SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS SUZIE WONG’S PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN IN MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

  

SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS SUZIE WONG’S

PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN IN

MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

  Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters

  By

PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR

  Student number: 054214062

  

ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

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SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS SUZIE WONG’S

PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN IN

MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

  Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters

  By

PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR

  Student number: 054214062

  

ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

FACULTY OF LETTERS

SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY

YOGYAKARTA

  A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

  SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS SUZIE WONG’S PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN IN MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

  By

PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR

  Student number: 054214062 Approved by

  Maria Ananta, S. S. M. Ed Date: May 12, 2010 Advisor Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum. Date: May 12, 2010 Co-Advisor

  A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis

  

SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS

SUZIE WONG’S PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN

  

IN MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

  By

  

PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR

  Student number: 054214062 Defended before the Board of Examiners on May 26, 2010

  And Declared Acceptable

  

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  Demi pengembanganilmupengetahuan,sayamemberikankepadaperpustakaanUniversitas Sanata Dharma karyailmiahsaya yang berjudul:

  

SOCIAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SUZIE WONG’S

PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN IN MASON’S

THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG

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  Dibuat di Yogyakarta Padatanggal: 28 Mei 2010 Yang menyatakan

  In truth we must deal well with times of difficulty… We must remain “positive” in times of difficulty

  ( Shindong “Super Junior” )

  

Dedicated to

My beloved father

My beloved grandmother

  

My beloved late mother

and

My beloved brother

  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I would like to express my gratitude towards my Jesus Christ. His blessing and guidance make me what I am today and make me strong in facing my problems especially during the process of doing my undergraduate thesis. I would like to thank my beloved grandmother for her prayers, my greatest father, who always tries to give all the best for me, for my late mother, for her never-ending- love, and for my brother, Adrian, who always helps me and who I am always proud of. I would like to thank Maria Ananta S.S., M.Ed., my undergraduate thesis advisor, who always helps me and spends her precious time to make my undergraduate thesis from nothing to something. Her tremendous help and patience will always be remembered. My deepest gratitude is also intended to my reader, Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum., who has given me correction and improvement in completing my thesis. Also for Ko Andre who always supports me and gives me more spirit in doing my undergraduate thesis. For Almer, Novi, Anne, Uuk, Thirzza, Cindy, Victor, Sandy, Andry, Mul-Mul, Jony, Bagus, Cupith, Zaga, Didit, Cie Yaya, Cie Flo, Cie Tika, Sau Yuyun, Sau Helen, and Rendy who give me countless encouragement, I them very much.

  Pamela Octavia Iskandar

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ................................................................................................ i

APPROVAL PAGE ....................................................................................... ii

ACCEPTANCE PAGE.................................................................................. iii

LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN ............................................. iv

MOTTO PAGE .............................................................................................. v

DEDICATION PAGE.................................................................................... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................... vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................................... viii

ABSTRACT

  6. Theory on Environmental Factor toward the Criminal Behavior .... 22

  4. Suzie Wong is Naïve......................................................................... 38

  3. Suzie Wong is someone who Lacks of Affection ........................... 37

  2. Suzie Wong is a Survivor ................................................................. 35

  1. Suzie Wong is a Self-deception Person ........................................... 31

  

CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY .......................................................... 25

A. Object of the Study ................................................................................. 25 B. Approach of the Study ............................................................................ 27 C. Method of the Study ................................................................................. 28

CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS .......................................................................... 31

A. Characteristics of Suzie Wong ............................................................... 31

  C. Theoretical Framework ........................................................................... 24

  5. Theory on Criminal Factor and Behavior ....................................... 18

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  4. Theory on Motive and Theory on Motivation................................... 17

  3. Theory on Personality ....................................................................... 16

  2. Theory on Characterization ............................................................. 13

  1. Theory on Character ........................................................................ 11

  

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 1

A. Background of the Study ......................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation................................................................................ 7 C. Objectives of the Study............................................................................. 7 D. Definition of Terms ................................................................................ 8

CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW .............................................. 9

A. Review of the Related Studies .............................................................. 9 B. Review of the Related Theories .............................................................. 11

  

ABSTRAK ................................................................................................ xi

  5. Suzie Wong is Superstitious ........................................................... 40

  1. Poverty............................................................................................. 42

  2. The Family ..................................................................................... 45

  3. The Education ............................................................................... 47

  4. The Influence of Transitional Area ................................................. 49

  C. Social Conditions that affect Suzie Wong’s personalities based on Her Motive....................................................................................................... 49

  1. Poverty............................................................................................. 50

  2. The Family ..................................................................................... 53

  3. The Education ............................................................................... 55

  4. The Influence of Transitional Area ................................................. 56

  CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ................................................................... 58 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................................... 65

  

ABSTRACT

  PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR. SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS

  

SUZIE WONG’S PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN

  

IN MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG. Yogyakarta: Department of

English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, 2010.

  This study discussed a novel entitled The World of Suzie Wong. The objective of writing this thesis is derived from the writer’s curiosity about the pattern that is showed from the social condition of a character named Suzie Wong and those patterns also happen in the real life.

  In this thesis, there are three (3) questions to be answered. They are: (1) What are the characteristics of Suzie Wong? (2) How are the social conditions described in the novel? (3) How do the social conditions affect her personalities based on her motive?

  In order to answer the problems, a psychological approach is used because this thesis analyzes one’s motivation on doing certain action like Suzie Wong’ case by being a prostitute and how Suzie Wong’s characteristics are affected by her social condition. A library study method is also applied in this study. There are two sources used: primary and secondary sources. The World of

  

Suzie Wong , the novel, is the primary source in this study. The secondary sources

are obtained from books on literature and psychology.

  Based on the study, Suzie Wong is characterized as a self-deceptive person, a survivor, someone who lacks of affection, innocent, and superstitious. The social conditions that described in the novel are the poverty, the family, the education, the influence of transitional area. The social conditions that affect her personalities based on her motive are first, poverty that brings her into prostitution world that makes her deceits herself because she just wants to be a normal like any other woman. Because of poverty, she is also naïve because she hopes too much to someone that makes her forget everything could be happened. Suzie Wong did not give up although she was sick and that makes her become as a survivor. Second is the family. She is hungry for love because she never felt what love is. Suzie Wong is a survivor because she will do everything just for her child even when she has to raise her child as a single parent. Third is education. Suzie Wong is a woman who has never been to school and she is lack of knowledge, she believes in fortune-teller, something illogical for someone who has good intelligence. Fourth, the influence of transitional area brings Suzie Wong believes in something superstitious.

  

ABSTRAK

  PAMELA OCTAVIA ISKANDAR. SOCIAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS

  

SUZIE WONG’S PERSONALITIES BASED ON HER MOTIVE AS SEEN

  

IN MASON’S THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG. Yogyakarta: Jurusan Sastra

Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 2010.

  Penelitian ini membahas tentang sebuah novel berjudul The World of

  

Suzie Wong . Tujuan dari penulisan skripsi ini adalah berawal dari keingintahuan

  penulis mengenai adanya pola yang terlihat dari kondisi sosial Suzie Wong dimana pola-pola tersebut juga terjadi dalam kehidupan nyata.

  Di dalam penelitian ini, terdapat tiga yang akan dijawab: (1) Apa sajakah karakter dari Suzie Wong? (2) Bagaimana kondisi sosial yang digambarkan di dalam novel? (3) Bagaimana kondisi sosial mempengaruhi kepribadian Suzie Wong berdasarkan penyebabnya?

  Untuk menjawab pertanyaan, pendekatan psikologis digunakan karena skripsi ini menganalisa motivasi seseorang dalam berbuat sesuatu seperti dalam kasus Suzie Wong dengan pekerjaannya sebagai wanita tuna susila dan bagaimana karakternya dipengaruhi oleh kondisi sosial. Metode penelitian pustaka digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Ada dua sumber yang digunakan yaitu sumber utama dan sumber pendukung. Novel The World of Suzie Wong adalah sumber utama dalam penelitian ini. Sedangkan sumber pendukung didapatkan dari buku sastra dan psikologi.

  Berdasarkan analisis, Suzie Wong dicirikan sebagai seseorang yang menyangkal kenyataan akan dirinya sendiri, seorang pejuang, seorang yang kurang kasih sayang, lugu, dan percaya hal-hal gaib.

  Kondisi sosial yang mempengaruhi penciriannya adalah kemiskinan, kondisi keluarga, pendidikan, dan pengaruh tempat peralihan.

  Kondisi sosial yang mempengaruhi kepribadiannya berdasarkan motivasinya adalah pertama, kemiskinan yang membawa Suzie Wong ke dalam dunia pelacuran yang membuatnya menyangkal dirinya sendiri karena dia hanya ingin dianggap sebagai wanita pada umumnya. Karena kemiskinan juga membuatnya polos sebab dia berharap terlalu banyak pada seseorang yang membuatnya lupa bahwa segala sesuatu dapat terjadi. Suzie Wong tidak menyerah meskipun dia sedang sakit dan hal itu yang membuatnya menjadi seorang pejuang. Kedua adalah keluarga. Dia haus kasih sayang karena dia tidak pernah merasakan apakah cinta itu. Suzie Wong adalah seorang pejuang karena ia akan melakukan segalanya untuk anaknya meskipun dia harus membesarkan anaknya sebagai orang tua tunggal. Ketiga adalah pendidikan. Suzie Wong adalah seorang wanita yang tidak pernah bersekolah dan juga kurang pengetahuan, ia percaya akan peramal, sesuatu yang tidak masuk akal bagi seseorang yang memiliki

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Society is a place where all of us start to define what life is. Life,

  sometimes, can be easy and sometimes also can be hard. Human life is not always easy like what we wish. Problems are coming from any sides and searching for its solving. Human being is asked to be tough and strong because those things can be an experience, which will make a person better in the future. Social condition can be one of the problems that are experienced by people. The social condition in our society is different because it depends on the country, the culture, environment, and also the people who live in the society. Because of that, a story can be interesting because social condition also happened in the real world. Social condition and love often become a theme of a story (movie, drama, novel, etc) and they relate to each other because from a theme like that, it shows the social status, dignity, and pure love that wants to be shown by the author.

  Love is a common emotion, which can be expressed by any living creature on earth, especially by human to anyone or anything that he or she cares.

  Since love is a never-ending matter to talk about, many writers often use it as a theme of a story. Romance is what people called a love story and a romance does not only talk about love between man and woman but also to the family or country. When someone falls in love; they often feel something pure, a desire to make the person he or she loves happy, and also to complete their life by our

  Based on Crooks’ book, Our Sexuality, love is patient and kind; love is not jealous, or conceited, or proud; love is not ill-mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up: its faith, hope and patience never fail.

  Love is eternal… There are faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1983:200). Love is a major theme in many literature texts and poems, with movies often portraying "finding true love".

  Love also can be a basic reason for someone’s motive. Because of love, someone is willing to do something that will make the other person is happy and comfortable. For example is the love of a mother. A mother will give her life to her baby when she gave birth to her baby. She will take care of her baby wholeheartedly and also works hard just to fulfill the needs and gives them a better future. Her baby becomes as the motivation because they want to give all the best for their own family just to make them happy.

  But how if love is related to prostitution, the world, which often ignores love and makes passion and money as priority? Is it still something pure? Every human being has his or her right to do everything, to give opinion, to breathe, and also to fall in love. The right to fall in love can also be experienced by lower social status people especially prostitute. Prostitution is taboo for our culture to be discussed, but in our reality, prostitution is a world where there are many people involved in it and again, it causes loss for women besides the cruelty and sexual harassment. Prostitution ‘business’ is still rolling said easy money) and this job is profitable. Just imagine, by using their body (women’s body, but nowadays, there are also prostitution that is done my men), they can make lots of money because the people who ‘need’ them, they dare to pay expensively. Actually, the causes of prostitution world are obviously seen and mostly they are alike but they, as the actors, cannot avoid that because they have limit on their effort and struggle.

  The writer admits that women are strong creatures but they are also the weak one because women are more sensitive. When they are humiliated, doubted, or blamed, they become someone who lost the confidence and then they will start to blame and distrust themselves. We can see that from the action. A woman is crying when she had a problem and sometimes the cry is her way to express her feeling that is hurt and for some woman, they way to recover that is by the support and love from the people around her. The women as the objects of men did not just suffer for their loss of virginity and pride but also suffer for carelessness and distrust by people around them especially by their boyfriends.

  Not having been trusted for so long, many women have lost trust in themselves. Women need to recover that trust. Women need confidence in themselves and a fuller awareness of the responsibility which being a woman entails (Montagu, 1953:192)

  Many prostitutes are having relationship with many men and when they found themselves pregnant, it is possible that their current boyfriend did not admit that it is his child. Because of that, many prostitutes decided to have an abortion illegally and without any good and clean medical handling that caused their own death.

  Richard Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong is one example of a love story but what makes the story different is it is related with prostitution world. It is unique because it describes women’s worlds that happened around 1957 to 1960 (and in reality, it still happens until now). The story tells about the journey of a young Englishman, Robert Lomax, who has just decided a new career as a painter, to Hong Kong. In the ferry, he meets a young woman named Wong Mee Ling, a rich virgin but eventually known as a popular prostitute named Suzie Wong at Nam Kok Hotel, the hotel where Robert Lomax also stay for one month. Suzie Wong’s life journey is started when she is still five years old. She lost her parents and then lived with her bad uncle. Then when she was 16 years old, she moved to Hong Kong then starts her new career as a prostitute because to find a proper job in Hong Kong is difficult and the income is low. One of the reasons is because Suzie is uneducated and needs to fulfill her needs. There are many conflicts with other characters until Robert Lomax realizes that he is falling in love with Suzie Wong (Mee Ling) they are Suzie’s lost of her baby, Suzie’s profession, and also Suzie’s illness that makes Richard Mason’s novel interesting.

  Based on Law Kar’s Suzie Wong and Her World in

  

http://sunzi!.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/35/3500489.pdf , “If Suzie Wong was still alive

  and well, she would surely declare, for all her world, that Hong Kong has undergone immense changes in the last thirty years. Her world would now be another world. Admiralty Road is now covered in a forest of skyscrapers and Admiralty Barracks has now transformed to become the Admiralty Mass Transit area is now composed of bars, discos and nightclubs). One would see fewer American soldiers, only the odd tourist and drifter drinking their beers. Now and then, the bar girls would, appear, looking different since many are Filipino girls (most come to work as domestic servants but some earn extra income on their days off)”. Wanchai is the location of the novel setting, which is famous by its poor district and known as the place of prostitution and nightclubs, as what happen in the real life there are sailors who just arrived in port and civilian who want to have a beer and sexual adventure.

  Reading The World of Suzie Wong gives the writer not just pleasure. There are many things she can learn from it, such as that reality is not always as good as what we wish. It shows that white is not always good and black is bad, means that the women’s life in the novel especially Suzie Wong’s life is not like what she always expects and of course this thing also happened to every human life in the real world. In her childhood, she lost her parents and this thing continues to other part of her life that finally brings her to her profession. But when she meets her soul mate (Robert Lomax), she can reach her dream and also then becomes a dignified woman. The writer thinks this story tells women to keep their belief on their dream and do not give it up just because of the obstructions. Although Richard Mason use many unfamiliar words in the novel like French and also the grammar of the Chinese women are incorrect, the writer can follow the whole story easily because the plot and the characterization are simple and clear.

  After reading the novel, the writer realizes that the conflicts that affects women to do a ‘dirty job’ as a prostitute. When she watches the television and the news are reporting about the life of a hooker or prostitute, the pattern is clear, she finds out that the reasons of doing it are mostly the same, because they do not have money and they cannot afford money to fulfill the needs of their life and also not just their own needs but also the family needs and from that reason, it continues to other things like she cannot have a proper education that makes her cannot write and read and it brings her to her occupation. Ashley Montagu’s theory that said women have many superior characters compared to men. It is true that women are more emotional than men but Ashley Montagu explains how they handle their feelings. Women have good abilities in expressing their feelings. The fact makes them more realist than men (1953:83). This theory seems suitable for this situation because women will do anything to make their desire come true especially if that desire is motivated by her family and children. Although they have to sacrifice themselves and when have the obstructions, they can handle it well.

  The writer wants to show that the novel is one of the examples that reflected a part of the reality that maybe some women experience it. So, to find out the main cause that is possible to bring people trapped into a situation for being a prostitute, the writer tries to find out the characteristic of the main character and then relate it with the social condition that is experienced by the main character. By analyzing this novel, the writer hopes that the readers will find the patterns that is able to bring someone falls into crime especially prostitution and the readers will be able to make some changes that brings women into better

  B. Problem Formulation

  1. What are the characteristics of Suzie Wong?

  2. How are the social condition described in the novel?

  3. How do the social conditions affect her personalities based on her motive?

  C. Objectives of the Study

  Generally, this study aims to show the readers that The World of Suzie

  

Wong is one example of novels that reflects some parts of our reality especially

  that is caused by poverty. It shows us how social condition affects someone’s life especially woman’s life and as the results, there are some minorities that happen to some women in the story. Suzie Wong, the main character, is described as a strong woman but at the same time, she is also powerless. She is strong because she has her own point of view and she is very sure about what she wants in her life because she has a motivation but she is powerless too because she is humiliated and cheated by men because of her profession as a prostitute and she cannot avoid it.

  Specifically, the objective of the study will be answered through the analysis of the three (3) questions put forward in the problem formulation.

  Therefore, it is intended to observe: first, about the characteristics of the main character Suzie Wong; second, about the social condition that described in the novel; and third, how the social conditions affect her personalities based on her motive.

D. Definition of Terms

  In Sociology: Its Purpose and Scope, the word “condition” is described as juvenile delinquency, crime, poverty, alcoholism, racial discrimination, and family disorganization can be categorized as social problems. Thus, the word “condition” in my study related to the character’s condition of life that brings her to her professions.

  According to Kimball Young is his book Personality and Problems

  

of Adjustment, personality is some special, largely mysterious, quality of an

individual which attracts the attention of others.

  Based on Murray’s book Motivation and Emotion, motive is an internal factor that arouses, directs, and integrates a person’s behavior. And according to Kagan and Havemann in their book Psychology: An Introduction, motive means a desire for goal that has acquired value for the individual.

  According to Bruno (1986: 7) motivation is a term employed generally for the phenomena involved in the operation incentives, drives, and motives. However, the term motive is defined as a desire or a wish. As Kartono (1997: 270) says, motivation is an internal process that controls behavior is order to achieve certain goals which have been planned. Behavior is also influenced by a need for something. Murray (1964: 8) defines motivation as a desire that has certain goal to be obtained.

  From the explanation above, my topic is about how social condition affects Suzie Wong’s personalities based on her motive and the writer wants to show that there are some patterns that are described in the story that is also can be

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW A. Review of Related Studies This part contains the review on Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong or other works with the same topic. The World of Suzie Wong is written by a British novelist, Richard Mason. His experiences while living in Hong Kong inspired him to write The World of Suzie Wong . The novel was adapted into a play in 1958 and later into a film in 1960. Usually prostitute is described as a woman that does not have the

  right to do what she wants to do; she is forced to do things especially by man. But what makes this novel unique for the writer is Suzie Wong has her own characteristics but sometimes she cannot refuse that she is a prostitute. “The most interesting and unique feature of the character of Suzie Wong is that she is not a common whore, lacking in self-respect. She is pragmatic but also a dreamer, a person with her own principles and character. For example, she does not sleep around. She is the classic embodiment of the person with a heart of gold.” (Law Kar, http://sunzi!.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/35/3500489.pdf). It explains about Suzie Wong’s characteristic that she is a prostitute but she has a strong point of view so she did something because she likes it and she wants it, she is a person that cannot be forced to do something.

  One thing that the writer thinks very important in the novel is the social condition that is experienced by the main character, Suzie Wong. Like what was said by Law Kar, ”The surroundings of Suzie's world are characterized by a great gap between poverty and riches. It is a multi-colored but pestilential world, full of crises (the poverty, the crowds, the natural and human disasters waiting to befall).” http://sunzi!.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/35/3500489.pdf).

  The writer found out that the Chinese and the Westerners are very different. In the novel, the Western people are described as high class social status people so when Suzie Wong went to a restaurant with Robert Lomax, they are very surprised because they think usually the Chinese women are prostitute especially if they come from Wanchai.

  They are hard-working and have a strong sense of loyalty to each other. Indeed they are principled and dignified human beings, who need love and sympathy more than they need the security of the almighty American dollar. And the Americans? Fortunately, they are the "internationalists" — the people with the human values, the love and the money. (Law Kar,

  http://sunzi!.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/35/3500489.pdf ).

  The quotation above explains about the difference between Chinese and Westerners. It shows that Chinese are hard worker and loyal to their friends and relatives. But Westerners, they are conceited and too proud of their own self. They always put other race and other people under their status because they feel that they are wealthy, elegant, cultured, and honorable.

  Nowadays the prostitutes in China do not know about the story of Suzie Wong may be because they cannot read and write like Suzie Wong (like not have time to do something like that because their time is seized for their job. Although the prostitutes in China never read “The World of Suzie Wong” novel, the story is popular among the prostitutes; may be through mouth-to-mouth storytelling and it becomes their motivation to be a respectable woman like Suzie Wong because it gives them hope to keep trying to reach their dream.

  “The hostesses of modern times don't even know Suzie nor have they read the book. But they too would cheer her story, the way the hostesses of the 50's did, championing Suzie's cause to become "a respectable girl." (Bernard M. Patten, http://www.amazon.com/World-Suzie-Wong-Richard-Mason/product- reviews/0848800524/ref=pr_all_summary_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewp oints=1, accessed on 4 July 2009)

  To know what happen in our society is a benefit because we cannot forget that we live in a society and it will be pleasure if we can also make some changes that will bring our people into better life and better future and the writer thinks that her research is different from other people because she brings that mission and she wants to share it to the society.

B. Review of Related Theories

1. Theory on Character

  In Stanton An Introduction to Fiction, he tells us that character is holding a main responsibility in the flow of a story. Therefore, it can make the story more alive. Character is generally used in two ways. The first, character of interests, desires, emotion, and moral principles that make up each of the person. A character’s reason for behaving as he does is his motivation (1965: 17). It means that in a story, there are some characters and the characters are holding the flow of the story and makes the story interesting. And a character’s behavior is shaped because he or she has motivation on their life. Without any motivation, a character is not interesting anymore because motivation is an important element of a story and motivation shows the character’s behavior and the way he or she faces problems. Motivation is someone’s desire to make it come true and usually it is not just for his or her own importance but also the importance of other people such as his or her children, parents, friends, etc.

  So a useful question to begin with, in observing the mental life of any character, is what main desires or traits move him, and what opposing traits put him under strain (Eastman, 1965: 23). Characters always felt happy and sad. They always have climax in the story and everything that happened to them always affects their life. When a character accepts what had happened in their life, it will strengthen their mental life. And one thing that makes them strong is because they have motivation in their life and they would not give up at the motivation although the way to realize it is very hard.

  Eastman also said that to show just how background gives its bent to a character, certain early formative experiences might be dramatized in detail.

  The so-called developmental novel, which carries a protagonist from childhood to maturity, will elaborate the origins of personality on the largest

  These theories are best suited to find Richard Mason’s reason for making Suzie Wong as the main character. It is because she is unique and her life is interesting to be known by readers. She suffers from her childhood by losing her parents and raped by her uncle, till she is adult and has a baby from a man who did not responsible for Suzie and the baby. Her beauty supports her job as a prostitute although she is uneducated and her journey of life was not really well as an ordinary woman until she found her own happiness and her life together with Robert Lomax. This is a story that has to be read because this story also reflects the condition that happens into other women in the real life.

2. Theory on Characterization

  Character will have no meaning without characterization. Abrams (1981: 21) defines characterization as process for distinguishing the person in a narrative. This process may use two techniques, they are showing and telling. In showing, (the dramatic method), the author simply presents his characters are talking and acting. He leaves the reader to infer the motives and disposition lay behind what they say and do. In telling, the author intervenes authoritatively in order to describe and to evaluate the motives and dispositional qualities of his characters.

  Holman and Harmon (1986: 83) define characterization as the creation of the imaginary person in fiction so that they are present for the life, so they may share the same character. To make the story appealing to the readers, the author builds these characters.

  To show the aspects of his characters in the story, the author uses characterization. According to Murphy (1972: 161-171) there are nine ways to make characters more alive through characterization, namely personal description, characters as seen by others, speech, past life, conversation of others, reaction, direct comments, thought, and mannerism. The explanation of those nine ways as follows.

  a. Personal Description What the author means by personal description is that the author can describe a person’s appearance and clothes in the story.

  b. Character as Seen by Another The author tries to describe a character through the eyes and opinions of another. Through the other’s eyes and opinions, the readers may get a reflected image.

  c. Speech The author gives an insight into the character of one of the person in the book through what the person says. Whenever a person speaks, whenever he is in conversation with another, whenever he puts forward an opinion, he is giving the reader some clues to his character.

  d. Past Life By letting the reader learn something about a person’s past life, the character. This can be done by direct comment by the author, through the person’s thoughts, through his conversation or through the medium of another person.

  e. Conversation of Others Through the conversation of other people and the things they say about someone, the author can also give us clues of person’s character. People do talk about other and the things they say usually can give us a clue to the character of the person spoken about.

  f. Reaction Knowing a person’s character can also be observed by knowing how that person reacts or respond to various situations and events that are presented by the author.

  g. Direct Comment The author can describe or comment on a person’s character directly.

  By giving comment explicitly, the reader will not be left in doubt to know

  h. Thoughts The readers can know one’s character through the direct knowledge of what a person has in mind presented by the author. i. Mannerism

  The author can describe a person’s mannerism, habit, or idiosyncrasies which may also tell us something about his character.

  In his book, Perrine (1974: 69) states “there are three related behavior that they must not behave one way on one occasion and a different way on another unless there is a sufficient reason for the change. Second, the character must be motivated in whatever they do, especially when there is a change in their behavior. We must able to understand the reason for what they do. It can be found in the beginning or the end of the story. Third, the character must be plausible or lifelike. It means that they are not paragons of virtue or monster of evil or impossible combination of contradictory traits.

3. Theory on Personality

  According to Kimball Young is his book Personality and Problems of

  

Adjustment , personality is some special, largely mysterious, quality of an

  individual which attracts the attention of others. Though personality certainly has to do with how one individual influences another, to understand the personality we need to discover the internal factors which lie behind his actions. We want to find out his motives or “reasons” for acting, and how he looks upon himself (1945: 3). He also said:

  Since the basic elements of personality are determined in the earliest years, we shall necessarily consider the growth of attitudes and habits within the family and other primary groups. Then, too, the critical years of adolescence, with their important problems of emancipation from the home, the emergence of love patterns for the opposite sex, and the coming of mature freedom and its accompanying responsibility, must be discussed if we are to understand many of the features of adult adaptation (1945: 13-14).

  Psychological theories are important to this analysis because elements and associationism, some the highly unique and individualized nature if the total personality. Others center their attention on the interactional and social- cultural factors in personal development (1945: 285). Some of them have emphasized the importance of social interaction in the genesis and operation of the self; others have given chief attention to the particular social situation to which the individual is constantly reacting. Some stress the place of cultural training in the emergence of ideas, traits, attitudes, values, and habits (1945: 295). Still in Young’s theory, if we wish to understand the personal characteristics of those whom society labels as criminals, we need to take into account both the cultural and the psychological factors. Crime is a form of deviant behavior, which runs counter to the accepted conduct norms of a given society (1945: 661)

4. Theory on Motive and Theory on Motivation

  John Jung, the author of Understanding Human Motivation: a

  

Cognitive Approach , said that in general, we speak of motives we are referring to

  the causes or reasons that underlie a given behavior (1978: 4). He also said that human are continually interpreting the complex pattern of behavior they observe in others as well as in themselves. We try to explain our actions in terms of motives that are regarded as causes of behavior. Similarly we try to infer the underlying motivational causes of the behavior of others (1978: 5).

  Delos H. Kelly said intention is something that we “have in mind” when we act and a motive is strictly speaking, that which moves a person to act.

  According to Murray (1964: 7) motivation is a desire. It is related to behavior because it is involved in all kinds of behavior: learning, performing, perceiving, attending, remembering, forgetting, thinking, creating, and feeling. Motivation affects someone’s behavior, because motivation may function as incentive for someone to behave in certain manner. For example: a mother will work hard in order to fulfill her family needs and she is motivated by her desire to fulfill the family needs. Her motivation will influence her to behave in specific way which supports her to fulfill the needs, such as finding a job, working hard, providing some money, even sacrificing herself (like in the story, the main character is sacrificing herself to be a prostitute in order to fulfill her baby needs and also to give the baby a better future).

5. Theory on Criminal Factor and Behavior

  In our concept, when someone is very conservative, mostly they judge something from its looks, from the outside; for example when someone is tattooed or have a long hair (in this case refers to male), they think that this kind of person is a bad person; or when someone has a divorced parent, he or she must be using drugs or anything else. It is similar to a quotation which is taken from The

  

Psychology of Work and Human Performance by Robert D. Smither; in addition,

  diversity programs often start with negative assumptions about the backgrounds, schooling, and experiences of minority employees (1994:340); means that a diversion of a social group mostly based from a negative assumption like when also be humiliated. We just see something from its appearance, from its cover and many times we do not want to see it further because we think that we are better than anything or anyone else. Like Suzie Wong, she comes from a poor family, no education, no upbringing from anyone, and she lacks of love from people around her so she just goes with her destiny without any trial to get better with her life and she just becomes friends with her surroundings because no one cares about her before Robert Lomax come and change her life.

  An expert named Delos H. Kelly said that most of us, at some time, have committed illegal acts. Yet few of us would consider ourselves as criminals.

  But there are those who do view themselves as criminals and who act in accordance with their profession and its associated label. The professional fence, the street hustler, the prostitute, the check forger, the con artist, and the hit man are examples. Why people choose to violate law has long been a subject of debate.

  Some investigators have been concerned with how actors become exposed to and learn criminal values and traditions. Some have stressed biological or psychological factors, while others have concentrated on societal conditions. If race and poverty emerge as strong correlates of crime, then attempts to explain motivation should acknowledge these factors. Unfortunately, many of the well- known statements advanced to explain crime lack grounding in empirical reality or the real world; this situation no doubt partially accounts for the level of theorizing that plagues the study of crime (1980: 3). He also explained that people, male or female, who become prostitutes consciously, decide to pursue