PERCY JACKSON`S OBSESSION AND MOTIVE TO GET HIS MOTHER BACK DESCRIBED IN RICK RIORDAN`S THE LIGHTNING THIEF

HASYIM, AS'ARI (2014) PERCY JACKSON`S OBSESSION AND MOTIVE TO GET HIS MOTHER BACK DESCRIBED IN RICK RIORDAN`S THE LIGHTNING THIEF. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

This study is aimed at analyzing the obsession and motive of Percy Jackson to get his mother back. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to find out development of the obsession and motive in Percy Jackson after lost his mother. The data collected were analyzed by reading the novel. In qualitative research the data are not number or chart but in the form of word. So, the researcher presents all the data by the quotation through general description, plot and conflict. The result of this research shows Percy Jackson is a loyal, heroic, brave, poor boy, and good in fighting. Furthermore, the plot is divided into Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution. Then he also gets the Internal and External Conflict in the plot. Even more that Percy Jackson's obsession triggers him to save his mother and it grew up along the adventure. In the analysis, obsession is divided into two sections, the first is thought. It is subdivided into obsession, description, and interpretation. In this section, Percy Jackson gets many intrusive thoughts after he lost his mother such his world was broken, besides he convinces himself that his mother is still alive. Because of that his obsession was showing up along his memory about his mother. The second is action. It is subdivided into distress or fear and consequences. In this section his obsession grows in top. It is reflected together in his mission that he has to seek the bolt of Zeus but he chose to save his mother where it is his real motive. And it all grew and revealed in plot and conflict along with the real motive of Percy Jackson to get his mother back.

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