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Holly's Personality Alteration As Portrayed In Didaktis, Vol. 15, No. 1, Hal 1 - ............, Februari 2015, ISSN 1412-5889 HOLLY’S PERSONALITY ALTERATION AS PORTRAYED IN AHERN’S P.S. I LOVE YOU Pramudana Ihsan [email protected] ABSTRACT This study attempts to discuss the issue raised from the novel entitled P.S. I Love You writtenby Cecilia Ahern. This novel provides a personality alteration performed by the main character, Holly Kennedy who is portrayed as dependent, selfish, and fragile person. The writer mainly uses qualitative method to present the data, furthermore the data obtained will be analyzed vividly with intrinsic elements: characterization and plot. To get a profound understanding, he divides characterization into character and characteristics while plot is sharpened into conflict. Thus problems arisen in Holly’s adult life will be taken out and discussed further using two elements of conflict: man vs man and man vs self. The result is a force for Holly Kennedy to have a significant personality alteration into a better one. In conclusion, this paper is aimed at finding the personality alteration performed by Holly Kennedy. Keywords: Personality, alteration, conflict A. Introduction tures which can be seen from its complexity. Every single human’s personality can The complexity of human’s life can be filled sometimes be different from one to another. with problems, conflicts, feelings, thoughts and A human’s life personality is significantly di- behaviors. Human beings can choose what vided into two, the good and the bad. Actu- they want based on that complexity above. ally, the personality itself is something that is As problems arise, human beings can learn shaped by a person’s process of thought and something, possess something, and come with searching, which is sometimes added by the a conclusion. From the conclusion, their surrounding people’s behaviors. The person’s thoughts can be diverted into action thatthey personality is not merely about good and bad choose. ones, the interesting thing about of human is Personality alteration is one of the big- that they are different from some other crea- gest issues that each single human being may 54 have in his/her life. Sometimes a human being than him. She acknowledges that she owns a can alter the personality based on the func- great love to Gerry and so does Gerry. After tion that is currently required by him/her. For describing Holly in an informative way, Ahern an example, a spoiled woman changes his as the author narrates Holly’s childhood. Ac- habit into a good one because he needs to cording to the writer, although Ahern continue living in an appropriate way. Indeed merelygives limited facts about Holly’s child- that kind of personality alteration seems to hood but they are very essential in her future suit new personality to cover something just life. Regarding to the facts about Holly’s child- because that person wants something. This hood, the writer has simplytaken out com- idea is best reflected in P.S. I Love You, a plete characteristics of Holly which is fictional novel written by Cecelia Ahern. The inferredbecause of Holly’s childhood life. title of the novel is taken from the letters left P.S. I Love Youprovides the facts of for the main character, Holly Kennedy, by her Republic of Ireland furnished with several beloved husband Gerry Clarke. Each letter places there as a symbol of a wealthy family. is meant to assist her along her life, Gerry There are also added some places to hang writes some letters before he dies. In this out with its uniqueness and the Irish hospital- novel, P.S. here means postscript, the note ity. The author, Ahern, determines the works added by the writer of the letters written in as a selling-point media to her beloved coun- the end of his letters. I Love You simply re- try. She was born on September 30, 1981 in fers to a feeling of owning love to someone. Dublin, Ireland. She is the daughter of Bertie Therefore, P.S. I Love You here is the word Ahern, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) since Gerry took in his letters meantfor Holly, to June 26, 1997, and is the sister-in-law of encourage her because he knows exactly that Nicky Byrne, member of Irish pop group his death would bring a harmful impact to Westlife who is married to her older sister, Holly. Georgina Ahern(Wand, 2009: 1). Before P.S. I Love Youis opened with Holly’s embarking on her writing career, Cecelia great sadness after Gerry’s death. It tells about Ahern completed a Degree in Journalism and Gerry’s suffer from brain tumor.After that, the Media Communications. At the age of twenty- story moves backward, telling about how a one, she wrote her debut novel P.S. I Love great man Gerry was. Holly actually is a You, published in January 2004, which was spoiled woman who marries Gerry at the age sold to over forty countries. The novel was of twenty three. Holly is one year younger one of the biggest-selling debut novels of 55 Didaktis, Vol. 15, No. 1, Hal 1 - ............, Februari 2015, ISSN 1412-5889 2004, reaching No.1 in Ireland and in the ing Holly’s personality alteration. U.K. Sunday Times bestseller list and was selected for the Richard and Judy Summer B. Literary Theory Read campaign. It was also a bestseller 1. Intrinsic Approach throughout Europe and the U.S.A., staying When dealing withthe analysis, the writer on the best-seller list in Germany for over 52 focuses his discussionon the novel P.S. I Love weeks. For her debut novel, she was nomi- You itself. According to Rene Wellek and nated for Best Newcomer 2004/05 at the Austin Warren in Theory of Literature, the British Book and in 2006; she was long-listed natural and sensible starting point for work in for the IMPAC award (ibid). The film of the literary scholarship is the interpretation and same title was optioned by Warner Bros and the analysis of the works of literature them- Wendy Finerman Productions. It has now selves. After all, only the works themselves been made into a motion picture directed by justify all our interest in the life of an author, in Richard LaGravenese, starring Hilary Swank, his social environment and the whole process Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Bates, Gerard Butler, of literature (1979: 139). The writer will Harry Connick Jr., Gina Gershon and Jeffrey strictly analyze the text based on the supported Dean Morgan. Ahern became a productive by intrinsic approach. Intrinsic approach, writer by publishing the other books in the however primarily valued irony in a broader following years, Where Rainbows End sense of the term, to indicate a text’s inclu- (2004), If You Could See Me Now (2005), sion of varying perspectives on the same char- and A Place Called Here (2006) (ibid). acters of events (Tyson, 2006: 122). The most Specifically, P.S. I Love You implies the essential thing in a literary work is the analy- personalityalteration from feeling of helpless- sis of the intrinsic elements which consist of ness into a better form. The writer here will theme, setting, conflict, character, character- focus on how Holly handles conflict happened ization and plot. Thus the writer focuses his between her versus herself, her versus other analysis on three aspects of the intrinsic ele- people that isstarted from her childhood life, ments, which are character, characterization and then it improves into personality alteration and conflict. caused by several factors. Hence, according to the writer of this study, the novel P.S. I a. Character Love You written by Cecelia Ahern is worth Character in the main point of a story. As analyzed. Thus, this paper is aimed at reveal- stated by Richard Gill in Mastering English 56 Literature, characters in any literature works Many major character acted as the protago- have specially created by the authors. When nist – the center of attention – moved against authors create characters, they select some the antagonist, and ususally exhibits the hu- aspects of ordinary people, develop some of man attributes we expect of round character those aspects whilst playing down others, and (ibid). put them together as they please. The way Robert argued, a round character with they created characters finally produced fic- its many individual and unpredictable human tional characters (1985: 90-91). According traits, also because of the changes or growth to Edgar V Robert in his book entitled Writ- they undergo as the result of their experiences, ing Themes About Literature. Seventh therefore can be considered dynamic char- Edition, Character in fiction is an extended acter. round character are just complex and verbal representation of a human being – the as difficult to understand as living people and complex combination of both the inner and therefore totally identifiable within the class, the outer self. Through actions, speech, de- occupation or occupation or circumstances scription, and commentary, authors portray of which he or she is a part (ibid, 144). character who are worth caring about, root- Robert added, unlike round character, a ing for, and even loving, although there are flat character is undistinguishable from other also characters at whom you may laugh or persons in particular group or class. The flat whom you may dislike or even hate (1991: character is representative and usually minor 64). Robert also stated in his other book character since flat character do not change entitled Literature: An Introduction to or grow or static (ibid 145-146). Reading and Writing. Third Edition, An important feature of deep characterization is b. Characterization the presentation of development and change, Since the writer focuses his analysis on and here we will encounter two types of char- the main character’s characteristics, he con- acter which E.M Forstell calls ‘round’ and siders to use Edgar V.
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