research aims to know whether or not there was a difference in student’s perception in “Kolese De Britto” Senior High School and
student’s perception in “Stella Duce 2” Senior High School on bullying behaviour
in school 2007:vii. After the study’s completed, he knows that there is no significant difference between student’s perception on bullying behaviour in
school 2007: 55. Another study of bullying is done by Justinus Parlindungan Sihombing.
The study entitled Yogyakarta People Attitude toward School Bullying aims “to assess the attitude of people in Yogyakarta toward school bullying” 2010:viii.
This study researches people living in Yogyakarta. The respondents are 14- 64 years old. The writer of this study concludes that the subjects of this study have
negative attitudes towards bullying 2010: 63. Indriyani Sitompul also has a study on bullying. Her study titled Bullying
Phenomenon at Boys and Girls Student in 2
nd
of PIRI I Junior High School Yogyakarta tries to “study the types of bullying that exist, the places where often
be used to bully in school environment, the different of a number of the victim and perpetrator of bullying between boys and girls student, the effect of bullying
to the bullies and the victims” 2008:viii. As the result of the study, Indriyani Sitompul shows that bullying oftenly happens in PIRI I Junior High School
Yogyakarta 2008: 62. Considering any data got, the writer decides to have a study on the object
of the study with the focus of the study chosen. With this study, the writer wants to discover something new, in this case the result of social bullying toward the
victim, with an object of the study that has not been discussed as a research. Any tendencies of plagiarism can be put out.
