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Then, I collected some secondary sources in the library to find books of literature and psychology. The secondary sources are books related to motivation
and literature theories, and also some books from the internet to complete the sources that cannot be found in library. In the end, I use some theories that are
suitable for this study to support my findings. In the process of analyzing the novel, I focused on the characters of
Caroline and the motivations of Caroline to be a foster mother in taking care of the girl with down syndrome. In the first point, Carolines characters are really
needed to be discussed. By finding the characters, I could answer the second point and found out that Caroline’s characters affect her motivation in taking care of
Phoebe. Then, I related these characters and motivation using psychological approach theory. In the end, the conclusion of this analysis can be achieved.
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CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS
This chapter is to find out the two problems appeared in the problem formulation. First, it discusses the analysis of Caroline’s character portrayed in
this novel. Second, it is about what motivate Caroline to be a foster mother to take care of the girl with down syndrome.
A. The Description of Caroline’s Character
In the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Caroline Lorraine Gill becomes one of the major characters in this novel. Kim Edwards, the writer,
employs the two methods of analyzing the character, which are telling and showing are included to tell the story. Klarer 1999, in his theory, supports this
study to find the character and characterization implicitly and explicitly p. 19. In the theory of character and characterization, it has been discussed that
Klarer 1999 and Eastman 1965 represented two kinds of character, which are typified character flat and individualized character round. From this novel,
Caroline as one of the major characters is analyzed as an individualized character round. This type of character experiences the changes of her character after
encountering some problems in this novel. Kim Edwards clearly develops Caroline’s characteristics from the way she confronts all that happened in her life.
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1. Physical Description
As written in the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, David Henry describes Caroline as a blue-eyed woman with a pale face. In defining Caroline’s
physical description, the theory employed is by Abrams 1999 who states that character can be interpreted by his dialogue and action p. 33-34. It bears out that
both dialogue and action are completed one another. In this case, Kim Edwards employs David Henry’s thought to portray her physical description. David Henry
makes his judgment after looking at Caroline. The nurse met them. The moment he saw her, he knew something was
wrong. She had large blue eyes in a pale face that might have been forty or twenty-five, and whenever something was not to her liking a thin vertical
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Beside she has blue eyes and pale face, the narrator describes Caroline as a tall, thin, and angular woman. The description is stated clearly in the first chapter of
this novel. “The nurse nodded. She was tall. So thin and angular it seemed the bones might poke from beneath her skin at any moment. Her large blue eyes were
solemn and intelligent” 15. In addition, to describe her appearance, Caroline’s age is also stated in this
novel which is in her thirties. It is noted by the narrator. “For Caroline Gill was thirty-one, and she had been waiting a long time for her real life to begin” 31.
2. Personality Description a. Responsible
This personality description is stated clearly in this novel. According to Klarer 1999, explanatory characterization telling describes a person through a
narrator p. 19. Caroline’s first duty is to bring the baby to the institution chosen
