The conflict arises, in this part, Philip start to describe his father further, especially about their relationship. He explains his father‟s job and what his father has done to
him. In part three, many conflicts have happened. The story ends with the break of the relationship between the couple, and Bruce realizes that his relationship with
Philip just the transferring of Philip‟s deep emotional feeling to his father. Basically, this story tells about the relationship between two men who involve in
a love affair, which ends in separation. Though it is about a love affair, what is revealed in this story does not just about love but a deep thing experienced by the
characters. One of the characters tells the reason why this relation happened. Then, the reason has been identified, it starts with the mutual love and respect between the
char acter and his father in the character‟s childhood, the effects that influence his
behavior and makes him fall into another way of life in existent world.
B. Approach of the Study
This study focuses on analyzing the influence of father-son relationship in character‟s life. It resembles the real problem in life since this study is taken from a
novel, which conveys about the reality of life. This influence will be known by analyzing what character does or talks in the story. Thus, analyzing the character is
very helpful in order to investigate the problem, which happened in the story. Besides analyzing the character, some theories are also employed to analyze the
problem that is the influence of the relationship. The psychological approach is also used to analyze the novel because the approach may reveal the behavior, thoughts,
feelings, and experience of the character. Those things are related with human in a real life.
Parental role as one psychological approach is employed to analyze the problem formulation in this study. The knowledge of this approach will help to analyze how
Philip Dill‟s relationship with his father is described and the reason why the relationship influences Philip Dill‟s life.
C. Method of the Study
In gathering the data, there are two sources used in this study. All the sources are very helpful for conducting this study. The primary source is James Courage‟s
novel entitled A Way
of Love
. The secondary source is collected from library research. Some are taken from literary book to divine the theory of literature,
character and characterization. Some sources are taken from Psychology book concerning with parental role which is used to answer the two problems in this study.
There are some steps that had to be done to conduct the study. These steps were used to make the analyzing of the problem easier. The steps were formed
systematically as a consideration to make the result was more understandable for the readers.
The first step was reading the novel and trying to understand the content of it to make an interpretation. This process gave the best understanding about the main idea
of the novel. There were some important points that underlined in the story such as
character, plot, setting, and point of view. Reading many times created a good way to draw interpretation.
The second step was choosing an interesting topic to be analyzed. In this case, the reason behind the relationship of the character caught my attention. It built the
curiosity that makes many questions appeared for instance, one of the questions is that, what are the effects of the relationship between a father and a son to the son‟s
life? The third step was formulating the problems. The curiosity and interesting
feelings became one of the aspects to consider formulating the problem that must be analyzed. The problems were formulated into two parts. The first part was what
attitudes done by a father, wh ich impacts on the son‟s psychological development.
The second part concerned with what kinds of psychological development will be formed as the impacts of that attitude.
The fourth step was stating the important point. In this part, there were many important points that have to be underlined in order to conduct the study. There were
many quotations, comment, conversation, and behavior in this story that must be signed to help on analyzing the problem.
The fifth step was deciding the related studies and reviews to conduct the study. It involved some theories to assist on analyzing the problems such as character
and psychoanalysis. It also consisted of method to find the sources. First, read the novel, and second, searched from library research. Searching from library research
consisted of finding some books that are related with the study.
The sixth step was analyzing the novel in order to answer the two formulated problems. The reference books and reviews can be used in the analyzing process.
Those sources were very useful to support the analysis. The result of the analysis then compared to the theory, whether they are matched or even contradicted.
The seventh step or last step was drawing a conclusion. The conclusion was illustrated based on the analysis. The answers for the formulation problems had to be
explained briefly. There were some suggestions related to this conclusion, which covered the analysis and be useful for every reader who read it.
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
