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PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI THE INFLUENCE OF THE ABSENCE OF THE FATHER FIGURE ON RONNIE’S BEHAVIOR AS SEEN IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ THE LAST SONG AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By FEBE OLIVIA YOWANDRA DITA SUTANTO Student Number: 114214019 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2015 PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI THE INFLUENCE OF THE ABSENCE OF THE FATHER FIGURE ON RONNIE’S BEHAVIOR AS SEEN IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ THE LAST SONG AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By FEBE OLIVIA YOWANDRA DITA SUTANTO Student Number: 114214019 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2015 ii PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKANMERUPAKAN TINDAKANTINDAKAN TIDAKTIDAK TERPUJITERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKANMERUPAKAN TINDAKANTINDAKAN TIDAKTIDAK TERPUJITERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKANMERUPAKAN TINDAKANTINDAKAN TIDAKTIDAK TERPUJITERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKANMERUPAKAN TINDAKANTINDAKAN TIDAKTIDAK TERPUJITERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI P.U.S.H Pray Until Something Happens With God all things are possible Matthew 19:26 vii PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI Dedicated To The Almighty God, Jesus Christ The Name above all names To My Beloved Family viii PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My first gratitude is for Jesus Christ who has given a wonderful life for me. It has been His grace for me to finish the study, especially the undergraduate thesis. I would like to thank my advisor, Paulus Sarwoto, S.S., M.A., Ph. D. and my co-advisor, Maria Ananta Tri Suryandari, S.S, M.Ed., for helping me to write this undergraduate thesis. I thank their patience, guidance, and ideas in developing my undergraduate thesis. My gratitude also goes to all the lecturers and the staff of English Letters Department. I thank them for all their knowledge, wonderful experience, and their guidance. I will not forget these valuable moments. My deepest gratitude goes to my family, Iwan Sutanto, Indrayanti, and Yeremia Yudha Setia Graha Sutanto, who always support me with prayers and love. The last, I want to thank my best friends, Novita Carolina, Nadia Puri, Lydia Rosiana, Ema. They also always support me and give me much advice. All in all, I thank everyone who has supported me. All of them are meaningful. Febe Olivia Yowandra ix PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI DAFTAR ISI TITLE PAGE ...................................................................................................... ii APPROVAL PAGE ........................................................................................... iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ....................................................................................... iv STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................. v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH . vi MOTTO PAGE ................................................................................................... vii DEDICATION PAGE ......................................................................................... viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................ ix TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................... x LIST OF TABLES .............................................................................................. xi ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................... xii ABSTRAK ........................................................................................................... xiii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 1 A. Background of the Study ........................................................................ 1 B. Problem Formulation .............................................................................. 4 C. Objectives of the Study ........................................................................... 4 D. Definitions of Terms ............................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................. 6 A. Review of Related Studies ...................................................................... 6 B. Review of Related Theories .................................................................... 9 1. Theory of Character and Characterization........................................ 9 2. Theory of Behavior ........................................................................... 13 3. Theory of Parent‟s Role in Child Development ............................... 14 4. Theory of Adolescence ..................................................................... 16 5. Theory of Repression in Psychoanalysis .......................................... 20 C. Theoretical Framework ........................................................................... 21 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY .................................................................. 23 A. Object of the Study ................................................................................. 23 B. Approach of the Study ............................................................................ 25 C. Method of the Study ................................................................................ 25 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS ............................................................................... 27 A. Analysis of the Characteristics of Ronnie and Steve .............................. 27 1. The Characteristics of Ronnie .......................................................... 27 a. Ronnie‟s Characteristic when there is a father‟s figure ........ 28 i. Caring ................................................................... 28 ii. Nice ...................................................................... 30 iii. Religious .............................................................. 32 b. Ronnie‟s Characteristics when she loses her father figure ... 33 x PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI i. Angry .................................................................... 34 ii. Rude ..................................................................... 35 iii. Rebellious ............................................................. 36 2. The Characteristics of Steve ............................................................. 38 a. Religious ............................................................................... 38 b. Wise ...................................................................................... 40 c. Kind ...................................................................................... 42 d. Loving ................................................................................... 43 B. The Influence of the Absence of the Father Figure on Ronnie‟s Behavior ..................................................................................................................... 44 1. She has negative feelings towards her father.................................... 45 2. She does not get along with Kim, her mother .................................. 47 3. She becomes cynical about whole things ......................................... 48 4. She becomes rebellious girl .............................................................. 49 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .......................................................................... 52 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................... 55 xi PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI ABSTRACT SUTANTO, FEBE OLIVIA YOWANDRA DITA. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ABSENCE OF THE FATHER FIGURE ON RONNIE’S BEHAVIOR AS SEEN IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ THE LAST SONG. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, 2015 The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks is a novel about Ronnie, a teenager who experiences parental divorce. Ronnie is a seventeen years old. In her adolescence life, she must face the fact that her parents, Steve and Kim divorced. After the divorce, Steve moves to North Carolina and does not live with his family anymore. As the consequence, Ronnie lost her father figure. The absence of father figure influence Ronnie‟s behavior. The objective of the study is to know the influence of father figure absence on Ronnie‟s behavior. There are two questions formulated in problem formulation. The first is to find out Ronnie and Steve‟s characteristics in the novel. The second is to know how father figure absence influences Ronnie‟s behavior. This study uses library research. The main source of this study is the original copy of The Last Song novel. Theory of character and characterization is used to answer the first question in problem formulation and psychoanalytic approach is used in this thesis to answer the second question of problem formulation. This study finds out

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