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1. Frank Money
Frank is one of the main characters in Home. He is a Korean War veteran. He moved from Texas to Lotus, Georgia with his family, he lives in his grandmother’s
house until his parents can rent a house for them to live. His characteristics play an important role in the reactions toward class repression. Frank’s characteristics are
chosen by the writer because he is one of the main characters. In this part, the writer depicts the characteristics of Frank Money in Home, uses the theory of
characterization as stated in Chapter II.
a. Brave
Frank is an African American Korean War soldier who tried to escape from the hospital where the soldiers are looked after. In analyzing this part, the writer applies
the theory of characterization, it focuses on the reactions of the character. Frank shows how brave he is, when he has to choose the right decision in the hard situation.
Four a.m., before sunrise, he managed to loosen the canvas cuffs, unshackle himself, and rip off the hospital gown. He put on his army pants and jacket and
crept shoeless down the hall. Except for the weeping from the room next to the fire exit, all was quiet-no squeak of an orderly’s shoes or smothered giggles, and
no smell of cigarette smoke. The hinges groaned when he opened the door and the cold hit him like a hammer Morrison, 2012 :10-11
According to the quotation above the way Frank escape is considered as a brave action because he will be killed, when someone or the nurse saw him.
The author comment on Frank’s characteristic directly. “Now, with Mike gone, he was brave, whatever that meant.” Morrison, 2012: 98. The author
comments that after Mike, Frank’s best friend died in the battlefield, Frank became a brave man.
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The two quotations mention above gives a picture of what one of the Frank’s characteristics are. Frank was a child who grew as a brave man while he joined the
army. Frank knew what he had to do when the situation was getting harder. He had to escape from the hospital even though the risk is death when someone recognized him.
Both quotations are taken by the writer to prove the characteristics of Frank. Frank is a brave man to take high risk of death and it was shaped while he joined the army.
b. Caring
Frank is described also as a caring man for his family and his one and only younger sister Ycidra. Frank experiences the condition living with his mean
grandmother Lenore and the tough life brings him to be a caring man. He is the one that can protect Ycidra in their grandmother house while their parents work or even
when Ycidra socializes with her friends. Frank is very protective becomes the reason of Ycidra not to have a boyfriend yet. The writer sees the direct comment from the
author to get more clues about Frank’s characters. “When Cee and a few other girls reached fourteen and start talking about boys, she was prevented from any real
flirtation because of her big brother.” Morrison, 2012: 47. Frank cares of Ycidra or called as Cee that much. He would not let any boys to get closer to see and hurts her.
The writer analyzes also the characterization of Frank which can be seen from Ycidra’s thought mentioned as follows:
Ycidra agreed with Thelma about her foolishness, but more than anything she wanted desperately to talk to her brother. Her letters to him were about
weather and Lotus gossip. Devious. But she knew that if she could see him, tell him, he would not laugh at her, quarrel, or condemn. He would, as always,
protect her from a bad situation Morrison, 2012: 51.
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from the quotation above known from Ycidra’s thought that she misses her brother. She knows that Frank would protect her no matter what. She could tell frank about
anything that she would to tell about. Frank is the one that will always stand beside her to make sure that everything is going right.
The way Frank treated his sister, Ycidra, can also be seen from another Ycidra’s thoughts as mentioned by the writer in the following quotation.
Standing at the window, wrapped in the scratchy towel, Cee felt her heart breaking. If Frank were there he would once more touch the top of her head
with four fingers, or stroke her nape with his thumb. Don’t cry, said the fingers; the welts will disappear. Don’t cry; Mama is tired; she didn’t mean it.
Don’t cry, don’t cry girl; I’m here. But he wasn’t there or anywhere near Morrison, 2012: 53.
Frank is the one that she always thinks about when they are separated. Frank is the brother that she always runs to when she gets any problem. Frank also calms
her down when Lenore did something rude to her and told her that Lenore actually did not mean to do a bad thing to her. Take care of his own sister is the thing that
brother has to do and it is a common thing but here the writer sees Frank as a caring man because Frank does not stop to take care of Ycidra, anywhere and anytime.
c. Friendly
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