ROSDIANSYAH, ROSDIANSYAH (2008) STUDY ON AMANDA ROBBIN’S EMOTION IN “SPECIAL DELIVERY” NOVEL BY DANIELLE STEEL. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
Reading is one of the important skills in learning besides listening, speaking and writing. The fundamental goal of any reading is knowing enough science and knowing the language (comprehending and understanding). Moreover, by reading and learning the books readers can get so many experiences. For example, by reading, the readers can learn and know about cultures, other characters of human being. One of literary works that can express these values is novel. The reader can take a lot of experiences, knowledge, enjoyment and also entertainment from the novel. This study analyzed Danielle Steel’s novel “Special Delivery”. The writer chose the novel because she was very interested in analyzing it. This thesis is focused to answer the statement of problems. Those are; what are Amanda Robbins’s emotions? And How does Amanda Robbins describe her emotion? In this thesis, the writer used descriptive method because this study is not dealing with number at all but relies heavily on description. The approach used in this study is objective approach because this study discussed about the content of the literary itself without paying consideration to other’s life and background of the story when it is written. Based on the analysis the writer found the main character’s emotions were; (1) Sadness. It happened when she was loosing her husband. (2) Anger. It happened when she got pregnant but Jack Watson (Amanda’s boyfriend) couldn’t accept her pregnancy and asked her to do an abortion. The last (3) Anxiety. It happened when Jan (Amanda’s daughter) haven’t got a baby. The ways of Amanda’s emotion are described by words and by action. She described her sadness by words; she said that she couldn’t believe that her husband passed away and there will be never anyone else in her life because she loves her husband so much. She described her sadness by action; she just stays at home and cries. Beside that, she did not care about her health and her performance anymore. She described her anger by words; she said that she will not kill the baby and rejected to do abortion. She described her anger in action such as: she never wanted to see Jack again, chasing away and slamming the window when Jack comes to her house. Amanda described her anxious by words; she tries to calm her daughter down by saying they will step over their problem. The last, she described her anxious by action that was giving her baby to her daughter.
|Item Type:||Thesis (Other)|
|Subjects:||L Education > L Education (General)|
|Divisions:||Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > Department of English|
|Depositing User:||Anggit Aldila|
|Date Deposited:||12 Jun 2012 08:17|
|Last Modified:||12 Jun 2012 08:17|
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