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Analysis of Sarah Kenyon’s Motivation through Her Needs in Marry Higgins Clark’s All Around the Town
ABSTRACT
This research discussed about the analysis of main character in Marry
Higgins Clark’s All Around the Town novel by applying psychological approach.
The researcher intended to reveal motivation and personality type of this character
based on her need fulfillment in this story. The researcher chose this novel as the
subject for this research because of her curiosity in gaining more comprehension
about other characters which is hopefully can give the elaboration toward
previous research about this novel. Therefore, the researcher conducted the
analysis of Sarah Kenyon by applying Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and
Hippocrates’ four personality types.
The result of this research showed that Sarah Kenyon is protagonist
character. In addition, based on her need portrayal in the novel the researcher
concluded that love and belongingness is dominant need as motivation for Sarah
to fulfill her needs. Besides, the researcher found out that Sarah’s personality is
belonging to phlegmatic character. Her phlegmatic temperament gave a good
influence toward her need fulfillment process. Due to her kind hearted, she
accepted treatment from other people kindly too. Also, she had good friends and
beloved people who always came to give her support and help to face the hard
situation. So, even though Sarah met an obstacle in fulfilling her needs, she finally
could make it through.
Key Words: Character, Motivation, Hierarchy of needs, Phlegmatic
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