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endangered. From those descriptions we can conclude that another reason that forces Eve to choose her lifestyles is her criminal acts that she has done. To
protect her and her daughter’s safety, she chooses to live isolated from anyone so that no one will suspects them.
B. The Influence of the Lifestyles on Liza’s Life
As Eve has the authority to control what kind of life for herself and her daughter to live, all that Liza can do is just follow her mother’s preference. Eve’s
choice of lifestyles certainly brings some influences on Liza’s life. I analyze them from her reactions to new things, her curiousities, her concept of marriage, death,
and love, her appreciation to the nature, her view about woman, and her view about her life.
1. Liza’s Reactions to New Things
Liza has her own reactions to new things in her life. In this part, I will divide her reactions into two parts, that are her reactions to new people and her
reactions to new environments.
a. To New People
Petri 1981:6 writes that one of the constructs behind motivation is social interaction with others. It
fits appropriately
with Maslow’s
third hierarcy of needs, that is the needs of belongingness and love needs. Since
human is a social being, he needs other people in his life. Liza’s childhood life is monotonous because she only interacts with her
mother. The way her mother chooses to live simply in an isolated place limits Liza’s social life. The isolated life actually makes Liza become frightened of
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scared of new people. It happens when a policeman comes to their house to find a missing person. Since Liza never sees any man who has a big posture
before, she becomes afraid. She didn’t have to pretend to cry. ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t
know,’ she screamed and burst into tears. The fat man went away, apologising to Mother , shaking hands
with her and holding her hand a long time, and when he had gone Mother roared
with laughter. She
said Liza had been excellent,
quite excellent, and
she hugged her , laughing into her hair. For
all that she loved Liza and cared for her, she hadn’t really understood that
she had been really frightened, really shy of people,
really bewildered. p. 66
Liza is only accustomed to the people who regulary come to their house, like the mailman or the milkman. When there is a new gardener in Shrove, she is
also shy to see him. He looked arround suddenly and saw her. She was seized with shyness,
with shame almost, and felt the blood rush into her cheeks. He put up one hand in a salute and grinned. This made her retreat at once and run out of
the bedroom. p.287
From the description we can see that the way Liza never meet people cause fear and shyness on her, especially to strangers.
b. To New Environment
Being far from any places makes it difficult for Liza to go, even to the nearest village. It is always her mother who goes regulary to the village to buy
daily needs for them. Liza is always kept at home, she is never allowed to come with her. After Bruno, a painter who later becomes Eve’s boyfriend, comes to
their lives, some things change in Liza. It is Bruno who succeeds to persuade Eve to take Liza to town although Liza does not ask for it.
Nothing happened for a while that Liza hadn’t expected. There was the lane and then the bridge, the village and at last the bigger road.
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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.
p.151
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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