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Quentin’s Personality Development in John Green’s Paper Towns Ila Nuriya Habibah; Muhammad Thoriqussuud; Abdur Rohman; Fathur Rohim; Abu Fanani
INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Vol 10 No 2 (2023): INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
Publisher : Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah (UNIMUDA) Sorong

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36232/jurnalpendidikanbahasa.v10i2.4740

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The purpose of the study is to explain Quentin’s personality before meeting Margo and how it is after meeting Margo in John Green’s Paper Towns. The main character, Quentin, changes from being static person in life such as having no ambitions, being a coward person, and disciplined one before meeting Margo to being a dynamic person such being an ambitious person, being a brave person, and being an insubordinate one after meeting Margo. The kind of change in life draws the researcher’s interest to conduct the analysis in this article since human’s thought develops from time to time whose developments could do the person either harm or good. However, this personality change does the main character good. Using emotional and social determinants and close reading method, the researcher conducts a deep observation about the main character’s personality and finds its change from unambitious, coward, and discipline before meeting Margo to ambitious, intrepid and insubordinate after meeting Margo. Thus, two of the eights determinant give a significant change of life of the main character, therefore, such determinants are worth studying very deeply as such knowledge is very necessary to make people able to manage available determinants they encounter in their daily life. Finally, the finding is to develop the theory of literature in application, namely, the personality development by Hurlock.
Women's Simple Characters for the Downfall of the Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's the Mayor of Casterbridge M. Ridwan; Atiq Mohammad Romdlon; Abu Fanani; Machfud Muhamad Sodiq; Fathur Rohim
Edulitics (Education, Literature, and Linguistics) Journal Vol. 9 No. 1 (2024): June, 2024
Publisher : Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Islam Darul Ulum Lamongan*

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52166/edulitics.v9i1.6445

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There are a lot of studies about characters, most of which are about characters dealing with the good and bad characters as the result of the study. This study challenges the previous studies above that study on characters not merely deal with and bad but deal with survival through the characters. In Thomas Hardy’s the Mayor of Casterbridge, I study about women’s simple character for the downfall of the Mayor of Casterbriidge. Using New Criticism focusing on the characterization as well as close reading as a method, this study shows the result that the four women: Susan Henchard, Lucetta, Elizabeth Jane, and the furmity woman are above the greatness of the Mayor of Casterbridge through their simple character; Susan Henchard by her simple and natural act for the sake of her daughter future, Lucetta by her simple act to marry another man for fear of the terrible marriage with the Mayor of Casterbridge, Elizabeth Jane with her simple character to ignore the Mayor of Casterbridge for tricking her real father, and the furmity woman with her simple testimony of the terrible wife sale by the Mayor of Casterbridge. All women’s simple characters put the Mayor of Casterbridge in complete downfall in love and in business. In conclusion, though being a great man in the Casterbridge, Michael Henchard undergoes a complete downfall by the simplicity of the characters of the women. Finally, simple character is worth studying to prevent people to be arrogant.
A Comparative Study on Women's Betrayal In Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone Muhammad Thoriqussuud; Fathur Rohim; Abu Fanani; Akhmad Syaikhu; Atiq Mohammad Romdlon
Edulitics (Education, Literature, and Linguistics) Journal Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024): December, 2024
Publisher : Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Islam Darul Ulum Lamongan*

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52166/edulitics.v9i2.7258

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This study is comparing women’s betrayal in two novels, Wild Swans a novel by Jung Chang and the Patience Stone a novel by Atiq Rahimi. The fact that Chinese’ women and Afghan women’s share the common issue, that is patriarchal one, the former faces the superior communist party, whilst, the latter faces the Mullah, the influential spiritual leader. Then, the women’s betrayal is worthy of analysis. The word ‘betrayal’ turns out to have a positive connotation instead of a negative one as heard in everyday life. Using descriptive and dramatic method, the study finds that both women in both novels have similarities and differences in their betrayal seen from the way they speak as well as act. In the similarities, both women betray the powerful people and their husbands, whilst, the differences are that people in power refer to the political parties in Wild Swans, a novel by Jung Chang, to the Mullah, a religious leader in the Patience Stone, a novel by Atiq Rahimi besides the husband is loyal to the political party in Wild Swans and to the religious teaching in the Patience Stone. Eventually, comparing women’s betrayal is worth a study since their betrayal gives a new life concept that women should play important roles in society not just men.
A Comparative Study on the Cause of a Curse in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto Abu Fanani; Machfud Muhamad Sodiq; Akhmad Syaikhu; Muhammad Thoriqussuud; Fathur Rohim
INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Vol. 13 No. 1 (2026): INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36232/interactionjournal.v13i1.4085

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This study conducts a comparison of two characters that bring the main characters into a terrible fate, the curse, in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Horace Walpole’s the Castle of Otranto. Using New Criticism theory, Miner’s comparative literature and close reading method, the study shows that though both characters in the novels are categorized as brutal leaders, however, Okonkwo is more brutal than Manfred shown in the diagram which has five kinds of crime than Manfred, only one crime. The former heartlessly takes the head of the enemy home and drinks the blood and kills the innocent kid and his family because they are weak people as well as regret for the society change instead of killing the kids and the family, whilst Manfred only kills somebody else and regret for his daughter as the off target. Accordingly, Okonkwo gets the curse more sorrowful by killing himself than Manfred who only mourns for his murdered daughter. The study then is worth a conduct as it has a novelty of the excluded theory in the previous studies and gives the researcher moral lesson that character can determine our future life.