character that is caused by her family member. The fourth was analyzing and identifying the impact of the conflicts to her personality development and mental life.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
The focus of this undergraduate thesis is the personality development of the main character, named Pari, and conflicts that affect the main character’s personality to
change or develop. Since this study using psychological approach which is based on Freud’s theory, the scope of the development or change that is experienced by the
main character is in the scope of three stages of mind introduced by Freud, which are Id, Ego and Superego. Oedipal phase also involves in the personality development of
the main character that affects her way in making decisions. In a brief, the focus is on the main character’s Id especially its role in driving the main character’s decision.
The role of Id also affects the development of oedipal phase which is experienced by the main character.
Based on the research questions in problem formulation, there are three steps in analyzing the main character’s personality development. First, characterize the main
character using the theory of character and characterization. In this part the writer describes the character of the main character in her early life. The way the main
character acts, thinks, and says which are described by the author of the novel are the important thing that influence how to describe the main character’s personality in her
early life. Second, identify the conflicts that are experienced by the main character in the story by applying the theory of conflict. In this part the focus will be on the family
conflict or the conflicts that happen in the scope of family. Third, analyzing Pari’s personality using theory of personality and how the conflicts affect her character.
A. The Characterization of Pari
Considering this undergraduate thesis uses Freud’s theory which focuses on the role of Id, Ego, Superego and Female Oedipus Complex in analyzing the main
character’s personality, so it is important to analyze the childhood of the main character, especially her personality. Based on the theory of character and
characterization that is stated by Robert and Jacobs, there are four important points that are applied to convey information of the character in a fiction. Those points are,
what the character themselves say and think, if the author express her thoughts, what the character does, what the other characters say about her, and what the author
say about her 1987:123. The following points below are the characteristics of the main character in her early life or her childhood which has been analyzed using
theory of character and characterization. The writer decides to apply the theory of personality in order to make the comparison about the role of Id is easier to be
analyzed, since the focus is on the role of Id before and after the main character experiencing the conflict. The characteristics that are found describe how the role of
Id within Pari’s mind. So, the following characteristics are considered as the characteristics that describe how Pari’s Id creates Pari as a person who has these two
characteristics.
1. Spoiled
In her early life, when Pari stays in Afghanistan, one of her personality that is clearly
described by the author is spoiled. Little Pari is shown as a spoiled child. She is described, as the child who has many wishes. Because of Abdullah’s habit who
treats and pleased Pari, she assumes that everyone will do the same thing to her. She expresses it the most to her father.
After the mother’s death, Pari’s brother named Abdullah treats his sister well. He treats Pari better than his father does. It is caused by the limited time had by their
father. The way Abdullah treats Pari is a bit excessive. It is shown when Abdullah wants to trade his shoes for a peacock’s feather to see the joy of her little sister, Pari.
;and the one of which Pari was proudest, an iridescent green peacock feather with a beautiful large eye at the tip.
This last was a gift Abdullah had given her two months earlier. He had heard of a boy from another village whose family owned a peacock. One day when
Father was away digging ditches in a town south of Shadbagh, Abdullah walked to this other village, found the boy, and asked him for a feather from
the bird. Negotiation enured, at the end of which Abdullah agreed to trade his shoes for the feather 2013:22-23.
But when he knelt beside pari, gently shook her awake from a nap, and produce the feather from the behind like a magician, it was all worth it-worth
it for the way her face broke open with surprise first, then delight; for the way she stamped his cheeks with kisses, for how she cackled when he
tickled her chin with the soft end of the feather-and suddenly his feet didn’t hurt at all 2013:25-26.
The quotes above show the way how Abdullah makes Pari happy by trading his shoes with just a peacock’s feather. Abdullah seems a bit excessive since he has to
walk to the other village by foot and takes only a feather. In other side, the author
