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24 that hard situation, many heads of family are hopeless and choose to leave their family or suicide. But it is different with James Jimmy Braddock; he chooses not to give up like others. He loves his family that’s why he struggle to get work to feed his family. It is not easy to be James Jimmy Braddock, because he has to be a husband and father at the same time with no regular work. When the Great Depression is attacked, Jimmy loses his job as a boxer and he has to work as a freelancer in the port. Working as a freelancer is not the effective one to earn money, but he has no other choice besides borrowing money from the bank. But he knows his responsibility as a husband and father that is whatever will be he is willing to earn money in order to feed his wife and his three children. Because of the situation is getting harder, he find some problems in his family such as there is no more electricity for heater in the winter, no more milk for kids, and the worst is no more food to eat. But he has a principal that whatever happen, his family must be unite, that is why he is a very good husband and father for his wife and children. “Mae, I promised him, see? I got on my knees, looked him in his eyes and I promised him I would never send him away.” Without another word, Jim turned and stored across the freezing room. Cerasini, 2005: 95 He is stated it when his wife, Mae, sends children away to her family in another town. Jimmy is mad because he finds his wife give up facing the hard condition. As a father, he cannot accept when his wife decide a matter without his consideration, moreover the matter is about their children. Jim’s emotions were almost too overpowering to express—fear, disappointment, rage. He stabbed his finger. “You don’t decide what happens to our children without me.” Cerasini, 2005: 94 25 As a husband and a father who loves his family so much, James has good characters. The reason is all he is done exclusively for his wife and his three children. Showing he is a lovely husband for Mae and father for Jay, Howard, and Rose. He knows the bad condition is just happened to his family since the Great Depression attacked America. After he cannot work as a boxer again, he has to find work in order to continue his family life and his own. It is not easy to be a father who has three children in that situation. What other parents do for their children are send away their children to another family who still can feed their children. James J. Braddock, he loves his wife just the same as he loves his three children. That is why he does not want to send his three children to his family in other town to feed his children. What he should do as a father who loves and has responsible to his family is looking for a job, even more than one job in a day to get more income. “I’ll get doubles, triples shifts where I can find them,” Jim told her. “I’ll get work wherever I can.” Cerasini, 2005: 66 But still, it is not enough to pay the electricity, to buy milk and meat for kids. He still has to borrow the money from the bank to fulfill his family needs. James J. Braddock is a responsible father; he always keeps his promises to his family. He is also responsible for the life of his family even he knows that the condition is not getting better but he never runs away from his duty as a father. Still Braddock wouldn’t stop. He couldn’t. His family badly needed the purses, so he’d gone up against Al Stillman in St. Louis. In the ninth round, Jim laid a terrific right to the young man’s jaw. Braddock won the match, but had reinjured his hand. Cerasini, 2005: 48-49 26 James J. Braddock always wakes up in every morning before dawn to queue in this port only for his family, to feed his family so they cannot separate by this poverty condition. He knows that it is hard for him to wake up at the morning before dawn, but this is his responsibility as a father to feed his family. His love to the family gives him strength to work in a cold weather in the morning. So every morning before dawn, Jim rose and hiked down to the water, hoping to beat the odds among a horde of others just as desperate for work. Cerasini, 2005: 39-40 In one condition, he wants to go out for work, and then he finds his daughter still hungry and asks for some more. As a responsible father, it is not a big deal to sacrifice his own breakfast to make his daughter happy and full. He dares to go without having any breakfast at all. It is his responsibility to feed his family not only his own body. Thus, he puts the family as his top priority. When Rosy continued to hesitate, Jim picked up her fork again, this time to stab his own slice ad deposit it on her plate. Eyes wide, stomach still hungry, the child immediately began to eat. Cerasini, 2005: 35 He knows his wife rejected her daughter’s demand. His wife protests but he disregarded it. He wants to say to his wife was to see his daughter eats and does not starve is his pleasure. When the kiss ended, Mae’s gaze found his. You can’t work on an empty stomach, her eyes protest. What are you thinking? Cerasini, 2005: 35 As a children, Rose Marie does not know that his father also needs that breakfast, but she knows she has a good father who gives his food for her because she still hungry. He wants to show to his wife that he can be a father who has responsibility to feed his family. It means that he seriously concern with poverty in his family