REGRET IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE BEST OF ME

This study aims to discuss the types of regret that represent the effects of the protagonist's regret in Nicholas Spark's novel entitled The Best of Me, and to describe the effects of the protagonist's regret. This study is the result of a qualitative assessment of the regrets of the protagonist named Dawson Cole. The theory used in this study is the theory proposed by Zeelenberg (2007), and supported by Pieters R. A (2007). The results of this study indicate that there are two types of regret reflected in the novel; they are existential regret and regret of inaction. The cause of the protagonist's regret is that the protagonist avoids Amanda all his life, and his regret that he is inferior and unworthy to be with Amanda. The effect of the protagonist's regret is that he lies to his own feelings and remains single for the rest of his life

Poverty in Nunuk Y Kusmiana’s Novel Gadis Pesisir

The purpose of this research was to describe poverty in Nunuk Y. Kusmiana’s novel Gadis Pesisir. The book describes Umar and his daughter Halijah. Umar was a fisherman who did not use modern fishing technology. This greatly affected his fishing abilities, which made the family poor. This study adopted the poverty descriptions proposed by Soeharto (2005), namely a material, social and income description. The material description included daily primary needs such as clothing, food, shelter, health service and education. The social description included social exclusion, dependence on others and an inability to participate in society. The description of income included the lack of income associated with the number of children in the family. This study used descriptive qualitative methods because this is the most suitable method for literary phenomena (Endraswara, 2011). The descriptive method does not use numbers but uses an appreciation of the interaction between the concepts that are being studied empirically (Semi: 1993). The data collection used sorting and noting. The results of the study indicated that material, social and income features are not fulfilled in this novel. Keywords: poverty, poverty description, material, social, incom

PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS IN JOJO MOYES’ NOVEL ME BEFORE YOU

This research is aimed at protagonist’s physiological needs in the novel Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes based on Maslow’s theory. There are five basic needs based on Maslow’s theory. This study only focuses on physiological needs in the protagonist’s life. Physiological needs, the most important basic needs, is the elements needed by human being in maintaining life and health. This study used qualitative method to describe the obtained data. The result shows that there are four important points of physiological needs found in the protagonist’s life. Those are food, water, clothing and rest. It is found that the protagonist in the novel puts first her basic needs. She fulfills her needs for food, water, cloth, and rest. The basic needs must be fulfilled first before other needs. Therefore, the protagonist in the novel can live healthily and continues her life safely

POSITIVE IMPACTS OF LOVE IN WILLIAM A. WELLMAN’S AND ROBERT CARSON’S MOVIE SCRIPT A STAR IS BORN

This study aims to determine the positive impacts of love in the movie script A Star Is Born. This study is concerned with the types of love which imply the positive impacts. This study uses Fromm’s theory of love. The types of love analyzed in this study are brotherly love, erotic love, and self-love. Next, the positive impacts of love found in this study are for health, for personal ties, and for relationship. This study uses descriptive qualitative method to explain the types of love that imply positive impact, and positive impact of love from the quotations in the script. This film tells the story of an ordinary woman with great talent who accidentally meets a male celebrity who is addicted to alcohol. The man is attracted to the woman who has a dream to conquer Hollywood. He pushes her become a star. The results of this study show that love can have a positive impact for health that triggers Jack to be released from drugs and alcohol. Besides, the self-love in this movie is presented when Jack helps Ally to be more confident and love herself; consequently, she can be a successful songwriter and singer. Jack always loves her as she is. Ally always supports his health. Both of them strengthen and heal each other

NEGATIVE ATTITUDES IN SIDNEY SHELDON’S NOVEL THE BEST LAID PLANS

This research analyses the negative attitudes of the protagonist in The Best Laid Plans written by an American novelist, Sidney Sheldon. The novel tells the revenge of the selfish and ambitious protagonist Leslie Stewart who has been so obsessed with destroying Oliver's reputation for betraying him. Leslie is the most fascinating figure in the whole course of the story between his selfish and ambitious attitude and his madness. She feels that she has been neglected and cast away and this hardens his heart, until she does not care about the feelings of others. This phenomena is compatible with a theory of selfish in which it is stated that When talking, he does not care about the feelings of others. If there is a division of something he is selfish. He never thought that his actions caused many people to be harmed (Poniman, 2007). This research adopts qualitative method supported by relevant theories, one of which is proposed by Creswell (2009). The result reveals that there are two dominant attitudes emerging from the analysis, those are selfish and ambitious

SUFFERING IN CHRIS GARDNER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

This research is to reveal The Protagonist’s Suffering Depicted in Chris Gardner’s Autobiography: The Pursuit of Happyness. The research adopts qualitative research method in its analysis. The main theory used in this research stated that suffering can be defined as a state of severe distress associated with events that threaten the intactness of the person. It can occur in relation to any aspect of the person in the realm of his social role, his group identification, his relation with self or body, or in relation to family or relation with a personal or transcendental source of meaning. The experience of being hurted since he was child makes the protagonist grows with wisdom and maturity. He considers that all the suffering he faces is a part of life that he must pass. It is also found that the protagonist passes his suffering patiently and thinking positively without blaming other people or the situation which make him suffer

DEIXIS IN THE SONG LYRICS GOODBYE’S (THE SADDEST WORD) BY CELINE DION

Deixis is used in most conversations or in writing literary works, including song lyrics. The purpose of this research is to reveal the use of deixis in the lyrics of Celine Dion's Goodbye's (The Saddest Word). In this study, the descriptive-qualitative method was used to collect the data. The procedure used to analyze the data starts with collecting data, using deixis, identifying the classification of data usage from person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis, and making conclusions on the use of deixis data. The theory proposed by Yule was used to analyze and classify the types of deixis. The results showed that the three types of deixis, namely person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis, are found in the song lyrics, with details of 47 person deixis, 8 spatial deixis, and 8 temporal deixis

COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN PARMOEDYA ANANTA TOERS’ NOVEL BUMI MANUSIA

People always do communication with others. Communication has several functions, such as conveying idea and giving information to others. In conveying idea and giving information, people use a language. One main requirements needed by person to do communication is to make sure that the listener or people involved in the conversation will cooperate each other; so by this,  the communication can run well. Paul Grice states that the cooperative principle is the assumption that participants in a conversation normally attempt to be informative, truthful, relevant, and clear and the cooperative principle of conversation is elaborated in four sub-principles called maxims. They are maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relevance and maxim of manner. The aims of this study are to reveal the use of framework principle and to entangle the implied meanings in the conversations in terms of their maxim arrangement. This research uses descriptive qualitative method and the results show that there are maxim of relevant, quality, quantity and manner used in the novel

DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE HOLY BIBLE OF LOCAL NIAS LANGUAGE

This research deals with the deictic expressions in the Holy Bible of local Nias language. The objectives of the study are to discuss and identify the deixis in the Holy Bible.  The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data were the epistle of Paul to Philemon which consist of 25 verses. They were collected and analyzed by using a documentation method. The steps were (1) reading the text, (2) finding and marking the deixis, (3) classifying the types of deixis, (4), finding the data, putting sign and making checklist on it, and (5) drawing the conclusions. The results of this research show that there are five types of deixis found in the epistle of Paul to Philemon in the Holy Bible of local Nias language; they are person deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The results also show that the deixis mostly found is the person deixis with the frequency of 65 (70%). The following deixis is social deixis that appears 10 times (11%). The discourse deixis appears with the frequency of 9 (10%) while the temporal deixis appears with the frequency of 7 (7%). The deixis that appears the least is spatial deixis with a frequency of 2 (2%)

Self Determination in Nicola Yoon’S Novel Everything, Everything

This paper focuses on the analysis of self-determination. The main theory of selfdetermination applied is that developed by Ryan and Deci and the supporting theory is adopted from Wehmayer. In the data analysis, this study uses descriptive qualitative method. By using this SDT (Self Determination Theory), two points are discussed. First, it is self-determined motivation found in the novel. Further, there are two types of the protagonist’s determined motivation which are found in the novel. Autonomous (Intrinsic) motivation comes from the person’s own mind. The protagonist has her own thought to determine her life and her choice. Meanwhile, controlled (extrinsic) motivation is caused by the presence of external influences from the results of interacting with other characters in the novel. Both types of motivation encourage the protagonist to believe what she will do and choose for her life. The second point in discussion is the protagonist’s life choices. Even though she is assumed to suffer from SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease), and she is considered to have a disability, she dares to make decisions that could endanger herself. However, she finally proves that the self-determination done by the protagonist in Yoon’s novel Everything, Everything is in accordance with what she wants. At last, she feels alive.     Keywords: Self determination, motivation, intrinsic motivation, autonomous motivatio