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well. These reasons make the writer interested in reading and analyzing the novel from the psychological perspective because the novel is concerned with Sheila’s
behavior which is unique. In One Child, the readers are going to be informed about knowledge
related to an interesting teaching and learning process. The novel is worth to be discussed because the teaching points are different from other schools. The writer
is interested in the way Torey Hayden thinks and gives perspective to the children, especially Sheila as the main character in the story. This study discusses the
influence of Torey Hayden’s teaching strategies on Sheila’s personality development in Hayden’s One Child.
From this novel, the researcher is going to analyze the characteristics of main character in the story, Sheila, before and after she attended the Torey’s class.
The writer also analyzes how the teaching styles from Torey affect the personality development of the main character as revealed in this novel.
B. Problems Formulation
Based on the background of the study, there are two problems that can be formulated as follows.
1. How are Sheila’s characteristics before and after learning with Torey described in Torey Hayden’s One Child?
2. How do Torey Hayden’s teaching styles influence Sheila’s personality development?
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C. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study are to answer those two formulated problems. The first is to explain not only the characteristics, but also attitude and behavior of
Sheila as the main character in Hayden’s One Child before and after learning with Torey Hayden as her teacher. The second is to find out the influence of Torey’s
teaching styles towards Sheila’s personality development after learning with Torey.
D. Benefits of the Study
There are some benefits in this study. The first benefit of this study is for teacher trainees and teachers. Hopefully, this study will help teacher trainees and
teachers to be more sensitive and wise in facing students with extraordinary needs. A teacher can also give appropriate treatment for students who have
emotional and behavioral disorder. The writer expects that the teacher should love their job to create students’ interest in teaching and learning activity.
The second benefit is for future researchers and teachers. The writer hopes that this study can be used as a reference and support knowledge to the future
researchers who are interested to conduct research on the same topic. This novel can also be used to teach Basic Reading II for the second semester at English
Language Education Study Program. The third benefit of this study is for readers. By reading this thesis, the
writer expects that the readers can get a deeper understanding about personality
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development. The readers may also give more perspectives on a child’s personality development and how to handle a special child in an appropriate way.
E. Definition of Terms
There are some definitions to be clarified to avoid misunderstanding. They are definition of character, teaching style, and personality development.
1. Character
According to Abrams 1981, p. 20, character is described as “an imagined person who inhabits a story and it shows a distinctive type of person”. In addition,
Roberts and Jacobs 1992, p. 63 define characters as people in stories who are drawn from life and they face a major problem in the stories. Stories, like drama,
are about characters who though not real people, are drawn from life. A character is in reasonable facsimile of a human being, with all the good and bad treatments
of being human. A story is usually concerned with a major problem that a character must face. They may involve interaction with another character, with a
difficult situation, or with an idea or general circumstances that force action. The character that is going to be analyzed is Sheila who always comes out from the
beginning until the end of the story.
2. Teaching Style
According to Scheneider 2007, teaching style is “the teaching strategies and methods employed plus use of certain kinds of rhetoric.” In other words, the
strategies and methods in teaching are the combination in defining the styles.
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Mosston and Ashworth 1990 state that teaching style is a plan of action that defines the specific decisions of the teacher and the learner for the purpose of
accomplishing objectives in subject matter and behavior. In this study, the style of Torey Hayden’s teaching is used to find out the influence on Sheila’s personality
development.
3. Personality Development
According to Cloninger 1993, p. 3 defines personality as “the underlying within the person of individual behavior and experiences”. On the other hand,
Shaffer 2009, p. 2 says that development is the systematic continuities and changes in the individual that occur between conception and death. Allport cited
in Hurlock 1974, p. 7, also clarifies that personality development is “a stage in growth of a constantly changing and evoking process within an individual”. Thus,
personality development is the changes of someone’s character as an imperfect human. It is influenced by certain factors that come to him or her.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter is divided into three sections of theories that are used to analyze the novel. They are the review of related studies, the review of related
theories, and the theoretical framework. There are some related studies from some researchers which discuss same topics. The review of related theories presents
theories of literature related to the problems formulation. Meanwhile, the theoretical framework reviews some theories which are given as guidance in
focusing the analysis of the subject in the study.
A. Review of Related Studies
In this novel, Sheila was a six-year-old-girl who came into a special class, was abused, victimized and rejected by her family. She learned in a class with
Torey Hayden. In order to support the study, it is necessary for the researcher to discuss the previous studies that have been done related to the topic of this study.
There is a researcher from University of Muhammadiyah Malang that conducted her study using the same novel. She is Nurul Azmi, a student of
English Language Education in 2007. She wrote a study entitled A Study on Sheila’s Psychological Conflicts and Autism Child in Torey Hayden’s Novel “One
Child” . She focused on the causes of Sheila’s psychological conflicts and the
effects of Sheila’s psychological conflicts on her life. According to Azmi 2007 there were two psychological conflicts faced by the main character, Sheila, they
