Identity-Based Decision Making Theory of Decision Making

Designing for Decision Making. This theory is used to complete the first and third theories, especially to show the relation between the main character’s characteristics, unconsciousness, and decision making. The last theory is the theory of the relationship between literature and psychology. The researcher uses the explanation by Wellek and Warren and also Dastmard. Their theories are stated to support the theories of characteristics and decision making since this thesis’s concern is as a literary study. Before applying those theories, the researcher finds out that the author presents the main character, who is in a coma, not differently like someone in a coma in the real life, but as a normal person. Then, when applying all of the theories stated above, the researcher is able to identify how the main character is described by the author in the plot development of the novel, how the unconscious supports her struggle to overcome her conflict, and how her struggle affects her life’s decision making. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 21

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

The novel by Gayle Forman entitled If I Stay is the object of the study in this undergraduate thesis. It was first published by Dutton Books in 2009. The novel If I Stay used in this research is published by Penguin Group in 2010. The novel consists of 261 pages, in which 234 pages are the content or the story of the novel, 4 pages are the acknowledgements, and the other pages from 241 to 261 are the discussion guides about the novel which contain The Story Behind The Story, Discussion Questions, Behind The Music, and an interview with the author entitled Author QA. The genre of the novel If I Stay is romantic. In literature, the purpose of a romance story is to romanticize something happening in a real life such as a family conflict or a relationship between two people who love each other. That is why, in If I Stay, Gayle Forman uses the comatose state condition to romanticize more the main character’s relationship with her family, her best friend and her boyfriend. After the accident, she is in a coma and her soul is alive as if a normal person, and she has to make a decision whether to stay or to leave and pass away like her family members. This novel was made into a major motion picture from Warner Bros and was shown in the theater on August 22, 2014. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, who plays as Mia in the movie, and Jamie Blackley, who stars as Mia’s boyfriend, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI