AN ANALYSIS OF SARA LAUGHS’ CONFLICT
VIEWED FROM STEPHEN KING’S BAG OF BONES
A THESIS
BY
ERNI
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
MEDAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank and praise ALLAH S.W.T, the most
gracious and most merciful, who has blessed me with health and capability to
finish this thesis as my last assignment to finish my study at English Department,
Faculty of Letters, University of Sumatera Utara.
In this opportunity, I would like to thanks the Dean of Faculty of Letters,
Drs.Syaifuddin, M.A.Ph.D, and the Head of English Department Dra.Swesana
Mardia Lubis, M.Hum, the Secretary of English Literature Department
Drs.Yulianus Harefa, M.Ed TESOL, for their advice and support during the period
of my study in this faculty. I also would like to thank to my supervisor
Dra.Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum and Drs.Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum as my
co-supervisor who has spent much of time in correcting this thesis and giving a
valuable guidance to complete it. I am also grateful to all lectures who lectured me
wisely during the academic years.
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their loves, advice, prayer, and support, I love both. To my older sister Evi and my
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Thank you to every one who helps me during my academic period and my
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Medan, June 2009
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AN ANALYSIS OF SARA LAUGHS’ CONFLICT VIEWED FROM
STEPHEN KING’S BAG OF BONES
A THESIS
BY
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ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini mengetengahkan tentang konflik tokoh melalui karya sastra novel yang ditulis oleh Stephen King dengan judul “A Bag of Bones” tokoh atau penokohan adalah orang yang digambarkan mengalami serangkain persoalan hidup. Sebagai makhluk individu dan social. Dengan kisah cinta yang terjadi melibatkan makhluk ghaib, oleh karena itu, tokoh atau penokohan adalah orang yang dilukisakan secara fiktif namun mengalami kehidupan secara normal sebagaimana adanya kehidupan nyata.
Konflik dengan kisah cinta yang terjadi, melibatkan kehidupan alami ghaib dan penuh dengan mengerikan tentang kebenaran cerita-cerita dari lingkungan sekitar. Ketika konflik yang terjadi merupakan suatu teka teki kata yang diputar dalam kurungan kesedihan telah menjadi bukti tidak baik untuk dilakukan dalam kehidupan makhluk hidup. Dengan demikian konflik merupakan suatu esensi kehidupan manusia yang menyadari atas pilihan hidup yang ada dan kemudian mengalami atas pilihan hidup yang ada. Pilihan itu juga yang dialami oleh noonan yang menjadi tokoh sentral dalam novel “A Bag of Bones” sebagai seorang penulis yang menderita sejak kematian orang yang dicintainya, kehidupan menjadi aneh karena seringnya iya berinteraksi dengan hal-hal yang ghaib, berhadapan dengan kesedihan dan menghindari konfrontasi dengan kekuatan jahat, dosa dan rahasia yang tersembunyi dan menjadi masalah yang kompleks.
TABLE 0F CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... i
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... ii
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... iii
ABSTRACT ... iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... v
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1 1..11The Background of The Analysis……… 11.2The Problem of The Analysis………. 3
1.3The Purpose of The Analysis……….. 4
1.4The Scope of The Analysis……….. 4
1.5The Method of The Analysis………4
1.6The Review of The Related Literature……… 5
CHAPTER II: CLARIFICATION OF THE TERMS
2.1 General Concept of Novel……….. 72.2 General Concept of Character………. 8
2.3 General Concept of Conflict………... 10
CHAPTER III: ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL
3.1 Internal Conflict 3.1.1 Mike Noonan……….. 193.1.2 Sara Laughs………... 24
3.1.3 Devore……… 29
3.2.2 Sara Laughs and Devore ……… 35 3.2.3 Conflict Family Background……….. 37
CHAPTER IV
: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
4.1 Conclusion……….. 41
4.2 Suggestion………... 41
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDICES
Appendix 1
: SUMMARY OF A BAG OF BONESAppendix 2
: BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN KINGAppendix 3
:
LITERARY WORK OF STEPHEN KINGABSTRAK
Skripsi ini mengetengahkan tentang konflik tokoh melalui karya sastra novel yang ditulis oleh Stephen King dengan judul “A Bag of Bones” tokoh atau penokohan adalah orang yang digambarkan mengalami serangkain persoalan hidup. Sebagai makhluk individu dan social. Dengan kisah cinta yang terjadi melibatkan makhluk ghaib, oleh karena itu, tokoh atau penokohan adalah orang yang dilukisakan secara fiktif namun mengalami kehidupan secara normal sebagaimana adanya kehidupan nyata.
Konflik dengan kisah cinta yang terjadi, melibatkan kehidupan alami ghaib dan penuh dengan mengerikan tentang kebenaran cerita-cerita dari lingkungan sekitar. Ketika konflik yang terjadi merupakan suatu teka teki kata yang diputar dalam kurungan kesedihan telah menjadi bukti tidak baik untuk dilakukan dalam kehidupan makhluk hidup. Dengan demikian konflik merupakan suatu esensi kehidupan manusia yang menyadari atas pilihan hidup yang ada dan kemudian mengalami atas pilihan hidup yang ada. Pilihan itu juga yang dialami oleh noonan yang menjadi tokoh sentral dalam novel “A Bag of Bones” sebagai seorang penulis yang menderita sejak kematian orang yang dicintainya, kehidupan menjadi aneh karena seringnya iya berinteraksi dengan hal-hal yang ghaib, berhadapan dengan kesedihan dan menghindari konfrontasi dengan kekuatan jahat, dosa dan rahasia yang tersembunyi dan menjadi masalah yang kompleks.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
The Background of the Analysis
Literature is considered as the reflection of human imagination. It is
commonly known is written from of art work. Literature is one of the greatest
creative and universal means of communicating the emotional, spiritual or
intellectual concern of mankind. Generally, literature can be divided into the
fictions works. On the contrary, essays, history, autobiography, and diary are
forms of non-fiction.
I take the novel as the source of investigation in this thesis. It is necessary
know the meaning of the novel. A novel according to Reeve (1785:26) is novel is
picture of real and manners and of the time in which it was written.
A novel according to the Encyclopedia of American International (http://
Encyclopedia of American International.org/Literary novel) is
“Novel tells of even within the range of ordinary of experience and avoids supernaturalism and their stories are original, not traditional or mythic. Novel is plot involves numerous character, who usually are not grade or heroic figure often quit the opposite. Most novels use language close to that of the colloquialism of normal daily speech, frequently including jargon, slang, and humorous expression”
Novel as fictitious kind of writing is also bridging the experience of
human life in terms of narrative text. The texts provide a story that consists of
love matters, war-time, and even killing which is part of human matters. That is
why novel is accepted as medium of narrating human life concern trough
language.
This thesis is focused on analyzing conflicts experienced by central figure
Sara Laughs as portrayed in the novel Bag of Bones written by Stephen King. The
conflict is divided into two kinds that are internal and external conflicts. Internal
conflict is a personal conflict when individual is in conflict with him and herself.
The external conflict is conflict situation when individual is in conflict with
another individual and group of people or society. On this thesis, the external
conflict to be analyzed is focused on Sara Laughs conflict with Devore.
The meaning of conflict is commonly understood as unresolved or
stressing matters. Specially, conflict is a matter of choices. These choices are
hoped to give full satisfaction, yet, not all choices many give wanted desires;
meanwhile, choices are restricted that’s why when the choices come to
hopelessness, the result is conflict
The source of conflict can take place because of an individual’s ambition.
This seems to make things certain. When certainly does not reach what is want the
matters come up to result conflict. Thus, conflict simply happens where someone
fails to cope with his or her choices for satisfaction.
In this thesis, the conflict is addressed to a central figure which is
represented by Sara Laughs. As a character, Sara Laughs appears as individual or
fictitious person who are portrayed as loving person. Since conflict is only
character is representative to be analyzed through conflict she has suede Robert
(1993:20) character is:
“Character is the persons presented in dramatics of narrative work, who are interpreted by reader as being endowed with the normal and dispositional qualities that are expressed in that they said and what they do in action”.
The portrayal of Sara Laugh’s conflict in this thesis is focus on the
analysis as an individual who can not satisfy as her choices has resulted conflict.
Such a situation has been clearly stated in the novel Bag of Bones. This is the
reason as well as the background why conflict has been chosen to be the focus of
analysis in this thesis.
1.2
Problem of the Analysis
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones is an interesting novel. The conflict appears is
the central focus of attention which is also analyzed in this thesis. The action of
conflict is addressed to one of the very important main character that is Sara
Laughs. Sara Laughs has been trapped by choices of life which are not all
fulfilling satisfaction.
Conflict is a matter of choices that are faced by persons both individually
and collectively in order to fulfill satisfaction. When the choices come to
unsatisfaction, the result will be conflict. Thus, in this thesis the problems which
are going to be analyzed are as follows:
1. What is Sara Laugh’s internal conflict?
2. What is the conflict between Sara Laughs and Devore?
1.3
The Purpose of the Analysis
The purpose of the analysis is to explain the way Sara Laughs is in
conflict with herself at this point, Sara Laughs can not satisfy all her personal
needs which sometimes made her disappointed. The next purpose is to describe
the Sara’s external conflict that is with Devore. Finally, the final purpose of this
thesis is to describe the solution has Sara Laughs solver her conflict for her own
bitterness.
1.4
The Scope of the Analysis
This thesis analysis is limited to the main character’s both internal
and external conflicts. The main character is addressed to Sara Laughs who
becomes the central figure in the novel. The internal conflict is meant to identify
what makes her in conflict with herself in order to satisfy herself from fulfilled
wants. As a matter of fact, one choice can not satisfy all the needs which is the
resulting conflict.
Sara Laughs external conflict is limited to Devore who seems to be a block
for Sara to gain her hope. Sara cannot conform to Devore for selfish. Target
orientation that disturbs Sara Laughs existence. At this matter, the sense of dislike
ness and suspicion makes Sara battle with Devore.
1.5
The Method of Analysis
The source of data analysis of this thesis is a novel written by Stephen
King. The title of the novel is Bag of Bones. The first procedure before doing the
analysis is reading the story of the novel for complete understanding. The act of
of the novel is found out in terms of the main character’s conflict that is Sara
Laughs both internal and external conflict.
On selecting the internal and external conflicts, the text of the novel is
concerning carefully. The text is the form of narrative text which consists of
words, phrases and even sentences. These sentences are selected in the form of the
quotations which are known as data of the analysis.
After having selected the quotations in reference to the conflict, the
analysis is directed to be properly done with the quotations themselves. The
quotations are interpreted for the analysis in order to be coherent with the topic
analyzed through interpretation in terms of conflict.
In doing the analysis the novel itself is not enough to be the source of data.
There are some additional references which are relevant to the analysis. There are
theoretical books of literature or criticism that deals with literature. That is this
method of research is also known as library research of study.
1.6
The Review of Related Literature
In an Introduction to Drama, Tennyson (1967:14) to clarify that plot is
closely connected conflict. As an ordered chain of events, plot may be divided
into large group that is internal conflict and external conflict.
Internal conflict explores that individual is in conflict with himself. Mean
while, external conflict covers when individual is in conflict with society or
supernatural agent which appears outside of an individual.
In this thesis, I apply kind of theoretical concept in doing the analysis that
is the conflict of the character. A character in literary work is person who has the
her social environment. Taylor (1993:1015) defines character as a person who has
ideas, feelings, hopes, frustrated condition that may be identified though what he
or she says in the book. The study of the character or person may happen through.
In addition, Welleck and Warren (1967:7177) also clarify how literature deals
with society and psychology. Since literature is reflection of society, it reflected at
least the summary of man’s life for better or worse. For character are supposed to
be living person, they live together socially in forming social behavior under
conditions of accepted rules that is related to moral consequences of what is done
socially and morally in social living.
Welleck further explains that character is someone who has mind. Since
psychology is a study of human mind, literature, with the preventative of character
is also dealing with psychological matter study as unwilling disappointment that
results conflict. So, these are the reason intended to study conflict in this present
CHAPTER II
II. CLARIFICATION OF TERM
2.1 General Concept of Novel
There are three mayor genres of literature of poetry, prose and drama. In
which each genre has its own characteristic. In this point, the writer will explain
briefly about novel because this genre is the main object in this thesis.
David Grambs (1982:78) mentions in his book extended narrative that tells
a story, or uses incidents to dramatize human experience and individual
characters. Taylor (1981:62) also says that novel is a prose of work of quit some
length and complexity which attempts to reflect and express something of the
quality or value of human experience or conduct. A novel according to Reeve
(1785:26) is novel is a picture of real and manners and of the time in which it was
written.
A novel according to The Encyclopedia of American International (http://
en. Encyclopedia of American International.org/literary_novel.4/1/2009) is
“Novel tells of even within the range of ordinary of experience and avoids supernaturalism, and their stories are original, not traditional or mythic. Novel plots involve numerous characters, who usually are not grad or heroic figures. Often quit the opposite. Most novels use language close to that of the colloquialism of normal daily speech, frequently including jargon, slang and humorous expression.”
Novel can portray character and actions which represent of real life,
dealing with human life, passion or ambition, desire, joy, sadness, feeling,
In analyzing a novel, one should apply a series of steps in order to get
better understanding about the novel, about the theme, plot, character and setting.
All these elements built a qualified completeness of literary value. One of the
elements is character. People in a novel are related to characters; there are
members of society, and the author’s distinctive view of how people are related to
society and reflected in the presentation of every character.
A novel can be analyzed from several of point of view. It can be analyzed
from the moral, social, and religious points of view. In this case, the writer is
interested in discussing about the conflict that’s dominant in this novel, which it
will relate to moral and social life.
2.2 General Concept of Character
Character is very important in real made creation of literary works such as
novel, drama or even some of poems. The nature of character presentation brings
a positive impact for readers to find out what is going on and what is it for. Since,
the character mirrors quality of person. It can be traced to generalize opinion for
man in general. Robert (1983:20) declares, that;
“Characters are the persons presented in dramatics or narrative work, who are interpreted by readers as being endowed with the normal and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say and what they do in action.”
In fiction, character may be defined as a verbal presentation of human
being. Trough action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray
these are also characters to be laughed, dislike or even hated, to quote Robert
(1993:131).
In Yanni (1990:36) explores how the literary writers presents and reveals
the character. He generalizes and lists methods of revealing character in fiction.
Firstly, it is narrative summary without judgment. Secondly, all it is narrative
description with implied or explicit judgment. Thirdly, it is about surface details
of dress physical appearance. Fourthly, it is about characters actions of what they
do and the characters speech of what the say and how they say it; and finally, it is
about the characters consciousness of what they think and feel.
There can be simplified that character in fiction is description and
representation of a person qualities. The creation or delegation of character or
characters in touch with the actions, gesture, or speech existing in the work by so
doing, character is a fictitious living person that has personal qualities of a real
person has.
Not so far different from what the expert say, Millie and Yates (1982:228)
declare that, there are at least six methods by which analyzed author can show the
characters. They are:
1. By what the person say: give up I don’t be silly. I haven’t even started
yet:
2. By what some one else says: “Jenkins? A bulldog is a quitter compared
to him”
3. By his or her action: Werly, Merliene straight tined her shoulders, took
a deep breath;
5. By the way that other people treat him or her: here was a mission on
which only a person never quit;
6. By the author’s direct words: Sophia was people who never give up.
A character in a work of fiction may realize in a character in a work of
in a number of ways. Character, after all, has been constructed to make
out reported actions, the words they are give to say and the
commentary made of on them by their creator. Something must depend
on how they are presented.
2.3 General Concept of Conflict
Human being has several basic human needs that must be fulfilling in
order for survive. Those basic needs are drink, food, oxygen, home and so on, but
beside that there is something which is essential for mental development,
sociological and psychological satisfaction, that is environment. We have to
know; people who live in this world are not alone. Every people that live in the
world must be make interaction with others. It is show that they are social
creature.
If we related to sociological, Narwoko & Suyanto (2007:3) according to
August Commit in this book, which the title “Positive Philosophy” in 1883, in this
book, it mention that, Sociology come from Latin word, they are “Socius” it mean
friend and come from the Greek word, means word or speaking. So sociology is
talking about society or people. With another word, sociology is the science that
studied about the way of life of human being as the member of society, not as
According to Sumardjan and Soeleman Soemardi (2007:4) the definition
of sociology is the science that studied about the structure of socio and the process
of socio.
I. Structure of social is the main of social elements.
Structure of social consists of:
Principle of social
Social organization
Groups of social
Part of social
II. The Process of Social
The impact of fid back from all of the segments of live together in society, in sort,
sociology here not only as the collection of sub discipline all of the segments of
life but sociology is one of the science that learn about society / community.
To know more complete the reflection and the realistic about the live
together in society, first, we need prepare our self with more knowledge about the
process of social that happen in society. The knowledge about the process social
can make some one possible to understand allot the segments dynamical of one
society / community.
There are two kind process of social;
1. Associative social process
Associative Social Process
Associative social process is it happens if the process indicates
rapprochement or united. There are some elements of associative social process:
1. Cooperation
Cooperation comes from Latin word, they are so “co” means together and
“operani” means work, so cooperation means work together. Cooperation is one
of the shape of interest and attention of people to work together in one concept.
Although the motive is rarely and can became into only one side need.
2. Accommodation
Is one process people to have the temporary of agreement between two
side of people in conflict where the decision they must accept. Accommodation
happens in people that they must work together although in realty they always
have different argumentation and always have opposite goal.
But without accommodation and ready accommodate conflict between two sides
of people can’t be solved. They cannot work together forever. But with
accommodation all of the differences can solve. Although it is opposite with what
they want not impossible accommodation can give the best solution for minimize
all kind of differences and conflict.
3. Assimilative
Is the process of dissolving way of custom, so, part of people from two or
4. Amalgacy
Is the social process of dissolving way between two groups of custom. For
example; the conflict that happened between Anglo-Saxon and Normandy.
Dissociate Social Process
Disseminative social process indicated to cooperative. Dissociate social of
process consist of three, they are:
1. Competition
Is one process that is has struggle to get some purpose which has specific
limit. It only has function to stand one of long lasting life. They are two type of
competition:
a. Personal competition personal that happened between two people and it
has personal characteristic.
b. Impersonal competition
The competition is not personal the competition is happen between two
group of people. Example:
a) The competition happen between two company
b) The competition between two parties
2. Conflict
Conflict is one of social process which happened in our life which
involves some of people or group of people which challenge each other which has
inviolacy impact. Actually conflict comes from, cooperation and competition. If
competition appears in the middle of our life, maybe we can not find conflict.
Conflict is must happen in our life. Conflict is not always has negative impact.
our life. Sociologically, cooperation and competition do not always work together.
When cooperation and competition do not run well, the tendency of conflict
happens is greater. Conflict is disappointed situation when the desired wants do
not come true. Thus, conflict may have positive and negative aspect. It is positive
if the conflict has been resolved in mutual way. And it will be negative it the
conflict brings chaotic situation or even disaster.
In extreme, conflict can happen not only to survive and exist but it has to
purpose to destroy the existence other people or other group that they fell has their
enemy.
3. Contrivances
Contrivances come from the Latin word. Le, “conta” and “venire” means
Challenging. The most important thing in contrivance is how to fail the goal of
other parties. Meanwhile, some of the impact which caused by contrivance is:
1. For the parties which become target the goal that needs to be reached
forcedly failed or postponed by challenging.
2. For the third party indirectly which involved in a conflict, particularly
police has to control so that contrivance will not developed to become a
conflict.
From the statement above, we can conclude that every people that live in
the world have their own problem. Such as: his feeling, his behavior and his mind.
That is why the study of psychology is important. Psychology does not only study
about human behavior but also problem solving. Psychology also attempts to
psychology, we can know how the personality of someone and how the problem
of someone is solve.
Based on it is rule, conflict has the main rule in a prose fiction works. One
of the well definitions of conflict, the definition of conflict, can be drawn easily.
One of the well definitions of conflict is as state by Robert (1995:1694);
“Conflict is the opposition between two characters, between large groups of people or between protagonists and large forces such as natural objects, ideas, modes of behavior, public opinion, and the like. Conflict may also be internal and psychological, involving choices facing a protagonist”.
To Robert, the conflict is also the sub elements that cause the doubt, create
tension and produce the interest of the prose fiction work.
In common aspect, the conflict itself consists of two kinds, they are: the
internal conflict, that is the struggle within one’s self; a person must make some
decision, over come paint, quit their temper. Resist analyzed urge, etc, and the
external conflict, that is the struggle with a force outside one’s self. As analyzed
addition, Tennyson (1967:14). Argues that there are three basic of conflicts in all
plot of prose fiction. The three basic conflicts most frequently cited are:
1. The individual in conflict with another individual.
2. The individual in conflict with himself.
3. The individual in conflict with analyzed outside force, for example;
society and supernatural.
While in other side, conflict is the essential sub element of plot without the
conflict there is novel plot. It is opposition forces which ties one accident to
open arguments; rather it is any form of opposition that forces him main character.
Within novel, there is one central struggle, or there maybe one dominant struggle
with many minor ones.
Collin’s English Language Dictionary (1984:70) says that conflict is
analyzed encounter between a character’s purpose and obstacle of other’s purpose,
the forces of hostile environment.
From the statement above, we can conclude that conflict refers to the
opposition or disagreement felt by someone that is related to his mind way of
thinking and feeling. Conflict causes harm to someone or to another person who is
involved in one condition.
Conflict also means as analyzed encounter between a character’s purpose
and obstacle to their purpose and obstacle to their fulfillment. This may consist of
other purpose. The focus of hostile environment or wearing impulses within the
character himself. Sometimes conflict is related to the sadism and brutally as Paul
B. Horton and Chester L. Hunt says:
“The atrocities in conflict are often mistakenly attributed his sadism or
brutally of the individuals who commit them. Yet ordinary people in extraordinary
situation commit most of the atrocity in group conflicts. The conflict process often
place people on roles where they must be brutal.” (1976:71)
This statement is surely true because now days so many maniacs acted by
persons that we know as good citizen. We will never know a man who thinks
about one thing in a certain situation, unless we have known him for a long time.
A conflict is struggle, a controversy between a man and another individual
conflict can affect a person’s personality, character, behavior and general health.
As Grebstein (1967:48), says the qualities which make a person different from
another or moral nature. From the statement above, we can get conclusion that
from the character and personality of some one we can know she or he and how
strong to face every conflict and problem in their life.
When the conflict appears in life, the reactions of different individuals
who are involved is different too. Some of individuals may face the reaction with
emotion, but some other people may solve the conflict in compromise. It means
that individuals who are involved will have the response to approach two objects
at the same time or to keep a distance from both of the alternatives have two
characteristic, advantages or disadvantages. On the other hand, we can say that a
conflict is like a competition to defeat it is rival. Someone who is involved in the
conflict tries his effort to offset the other to gain his need or desires.
So conflict influences the metal of someone become depression as Moscowitz say:
“Depression is not an illness, it follows not regular course and has novel particular or specific outcome. It is a kind of emotional reaction with distinctive characteristic; the roots of the characteristic exist in everyone.” (1969:178)
There are many possibilities which cause one’s psychology depression:
A failure or unfulfilled great wish
A tragedy which struck one’s beloved person
Losing a beloved thing or person
In the novel, a Bag of Bones is described that a lot of the conflict become
internal. While this isn’t a problem within the written word, such conflict is hard
to portray on screen, mystery of revenge are describe clearly and drawn into this
novel. The novel “Bag of Bones” starts strong and promises much. The opening
pages describe the unfortunate and untimely death of the narrator’s wife Jo. Bag
of Bones is a ghost story and not a very a good one, despite the valid social issues
it raises. The vengeful ghost of this story is a black woman who was gang raped
and forced to witness the murder of her young child. This could have provided
and effective dark undercurrent to this story set in a closed New England
community, but it is messy sensationalistic handling damage the story’s integrity.
The ghosts are, on again, powerful or powerless, direct or indirect, not
obeying any inner logic but simply there to propel, extend, or save the plot. In the
(long, overdrawn) final confrontation or rather, confrontations. So many ghosts
appear that. It comes very close to unintentional slapstick, and the sickening
sappiness of the last ghostly apparition bludgeons to death any lingering dramatic
CHAPTER III
3.1 Internal Conflict
3.1.1
Mike Noonan Internal Conflict
All human beings in the world have conflict and problem in their life,
because life is full of human emotion, fear and sorrow. Conflict is the universal
problems of every human being as long as they are still a live. They are unable to
avoid from what is called conflict, whether it is a physical conflict, a social
conflict or may also an internal conflict.
Collin’s English Language Dictionary defines that:
“Conflict is an encounter between a character’s purpose and obstacle of other’s the forces of hostile environment.”(1984:70)
From the statement above, it can concluded that conflict refers to the
opposition or disagreement felt by some one that is related to his mind way of
thinking and feeling. Conflict causes harm to someone or to another person who is
involved in the condition.
Mike Noonan as the narrator in the novel “Bag of Bones”. Noonan is an
author living in Derry, Maine who suffers from severe writer’s block after the
death of his wife. Mike anguishes after his wife’s death and finds herself unable to
write due to panic attacks.
A conflict is a struggle, a controversy between a man and another
individual. Conflict can effect a person’s personality, character, behavior and
general health. As Grebstein says the qualities which make a person different
tragedy which King builds up internal conflict Noonan getting writer’s block in
the story.
When the conflict appears in life, the reaction of different individuals who
are involved is different to some of individuals may face the reaction with
emotion but some other people may solve the conflict in compromise. It means
that individual who are involved will have the response to approach two objects at
the same time or to keep a distance from both of the alternatives have two
characteristic, advantage or disadvantage. On the other hand, we can say that a
conflict is like a competition to defeat its rival. Someone who is involved in the
conflict tries his effort to offset the other to gain his needs or desire. So, a conflict
influence the mental of someone become depression as Moskowitz says:
“Depression is not an illness, it follows no regular course and has novel particular or specific outcome. It is type of emotional reaction with distinctive characteristic; the roots of the characteristic exist in everyone” (1964:178)
The internal conflict Noonan firstly when he getting writer’s block. He
never suffered from writer’s block during the ten years of his marriage, and he did
not suffer it immediately after Johanna’s death. He was in fact so unfamiliar with
the condition that it had pretty well set in before he knew anything out of the
ordinary was going on. He think that was finish because in his hearth believed
that such conditions only affected “literary” types of the sort who are discussed,
deconstructed and sometimes dismissed in the New York review of books my
writing career and my marriage covered almost exactly he same span. He then
“this is my experience since I getting writer’s block: I finished the first draft my first novel, being two, not long after Jo and I become officially engaged (I popped an opal ring on the third finger of her left hand, a hundred and ten bucks at day’s jewelers, and quite a bit more than I could afford at the time…..but Johanna seemed utterly thrilled with it), and I finished my lost novel, all the way from the top, about a month after she was declared dead. This was the one about the psychotic killer with the love of high places. it was published in the fall of 1995. I have published other novels since then, a paradox I can explain, but I don’t think there will be a Michael Noonan novel an any list in the fore able future. I know what writer’s block is now, all right. I know more about it than I ever wanted to.
Stephen King (1998:22-23)
It is Noonan express to him self when he is deep trying to tell the story and
explain his experience disappointment about writer’s block.
“I tell you all this so you’ll understand how I could spend four years using my computer as the world’s most expensive scrabble board, and novel one ever suspected. Writer’s block? What writer’s block? We don’t got novel steenkin writer’s block, how could any one think such a thing when there was a new Michael Noonan suspense novel appearing each fall just like clock work, perfect for your late summer pleasure reading, folks and by the way, don’t forget that the holidays are coming and that all your relatives would also probably enjoy the new Noonan.
Stephen King (1998:20-21)
Such a covered internal conflict will not be able to satisfy Noonan. When
he begins having a perpetual, repetitive dream focusing on his dead wife
appearing at the doorsteps of his Maine summer house he calls Sara Laughs. He
packs up his belongings and moves into the old house in hope that he will easy up
Noonan begin to notice supernatural occurrences that occasionally appear
around Sara Laughs and realizes that they are there to help him, begin writing and
get over the loss of his wife, and help Mattie and Kyra escape from the clutches of
her father in low, Max Devore who is trying to gain wistody of his grand
daughter.
What point is important to notice is the hidden send of his publisher
protest? He is strong enough in his principle tough he knows that he has done a
mistake. It is clearly he makes complain with them and seen that he has novel
words to express but he acts as a symbol of his protest. It can be seen how he
make protest and decide to complain with the publisher for what he has done.
“I’m pretty sure that once or twice he asked me if I was working on a new book and I think I sad, Oh, fuck it, that’s a lie, okay? One so, in grew that now I’m even telling it to myself. He asked, all right and I always said yeah, I was working on a new book, it was going good, real good. I was tempted more than once to tell him, I can’t write two paragraphs without going into total mental and physical dog lock, my heart bead doubles, then triples, I get short of breath and then start to pant, my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my bead and hang there on my cheeks. I’m like a claustrophobe in a sinking submarine. That’s how it’s going, thanks for asking, but I never did. I don’t call for help. I can’t call for help. I think I told you that.”
Stephen King (1998:35-36)
As matter of fact, conflict situation exist because there is no way out to
solve alternatives for better result. Conflict needs solving with wishful result. The
conflict way brings something worse such as frustration or disillusion. If it so
happens, bad result may give negatives impact not only personally but also
It is dominant that Noonan’s internal conflict is depression and not
happiness. Next, the other internal conflict Noonan’s suspicious about his former
wife. Mike Noonan’s bereavement; his sad, over long mourning; his meeting with
and subsequent love for Mattie three year old girl, Kyra and his eventual bid to
adopt her and himself this could have been a great story, novel ghost story and not
a very good one, despite the valid social issue it raises. The vengeful ghost of his
story is Mattie black woman who has gang raped and forced to witness the murder
of her young child.
What exist in mind is not always working together in pracial way of life.
After Johanna Noonan dies in the middle of parking lot of brain tumor, Mike
Noonan’s wife, popular author Mike Noonan is trusted into Mattie world where
loneliness is his only friend and he is unable to write without breaking down. As
he learns more and more of what’s happened since he was gone, he learns that his
wife ‘Jo’ was down there without him knowing, and that she was planning to
write Mattie story about the TR’s (where Sara Laughs is located) illustrious
history, and Mike begins trying to piece together what she found out and why she
did not tell him.
It is true that conflict is a situation in which fulfillment cannot be
materialized proportionally. Where there is novel balance of deciding conflict for
better solution the end result is frustration. Thus conflict comes basically when
there is option and the option fails to satisfy one’s fulfill ness. In reference to this,
Noonan experience the same eventual choice he hardly ever has those choice to
make him satisfied. He is always becoming the object of mistake and
and tries to fight back with his own way though it is normally wrong. But, he has
made a decision that his protest to win his willingness has resulted him to be free
from his own internal conflict.
Noonan conflict is a situation in which Mike Noonan is unknowingly
trusted into a world of hell that he wanted no part of. Soon after that incident,
Mike is questioned by local billionaire and elder Max Devore about the incident,
and Mike immediately feels apprehensive at the situation and angrily hangs up on
him. So, while this isn’t a problem within the written word, such conflict is hard
to portray on screen. After all, internal conflict often becomes metaphorical and
any dialogue spoken is usually in the voice of the person who internal conflict is
being thought, it is conflict maybe coming from other things is the name suggests,
internal conflict means inside the person who has the conflict that interrupts his
mind. So, conflict needs solving in order to get better result what ever the way it
is.
3.1.2 Sara Laughs Internal Conflict
Sara Laughs character in the story to analyze, the conflict begin and when
in this house strange and sinister things begin to happen and they are all centered
on Mike’s wife, it follows the story of Mike Noonan, and Irish writer living in
Derry, America. Who is mourning the sudden death of his wife Jo. So much so,
that he encounters writer’s block, a writer’s worst nightmare. After confronting
his fears of returning to his holiday home where they shared so many wonderful
memories together, Mike encounters a young woman called Mattie, and her three
the death of her husband, now her extremely wealthy father in law is seeking
custody of Kyra claiming that Mattie is not fit to be a mother. And so, the story
unfolds as Mike gets involved with the case, and eventually finds the two girls
irresistible. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Well, see if you can make the deal, I said “yes, but I don’t think we want to be
talking about just a single book here, okay? I think “Harold, what I want right
now is to eat some lunch.”
“You should a little tense, Michael. Is everything” everything is fine. Talk to them about just one book, with a sweetener for speeding up production at my end. Okay?
Okay, “he said after one of his most significant pauses.” But I hope this doesn’t mean that you won’t enfertain a three or four book contract latter on. Make hay while the sun shine, remember. It is the motto of champions.”
“Cross each bridge when you come to it is the motto the champions,” I said, and that night I dreamt I went to Sara Laughs again.
Stephen King (1998:51)
Sara is a woman who used to live in the house. Mattie is a young man who
Mike fall’s for, Mattie’s remarkable daughter Kyra and Kyra’s mean and vengeful
grandfather Max Devore, these people all play a part in the final showdown
between good and evil, and there is surprising, heart racing and tear jerking
ending.
Romance, horror, thriller, dark comedy, there is a lot of genres
incorporated into one, and although my synopsis of the story makes it sound like a
romance story, it is so much more than that. At beginning mystery is story
containing unknown fear. This fear then causes curiosity concern to the fear. As it
In that history the emotion of fear always has bulked large, and the oldest and
strongest of man’s fear is fear of unknown. Mystery, by the definition, is that
which is unknown. But tied in with fear of the unknown is the emotion of the
curiosity concerning it, and out of that fear and curiosity perhaps was born the
mystery story. At first a tale of wonder and terror concerned largely with
supernatural matters it later became a subsidiary of romance; and in still later
times, notably our own, it came to be a sort of game invented and played for
intellectual relaxation and artificial excitement. Benton (1960:49)
Next, the condition in the summer when returned to Sara Laughs, this can
be seen in
“The basses yes, there were two broke out in a barnyard shuffle like the break in
Elvis’s version of “Baby let’s play” and the was a guitar solo: Son Tidwell
playing that chickens scratch thing.
Lights gleamed in the dark, and I thought of a song from the fifties, Claudine
Clark singing “party lights.” And there were, Japanese lanterns hung from the
trees above the path of railroad, tie steps leading from the house to the water.
Party Lights casting mystic circles of radiance in the dark: red blue and green.
Differs from it is beginning today mystery story has developed. It also
includes tale of horror, pseudoscientific fantasy, a tale of diplomatic intrigue, an
affair of codes and chippers and secrets societies, a story containing symbol, etc.
which used to be the tale of specters and supernatural. As it is said in
Encyclopedia of Britanica:
Today a mystery story is loosely, any story containing a mystery. It may be, and
fantasy, a tale of diplomatic intrigue, an affair of codes and chippers and secret
societies, a crime story, a symbol or a dozen other things involving an enigma. In
the beginning, however, it was a tale of specters and the supernatural.
Benton (1960:49)
Another action horror and mystery in the story is found in the following
sentence:
Perhaps sometimes ghosts were alive, minds and desire divorced from their bodies, unlocked impulses floating unseen. Ghosts from the id, spooks from low place King (1998:317)
Although mystery story is a minor literary genre, a good category for book
reviewers, is not old. It is seeds are found in the folklore of the oldest nation: little
tales, hints, anecdotes, superstitions that are as old as recorded time. They are part
of ethologic, philosophy, religions, and their long growth into a department of
literary art or artifice parallels the history of man’s mind. (Benton: 1960:49)
From this paragraph, the writer assumes that the author realizes that the
ghost of Jo is assisting him in solving the mystery of Sara Laughs, a blues singer
whose spirit is haunting Mike’s house. Mike asks the locals about what happened
to Sara, and is warned to refrain from digging in old scandals. Noonan could not
understand why people wanted the Sara Laughs to live in there such a situation
and full mystery, and Mike realize this must be Sara Laughs curse for something
that had been done to her.
The writer states that since he loses his wife and perhaps his will to
continue with his work, he returns to the summer place they have. The TR-90
there had been a lot of pleasure, all right, many ringing of Bunter’s bell, but there
parking lot on a hot day, and one of the items in her Bag of Bones had been a
Norco Home Pregnancy Test which she had novel told me she had bought a
couple of plastic owls to keep the crows from shitting on the lakeside deck.
We can see from the quotation below:
“What else hadn’t she told me?
Stop, I muttered. For Christ’s sake stop thinking about it.”
By seeing this problem, Sara Laughs is one place with to be haunted caused his wife’s death, and the Sara ghost can be real place to know that even and the beginning problem. Since the ghost of Sara, Where Mike suspect Sara is buried the ghost of Max Devore’s grandfather and several other town men appear to him and try to block him from getting to the grave.
Some of the suspects are described by Noonan himself in:
“Is something wrong?
“No. except who was this guy with his aim around my wife?
She laughed a little uncertainly. “Well I doubt if he was her boyfriend, you know, he was quite a bit older. Fifty, at least. “So what? I thought. I myself was forty, but that didn’t mean I had missed they way Mattie move inside her dress, or lifted her hair from the heap of her neck. “I mean….you’re kidding right?”
“I don’t really know. There is a lot of things I don’t know these days, it seems. But the lady’s dead in any case, so how can it matter?”
Mattie was the man? Do you know?
She shook her head. “I thought he was a summer person there was that feeling about him, maybe just because he was wearing a jacket on a not summer evening, but if he was he wasn’t staying at warrington’s. I knew most of them.
“And they walked off together? “yes.” Sounding reluctant. “toward the parking lot?”
I reached through the window and took her hand again. “you said if I could think of anything you could do to repay me, to just ask. I’m asking. Tell me the truth, Mattie.”
King (1998:286-287)
The sentence explain that Sara to be place the killed place and Mike, the
only adult not hit, take Kyra back to Sara Laughs as a huge storm breaks. He is
acting under the influence of the ghost of Sara and finds himself preparing to
drown Kyra and commit suicide himself, going so far as to give Kyra cocoa and
Benadryl to make her sleep and drawing the bath. But there are still piece to the
mystery that Mike doesn’t understand, and the ghost of Jo is trying to prevent him
from doing what he is doing and he decides to confront his fears and moves to the
house, known to locals as “Sara Laughs”. According to Mike he will to looking
for the secret all the mystery with back to Sara.
3.1.3 Devore Internal Conflict
Max Devore was one of the antagonist characters in the story, Max Devore
who is trying to gain custody of his granddaughter. Devore was eighty five and
divorced. Twice divorced, in point of fact, before awarding custody to a single
man of his age, secondary custody has to be taken into consideration. It is, in fact,
the single most important issue, other than the allegation of abuse and neglect
leveled at the mother. All of this shown in the following paragraph.
He was under control of his daughter. All of this son’s actions are shown
in:
“What are allegations? Do you know?”
“Yeach, she is ”
“And I think she is going to make a great witness. I can’t wait to meet her in person. Meantime don’t sidetrack me. We are talking about secondary custody, right?”
“Right”
“Devore has a daughter who has been declared mentally in competent and lives in an institution somewhere in California Modesto, I think, not a good be for custody” King (1998:321)
In this statements, the writer show that their focus is on Mattie as neglectful and perhaps abusive. Proving that mom isn’t quit working around the time. The problem not only they have with the issue according to him that case isn’t going to be adjudicated in California. It is going to be adjudicated in Maine, where folks are less enlightened about how well two married men, married to each other, I mean can raise a little girl.
By seeing this problem, I think this problem is about custody, and custody does an ever better job then divorce of turning human beings into insect. This one isn’t as bad as it could be, but it is bad enough because it is so make. Next, Max Devore came up there to his old hometown for one reason and one reason only, to buy a kid, that make herself can be mad. He then expresses his arrogance:
“Hmmh. I’m going to see that bills go to your guy goldacre. I’ll send them to your agent, and your agent, can.
King (1998:325)
In other ways Devore say same with as rich man we can be seen in below:
“Seventy-five thousand dollars, minimum, I said with novel hesitation at all. With novel apology in his voice either.
“Don’t tell me Mattie.”
“All right, are you having any fun yet, Mike?” “You know, I sort of am, I said thought fully “ “For seventy five grand, you should. We said our goodbyes and John hung up.”
King (1998:325)
In this part, the writer recognize Devore’s plan to meet with the Mattie,
three year old granddaughter and child herself. He doesn’t have feels sympathetic
and protective to them both, and always arrogance with them.
From the statement above we can know that Mattie is unhappy with
Devore, she expressed with the statement:
Devore was mad, al right, mad as a better and he couldn’t have caught me at a worse, weaker, more terrified moment. And I think that everything from that moment on was almost pre ordained. From there to the terrible storm they still talk about in this part of the world, it all came down like a rockslide. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Hey!"I shouted, more startled than afraid. Even after everything that had preceded it, I couldn’t believe this was happening.”
“What wrong with you, Rogette? “Devore asked chidingly. “You never used to throw like a girl get him!”
King (1998:410)
From the statement above, we can know that Devore is confrontation with
granddaughter with Mike and Mattie. He said that actually Devore always can do
everything if he wants
Another conflict that happen between Mattie and Max Devore. The cover
declares A Bag of Bones “haunted ghost story” and that is exactly what it is. The
conflicts. Loss and revenge as it is about ghosts. The emotional impact this
conflict contains is surprising. It can be seen as the quotation below:
“You look like a woodchuck caught out in the rain! “Now his voice seemed to roll to where I was as if across a great distance.
“Fuck you! I called; I’ll see you in jail for this!” He looks at whitmore. She looked back with an identical expression, and they both laughed. F someone had put an uzi in my hands at that moment, I would have killed them both with novel hesitation and then asked for a second clip so I could machine gun the bodies.
From the statement above, I can conclude that Devore is such as a danger
men and he is a big liar. He has many unfold, basically, Devore has turned the
complex social structure against Mattie, and Jo death reveals a strange mystery.
Mike and Mattie’s friendship turn to romance, the confrontation with Devore
explodes into chilling conflict, and all the while, Mike starts hearing at his house.
Finally, Max Devore threatens Mike again, and in an encounter with Mike and his
personal assistance, Rogette, almost succeeds in drowning him. It is only due to
help from his wife’s spirit that he’s able to survive the attack.
3.2
External Conflict
3.2.1 The Conflict between Sara Laughs and Noonan
In this part, I want to describe about the conflict of Sara Laughs as one of
character to be analyze and as mystery of ghost “Sara Laughs” with Mike
Noonan. I want just remember to the reader that Sara Laughs is the place summer
location Noonan and his wife. When his wife dies of an aneurysm while watching
an automobile accident.
When the pressure in his chest began to ease, but it left an ache as real is
rain. He hung against the tree, heart fluttering and suddenly he become aware that
something stank an evil, polluted smell worse than a clogged septic pool which
has simmered all summer under the blazing sun. With it was a sense of some
hideous presence giving off that odor, something which should have been dead
and wasn’t. It is drawn feeling into statement. It can be seen quotation below:
Help I’m drown Help I’m drown
Blue cap man say hit me
Blue cap man say doesn’t let me ramble Help I’m drown
Lost my berries they on the path Be holdin me
Be faces shimmer and look bad She screams it so loud
King (1998:397)
Noonan is very afraid heard that the scream it so load, Sara still
mysterious, so many problem can be complex conflict, in the beginning Noonan
only come in Sara just want to know about Sara Laughs which is a good summer
place in the city, but until in there Noonan viewed many events which still
mystery and as a writer’s block and it is had been the external problem in Sara
Laughs between Noonan
I want to describe what happen the conflict between Sara and Noonan,
actually Noonan just want to know about death his wife in there, but the reality he
met the complex conflict, Noonan tells begin in twenty years ago between Sara
and Lake. He had gone down only four or five before the enormity of what had
just happened hit me. His mouth began to tremble. The colors of the trees and sky
mixed together as my eyes teased up. A sound began to come out of him, a kind
of muffled groaning. The strength ran out of his leg and I sat down hard on a
railroad tie. For a moment I thought it was over, mostly just a false alarm, and
then I began to cry. I stuffed one end of the towel in my mouth during the worst of
it afraid that if the boaters on the lake heard, the sound coming out of me, they had
think someone up here was being murdered.
From the statement above, Noonan try to describing his experience since
retreat in Western Maine, on the shore of Dark Score Lake. There, he meets
Mattie and Kyra, a single mother and her daughter who happened to get mixed up
with the greedy, semi psychotic computer magnet Max Devore, who wants Kyra
his grand daughter, as his own. Mike is inventably drawn into the struggle, and at
the time find that he, too, has a pulse and remnants of life. So too, he discovers,
does Sara Laughs, a house that harbors spirit and secret galore.
It can be seen quote below:
“Anything about Sara and the Red-Tops?”
“She nodded, smiling. “Finally got around to working up the history of your place own place, did you? I’m glad to hear it. He found an old photo of them, and it is in there. He thought it was taken at The Fryeburg Fair in 1900. He used to say he had give a lot of to hear a record made by that bunch “So would I, but none were ever made”
A haiku by the Greek poet George Seferis suddenly occurred to me: are these the voice of our dead friends or just gramophone? “What happened to Mr. Osteen? I don’t recall the name.”
“Died not a year two before you and so bought your place on the Lake.”
She said. “Cancer.”
“You said there were two histories?”
“The other one you probably know. A history of Castle Country and Castle Rock.
King (1998:375)
In the next stories, I will try to describe all the conflict between Sara and
Noonan in this stories I think, it is very complex conflict and it is about Noonan
experience in Sara Laughs. He says that:
I pushed on with what passed for my life. I forgot about Sara Laughs or
some part of me that didn’t want to go there buried the idea and spent another
sweltering, miserable summer in Derry. I put a cruciverbalist program on my
appointment on the local YMCA’s board of directors and judge the Summer Arts
Competition in Waterville, I did a series of TV ads for the local homeless shelter,
which was staggering toward bankruptcy, then severed on that board for a
while.(At one public meeting that)
3.2.2 Sara Laugh and Devore external conflict
In this part, I want to describe about the conflict of Sara as the main
character with Devore as an arrogance character in the novel. It began when Max
Devore who is trying to gain custody of his granddaughter. The story is incredible
in that it begins a little unnerving, then towards the middle flattens itself out into a
love story, and then wraps back up into ending.
From the scandals of Devore this story tells about the conflict in Devore
family, the statements which tell the arrogance a Devore to get family, the
statements which tell the arrogance Devore to get what he wants, drawn in the
novel, it began when the Devore family conflict wasn’t for the New York Times
or Boston Globe. Probably not even for the Derry News, but in weekly
Supermarket tabs like the National Enquirer or inside View, it would fit like a
glove instead of the girl.
He the express his feeling:
“In my mind I composed a headline blaring over side by side pix of Warrington’s Lodge and Mattie’s rusty double wide: COMPUTER KING LIVES IN SPLENDOR AS HE TRIESTAKE YOUNG BEAUTY’S ONLY CHILD. Probably too long, I decided, I wasn’t writing anymore and still I need an editor. That was pretty sad when you stopped to think about it.
The statement explains that when that they do get that story. He realized
that this was a man he could grow attached to and at least in his present angry.
Devore never know how to worsted the feeling, he always angry if his want did
not reality match with his wants. It causes the first conflict in his family between
him and his daughter. Actually the place happen in a mystery place which he
came have a mystery tragedy with Sara Laugh. Until now the conflict tragedy had
been mystery conflict between him and Sara. Next the stories play Sara as Ghost
story in conflict of Devore.
He was under control of his daughter. All of his arrogance actions are shown in:
“Stop him!” Devore shoute. “He’s a goddam punk thief! That ainn’t his young; un his got! Stop him!” But no one did and I rushed into the darkness of the Ghost House with Ki in my arms.
King (1998:512)
By seeing this problem, Devore and his memories with Sara Laugh and let
all the scandal that happened with Sara living in their home. They Problem were
fairly old and had problem to raise a wild the Ghost, her name is Sara Laugh.
Nevertheless, they attempted to make complex conflict into the mystery conflict
which making Devore with Sara Laugh. Especially by the sound of mystery in
Sara laugh. Some of the mystery attempts are describe by his experience:
“ well, I ‘ve heard funny noise, ennit? Built inrelays, so to speak. It settles, one wing against the other. That’s what you hear, most likely.”
“No ghosts, huh?” I said, as if disappointed
“Not that Ive ever seen,” she said therer’s plenty down here. She said this lake is haunted.
King (1998:370)
Here we notice that mystery of Sara Laugh can be the new problem in
because his scandals in Sara laugh, he felt that his life could be control because
many case in his life. Sometimes Devore want to Death I early because he did
not to face hi problem in that happened in his live.
Finally Devore and his ghost story can go out from that house. He run
away when he knows that his daughters back in Sara Laugh to looking for the
reality the mystery conflict which happened in their father. All the entire to Sara
concern with missing the story and all of them is very worried.
3.2.3 Conflict Family Background
In this part, I want to describe about the conflict that happened in many
conflicts, not only in Sara but Devore conflict family background. It began when
devore who is trying to gain custody of his grand daughter. When Devore finds
out Mike ran into Mattie and Kyra, he threatens him via telephone.
It can be seen quote below:
“I told you, I don’t, “she said.” But I have been afraid for Ki since spring. By the time June came around, I couldn’t stand it anymore, and I put a stop to the visits. Kyra’s been off and on pissed at me ever since. I’m pretty sure that’s most of what that fourth of july escaped was about. She doesn’t talk about her grandfather very much, but she’s always popping out with’what do you think the white nana would like my new dress? ‘or she’ll run up to me and say ‘sing, ring, king, thing, and ask for a treat.” “what was the reaction from Devore?”
“complete fury. He called again and again, first asking what was wrong, then making threats.” “physical threats?”
Custody threats, he was going to take her away, when he was finished with me I’d stand before the whole world as an unfit mother, I didn’t have a chance, my only hope was to relent and let me see my granddaughter, goddammit.”
The statement above it really to expressed how to arrogance Max Devore
as grandfather. He always angry if there anyone not allowed him and must have
got what he wants.
He expressed like that:
“I tried to buy you off and when that didn’t work I upped the stakes and tried to buy the baby. When that also failed, I told my son that you and he and my grandchild could choke on the dirt of your own decision. In a way, I’m the reason he was where he was when be fell and broke his neck, but don’t shut me out, Mattie, I’m just a poor old geezer, so don’t shut me out.
He was stupid, wasn’t
You expected him to be better than he was. If that makes you stupid, Mattie, the world could use more of it.”
King (1998: 276)
Despite rethreads, or perhaps because of them, Mike hires John Storrow, a
custody lawyer, for Mattie as an act of
