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On the other hand, in the Aspect of the Novel, Forster 1974 divides characters into two types. There are flat characters and round characters. In this
novel, Sheila has round character. Round characters are the characters who are complex in temperament and motivation and are represented with subtle
particularity. The complex personality is shaped and influenced by the things that happen around the characters.
Each person in the novel has different characters. A character is a person which is presented in the novel. According to Stanton 1965, the dialogue and the
behavior are the most important evidences to understand the character. Through the knowledge of the characters which are presented in the novel, the characters’ action
can be understood; and through their actions, the readers can understand the characters. Sheila, who is the main character in Hayden’s One Child is considered
as a little girl who is intelligent, destructive, uncontrolled, and sadistic. These characteristics can be identified when the researcher read and analyzed Sheila’s life
stories.
1. Intelligent
When Sheila enters Hayden’s class for the first time, she does not want to do anything. She remains silent and does not want to interact with others. Hayden
tries to ask her to do math, but Sheila does nothing. On the progress of her adaptation in her new class, Sheila shows her progress in this class. One day, when
Sheila feels comfortable with the situation around her, she comes to Hayden and
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asks Hayden to do math together. Hayden is shocked when she knows that Sheila can do math better than she thinks.
“Show me three blocks.” Cautiously she picked out three.
“Show me ten.” Again, ten cubes were line up on the rug before me p. 70.
Hayden is curious to find out whether Sheila knows the numbers well or not, so she makes difficult questions on adding and subtracting. Hayden does not
take a long time to find out Sheila’s ability. Sheila shows Hayden that she can do better in adding and subtracting.
“Show me how many blocks are two plus two.” Four blocks appeared without hesitation. I studied her a moment. “How about three plus five?”
She laid out eight cubes p. 70. “Do six take away four.”
Again two cubes. “Hey you’re pretty smart. But I’ve got one for you. I’ll get you this time.
Show me twelve take away seven.” She looked up at me and the very smallest hint of a smile colored her eyes
although it did not touch her lips. She stacked one, two, three, four, five blocks on top of one another. She did it without even looking down at the
cubes p. 71.
After the encounter with the math cubes, Hayden is interested to find out the level at which the girl is functioning. Hayden borrows a test from the school
psychologist and tried to ask Sheila to do the PPVT Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. For her age group, the scale stopped at 99, which is translated into a 170 IQ.
Sheila can answer the questions and she got a score of 102 p. 84. From this test, Hayden also finds out that Sheila can read well.
“Can you read, Sheila?”
