By
Izzatul Muafiroh
02026056
ABSTRACT
Izzatul Muafiroh
02026056
ABSTRACT
This research entitled: Searching for Self Identity of Lily Owens in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees”. The writer is motivated to choose this novel as her topic in her graduating paper because of the following: firstly Sue Monk Kidd is considered as one of famous writer from Silvester Georgia, her written has been deeply influenced by place and she mined her experiences. The Secret Life of Bees is her first novel. Secondly Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees has psychological of adolescents clearer. The aim of the research is to describe the psychological a young girl which are felt by Lily, the main of character in the novel for searching herself identity in adolescence period as transition period between childhoods to adulthood.
To analyze the psychological adolescence which felt by Lily, the writer applies the psychological Approach of Erick H. Erickson to be concern with “Theory’s of Identity”. The subject of the research is the novel The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd and the object of the research is focused on the Lily’s as main character in the novel. To get the data and information the writer employs the library method to collect the data and uses the descriptive qualitative. After the data gathered, the writer analyzes by using the theories of identity by Erickson and related to psychological development of adolescent by Lily’s character in the novel.
The result of this research shows us that Lily’s effort in her identity development can be described as follows: (1) Lily creates the harmony of her way of life, especially herself and her environment. (2) Lily can find a comfortable environment that makes her life comfort. From the whole of Lily’s effort the writer here can concludes that the main character gives many lessons for the readers especially the psychology of adolescence in identity development, they are: (1) Lily needs much support from her family to pass her identity crisis. (2) In the process of identity searching, Lily should have an ability in producing decision, when she must to “hold on” and when she must to “let go” from certain thing. (3) Lily has moved from “innocence to “experience”, and its good thing for her since what Lily experiences here will influence and determine her later life. (4) Lily must find the psychosocial fittednes in order to create the real of identity in her adulthood.
To analyze the psychological adolescence which felt by Lily, the writer applies the psychological Approach of Erick H. Erickson to be concern with “Theory’s of Identity”. The subject of the research is the novel The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd and the object of the research is focused on the Lily’s as main character in the novel. To get the data and information the writer employs the library method to collect the data and uses the descriptive qualitative. After the data gathered, the writer analyzes by using the theories of identity by Erickson and related to psychological development of adolescent by Lily’s character in the novel.
The result of this research shows us that Lily’s effort in her identity development can be described as follows: (1) Lily creates the harmony of her way of life, especially herself and her environment. (2) Lily can find a comfortable environment that makes her life comfort. From the whole of Lily’s effort the writer here can concludes that the main character gives many lessons for the readers especially the psychology of adolescence in identity development, they are: (1) Lily needs much support from her family to pass her identity crisis. (2) In the process of identity searching, Lily should have an ability in producing decision, when she must to “hold on” and when she must to “let go” from certain thing. (3) Lily has moved from “innocence to “experience”, and its good thing for her since what Lily experiences here will influence and determine her later life. (4) Lily must find the psychosocial fittednes in order to create the real of identity in her adulthood.
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