5. Conflict Resolution of Keep Using Handmade Underwear or Buying the
New One
The fifth conflict resolution is used by Kimberly to solve the intrapersonal conflict of keep using the handmade underwear or buying the new one. In her
Junior High School there are many new things that she has to adapt. One of them is the way girls change their clothes. Before gym class begins, all the girls in her
class change their clothes in one room. Kimberly finds that all the girls underwear except her own are colorful and expensive. They are different from Kimberly‟s
h andmade underwear. The girls in that room are also checking out one another‟s.
Kimberly has told her mother about her underwear but her mother does not understand.
One day Kimberly friends ridicule her because of her handmade underwear. It annoys her very much and she cannot bear anymore to tell her
mother again about how her friends ridicule her because of her underwear. After Kimberly explains her problem to her mother, her mother wants to buy her the
new underwear. Finally, Kimberly uses her new underwear. “The other kids have started teasing me about my underwear,” I said to Ma
at the factory. She flinched and I was glad to punish her by having been right. This was Ma‟s fault. “How did they see you?” She asked, not
meeting my stare. My pain from all teasing cracked open like a rice pot from the heat. “ I told you, everyone changes together and everyone looks
each other This isn‟t China, Ma She was silent. Then she said, “We can go shopping on Sunday.” p. 56
Kimberly solves her conflict by using two ways. The first is determine the conflict source
. She understands that her conflict is caused by different habits and culture. In Hongkong girls do not change their clothes together. However,
Kimberly does not want to stop at that. She uses also distributive negotiation. In
distributive negotiation a person forces somebody else to do something in order to fulfill hisher goal. Kimberly forces her mother to buy her new underwear so that
her friends do not ridicule her anymore.
6. Conflict Resolution of Questioning Whether Matt Love Kimberly or Not
In the sixth conflict resolution, the writer analyzes how Kimberly deals with her intrapersonal conflict when she likes Matt but she does not know whether
Matt likes her as well or not. Kimberly likes her friend at the factory whose name is Matt. Matt is handsome and he has a good personality. However, Kimberly
does not know Matt‟s feeling toward her. One day Kimberly hears the conversation between her mother and Matt‟s mother. From their conversation
Kimberly concludes that the two ladies think that Matt and Kimberly like each other. That conversation creates intrapersonal conflict for her. On one side
Kimberly is happy beacause if Matt like her, it means that they have the same feeling. However, Kimberly also feels sad because she cannot guarantee that her
mother and Matt‟s mother‟s thoughts are true. To make sure about Matt‟s feeling, Kimberly finally tells her feeling. She says that she like him. After Kimberly tells
Matt that she like him, Matt gets surprised because actually he also like Kimberly. Matt has never told her about his feeling because he thought that Kimberly does
not deserve him. I said stiffly, “That was because I liked you.” Now, in profile, I saw him
smile. “Really? Sometimes I allowed myself to believe that. But all you did after we...umm, you know, in the bathroom that time...was ignore me.”
“You had a girlfriend, remember?” “Well, it didn‟t really help me get less confused. I‟m not like you, Kimberly. I‟m just a stupid guy. I‟m not some
hero from a kung fu movie come to save you from your life.” p. 104
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