38 he sees one of her eyes is bruised. Jamal asks Latika to go with him, but she does
not want to. JAMAL
Come away with me. LATIKA
Chutiye. Away where? And live on what? What can you provide? What have you got, Jamal?
JAMAL Love I, CXXXVIII, 93.
Jamal tells her that he has love, since it never ends because he thinks that love can make her happy. Latika refuses Jamal to run away with him. However, he always
tries to make them being together again. LATIKA
You want to do something for me? JAMAL
Anything. LATIKA
Then forget me. JAMAL
I’ll wait at VT station. Five o’clock every day until you come. I, CXXXVIII, 95
Even though Latika asks him to forget her, Jamal still wants them to be together.
It is proved when he waits her at the VT station every d ay at five o’clock. One
day, Latika comes to the station, but before Jamal comes closer to her, Salim and the gang have dragged her into the car.
To get Latika again, Jamal comes to Javed’s house. However, he cannot find Salim because Salim is at Javed’s new house. In Javed’s old house, Jamal
calls Salim. JAMAL
Where are you? Where is she? SALIM
Where you’ll never find her. Or me. You could have joined us, you PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
39 bloody idiot, been one of us. You’ve lost everything now.
Everything I, CL, 103. Salim
then cuts the line. Jamal goes back to Salim’s apartment. He is sitting on the floor while hearing the sound of Prem’s voice on the Who Wants to be a
Millionaire quiz saying “…if you want a chance to play Who Wants to be a
Millionaire, call now…” He looks up and stares at the TV I, CLI, 104. It makes
Jamal decide to join the quiz. When Jamal becomes the contestant of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire
quiz, in the middle of the quiz he has no idea about the answer of a question. In the break session, Jamal and Prem go to the toilet together. There is a
conversation between them there. PREM
A guy from the slums becomes a millionaire overnight. You know the only other person who’s done that? Me. I know what it’s like. I
know what you’ve been through. JAMAL
I’m not going to become a millionaire. I don’t know the answer I, CXLIV, 97.
Prem was a slumdog who now becomes a rich person after winning the same quiz. However, Jamal says that he is not going to be a millionaire. Therefore, he does
not look confused when he does not know the answer. From Jamal’s sentence, it can be seen that Jamal’s purpose is not to get the prize, but to reach something
else. He does not even believe Prem when Prem offers him an answer of the question. He guesses the answer by himself instead of using Prem’s answer.
Fortunately, Jamal’s answer is correct I, CXLIV, 98. One more question left and Jamal is reported to the police by the host. He
is suspected for cheating. From what Jamal says to the inspector, the readers know PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
40 the reality about him. He tells the inspector everything about his experiences as
well as his feeling to Latika. INSPECTOR
And did she come back? Jamal smiles sadly.
JAMAL I wouldn’t be here if she had.” I, XLV, 31
From the conversation, it tells the readers that Jamal has not found Latika and still wants to find her. It can be said that Jamal joins the quiz because he wants to find
her somewhere and wants her to come back. Since Latika likes to watch the TV program, he is sure that she will see him there.
After being proved to be innocent, Jamal continues the quiz for his last question. However, he cannot answer it and decides to call Salim to ask the
answer. While calling Salim’s phone, there is no answer from his brother because
Latika brings it. After realizing that she brings the phone and leaves it in the car, she runs to pick it up and finally they are able to talk to each other again. Jamal
talks to Latika for several seconds and makes him surprised yet feels happy. PREM
Okay So, Latika, you want to hear the question one more time? And let’s be clear about this. Twenty million rupees ride on your
answer. You have thirty seconds. Jamal, please read out the question to Latika.
JAMAL Is that really you?
LATIKA Yes.
PREM The question, Jamal.
JAMAL In Alexandre Dumas’ book, The Three Musketeers, two of the
musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What was the name of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
41 the third musketeer. Was it A Aramis, B Cardinal Richelieu, C
D’Artagnan, D Planchet. Silence. The electronic clock ticks loudly.
PREM Fifteen seconds.
JAMAL Where are you?
LATIKA I’m- I’m safe.
PREM Ten seconds. So, Latika, what do you think?
Silence I, CXC, 117. In the limited time given, Jamal uses the time to ask about Latik
a’s condition. However, in this last question, Latika does not know the answer and Jamal has to
guess it by himself. Fortunat ely, Jamal’s answer leads him to become the winner
of the quiz and gets 20 million rupees as the top prize. In the end of the story, Jamal and Latika meet each other in the station.
LATIKA I thought we would meet again only in death.
He shakes his head. JAMAL
I knew you’d be watching I, CXCVII, 121. Jamal’s decision in joining the quiz happens after he meets Latika and asks her to
go with him. It can be said that Latika is the main reason for him to join the quiz. Realizing that he has nothing but love, Jamal wants to prove it to Latika
that people can be happy with love. In conclusion, the surface meaning of Jamal Malik
’s motivation in joining the Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz is not to be rich like everyone’s purpose, but to meet Latika. Being separated for several times
makes Jamal want to be together and reunite again with her. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
42
2. The Deeper Meaning of Jamal Malik’s Motivation
Deeper meaning is the real meaning which shows the reality depicted in the script. The deeper meaning is analyzed through the surface meaning and the
motivation of the main character. Petri 1981 says that motivation is the concept to describe the forces acting or within an individual to start and direct behavior.
From this, Jamal must have something that forces him to act and start his behavior. In this case is something that leads and motivates him to join the Who
Wants to be a Millionaire .
From Jamal’s characteristics, the writer can analyze the motivation of Jamal Malik in joining the quiz. Jamal is a brave person. To find Latika, Jamal
goes to Maman’s house where Latika becomes a prostitute there. He goes there bravely even though his friend has reminded him that it is dangerous. Jamal is
also an introvert person because he is never seen being together with his friends when he grows up. He is always by himself whenever he goes. When he is a kid,
he always goes everywhere with his brother, Salim, after a rioter kills his mother. After the riot, he meets Latika and it makes him spend his days together with
Salim and her. However, when Salim and Latika leave him, he continues his life alone. He even does not have other people’s phone number except Salim. Besides,
Jamal is also emotional. He punches Salim when they meet each other after they are separated. He does not like how Salim leaves him alone and does bad things
toward him and someone he loves. The writer uses psychological approach to analyze Jamal Malik’s motivation in joining Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz
from those characteristics. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
43 According to Maslow 1943, human motivation can be classified into five
stages of needs. Therefore, in order to know Jamal Malik’s motivation in joining the quiz, Maslow’s five stages of needs have to be analyzed.
Jamal lives together with Salim and Latika as the three musketeers after his mother is killed. His first meeting with Latika is when they are running away from
a riot in his village. At first, Latika is too afraid to come closer to Jamal and Salim. When it is raining, she just looks at them from distance under the rain.
However, Jamal comes to her and asks her about her family. From that time, Jamal and Latika are being friends and he always shows his kindness to Latika
like giving his plastic sheet to her because she is wet. Poverty makes them live miserably. They live wherever they can and
nothing to eat since they do not have anything. One day, a person named Maman comes to them and gives them place to stay and food to eat. The three of them are
very happy and pretend him as a saint I, LV, 35. They do what Maman asks them to do without complaining. The lack of knowledge makes Jamal, Latika and
Salim are easy to be used by bad people. There, they are asked to be a beggar and promised to have a good life with much money.
Maman is someone who likes to take care of homeless children. He usually uses them to earn much money by asking them to beg for money in the road.
Maman wants the kids to sing a song in front of him in order to choose those who have good voices. Jamal knows that those who sing well will earn much money.
Therefore, he imagines something that may happen to him. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
44 All the children are asleep apart from Jamal who is crouched underneath a
couple of wash-basins. He is talking through a plate-sized hole in the crumbling masonry. Latinka’s eyes can be seen.
JAMAL …weddings, government things, big parties. If Maman says my
voice is ready. Big money. LATIKA
Enough for a room? JAMAL
Easily. Maybe an apartment LATIKA
Really? JAMAL
That’s what Arvind said. On Harbour Road. You, me, and Salim. The three musketeers.
LATIKA Harbour Road We can have ice cream from Babanji’s.
JAMAL Every day if we want. I, LXII, 40
Jamal has imagined about how he will become after Maman hears the way he sings. He positively thinks that Maman is his stepping-stone to be a successful
person who can live comfortably and do whatever he wants. However, on the other hand, Maman wants to make Jamal blind because he has a good voice.
Before Maman makes him eyeless, the three of them run away to avoid Maman by jumping into a moving train. However, Latika is left behind and catched by
Maman’s people I, LXVIII, 43. According to Maslow’s five stages of needs, the lower stage that should be
fulfilled first is the physiological need. In Jamal’s case, Jamal’s physiological need is enough. He is a healthy person who has no problem physically or
mentally. Even though he is a poor person, when he grows up, he was never seen starving or very thirsty. Jamal also has no difficulties in sleeping and eating.
Therefore, Jamal’s physiological need is already fulfilled. The next need that PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
45 emerges is the safety need. Jamal
’s safety need actually is fulfilled after Jamal freed himself from Maman
. However, Jamal’s safeness is not really fulfilled. In this case is the safeness of Jamal and Latika. After Maman’s people catch Latika,
Jamal and Salim continue their life together out of Mumbai. One day, Jamal asks Salim to go back to Mumbai in order to find Latika.
In one afternoon, Jamal meets Arvind, the boy who is blinded by Maman. Arvind is singing to beg for some money when Jamal meets him. He tells Jamal
that Latika is in Maman’s place becoming a prostitute. Jamal and Salim
immediately go there and successfully bring her away from Maman’s people
because Maman is killed by Salim. They go to a hotel together and stay for a night.
In the hotel room, Jamal and Latika have a good time together while Salim disappears and no one knows where he is. Even though Jamal and Latika are in a
safe place because Maman’s people will not catch them, Latika still feels worry that they will catch them again. However, Jamal loses her worry.
Jamal and Latika lie on the bed, drunk, though still coherent. Latika is dressed in the Belly-
Boy’s jacket and the old lunghi. LATIKA
Maman’s gang will haunt us. You know that? JAMAL
I don’t care. LATIKA
Me neither. They burst into laughter I, CV, 70.
Even though they have run away from Maman, Latika still worries about Maman’s people. However, Jamal just enjoys the night without thinking about
46 Maman’s people. He thinks that he is safe and he is happy to be able to find
Latika. On the other hand, Salim does not appear in the hotel room because he
goes to Javed, Maman’s enemy, to join the gang. After joining the gang, Salim comes back to the hotel and takes Latika with him.
SALIM Hey.
Jamal opens his eyes. Jamal is standing over them, swaying with alcohol. JAMAL
Salim? He puts his hand out to Latika.
SALIM Come.
JAMAL No. salim…. Bhai, you’ve had a lot to drink…
Jamal tries to get up, but Salim’s hand is round his throat and pushes him down on the bed.
SALIM I am the elder. And I am the boss. For once, you do as I say.
JAMAL No.
Salim pulls Latika to her feet. SALIM
I saved your bloody life, didn’t I? LATIKA
Salim, please- SALIM
- chup, sali.
As he turns, pulling a protesting Latika, Jamal leaps on him. The two brothers go down fighting, but of course it is Salim who comes up on top.
Latika launches herself at Salim, but he smashes her away, almost delighted that she has joined in. he drags Jamal to the door, laughing I,
CVII, 72.
Salim takes Latika to Javed. Jamal tries to save Latika, but he cannot since Salim
is stronger than him. From this, Jamal has to be separated again with Latika for the second time. This time, Jamal loses her for quite a long time. He continuous
his life alone until he grows up and works in a call center office as a tea boy. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
