Social conflict of Theodore Finch in the Novel All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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Cahya, Tiara Arti Issar Nur (2020) Social conflict of Theodore Finch in the Novel All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing the social Conflict of Theodore Finch in All the Bright Places Novel by Jennifer Niven. This research focuses on the main character, Theodore Finch. Finch is a man fascinated by death. The problems solved in this study are: (1) what are the social conflicts experienced by Theodore finch in All the Bright Places novel? (2) what are the causes of the social conflicts experienced by Theodore Finch in All the Bright Places novel? (3) How did Theodore Finch solving his Conflict in All the Bright Places novel?. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method for analyzing the data. In this thesis, the theory researchers used are a social conflict by Lewis, cause of Conflict by Mike, and New Criticism Theory. This method is applied to analyze the main character's social in society and his cause of conflict, even how Theodore Finch, as the main character in the novel, solving the conflict. The data collected by reading on All the Bright Places novel, then selecting the data related to the study's problem. The analysis continued by identifying the data and analyzed them to set the conclusion. This study reveals that Theodore Finch has social conflict through 3 kinds in the novel. They involved Finch's conflict position toward a teacher and his parents. Finch's Conflict interest was toward his girlfriend and his best friend, and Finch's role conflict toward his father's behavior and shunned by his classmates. The researchers found four causes of war in Theodore Finch: different personalities, different interests, and other information and his past life that change his attitude toward society. Finch solves his conflict by trying to be mature, forgetting his past, avoiding people he hated the most, trying to change his bad habits, and forgetting his desire to attempt suicide.