Quentin's personality development in john green novels paper towns

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Habibah, Ila Nuriya (2023) Quentin's personality development in john green novels paper towns. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This study aims to find out the personality development that occurs in Quentin Jacobson in John Green's novel Paper Towns. This novel tells the life of a young man named Quentin’s Jacobson who has a neighbor named Margo Roth Spiegelman. Starting from Quentin helping Margo to carry out a revenge mission last night which in the end made Quentin closer to Margo's personality. Furthermore, research focuses on answering research questions: (1) How is Quentin’s character development in the Paper Towns novel? (2) Why does Quentin’s experience character development in the Paper Towns novel? This study uses a descriptive qualitative method because the research data comes from the text itself, namely the novel Paper Towns by John Green. This study also uses secondary data derived from books, journals, and other articles to support this research. The researcher uses the new Criticism theory as a theory that analyzes Quentin Jacobson's character and also uses Personality Development theory as a theory that analyzes Quentin Jacobson's personality development. The finding of this research Quentin experienced a change in character and personality development. Quentin's personality before getting to know Margo is a person who unambition, is timid, and also a young man who lives discipline. However, after Quentin got to know Margo, his personality changed into a person who has ambition, is brave, and also has insubordination. This is caused by several factors, namely, the influence of certain people and also a strong motivation to change.