AN ANALYSIS AN OBEDIENT DAUGHTER FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG ON ANNA’S ENDEAVOR TO BE IN JODI PICOULT’S NOVEL “MY SISTER’S KEEPER”
AN ANALYSIS
AN OBEDIENT DAUGHTER
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS ON ANNA’S ENDEAVOR TO BE AN OBEDIENT DAUGHTER IN JODI PICOULT’S NOVEL
“MY SISTER’S KEEPER”
THESIS
By:
FANNY KARTIKA SARI 09360035
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
JODI PICOULT’S NOVEL
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AN ANALYSIS
AN OBEDIENT DAUGHTER
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieveSarjana Degree in English Education
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS ON ANNA’S ENDEAVOR TO BE AN OBEDIENT DAUGHTER IN JODI PICOULT’S NOVEL
“MY SISTER’S KEEPER”
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieveSarjana Degree in English Education
By:
Fanny Kartika Sari 09360035
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
JODI PICOULT’S NOVEL
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to
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This thesis written by Fanny KartikaSari was approved on October 22, 2013
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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
MOTTO
:Hargakebaikanmanusiaadalahdiukurmenurutapa yang
telahdilaksanakan /diperbuatnya.
(Ali Bin AbiThalib)
Berangkatdenganpenuhkeyakinan
If you study to ‘remember’,
Berjalandenganpenuhkeikhlasan
you will forget,
Istiqomahdalammenghadapicobaan
but if you study to
‘understand’,
“YAKIN, IKHLAS, ISTIQOMAH “
you will remember…
(Anonymous)
(Bodrum)
DEDICATION:
I dedicated this thesis to:
My beloved father and mother,
My beloved sister,
My friends,
And my special one.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The highest gratitude is delivered upon Allah SWT who gives His blessing for the writer to accomplish this thesis in order to achieve Bachelor Degree in Study Program of English at University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
The writer would like to extend her deepest gratitude to Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M as the first advisor for her guidance, suggestion, explanation, and correction during the writing process of this thesis. Her companion during the whole process is very encouraging and helpful not only in terms of giving suggestion on the writing but also in terms of giving support. Moreover, the writer’s thanks are addressed to, PujiSumarsono, M.Ed., M.Pd as the second advisor for his guidance and suggestion in the thesis writing process.
Finally, a special thank goes to her beloved mother (RachmaKumala Sari), father (SlametHariono), sister (EkaRahmawati) who always give affection, motivation, prayer, spiritual and financial support. She also thanks her close friends (Anita, Nurin, Yenny), and someone special (MuchammadHusein) for their encouragement, love, care, and prayer she can finish this thesis.
Malang, October 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION ... ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iii
ABSTRACT ... iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vi
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study ... 1
1.2 Statement of Problem ... 4
1.3 Purpose of the Study ... 4
1.4 Significance of the Study ... 5
1.5 Scope and Limitation ... 5
1.6 Definition of Key Terms ... 6
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 Literature ... 7
2.2 Novel ... 8
2.3 Kinds of Novel ... 9
2.4 The Element of Novel ... 10
2.4.1 Plot ... 10
2.4.2 Character ... 12
2.4.3Setting 13 2.4.4 Theme and Subject Matter ... 14
2.4.5 Point of View ... 14
2.4.6 Conflict ... 15
2.5 Obedience ... 16
2.5.1 Kinds of Obedience ... 17
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2.6 Reasons of Obedience ... 19
2.7 Effect of Obedience ... 20
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 23
3.2 Approach ... 24
3.3 Research Object ... 26
3.4 Data Collection ... 26
3.5 Data Analysis ... 27
CHAPTER IV: FINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Finding ... 28
4.1.1 Anna’s Endeavor to be An Obedient Daughter ... 28
4.1.2 Anna’s Reasons to be An Obedient Daughter ... 34
4.1.3 The Effect of Anna’s Endeavor to be An Obedient Daughter on Her Life ... 38
4.2 Discussion ... 42
CHAPTER V: CONCLUTION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 45
5.2 Suggestion ... 45 REFERENCES
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
Human beings are social being in nature. All people, moreover those who seem to be isolated, wish to be part of the society. After a few years with the family, individuals enter the society. The society has a great impact on the formation of people’s characteristics. People learn about code of ethics and social relationships from the society. People enter the society when they are ready and think that they need other people in society. Some of human’s needs could be satisfied only in the society.
Talking about society, human beings in this world cannot avoid from having conflicts, whether it is simple or complicated. According to Sigmund Freud:
Conflict is an opposition of two struggles between contestants. The component of conflicts might be ideas, wishes, impulses, and tendencies to respond the directions, instincts, emotion, and even perception. Conflict does not only happen in the conscious level, but also in the unconscious level. (Cited in Robert Dilts, 1997, para. 2)
Talking about conflict there must be conflict resolution which is related to human endeavor. Conflict will not be resolved if there is no endeavor in completing the problem or conflict. People who just hush oneself without doing anything to complete their conflict it seems as nothing. Like a proverb, “If there is a will, there is a way”. It means that there must be an endeavor to reach our
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2 goal and find a resolution of a conflict. There are many ways to find and learn about conflict resolution such as in literary works.
Literature is a medium used by the author in conveying his idea and opinion to express his point of view towards life. Through literature the author could write the condition that happen around the society where he lives in. As Bennet and Royle (2004:35) stated, literature is the kind of writing which most persistently and most provocatively engages with the uncanny aspects of experience, thought and feeling. It means that literature is made of the form of sentence with impressive language and can touch human’s feeling.
According to Connolly (in Koesnosoebroto, 1988: 2) there are two kinds of literature, they are literature of knowledge and literature of imagination. Literature of knowledge presents or interprets facts, ideas, or happening; a description of a person or a place, the explanation of scientific process, the account of war, or the discussion of political issues. It can be said that literature of knowledge talks about everything that happened and related to facts of human life. It can be illustrated by strong evidences, so it gives significant effects to people.
On the other hand, literature of imagination interprets experience by factitious presentation of person, ideas, and events. It means that people have two ways in literature: they will get knowledge and get the values of their life. Furthermore, literary works can be classified into poetry, novel, short story, drama, and film. From explanation of the points above, it can be concluded that literature is able to lead people to feel or create a values, ideas, life experiences,
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3 and the problems faced by humanity. Therefore, literature taught them to be able to feel what others feel. Many literary works also describe about the way and endeavor how to solve the conflict.
Human endeavor to solve a problem often occurs in literary works as can be found in the novel. A novel often illustrates the situation of the social condition in a certain time. Therefore, a novel can increase empathy feeling and tolerance in a society. It can make the readers know themselves through the figures or the characters in the story. My Sister’s Keeper tells about the struggling of a middle class family, named Fitzgerald with three different children. This novel takes place in Rhode Island, during 1990 – 2004. Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is a novel which emphasizes the endeavor of the main character, Anna Fitzgerald, to fulfill her family desire to be an obedient daughter and how big her endeavor influences her life. The reasons of doing the endeavor also can be found in this novel.
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is chosen because Jodi Picoult writes the novel from the perspective of all characters. Each narrator speaks in first person which allows the reader to see the story from each narrator’s point of view. For example, Anna tells her own story that she has a psychological conflict because she wants to help her sister, Kate but she also wants to become more independent and get more attention from her family. It goes the same for the other character in order to give the illustration about how each of the character feels about the family problem in details. It also displays the emotion that the readers will not be able to see. When the author switches the narrator
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4 from one character to the others characters, it helps to understand the deep emotion of one character. By making point of view of the story in the first person point of view, the story can allow the readers to understand the feelings and personal thought along with the main events.
Jodi Picoult’s novel is chosen because this novel tells about the different way of endeavor to be an obedient daughter. The endeavor to be obedient daughter that are done by the main character are clearly portrayed in this novel. Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter to and the effect in her life also become the concern.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the problems of the study are:
1. What was Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
2. What were Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
3. What were the effects of Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on
her life in Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1. To find out Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult
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5 2. To describe Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult
novel My Sister’s Keeper.
3. To dig out the effects of Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on her life in Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The significance of this analysis contains theoretical and practical intention. Theoretically, it may enrich the knowledge about literature especially novel. This analysis is expected to make the readers understand literature especially novel. Practically, the readers can understand the novel of My Sister’s Keeper and enrich the knowledge about life especially the endeavor to be obedient daughter. It is also important for English teacher because it can be used as a reference in the literature learning process especially in novel analysis.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
In this thesis, the writer would like to analyze Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter in Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s Keeper. The scope is on the endeavor that is done by Anna Fitzgerald in Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s
Keeper. Besides the endeavor of Anna, the reasons and effects of the endeavor
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1.6 Definition of Key Terms
In order to avoid uncertain meaning and misunderstanding of key terms, which are related to the study, the writer clarifies them as follows:
1. Conflict is something that dramatic, referring to the battle between the
two forces are balanced and implies the action and (Wellek and Waren in Nurgiyantoro, 2010:122).
2. Endeavor is defined as trying to achieve the goal.
3. Novel is a fiction work which exposes an imaginative world which is
supported by intrinsic elements such as events, plot, characters and characterization, settings, point of view, etc and all of that is imaginative (Nurgiantoro, 2010: 4).
4. My Sister’s Keeper is a novel which emphasizes the social conflict of the
main character, Anna, and her endeavor to be an obedient daughter for her mother and sister.
5. Jodi Picoultis an American author and the author of the My Sister’s
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of StudyHuman beings are social being in nature. All people, moreover those who seem to be isolated, wish to be part of the society. After a few years with the family, individuals enter the society. The society has a great impact on the formation of people’s characteristics. People learn about code of ethics and social relationships from the society. People enter the society when they are ready and think that they need other people in society. Some of human’s needs could be satisfied only in the society.
Talking about society, human beings in this world cannot avoid from having conflicts, whether it is simple or complicated. According to Sigmund Freud:
Conflict is an opposition of two struggles between contestants. The component of conflicts might be ideas, wishes, impulses, and tendencies to respond the directions, instincts, emotion, and even perception. Conflict does not only happen in the conscious level, but also in the unconscious level. (Cited in Robert Dilts, 1997, para. 2)
Talking about conflict there must be conflict resolution which is related to human endeavor. Conflict will not be resolved if there is no endeavor in completing the problem or conflict. People who just hush oneself without doing anything to complete their conflict it seems as nothing. Like a proverb, “If there is a will, there is a way”. It means that there must be an endeavor to reach our
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goal and find a resolution of a conflict. There are many ways to find and learn about conflict resolution such as in literary works.
Literature is a medium used by the author in conveying his idea and opinion to express his point of view towards life. Through literature the author could write the condition that happen around the society where he lives in. As Bennet and Royle (2004:35) stated, literature is the kind of writing which most persistently and most provocatively engages with the uncanny aspects of experience, thought and feeling. It means that literature is made of the form of sentence with impressive language and can touch human’s feeling.
According to Connolly (in Koesnosoebroto, 1988: 2) there are two kinds of literature, they are literature of knowledge and literature of imagination. Literature of knowledge presents or interprets facts, ideas, or happening; a description of a person or a place, the explanation of scientific process, the account of war, or the discussion of political issues. It can be said that literature of knowledge talks about everything that happened and related to facts of human life. It can be illustrated by strong evidences, so it gives significant effects to people.
On the other hand, literature of imagination interprets experience by factitious presentation of person, ideas, and events. It means that people have two ways in literature: they will get knowledge and get the values of their life. Furthermore, literary works can be classified into poetry, novel, short story, drama, and film. From explanation of the points above, it can be concluded that literature is able to lead people to feel or create a values, ideas, life experiences,
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and the problems faced by humanity. Therefore, literature taught them to be able to feel what others feel. Many literary works also describe about the way and endeavor how to solve the conflict.
Human endeavor to solve a problem often occurs in literary works as can be found in the novel. A novel often illustrates the situation of the social condition in a certain time. Therefore, a novel can increase empathy feeling and tolerance in a society. It can make the readers know themselves through the figures or the characters in the story. My Sister’s Keeper tells about the struggling of a middle class family, named Fitzgerald with three different children. This novel takes place in Rhode Island, during 1990 – 2004. Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is a novel which emphasizes the endeavor of the main character, Anna Fitzgerald, to fulfill her family desire to be an obedient daughter and how big her endeavor influences her life. The reasons of doing the endeavor also can be found in this novel.
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is chosen because Jodi Picoult writes the novel from the perspective of all characters. Each narrator speaks in first person which allows the reader to see the story from each narrator’s point of view. For example, Anna tells her own story that she has a psychological conflict because she wants to help her sister, Kate but she also wants to become more independent and get more attention from her family. It goes the same for the other character in order to give the illustration about how each of the character feels about the family problem in details. It also displays the emotion that the readers will not be able to see. When the author switches the narrator
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from one character to the others characters, it helps to understand the deep emotion of one character. By making point of view of the story in the first person point of view, the story can allow the readers to understand the feelings and personal thought along with the main events.
Jodi Picoult’s novel is chosen because this novel tells about the different way of endeavor to be an obedient daughter. The endeavor to be obedient daughter that are done by the main character are clearly portrayed in this novel. Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter to and the effect in her life also become the concern.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the problems of the study are:
1. What was Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
2. What were Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
3. What were the effects of Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on her life in Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper?
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1. To find out Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper.
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2. To describe Anna’s reasons to be an obedient daughter on Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper.
3. To dig out the effects of Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter on her life in Jodi Picoult novel My Sister’s Keeper.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The significance of this analysis contains theoretical and practical intention. Theoretically, it may enrich the knowledge about literature especially novel. This analysis is expected to make the readers understand literature especially novel. Practically, the readers can understand the novel of My Sister’s Keeper and enrich the knowledge about life especially the endeavor to be obedient daughter. It is also important for English teacher because it can be used as a reference in the literature learning process especially in novel analysis.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
In this thesis, the writer would like to analyze Anna’s endeavor to be an obedient daughter in Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s Keeper. The scope is on the endeavor that is done by Anna Fitzgerald in Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s Keeper. Besides the endeavor of Anna, the reasons and effects of the endeavor on her life also become the limitation of the study.
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1.6 Definition of Key Terms
In order to avoid uncertain meaning and misunderstanding of key terms, which are related to the study, the writer clarifies them as follows:
1. Conflict is something that dramatic, referring to the battle between the two forces are balanced and implies the action and (Wellek and Waren in Nurgiyantoro, 2010:122).
2. Endeavor is defined as trying to achieve the goal.
3. Novel is a fiction work which exposes an imaginative world which is supported by intrinsic elements such as events, plot, characters and characterization, settings, point of view, etc and all of that is imaginative (Nurgiantoro, 2010: 4).
4. My Sister’s Keeper is a novel which emphasizes the social conflict of the main character, Anna, and her endeavor to be an obedient daughter for her mother and sister.
5. Jodi Picoultis an American author and the author of the My Sister’s Keeper Novel being discussed.