Analysis Prose
PSYCHOANALYTICAL
LITERARY ANALYSIS
NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL
“A WALK TO REMEMBER”
Compiled
by
Siti
Khoiriah
NIM
: 321 412 152
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND
CULTURE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF
GORONTALO
2014
INTRODUCTION
In the literary analysis, there is a
one theory called “Psychological analysis” that is part of human behavior in
our daily life. Sometimes, we do not realize it, but it happens with our
consciousness or unconsciousness. Psychoanalytic
Theory is a branch of literary criticism which was built on the principles of
psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud asserted that
people's behavior is affected by their unconscious: "...the notion that
human beings are motivated, even driven, by desires, fears, needs, and
conflicts of which they are unaware..." (Tyson 14-15).
Psychoanalysis
is advantageous to understand the feelings of the writer and to interpret the
literature. Both, the writer and the reader, have a connection when they make
and read literary work that is psychic. In literature, an author can describe
various aspects of life in their feelings and experiences. Generally,
literature can be defined as the reflection or the expression of human’s life.
In our daily life, we can find many literary works such as, prose, poem, short
story, and novel. Psychological problem often occurred in the characters of the
works, including in novel, for instance, sadness, happiness, depression, etc.
There may be many motives, impulses and desires that underlie someone to behave
normally or abnormally.
Authors
always try to make an interesting story in their work to make them become a
great one and also to make the reader’s interested in reading. As we can see in
romantic novel : A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks that the writer
analyzed, the author plays psychological problem on the character to make the
story interesting. This novel is one of
Nicholas sparks works which is great and the most reading of American
novel. The novel, set in 1958-'59 in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a story
of two teenagers who fall in love with
each other despite the disparity of their personalities. Nicholas sparks
described the one of character as a kind, religious and sweet girl who have
strong faith and always help a people or anything.
In
“A walk to remember” novel, the author makes his novel interesting by
describing one of the character as a religious person then change as teenagers
in commonly. It is the one example of psychological problem that has a desire
to get what she wants. Psychoanalysis has a function to analyze the
psychological problem of the human being whose deviation or disorder of
psychic. According to Tyson, “the goal of psychoanalysis is to help us resolve
our psychological problem, often called disorders or dysfunction (and none of
us is completely free of psychological problems), the focus is
on patterns behaviors that are
destructive way.” (1992: 12).
In
this research, the writer analyzed one of the characters in the novel namely
Jamie Sullivan. The writer found psychological problem on this character. The writer
wants to analyze factors that make the character changed become a normally of
teenagers who do something as a commonly of a girl by
looking her background.
Based
on the explanation above, the writer wants to analyze the novel by
applying psychological approach
proposed by Sigmund Freud and explain about the psychological problem that the
writer found in the character, Jamie sullivan.
Ø DATA
ANALYSIS
In this paper, I will discuss about the analyze of novel “A
walk to remember” that was written by Nicholas Sparks. The
analysis is including the analysis of character and psychoanalysis “Jamie
Sullivan” as one of the characters
in this novel. The
analyze by using psychological analysis to reveal a view of characteristic in Jamie Sullivan start in her kindness, innocent, smart looking, and her personality that
look good with sincere intentions.
With all of good looking and good actions in the novel,Jamie Sullivan is the daughter of the Beaufort church minister
Hegbert Sullivan. She is very religious, sweet, and kind. She never hanging
with her friends but she prefer to spends her time to helping the other people
and do something that useful. She always carries a Bible with her wherever she
goes. This
is expressed in the paragraph below:
“But it wasn’t just the way
jamie looked that made her different; it was also the way she acted. Jamie
didn;t spend any time hanging out at Cecil’s dinner or going to slumber parties
with other girls, and i knew for a fact that she’d never had a boyfriend her
entire life. Old Hegbert would probably have had a heart attack if she had. But
even if by some odd turn of events Hegbert had allowed it, it still wouldn’t
have mattered. Jamie carried her Bible wherever she went, and if her looks and
Hegbert didn’t keep the boys away, the Bible sure as heck did”. (Chapter 1,
Page 21)
If we analyze Jamie Sullivan with the psychoanalytical lens, we
see that she initially is driven by her id because she follow her desires to
acts different with other that another people or teenagers as her do not doing
like her. she was very kind girl and make another people seems bad if they are
meet with her and make anyone feel quilty even they do not done anything wrong.
She also always mentions The Lord plan whenever she talked. (page 22)
But on the other hand, it would be an ego of Jamie. She accept
Landon invitation to be his partner to come in homecoming dance. It means that Jamie also needs a close friend
like others. In fact in generally of teenagers that have friends also have increased self-esteem, emotional support, and
guidance. According to Simmons, Conger and Wu, they
states that Adolescents who do not develop positive peer relationship are at a
greater risk for developing problems such as delinquency, substance abuse, and
depression. (1992)
She never
refused that as a normal teenagers, she should doing something like them, get a
freedom of life to socialize with other people. Especially with significant others
like a boyfriend. So that Jamie try to accept Landon invitation. It
showed when she was considering to go to party with Landon:
“well, would you like to go the dance
with me?”
I could tell she was surprised. I think
she believed that the little lead-up to the question probably had to do with
someone else asking her. sometimes teenagers sent their friends out to “scout
the terrain” so to speak, so as not to face possible rejection. Even though
Jamie wasn’t much like other teenagers, i’m sure she was familiar with the
concept, at least in theory.
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“....she turned and faced me again. she
had a slight smile on her face.
“I’d love to,” she finally said “on one
condition”.
I steadied myself, hoping it wasn’t
something too awful.
“Yes?”
“you have to promise that you won’t
fall in love with me.”
(Chapter 2. Page 37-38)
However,
Jamie still rise her id in the other part. Its described that Jamie was looked
like a girl who became egoism and not always act with sincere intension. It
showed when she ask Landon to replace Eddie in her father’s drama to make it
perfect performance for her father without thinking how Landon did not like to
do drama. It showed in her dialogue with Landon:
“I know Eddie
would do the best he could, I really do. And I’m not embarrassed to do the play
with him, I’m really not. Actually, he’s a very nice person, but he told me
that he’s having second thoughts about doing it. Sometimes people at school can
be so . . . so . . . cruel, and I don’t want Eddie to be hurt. But . . .” She
took a deep breath, “but the real reason I’m asking is because of my father.
He’s such a good man, Landon. If people make fun of his memory of my mother
while I’m playing the part . . . well, that would break my heart. And with
Eddie and me . . . you know what people would say.”
(Chapter 4. Pages 61)
By see the conversation, we can see
that she also did not actually want to replace Eddie to protect him from
feeling embrace because of Eddie’s weakness, but actually it was just her
ambition to make the drama good for her father. Even the girl who had fate to
God like Jamie Sullivan can also broke her ‘believe’ for her father. We also
know that she always believe all things happened because of ‘God plan’.
Jamie was always driven by her id, particularly
her sexual and aggressive drives.
its show when Jamie and Landon is more closely, she have a different feeling
with him. It happen when Landon come to her home after Christmas dinner. She
rise her id when Landon
kisses Jamie and she kisses back. Her libido as a teenager who fall in love with
their friends. Its showed in a paragraph:
“....,I
took a step closer to her and found myself reaching for her hand. I took it in
mine and looked right at her, moving just a little closer. She didn’t exactly
step back, but her eyes widened just a little, and for a tiny, flickering
moment I thought I’d done the wrong thing and debated going any further. I
paused and smiled, short of tilting my head to the side, and the next thing I
saw was that she’d closed her eyes and was tilting her head, too, and that our
faces were moving closer together.
It
wasn’t that long, and it centaintly wasn’t the kind of kiss you see in movies
these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about
the moment is that when our lips first touched, I knew the memory would last
forever.” (Chapter 10. Pages 130-131)
Based
on dialogue above, it can be concluded that Jamie is also same with other
teenagers who at the beginning of the story, Landon think that she wasn’t much
like other teenagers. But in fact, she realize about her feeling that she still
young and its natural if she have a wish or desire with another people. Until
the last of the story, Jamie try to demonstrate her superego because she accept
Landon wishes when he asks Jamie to marry her. And it make all people around
her feel happy, even behind that story its so sadness because Jamie has a
Leukimia and do not survived, but she had a perfect life because she got her
dreams to got merried with person that she loved and their wedding in the Baptist
Church, the place when her parent
marriage there. Its showed when Landon said:
“... I would have married Jamie
Sullivan no matter what happened in the future. I would have married Jamie
sullivan if the miracle I was praying for had suddenly come true. I knew it at
the moment I asked her, and I still know it today.
Jamie was more than just the woman I
loved. In that year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady
hand she showed me how important it was to help others; with her patience and
kindness she showed me what life is really all about. Her cheerfulness and
optimism, even it times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever
witnessed.” (Chapter 12. Pages 178)
Jamie’s
kindness is always remembered by people who know her. She’s like an angel who
save the peoples. Even though that s the sad ending on the last of her life,
but we all believe that she get the miracle.
Ø CONCLUSION
Psychoanalytic
concepts have become part of our everyday lives. The goal of Psychoanalysis is
to help us resolve our psychological problems, often called disorders or
dysfunctions. Literary work and Psychology have a close relationship,
indirectly and functional. Indirectly because literary work and psychology have
the same object, that is about human life. Literary work and psychology have a
functional relationship because it is study about condition of someone’s
psychology. And the different is in psychology, the symptom or the indication
is real, whereas in literary work the characteristic is imaginative.
After
analyzing novel: A walk to remember, the
writer concludes the character Jamie Sullivan was still driven by her id,
ego and superego with good actions in this novel. Her characters it so commonly
as a teenagers who wish something that make her happy in her life without
bothered the other people. She also knew and learned what is love and
sacrificed. However, the psychological analysis show the other side of her
nature character, there are a view of contradictive nature would be find in
character like Jamie Sullivan. It all would depend in what we saw and though
after we read the story in novel and tried to analyze it. We will more
understand how the character Jamie better than ourself.
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