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THE INFLUENCE OF SAVANNAH’S CHARACTERISTICS
AND CONDITIONS IN HER MOTIVATION TO MARRY TIM
AS SEEN IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ DEAR JOHN
AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters
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ENGL ISH L ET TERS S TUDY PROGR A M M E
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2012
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LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI
Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma: Nama : Donata Luke Siwi P.
Nim : 084214035 Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul:
The Influence of Savannah’s Characteristics and Conditions in Her
Motivation to Marry Tim as Seen in Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John.
Beserta perangkat yang diperlukan. Dengan demikian, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk lain, mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas dan mempublikasikannya di internet atau media yang lain untuk kepentingan akademis tanpa perlu meminta izin dari saya maupun memberikan royalti kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis.
Demikian pernyataan ini saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal: 30 November 2012
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“Everything is valuable when you value everything.”
(unknown)
FROG : I can’t jump high but…
I never jump backwards (unknown)
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This undergraduate thesis is dedicated to: My Beloved Father and Mother My Dearest Sister My Family My Love My Friends
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my God the Almighty, Jesus Christ, and Saint Mary for their everlasting love and blessing in my life. They give me strength for my day, comfort for my tears, and light for my way. I am nothing without Them. I praise Them in every second of my life.
I express my greatest gratitude to my father who always supports and encourages me. I thank for his patience and financial support to finish my study. I would like to thank my beloved mother who always loves, cares, and prays for me. I also thank my sister who always supports me and my family who will always walk with me throughout my life.
My gratitude goes to my advisor, Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka M.Hum. and Ni Luh Putu Rosiandani, S.S., M.Hum., my co-advisor, for all the guidance, advice, and patience that helped me in finishing this thesis. I would like to thank all my lecturers in English Letters Department, the secretariat staff, and to the library staff who have helped me during my study.
My specials thank goes to my love for his love, support and understanding. You are the golden rays of sunshine that brighten my heart on the cloudy day. I would like to thank my friends who always support and let me lean on when life gets messy. Thank for moments that we have shared together and for being a beautiful part of my life. I also want to thank my friends in Grinjing 333 boardinghouse, Mbak Ayu, Grace, and Rahma for the beautiful moments for my
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day in the boarding house. Thank you for always making the atmosphere become alive in our boardinghouse. I hope this friendship will never end.
I would like to thank my KKN friends, the memories of our KKN will remain deep inside of my heart. Deepest thank goes to all of staffs and my friends in Columbia English Course Klaten, Mbak Yoan, Mbak Intan, Mbak Widdy, Mbak Nita, Mbak Dewi, Mbak Aji, Mbak Tim-Tim, Mbak Anis, Lia, Mbak Agnes, and Mbak Indi who always support and help me. All of you are the good partner in the place where I can work happily.
Last but not least, I thank all people that I cannot mention the names here that have helped and supported me. I could not make these happens without you.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Love, Donata Luke Siwi P.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ......................................................................................... i APPROVAL PAGE ............................................................................... ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE .......................................................................... iii LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI …………..iv
MOTTO PAGE ...................................................................................... v DEDICATION PAGE ............................................................................ vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................... vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................... ix ABSTRACT ........................................................................................... x ABSTRAK ...............................................................................................
xi CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ..........................................................
1 A. Background of the study ............................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation .................................................................... 4 C. Objectives of the Study ................................................................ 4 D.
Definition of Terms ...................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW ..........................................
6 A. Review of Related Studies ............................................................ 6 B. Review of Related Theories .......................................................... 8 C. Theoretical Framework................................................................. 14 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ......................................................
15 A. Object of the Study ....................................................................... 15 B. Approach of the Study .................................................................. 17 C. Method of the Study ..................................................................... 17 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS...................................................................
19 A. The Description of Savannah ........................................................ 19 B. The Conditions that Savannah Faced ........................................... 34 C. Savannah’s Motivation to Marry Tim …………………………….. 43 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .............................................................
52 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................
55 APPENDIX ............................................................................................
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ABSTRACT
DONATA LUKE SIWI P. The Influence of Savannah’s Characteristics and Conditions in Her Motivation to Marry Tim as Seen in Nicholas Sparks’
Dear John. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata
Dharma University, 2012.This thesis discusses Nicholas Sparks’ well known novel entitled Dear
John through the perspective of psychology. This novel is a story of a young girl,
Savannah, has a goal to get a man to be her husband. In this study the writer discusses her motivation to marry Tim.
There are three objectives of this study. First is to find out the main character’s description. Second is to find out the conditions that the main character faces
. Third is to find out the influence of the main character’s characteristics and conditions in her motivation to marry Tim in the story Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John.
The writer conducted library research method in working in this study by using the novel as the primary data, books of literature, and articles from internet. The theories used in this study are theory of character and characterization and theory of motivation. The writer uses the psychological approach in this study.
From the analysis in this study, the writer finds out that the main character, Savannah is friendly, kind-hearted, caring, dependent, and loving girl. The writer also finds three conditions that Savannah faced. Her characteristics and conditions influence Savannah’s motivation to marry Tim.
The result of the study shows that Savannah’s characteristics and conditions influence her motivation to marry Tim. Savannah is a friendly girl.
Therefore, she can be closed with John. Savannah is also described as a loving girl. It can be shown in her behavior toward John. She loves John very much. Savannah is also a kind-hearted girl; it gives John good impression about Savannah. In the first condition, Savannah feels lonely because of Savannah and John long distance relationship. She cannot get physical contact from John. Savannah is a dependent girl. Therefore, she finds someone who can be next to her. Based on the second condition, Savannah needs to be loved by someone. By getting closer with Tim, Savannah can get what she needs. From the third condition, Savannah needs to be needed by someone. Her pity over Alan shows that she is caring girl. She wants to help Tim to take care of Alan. Choosing Tim as her husband is based on her motivations. Her motivations are also influenced by her characteristics and conditions.
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ABSTRAK
DONATA LUKE SIWI P. The Influence of Savannah’s Characteristics and Conditions in Her Motivation to Marry Tim as Seen in Nicholas Sparks’
Dear John. Yogyakarta: Jurusan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas
Sanata Dharma, 2012.Skripsi ini membahas novel terkenal karya Nicholas Sparks yang berjudul
Dear John melalui sudut pandang psikologi. Novel ini menceritakan tentang
seorang pemudi, Savannah, yang mempunyai tujuan untuk mendapatkan seorang pria untuk menjadi suaminya. Di skripsi ini penulis berbicara tentang motivasinya untuk menikahi Tim.
Terdapat tiga tujuan dalam penelitian ini. Pertama yaitu untuk mengetahui deskripsi dari tokoh utama. Kedua yaitu untuk mengetahui kondisi-kondisi yang dihadapi oleh tokoh utama. Ketiga yaitu untuk mengetahui pengaruh sifat-sifat dan kondisi-kondisi tokoh utama dalam motivasinya untuk menikah dengan Tim di novel karya Nicholas Sparks yang berjudul Dear John.
Penulis melakukan studi pustaka untuk menganalisa isi dari novel dengan menggunakan novel sebagai data utama, buku-buku tentang karya sastra serta bacaan-bacaan dari internet. Teori-teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori karakter dan penokohan dan teori motivasi. Dalam studi ini, penulis menerapkan pendekatan psikologi.
Berdasarkan hasil analisa studi ini, diketahui bahwa tokoh utama, Savannah adalah seorang yang ramah, baik hati, peduli, bergantung kepada orang lain, dan gadis yang penuh cinta. Penulis juga menemukan tiga kondisi yang dihadapi Savannah. Sifat-sifat dan kondisi-kondisinya mempengaruhi motivasi Savannah untuk menikah dengan Tim.
Hasil penulisan menunjukkan bahwa sifat-sifat dan kondisi-kondisi Savannah mempengaruhi motivasi untuk menikahi Tim. Savannah adalah seorang gadis yang ramah. Oleh karena itu dia dapat menjadi dekat dengan John.
Savannah juga digambarkan sebagai gadis yang penuh cinta. Hal itu dapat dilihat dari tingkah lakunya kepada John. Dia sangat mencintai John. Savannah juga seorang gadis yang baik hati. Hal itu memberikan John pengaruh yang baik tentang Savannah. Di kondisi yang pertama, Savannah merasa kesepian karena hubungan jarak jauh antara Savannah dan John. Savannah tidak mendapatkan kontak fisik dari John. Savannah adalah seorang yang bergantung pada orang lain. Oleh karena itu, dia mencari seseorang yang selalu bisa ada di sampingnya. Berdasarkan kondisi kedua, Savannah membutuhkan untuk dicintai oleh orang lain. Kedekatannya dengan Tim, Savannah dapat memperoleh apa yang dia butuhkan. Dari kondisi ketiga, Savannah membutuhkan untuk dibutuhkan oleh orang lain. Rasa kasihannya terhadap Alan menunjukkan bahwa dia seorang gadis yang peduli. Dia ingin membantu Tim untuk merawat Alan. memilih Tim sebagai suaminya berdasarkan motivasi-motivasinya. Motivasi-motivasinya juga dipengaruhi oleh sifat-sifat dan kondisi-kondisinya.
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study People have their own needs and purposes in life. They want to fulfill their
needs and obtain everything they want. They have to struggle to get their needs and purposes. Everyone, not only man but also woman needs love and both of them have motivation to fulfill it. Many people think that to grow up and live their life without knowing love is possible. They can speculate whether or not love is the ultimate purpose of life. However, it is believed that love is the only one worth to be fought for. Some people regard that love can make them happy. It can be proved if someone finds a good partner in his or her life. Sometimes, people feel sad because of love. Love can ruin everything. Someone feels that feeling if he is broken hearted because of love itself. Love can bring people ecstasy which recovers their sore and sickness. Even if people are afraid to bear all in the searching for love, the rewards outweigh the injuries. Love must not to own. The sacrifice is important to make someone happy although he or she has his or her own relationship with someone else. Finally, we cannot be with him or her.
Marriage is a goal of a relationship between man and woman who want to live together and build a family. Everybody has his or her own reason why they decide to get married. For example, because they need a status of their relationship, or because they really love each other and they want to live together.
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Making choice and decision are always experienced by every person. Every time people are faced with options and choices in many aspects of their life. Nothing is easy when people decide which options and choices they must take.
Literary works are written as a reflection of the writers in observing the facts in the society. Most of the time, writers of the literary works, such as novellas, prose, poems, novels, short story, and, poetry write their work(s) according to the realities that happen to them or happen in their society.
Considering that reason literary works can also be a portrait of life. The problems which appear in a novel can be seen as the problems which may appear in our daily life. Therefore, literature has a close relationship with human life. Literature contains the record of the people’s values, thoughts, problems and conflicts in their life.
Literature is a good piece of writing which helps us understand human beings, in all times and places, have much in common; there are good and bad people. Literature is not only an idea or theory that an author makes. It is also a creative work to express an experience of the author which is related to human life; where we can learn many aspects from the written form. According to Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature, literature can also be defined as the work of art that represents human life (1956: 94). As one of literary works, a novel consists of many aspects which are interesting to be analyzed.
A novel as an example of literary works can be used by the author to express his or her feeling, emotion, point of view, or everything that he or she wants toward his society or environment where he or she lives in. According to
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Murphy, the greatest novels reflects life and are compounded similarly of many elements, just as life is a mixture of joy, disappointment, hope, sorrow, humor, suffering, and success (1972: 33).
All of those elements have relation with the story of this novel. In this novel, entitled Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, there are much conditions and motivations to choose partner. It is difficult to make decision in choosing between two important people to marry with. Savannah makes a long distance relationship with John. As a woman she becomes motivated to fulfill needs of attention, protection, and affection from her soul mate. However, she does not really get them because John is far away from Savannah. She also needs real love to stay next to her. Savannah who loves John very much has to end their relationship, and then she marries Tim. Actually she still loves John, when she marries Tim. Many conditions are experienced by Savannah. She has to struggle to face her conditions in her life.
The reason in writing this thesis comes from the writer’s curiosity to know more deeply about the character in the novel. This study concerns with the character analysis of Savannah. The novel is interesting to be discussed because it shows how a person has motivation to decide with whom she marries with. This novel is one of romantic novels by Nicholas Sparks. This novel is also popular in many countries.
The writer is interested in choosing this topic because the writer wants to show and analyze the relation between the character, the conditions, and the
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motivations to marry Tim. The writer also tries to explore motivation to marry Tim.
B. Problem Formulation
Based on the introduction above, there are three problems that the writer wants to discuss in this study. They are:
1. How is Savannah described in Dear John? 2.
What conditions does Savannah face? 3. How do the Savannah’s characteristics and the conditions she faces influence her motivations to marry Tim in Dear John?
C. Objective of the Study
The aim of this study is to find out the answer of the problem formulation in the previous part. There are three objectives of the study. First, the writer tries to find out how Savannah is described in the story. Second, after analyzing the characteristics of Savannah, the writer tries to find out the conditions which are faced by Savannah in the novel. Third, having known the description of Savannah’s characteristics and her conditions, the writer tries to answer and see how
Savannah’s characteristics and the conditions influence Savannah’s motivations to marry Tim.
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D. Definition of Terms
According to the Hornby’s Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of
Current English the noun motivation derives from the verb motivate meaning to
be the reason for somebody’s action or to cause somebody to want to do something (Hornby, 1995: 758).
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW A. Review of Related Studies The existence of a literary work always invites comments or criticisms
from some critics. The criticism can be an agreement toward the story. The criticisms are needed to support the analysis of this study. Not many researches on this novel are displayed in the library. However, the writer can obtain some comments on this novel in the internet.
Nanang’s study (2009), a graduate student from English Letters Department of Sanata Dharma University uses the psychological approach. He tries to analyze the influ ence of motivation towards behavior resulted in Griffin’s self- destruction in H. G. Well’s The Invisible Man. He finds Jack Griffin’s five characteristics and his two motivations. His motivations are to achieve glory and fame and to restore his visibility. Then he finds the connection between the motivations of Jack Griffin toward his behavior. His high level of motivation leads him to act aggressive behavior. Finally his behavior leads him to his own death later.
It is most appropriate to use the Psychological approach. The writer tries to answer by analyzing the characteristics of Jack Griffin using theory of character and characterization. Then, the writer tries to reveal the factor that becomes the background of Griffin’s motivation using the theory of human motivation. Last, the writer tries to find the influence of motivation towards behavior. It proves mostly through the dialog analysis. (2009: vii).
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Another study that uses the psychological approach is done by Marchelynow Alfa Christian (2009), a graduate student from English Letters Department of Sanata Dharma University too.
To see Elie’s motivation of survival that revealed in the main character’s conflicts in the novel, three questions are formulated to guide the analysis. They are (1) How are the characters described in the Elie Wiesel’s Night? (2) What are Elie Wiesel’s internal and external conflicts that revealed in the story? (3) In what way the internal and external conflicts reveal Elie’s motivation of survival? The method applied in this study is library research. The approach used in this study is psychological approach. (2009: xi). In his thesis, he uses psychological approach to analyze the motivation revealed in the main character’s conflicts in Elie Wiesel’s Night. He uses theory of con flict to analyze what Elie Wiesel’s internal and external conflicts revealed in the story. Then, he analyzes how the internal and external conflicts reveal Elie’s motivation of survival in achieving freedom.
From the internet sources, there are several criticisms which provide the research about Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John. One of them is from Ababaigalith (www.bookcrossing.com, July 26, 2011). He states that:
This is the story of how an ideal love can falter, despite its purity and strength. Not every romance results in a happy ending, but with a great deal of luck, those who don't survive will find meaning from the experience. Love, loyalty, friendship--all those sentiments are great.
He explains that not every romance or every story has a happy ending. It can be in a sad ending, like in the Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John novel. He focuses on love, how true love can lose. The survival and struggle make someone get the meaning of love.
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Those studies give deeper information for the writer in analyzing the story of the novel. In the first studies, Nanang explains about the influence of motivation towards behavior resulted in Griffin’s self-destruction in H. G. Well’s
The Invisible Man . He uses psychological approach to analyze it. The second
study presenting the analysis also uses psychological approach to analyze the motivation revealed in the main character’s conflicts in Elie Wiesel’s Night. Two of them share the same view about motivation and the use of psychological approach. Different from all the previous studies above, the last focuses on love, how true love can lose. Not every love story ends with happy ending. From the previous studies above this study discusses about the influence of S avannah’s characteristics and conditions in her motivations to marry Tim.
This study focuses on Savannah’s characteristics, her conditions and her motivations to marry Tim. The writer uses a psychological approach. In this study, the writer emphasizes more on Savannah’s characteristics and conditions in her motivations to marry Tim as seen in the Dear John. The writer tries to discover something new about characteristics, conditions, and motivations. The writer hopes that this study can give new understanding about the story of the novel.
B. Review of Related Theories 1. Theory on Character and Characterization
Character is the important thing in a piece of literary work because the character can build the story move more alive and interesting. In A Glossary of
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Literary Terms , Abrams states precisely that a character is the person depicted in a
dramatic or narrative work, which is interpreted by the audiences or the readers that is born with the qualities of moral and disposition, which are performed in human action and speech, or it may be said that all of the characters can be seen in what they say (1981: 20). Character can also be defined as the figure in the story.
It gives us the description through the professions, statements, dialogues, and minds. Therefore, looking how they face the problems and how they behave in the daily life are the way to notice what kind of person they are.
Abrams also divides the characters into main or major character and minor character. Major character usually becomes the center of the story, the person who acts, and he must handle the attention of the readers. Therefore, he or she is the most important character in the story. The readers usually focus on this character including his or her behavior, attitude, action, and speech from the beginning up to the ending of the story. However, minor character just becomes the background of the major character. The performance of this character is just presented in a certain event. If it is compared to the major character, their roles are less important than the major character. The function of this character is also to strengthen the development of the major character (1981: 20-21).
According to Stanton (1965: 17), the term character is used in two ways. The first one is giving a particular description about the individuals who appear in the story. The second one refers to the combination of interest, desires, emotion, and moral principles that form the individuals. Every story usually has a main
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character that is significant to all events in the story. They usually cause the conversion either in her or him in the readers’ attitude towards her or him.
According to Murphy, in his book titled Understanding Unseens, there are some ways of characterizing the characters (1972: 161-163) a.
Character as Seen by Another Instead of describing the characters directly, the author describes the characters through the opinion of other characters. The other characters will explain further about the characters based on their own opinions, thinking, or feelings.
b.
Speech Sometimes, the author explains about the characteristics of the characters through what they say. From the way of their speech in conversation with others, it can be understood what the characters will be described.
c.
Past Life The past has a relation with the present world. What happened with the characters in the past can shape a person’s character and the character’s past life is always closely connected to his or her present life.
d.
Conversation of Others The author also gives information about his characters through the conversation of one character to others. The conversation, which discussed the other characters, will explain about what the characteristics of the person. From that conversation, the readers can get the description about characters.
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e.
Reaction The description of the characters can be seen through their action to various situations and events. The actions of the characters show his or her personality and the actions are related to his or her motives and thought.
f.
Thought This is also given directly by the author about the way of thinking of the character. The author gives directly what the characters are thinking about so that the readers can find out the personality of the characters.
g.
Mannerism The author gives the description about how the character behaves and talks, we can know the personality of character through his or her mannerism.
2. Theory of Motivation
The writer uses some theories of motivation in this study from the psychology. Because of all of these theories are fulfilled each other, then the writer uses these theories. These theories are discussed by the writer because these theories have relationship with the analysis. The writer is helped by these theories to analyze this novel.
According to Robert C. Beck in his book Motivation Theories and
Principles ,
“Motivation is broadly concerned with the contemporary determinants of choice (direction), persistence, and vigor of goal-directed behavior. When two or more behaviors are equally possible, one is chosen and the
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organism persists in this behavior with more or less vigor until some anticipated goal is either achieved or some other goal becomes more dominant” (1978: 24). From the quotation above, it shows us that motivation is a choice. When we have two different choices, we will choose one which is considered as our best choice. That will be our motivation to do something. Meanwhile, Jung says that motivation includes terms that refer to such diverse states as desire, wishes, plans, goals, intents, impulses, and purposes. Some of these states imply a deliberate and calculated process involving reason.
Based on David C. Edward’s General Psychology, he stated that motivation is an invented construct which describes certain aspects of behavior (1969: 49). To say that a certain motive is in operation, such as a need to be with others of the same species, directly implies that the behavior of that individual is directed towards satisfaction of this need state rather than others. Thus, if a person seeks out other individuals, we say that he is satisfying the conditions of this particular state of affairs which we call the motive for affiliation, as opposed to describing the behavior in terms of other possible factors (1969: 50).
According to Huffman, Mark Vernoy and Judith Vernoy (2000: 401) there are two kinds of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation means the desire to perform an act for its own sake. A motivation comes from our own behavior. We are motivated to do something, not because of external reward, but because the behavior itself is rewarding. While extrinsic motivation means the
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desire to perform an action because of external rewards or avoidance of punishment. Though, the writer only uses intrinsic motivation in this study.
3. The Relationship between Literature and Psychology
A novel is one of the forms of literary work that may deal with the psychological aspects of human needs and problems related to human through some representations of the characters. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren state that psychology of literature means the psychological study of the writer, as type, and as an individual, or the study of the creative process, or the study of the psychological types and laws present within work of literature or finally the effect of literature upon its reader or audience psychology (1956: 93). There is another theory that states literature and psychology, in the book Psychology of the Human
Behaviour
, Richard A. Kalish states that literature also “holds the mirror up to the man”. A good novelist can communicate the feeling of the characters and can make them more like the real people whose behavior the psychologist attempts to describe (1973: 8)
From the above explanation, there is a close relationship between literature and psychology because both of them emphasize on the study of interpretative process of human behavior through characters in the novel. Since the study of this thesis deals with a character and her motivations, the analysis of this novel also involves the study of psychology.
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C. Theoretical Framework
In this thesis the writer shows the contribution of the theories to solve the problems stated in the problem formulation. In this section, the writer explains what theories are needed and how the writer applies those theories in the analysis of this study.
The first analysis aims to describe the character of Savannah as one of the major character. To answer first problem formulation, the writer uses theory of character and characterization. These theory are used to observe what characteristics of Savannah revealed in the story is. The writer uses certain dialogues and statements in the novel that explain characteristics of Savannah.
The second analysis aims to find out Sava nnah’s conditions that she faces as the second question. Some relations between literature and psychology are also added to see how literature and psychology influence each other. In some literary works, such as in Dear John itself, psychological side plays an important role in this novel and its influence can be felt in whole story. It reflects that these two subjects have deep relationship and influence each other.
To answer the last question the writer uses theory of motivation. By understanding the theory of motivation, the writer tries to explore how does the influence of Savannah’s motivation as one of the main characters to marry Tim.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY A. Object of the Study T
he writer uses Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John as the main object of the study. Dear John is written by Nicholas Sparks and it was published in New York, 2009 by Grand Central publisher. The novel consists of 335 pages and 20 chapters.
Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Patrick Michael Sparks, a professor, and Jill Emma Marie Sparks, a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks and a younger sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks (1966 –2000), who died at the age of 33.
Nicholas Sparks is an author specialized in love story. Each novel takes a different perspective of love. He always uses romantic words and romantic plot.
In writing his novels, Sparks gets love and life as the themes. The themes are too usual to talk today; the readers can find that sense in his novels. The love and life make his novels so touching to the deepest heart of the readers. For examples in other
Nicholas Sparks’ novels are The Notebook and The Wedding. (www.nicholas%20biography/id11.html, August 30, 2011).
“"The Notebook" is about unconditional and everlasting love and it is due to this theme that Nicholas Sparks' style of writing for this novel is very loving and when the characters are talking they express a lot of emotions even though they might not mention the emotional words. Another example would be "The Wedding" which is about love and the renewal of
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it. Therefore the novel is very homey and it has a little bit of spirit to it. Its style demonstrates celebration.”
Dear John is about a young man with unresolved father issues who enlists
in the army because he wants to get better life. On one of his vacations back home, he meets a girl, Savannah who is spending her college summer vacation building houses for people who need them but cannot afford them. They spend a lot of times together and grow to understand and like each other. Then they spend time on fun activities like surfing, and also just talking to each other.
Finally they fall in love. They communicate with the letter when they are apart. One day the letter from Savannah changes everything. Sadly, Savannah’s long distance relationship with John makes her fall in love with someone else. “Dear John,” the letter read and with those two words, a heart is broken and two lives are changed forever. Returning home, John must come to face that his father died and Savannah is married. What is lasted is John’s true love. He has to face the hardest conditions of his life.
Savannah’s decision to leave John and marry Tim is a difficult decision for her. Tim is her friend who has an autistic brother, named Alan. Tim should take care of Alan. Savannah and Tim talk to each other and spend a lot of times together. Tim has loved Savannah since he was child. As time goes by, love grows between them. Finally, Savannah loves Tim too and they get married.
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B. Approach of the Study The writer develops this study by applying the Psychological approach.
Rohrberber and Woods in Reading and Writing about Literature , state that “the psychological approach is an approach that is used to explain human motivation, personality, and behavior pattern written in literary object (1971: 12). A psychological approach outlines a psychology theory in order to help readers in understanding the literary works.
In analyzing the character of Savannah the writer uses the psychological approach through the interpretations are needed in order to get deep understandings the psychological condition of the character. Here the psychological approach becomes the important element. By using psychological approach the writer tries to analyze and search the inner point of view of the major character. Since this thesis deals with the major character’s motivation it is valuable in search the motivation using psychological approach. This approach lets the readers to examine the character’s psychological aspect in the literary works.
C. Method of the Study
In order to fulfill this study, the writer used a library research method. It means that the data were collected from many books and from the internet as well, which have some valuable information to support the study. The writer divided the sources as the primary and the secondary data. The primary data source is taken f rom Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John. The secondary data are taken from other
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sources and books of literature, which are related to primary data that support the analysis. They are books and internet to get the information. It means that the study is based on books and some sources from the internet. The writer took the data from the Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.
There were four steps of data collecting which the writer took in conducting the study. The first was reading the novel for several times to get more understanding that were going to be analyzed. The second was reading some related references to observe the related theory, data and information. The third was collecting some data of important parts and making notes from the references as the sources to examine the topic. The writer obtained the information from the library and the internet. The fourth was coming to the part of analysis using all theories are in order to answer the problems stated in the problem formulation. By applying all those steps the writer can answer this study.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS A. The Description of Savannah Characters are always found in a story. In A Glossary of Literary Terms, Abrams states that characters in novel are divided into major and minor
characters. The major character usually becomes the center of the story, the person who acts, and he must handle the attention of the readers. Therefore, he or she is the most important character in the story. The readers usually focus on this character including his or her behavior, attitude, action, and speech from the beginning up to the ending of the story (1981: 21). According to Nicholas Sparks’
Dear John, there are three main characters, namely John Tyree, Savannah Lynn
Curtis, and Tim Wheddon. This study focuses on Savannah Lynn Curtis only.Savannah Lynn Curtis is categorized as the major or main character because she plays in the important role of the story and as the center of the story as well.
In order to find out the characteristics of the character, Murphy’s (1972: 161-173) theories of characterizations in Understanding Unseens are applied. We can understand the characters more deeply through nine methods. They are personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, reaction, conversation of others, direct comment, thought, and mannerisms. However, not all of those methods are observed in the story. They are character as seen by another, speech, past life, reaction, conversation of others, thought, and mannerisms.
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1. Friendly
Savannah is majoring in Special Education in the University of North Carolina. She is 21 years old and the only child in her family. She is from Lenoir and she grows up on a ranch. She enters the story when she spends her summer coordinating a group from her college to build homes for Habitat for Humanity in John’s hometown.
Savannah in the beginning of the story is described as a friendly girl. Savannah and her friends walk up the pier and meet John as a stranger for them. John greets them and Savannah answers John’s greeting friendly. John also considers Savannah as a friendly person. John feels that the words she says are friendly. The author uses the other character’s thought to describe about Savannah. It is shown in John’s thought after his conversation with Savannah. It can be seen in the quotation below.