THE ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS IN THE NOVEL “FOR ONE MORE DAY” BY MITCH ALBOM
A PAPER
BY
ANNISA RISMA KHAIRANI LUBIS REG NO. 112202070
DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN
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Name : ANNISA RISMA KHAIRANI LUBIS
Title of Paper : THE ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS IN THE NOVEL
“FOR ONE MORE DAY” BY MITCH ALBOM
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iii ABSTRACT
The paper entitled “The Analysis of Conflicts in the novel “For One More Day” by Mitch Albom” . For One More Day is a philosophical novel by Mitch Albom. The novel tells about the story of a troubled man and his mother and explores how people might use the opportunity to spend a day with the family who has passed away. Charley “Chick” Benetto is a former baseball player who encouters a myriad of problems with his career, financial, family and alcohol abuse. It supports him to commit suicide. But the suicide attempt he wants to do is a failure and takes him back to meet with his long-dead mother who has died eight years ago. The meeting is reminded Chick on a conflict that he experienced when he is young. Chick must choose to be a mama's boy or a daddy’s boy. These options make him being a dilemma throughout his life. The reason for choosing this topic is to analyze the conflict either how the process of conflicts happened that contained in the story by Mitch Albom entitled For One More Day. The method used in writing this paper is descriptive method, that is reading the novel For One
More Day and studying based on literature books. In addition, the writer also
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Kertas karya yang berjudul “The Analysis of Conflicts in The Novel “For One
More Day” by Mitch Albom”. For One More Day adalah novel fiksi filosopikal
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,
First of all, the writer would like to express her grateful to the Almighty
Allah SWT who has given her health and capability to finish this paper as her last
assignment to finish her study at Diploma III English Study Program, University
of Sumatera Utara.
For the occasion the writer says thank you very much for everyone who
have led, directed, helped and gave support to the writer in finishing this paper.
The writer would like to express her deepest gratitude, love, and
appreciation to:
1) Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A. as the dean of Faculty of Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara.
2) Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, M.A. as the Head of Diploma III English Study Program.
3) Dra. Syahyar Hanum, DPFE. as the writer’s supervisor and Mahmud Arief Albar, S.S., M.A. as the writer’s reader. Thank you for the valuable time for leading, directing, correcting, completing and finishing this paper.
4) All lectures in Diploma III English Diploma Study Program for all the
facilities, advices, knowledges and opportunities given to the writer during the
study.
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6) The writer’s beloved sister, Aishah Risma Sari Lubis and her beloved brother, Jabbar Muhammad Lubis who have given the writer support and attention.
7) The writer’s bestfriends, Febri Wulandari, Amelia Septya Rini, Rahma Yuliani and Alemina Br. Kaban, who have given the togetherness in friendship. Thank you so much for the smile, laugh, tears, and also the spirit in
completing this paper.
8) All the writer’s friends in Diploma III English Study Program especially for
Class B 2011.
However, the writer realizes that this paper is still far from being perfect
because it is not easy to finish it to her satisfaction. Therefore, the writer
welcomes any constructive critism and suggestion towards this paper.
In the last the writer conveys that hopefully this paper can benefit for
everyone and for the writer too. Amin.
Medan, June 2014
The Writer,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
1. INTRODUCTION ... 1
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 6
2.1 Novel ... 6
2.2 Character ... 7
2.3 Conflict... 8
3. CONFLICT ANALYSIS ... 12
4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGGESTION ... 27
4.1 Conclusion ... 27
4.2 Suggestion ... 28
REFERENCES ... 29
