from him. Tom can just ignore her, and he saves a hundreds dollar a month, but he chooses different ways, the way that other man maybe avoid it. He chooses
a good ways with send Maria and her child money every month. It shows that Tom is a responsible man.
3. Too Obsessed by Money and Having Less Time for His Family
Tom Rath is a hardworker. He works day and night, even in the weekend. He’s really money oriented. Money is very important to Tom. Recently, he
wants to move his children’s school to the better one, and it’s not cheap to find a better school, moreover a private school, it’s really expensive. So, to create
his dream to make more money, he joins withUnited Broadcasting Corporation. Tom has faith that in this company he can make a lot of money, enough for his
family. The following quotation is the evidence when Tom joins the company. “Why do you want to work for he United Broadcasting Company? Walker
asked abruptly. It’s a good company...Tom began hesitantly, and was suddenly impatient at the need for hipocrisy.” p. 10
After joining with the United Broadcasting Company, Tom become super
busy. There’s no time for his wife and children. His boss also tell him that he is kind of hardworker. Moreover Tom joins a special project with his boss, no
more holidays at the week end. Tom realize about this thing, he doesn’t want his family lost a figure of a father. So he tells his boss that he doesn’t want to
join the special project anymore. He prefer works on a reguler schedule. This can make Tom has a time with his family. The following quotation is a
conversation between Tom and Betsy.
“I’m going back to work on mental health commiittee. I’m going to be its director, at least for a while. You and I will have plenty of time to
ourselves. No more working every week end.” p. 264 With this moment, Tom can more focus on his family’s life. no more
distractions from his work’s problem.
C. The Moral Values
As human being, man learns some values from his own experience. Some of those values teach him how to be a better person.In this section, the writer
wants to answer the last question from the problem formulation. Based on the previous part, there are some values that can derived from Tom Rath.
1. Being Honest Brings a Good Effects
From the previous section, the writer has explained that Tom is an honest person. He never worries about failure because of his honesty. As long as he tells
the truth, he believes that something good will happen.As a person who works in the business world, honesty is one thing that help him to stay humble and stay
away from the troubles. The biggest honesty from Tom in this novel is happened when she told his wife that he had son from another woman. That was really
amazing. He dares to confess about his mistakes in the past. Tom ready with all risks that he will get.
“He had an impulse simply to give her Maria’s letter and the photograph, but decided that would be cruel. There was an awkward silence which he
realized must be painfull to her. There was a child, he began. A child? During the war in Rome. What child? A child of mine. You had a child?
Yes”. p. 273-274
