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Zelayanti, Anggun (2025) Jack's emotional development through conflicts in J.K. Rowling's the christmas pig. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
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This research explores the conflicts that influence Jack’s character development in J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig. The novel follows the life of a young boy, Jack, and his imaginary friend, Dur Pig. In the novel, Jack experiences the impact of his parents’ divorce, which significantly changes his life. The novel shows Jack trying to understand the world around him, including himself. Furthermore, this study answers the research questions: (1) How does Jack experience conflicts in J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig? (2) How does Jack overcome his conflicts in J.K. Rowling’s The Christmas Pig? (3) How do Jack’s conflict resolution affect his character developmentin The Christmas Pig? This research uses the theory of New Criticism and descriptive qualitative methods in analyzing the text of the novel The Christmas Pig to get a clear and in-depth description of the problem under study. The research data was collected by closely reading The Christmas Pig to understand the story. Furthermore, the author highlights phrases, narrative texts, and dialogues that are in accordance with the topic. This research also uses supporting data from books, journal articles, and other academic sources to strengthen the analysis. The results show that Jack experiences two conflicts, internal and external. Internal onflict portrays as losing the family he knew, longing for togetherness with his parents, struggling with moving house and sharing his mom attention and affection, and expecting Holly to stay the same. Meanwhile, external conflict is depicted through the clash between Jack and Holly due to several conditions: due to Holly’s wishes, Holly’s mockery and carelessness, Jack’s disagreement with Holly, and Holly’s destructive behavior. Furthermore, Jack overcomes his internal conflicts by regulating his emotion, rationalizing his situation, getting support from his mom, adapting, and understanding Holly’s feelings. Besides, he overcomes his external conflicts by complying with Holly’s wishes, avoiding her and blaming others, asking for help and getting back at Holly, and rejecting Holly’s apology. From this, Jack experiences emotional development, which is initially expressive to reserved, pessimistic to optimistic, rigid to accepting, controlled to explosive.
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| Subjects: | Sastra Orang tua dan Anak Anak > Kepribadian |
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| Keywords: | Emotional turmoil; problem-solving; children. | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris | ||||||||||||
| Depositing User: | Anggun Zelayanti | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2025 06:00 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2025 06:00 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/81593 |
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