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Cars passed them and once they overtook a car, a very slow one because Bruno’s car couldn’t go fast. Most of the things Liza saw
she had seen before or else seen them on television, if not in colour. It was different in the town, mainly because there were so
many people. The numbers of people staggered her so that she was afraid.
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Liza who never sees a town before, is amazed by the new environment she sees. In the same time she is scared because of it. Thus, she gets dizzy.
The boy walking along in front of her stuck out his leg and tripped up the boy beside him so that the second one staggered and nearly fell into the
road in front of an oncoming car and a girl screamed and another one started shouting. Liza felt herself shrink back against Mother and hold on
to her hand more tightly. She had realized what was making her feel dizzy: the noise.
p.153
As meeting new people, Liza is also afraid of facing completely new environments. New things cause fear to her, especially those which are noisy
because she has always been living in a quiet place. This happens because she has to meet gaps suddenly. Thus, she experiences a culture shock.
2. Liza’s Curiousity
Typically, human has curiousity to new things. However, curiousity generally fades away as human gets into those new things habitually and not
considers them as amazing things. Petri 1981:6 writes that one of the construct behind motivation is learning. Learning provides answers to every human’s
curiousity. Maslow in Franken 2002:15 calls it as the cognitive needs. Since her mother choice of lifestyles limits her experiences in life, she has her own
curiousity in facing things. Here, I analyze two things that Liza is curious to know: the difference between men and women and the little room in Shrove
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a. The Difference Between Men and Women
Her isolated life limits Liza’s interaction with people. She does not have much understanding about the difference between men and women. It also makes
her lack of people names. When Jonathan Tobias gives her a doll, she gets confused in giving a name to it.
‘What shall you call her, Liza? Said Mr Tobias in his softest sweetest voice.
‘Jonathan,’ said Liza That made them both laugh.
‘Jonathan is a man’s name, Lizzie, and she’s a girl. Think again.’ ‘I don’t know any girls’ names.’
‘What were the ladies called who stayed with you?’ ‘Last weekend? They were called Annabel, and Victoria and Claire.’
‘I shall call her Annabel,’ said Liza p.84
For years
she has the understanding that every man is fair-haired and every woman has dark hair. It is because men she has seen are fair-
haired. The milk man is fair-haired, the mail man is fair-haired, and Mr
Frost, the gardener, is also fair-haired. Jonathan Tobias is fair-haired, Matt is
also fair-haired. While the women she has seen have dark hair. Her
mother has dark golden-brown hair, her hair is just the same as her mother, and Annabel, Victoria, and Claire have dark hair too. However, when she
meets a lady while walking with her mother in the lane, she gets confused. That is when Liza has to revise her ideas on her hair colour-sex-linkage theory, for the
lady’s hair is blonde p.70. Liza’s lack of understanding about men and women is basically caused by
her mother’s choice of lifestyle. Her mother who chooses to live a simple life, far from any places, causes Liza not to have any friends. This means she will not have
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