Emotional Abuse in Danielle Steel's Novel “Big Girl”
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EMOTIONAL ABUSE IN DANIELLE STEEL’S NOVEL “BIG GIRL” A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Humaniora in English and Literature Department of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities of UIN Alauddin Makassar By HASTIKA Reg. No. 40300109035 ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY ALAUDDIN STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MAKASSAR 2013 PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN SKRIPSI Dengan penuh kesadaran, penulis yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, menyatakan bahwa skripsi ini benar adalah hasil karya penulis sendiri. Jika di kemudian hari terbukti bahwa ia merupakan duplikat, tiruan, plagiat, atau dibantu orang lain secara keselurahan atau sebagian, maka skripsi dan gelar yang diperoleh karenanya batal demi hukum. Makassar, November 27th 2013 The Writer, Hastika Reg. No. 40300109035 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Alhamdulillahirobbil alamin all praises and gratitude are for the first place to the most gracious and the merciful Allah SWT. Who always guides, blesses and gives the opportunity to finish this thesis entitled: Emotional Abuse in Danielle Steel‟s Novel “Big Girl”. Sholawat and Salam also delivered to the prophet Muhammad SAW. who has been a great model of all human being in this entire of the world. In writing and finishing this thesis, many people have provided their motivation, advice, and even remark that helped the writer. Therefore the writer would like to express her appreciation to all of them. The writer’s special gratitude for her beloved parents, H. Abd. Salam, S.Pd. and Hj. Kartia, who have patiently given their moral values, financial, support, nice and good advice for their children. The writer would like to express her appreciate to her brother and sisters, Suharto, Sri Suhartina and Ulfa Arbianty, billion thanks to you for all the things that you have given to me. The greatest thanks to the Rector of UIN Alauddin Makassar, Prof. Dr. A. Qadir Gassing, HT., MS., the Dean of Adab and Humanities Faculty, Prof. Dr. Mardan, M.Ag. the head of English and Literature Department, Dr. Abd. Muin, M.Hum., and the secretary of English and Literature Department, Serliah Nur, S.Pd., M.Hum., M.Ed., for their help, support, suggestion, precious time, and administrative support. The writer’s gratitude due to her supervisors, Serliah Nur, S.Pd., M.Hum., M.Ed. as the first consultant and Nasrum Marjuni, S.Pd., M.A. as the second consultant for their generous support, advise, constructive suggestions and precious time they have given during completion of this research. The writer would like to thank to the lecturers for giving their knowledge and enlightenment to the writer during the academic years as well as staff of UIN Alauddin Makassar for their assistance. The writer’s deepest thank to her beloved friend, Dedi Miswar Razak, who has given support, prayers, and big contributions during completion of this research. Your kindness would not be end in my mind until the last of my breath. The deepest appreciation individually and collectively most profound thanks to English Students Literature (BSI) Ag. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of academic generation 2009. In special to her colleagues: Qalbie Ludes, Viqa, Iksan Mahar, Rian, Diman, Kiki, Nurfi Faiz, and all her classmate that cannot tell one by one for your brotherhood, friendship, kindness and suggestion for long time we gathered in the class. The greatest thanks to all friends in Pondok Fiq-Faq, Ummu, Dian, Anti, Kiki, Indah, Tsamrah, Ria, Sri, Sia and special for her beloved Bu’ Kost for your support, brotherhood and advice “you are the best!”. Furthermore, I really realize that this thesis still needs constructive, criticism and suggestions from the readers in order to make it more perfect and hopefully it can be useful for the readers, especially for the English and Literature Department. Makassar, November 27th 2013 The Writer, Hastika Reg. No. 40300109035 TABLE CONTENTS COVER PAGE ............................................................................................... i PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN SKRIPSI ....................................................... ii PENGESAHAN SKRIPSI ............................................................................. iii APPROVAL SHEET ..................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................. v TABLE CONTENTS ..................................................................................... viii ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... x CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1 A. Background .......................................................................................... 1 B. Problem Statement ............................................................................... 4 C. Objective of the Research .................................................................... 4 D. Significant of Study.............................................................................. 5 E. Scope of the Problem ........................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II THEORITICAL BACKGROUND ...................................... 6 A. Previous Finding .................................................................................. 6 B. Emotional Abuse .................................................................................. 8 1. Definition of Emotional Abuse ...................................................... 8 2. Categories of Emotional Abuse ..................................................... 9 3. Effects of Emotional Abuse ........................................................... 16 C. Biography of The Author Novel .......................................................... 18 D. Synopsis of the Novel .......................................................................... 18 CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH................................................ 21 A. Research Method .................................................................................. 21 B. Data Source .......................................................................................... 21 C. Instrument of Research ........................................................................ 21 D. Procedure of Collecting Data ............................................................... 21 E. Technique of Analyzing data ............................................................... 22 CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ....................................... 23 A. Findings ................................................................................................ 25 B. Discussion ............................................................................................ 28 CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ............................. 38 A. Conclusion............................................................................................ 38 B. Discussion ............................................................................................ 39 BIBLIOGRPHIES ......................................................................................... 40 CURRICULUM VITAE ................................................................................ 42 ABSTRACT Name : Hastika Reg. Number : 40300109035 Title : Emotional Abuse in Danielle Steel’s novel “Big Girl” Consultants : 1. Serliah Nur 2. Nasrum Marjuni This thesis is a research about Emotional Abuse in Danielle Steel’s novel Big Girl. The objectives of the research are (1) to find out the categories of Emotional Abuse faced by Victoria In Danielle Steel’s novel “Big Girl”. (2) to find out the effects of Emotional Abuse found by Victoria from her parents. In this research the writer used Charles Wenar’s theory about emotional abuse. It aimed to find out the categories of emotional abuse which happened in the main character, then the writer analyzed and explained the effects based on the categories. The method used in this research is qualitative method. The data resource of this research was the novel “Big Girl” which was published in 2010. In collecting the data, the writer used note taking as the instrument to get the data. In this research, the writer found four categories of emotional abuse. They are rejecting, isolating, degrading and denying emotional responsiveness. There are eleven data about rejecting, there are two data about isolating, there are fifteen data about degrading and there are six data about denying emotional responsiveness. Then the writer also found the effects of emotional abuse based on the four categories above. Rejecting made the victim felt like another person in her family. The victim thought that she was unwanted. Isolating made the victim hard to engage with her peers. Degrading made the victim feel less confident. The victim sensed that she has no value. And the last, denying emotional responsiveness made the victim felt if her parents never care to her or being ignored. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background Literature springs from our in born love of telling a story, of arranging words in pleasing patterns, of expressing in words some special aspects of our human experience (Moody in Ade, 2008: 18). It represents someone’s idea through view to social environment by using a beautiful language. Literature attends as result of contemplation of author existing phenomenon. Literature as a masterpiece has the understanding of more circumstantial,