WOMEN'S COURAGE AS AN EFFECT OF A STRONG FRIENDSIDP BOND IN THURSDAYS AT EIGHT

Margaretha Alexandra Pribadi (Margaretha Alexander Pribadi, S.S. was a student of the Faculty of Letters, Soegijapranata Catholic University.)
Ekawati Marhenny Dukut (Dra, Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut, M.Hum is a full-time lecturer at the the Faculty of Language and Art, Soegijapranata Catholic University)

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 11, No 2: December 2011

Having girlfriends may bring many advantages for women. They can relate and be comfortable with each other. This makes them talk about anything in a group. Thursdays at Eight talks about friendship bond and the power inside them through pain, rejection, ambition, and lost. This article, which uses Feminism approach, emphasizes in Third-wave Feminism and is intended to analyze thefriendship bond and the courage of the women in the novel. For example is how the characters in the novel get up and fight to reach what they want throughfriendship bond.