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The Reflection of Rejection as Seen in Hele's Character of Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
ABSTRACT
Rejection issue is one of the realities in society that can be reflected in
literary work. It happens when one individual does not accept other individual and
not showing any kindness such as loving and caring. Someone that was rejected
by other people usually being excluded and ignored by others. Meanwhile in
social life, people need to be accepted and acknowledged by others so they will
feel appreciated. Rejection unconciously happened in our society. One of the
literary works that represent rejection issue is a novel by Ann Morgan entitled
Beside Myself. The rejection issue in that novel can be analyzed through Helen’s
character.
This research belonged to qualitative research with content analysis as its
data analysis technique. This research focused on rejection issue that appeared in
Helen’s character through the narrations and dialogues of the characters in the
novel. This research used IPARTheory from Ronald P.Rohner as the reference in
analyzing Helen’s character. The result of this research showed that Helen
received all the rejection acts from the people around her, especially her mother.
Helen has eight out of nine rejection effects as the result of being rejected by
people around her.
Keywords: Acceptance, Rejection, IPARTheory, Beside Myself novel
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