THE EFFECT OF FAMILY CONDITION ON KRYSTAL WEEDON'S CHARACTER REFLECTED IN J.K. ROWLING'S THE CASUAL VACANCY.

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THE EFFECT OF FAMILY CONDITION ON KRYSTAL WEEDON’S CHARACTER REFLECTED IN J.K. ROWLING’S THE CASUAL VACANCY

THESIS

Submitted As Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Sarjana Degree at English Department Faculty of Letters and Humanities State Islamic

University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Fathatun Ni’mah

Reg. Number: A03212005

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES

STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA

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THE EFFECT OF FAMILY CONDITION ON KRYSTAL WEEDON’S CHARACTER REFLECTED IN J.K. ROWLING’S THE CASUAL VACANCY

THESIS

Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Sarjana Degree of English Department Faculty of Letter and Humanities State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel

Surabaya

The Advisor

Wahju Kusumajanti, M.Hum

NIP. 197002051999032002

Fathatun Ni’mah

Reg Number: A03212005

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES

STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SUNAN AMPEL

SURABAYA

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ABSTRACT

Ni’mah, Fathatun. 2016. The Effect of Family Condition on Krystal Weedon’s Life

Reflected in J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Thesis. English

Department. Faculty of Letters and Humanities. States Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

The Advisor: Wahju Kusumajanti, M.Hum

Krystal Weedon is one of characters in the novel The Casual Vacancy who has some problems with her life. She is sixteen years old. She is a student of Senior High School St. Winterdown. This thesis focuses on analyzing Krystal Weedon’s family life and the problem in her family. Krystal Weedon has some problems with her family. She lives with her drug addict mother and her ignored young brother. Her family is under the control of Social Service. The aim of the thesis is

to explain some effects of Krystal Weedon’s family condition toward her

character. This thesis basically uses Psychological approach especially from B.F. Skinner which mainly focuses on Krystal Weedon’s behavior. The result of the thesis is to explain that Krystal’s behavior in her daily life is appropriate with Skinner’s theory.

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INTISARI

Ni’mah, Fathatun. 2016. The Effect of Family Condition on Krystal Weedon’s Life

Reflected in J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Skripsi. Sastra Inggris. Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora.Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Pembimbing: Wahju Kusumajanti, M.Hum

Krystal Weedon adalah salah satu karakter dalam novel The Casual Vacancy yang memiliki beberapa masalah dengan kehidupannya. Dia berumur enam belas tahun. Dia adalah siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas St. Winterdown. Tesis ini berfokus pada analisis kehidupan keluarga Krystal Weedon dan masalah yang ada di keluarganya. Krystal Weedon memiliki beberapa masalah dengan keluarganya. Dia tinggal bersama ibunya yang pecandu narkoba dan adiknya yang tak terurus. Keluarganya berada dibwah pengawasan Petugas Sosial. Tujuan dari tesis ini adalah untuk menjelaskan beberapa efek dari keluarga Krystal Weedon terhadap karakternya. Tesis ini pada dasarnya menggunakan pendekatan Psikologi drai B.F. Skinner yang terutama fokus pada perilaku/tingkah laku Krystal Weedon. Hasil akhir dari skripsi ini adalah untuk menjelaskan prilaku Krystal Weedon dalam kehidupan sehari-harinya yang sesuai dengan teori B.F. Skinner.

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of The Study

There have been various attempts to define literature. It is the work which

has the art and aesthetic value. It reflects the reality in what happened in each

aspect of life. According to Terry Eagleton, literature is 'imaginative' writing in

the sense of fiction - writing which is not literally true (1). Imagination is related

with human’s feeling and thought. Therefore, every person has different

perspective in appreciating the literature. Some of them regard the function of it as

entertaining moreover as the useful thing to get some useful values. If the literary

work appropriates with its characteristic, the entertainment and the benefit do not

only have to be exist, but also to complete each other (Wellek and Warren 24). It

means that literature is part of our life. Because it does not only relate with art, but

also with human’s feeling and thought. In other word, literature and human cannot

be separated.

The relation between literature and human can be found in some literary

works. The literary work is composed of words, not of objects or feelings, and it is

a mistake to see it as the expression of an author’s mind (Knickerbocker and

Reninger 4). What in human’s mind can be expressed in literary work is. Most of

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which consists of novel, short story, and epic, the second is drama, and the third is

poem (277). Those literary works have their own role.

A novel, as one of the literary genres, is an account of life in the narrative

forms. Novels are different from stories, poems, and narratives in a number of

Kay respects (Ellis 2). Novel is a long fictional narrative written in prose. It

usually has characters and series of events that are acknowledged as plot. The

plot, in a novel, is known as stronger and more complex than short story. As

Graham little said that there are many things one can expect from a novel. He puts

that a novel constructs a theme, a novels carves out a plot, a novel is much

concerned with characters; the people involved in the novel, a novel will show

realism of background and atmosphere, and a good novel will also be an

imaginative work of art (102).

Based on the paragraph above, there are some elements which can be

found from novel. Good novel or good story shaped by a single controlling theme

and it is the idea. By this, the other elements of the story like characters, the

action, the plot, and anything else will go into the story.

The first element is characters which in a work of fiction are generally

designed to open up or explore certain aspects of human experience. Characters

are divided into major and minor characters. Major characters are those so central

to the action. If the author focuses on a single major character, and his character is

studied far more than any other characters, he is said to be the protagonist. He is

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character whose personality is described as antiheroic, tend to hurt the

protagonist. He is studied as a bad person in the story. There are also round and

flat characters. A round character is so called because his characterization is

complex and dynamic, that is, the character changes and the changes are

accounted for. Flat character, in Perrine’s view, is the same sort of a person at the

end of the story as he was at the beginning (71). The next element is plot. It is the

relationship of events in order to create significance, raise the level of generality,

extend or complicate the meaning. Wellek and Warren said that narrative structure

of novel has traditionally been called “plot” (225). It is composed of smaller

narrative structures, like episodes and incidents.

The following element is theme. It is the interesting thing from novel

which can make the reader fells interested in reading the novel. Theme is used by

the writer to dramatize the total meaning of the story (17). Theme has some issues

which delivered by the author to the reader. It can be romance, social, politic,

historical issue, and so on. Social issue explains what happens around the author’s

life. Sometimes, what author writes in his novel, it explains and represents what is

around the reader. It can be environment world like school’s life and family’s life.

The description of family’s life can be found in a literary work entitle The

Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. Joanne Kathleen Rowling is known as a fantasy

novelist. Her famous writing is Harry Potter series. She was born on July 1965 in

England and grew up in Chepstow, Grewnt where she went to Wyedean

Comprehensive. She started writing Harry Potter series during a delayed

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outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first novel. She has also

written two small volumes, which appears as the titles of Harry’s school books

within the novels. In 2012, J.K. Rowling published her first novel for adults, The

Casual Vacancy, which has now been published in 44 languages.

The reason why the researcher is interested in analyzing J.K. Rowling’s

writing is because it is the first adult novel of her. As known as the fantasy writer

before, the researcher is curious with this novel. The researcher wants to know

more how J.K. Rowling presents her different genre novel. The researcher also

wants to know why this novel is called adult novel. In other hand, the researcher

is also interested in theme of the novel.

The Casual Vacancy tells about the empty chair which is fought over

among some people. It does not only tell about the empty chair, but also about

some society problems. The small example is problem which comes from

teenager’s life. She is Krystal Weedon. She is sixteen years old. But her

environment, her family life especially, makes the other people underestimate her.

Because of her family life, she has deviant characteristic. In other hand, she still

has positive side of her life. She loves her little brother so much.

Based on the discussion above, the researcher wants to analyze Krystal

Weedon’s family life using Psychological approach especially from B.F. Skinner

that is Psychology of Behavior. Besides that, the researcher also uses New

Criticism theory to support the main theory. The researcher uses that theory

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1.2 Statement of The Problems

Based on the background of study explained above, the researcher is

interested in analyzing the problems, which are formulated as follows:

1. How is the Weedon’s family described in the novel The Casual Vacancy?

2. What does the problem appear in Krystal Weedon’s family?

3. What is the effect of family condition toward Krystal Weedon’s character

as one of the family member in the novel The Casual Vacancy?

1.3 Objectives of The Study

In accordance with the statement of the problems, this study has three

objectives that can be stated as follows:

1. To describe Weedon’s family in the novel The Casual Vacancy

2. To depict Krystal Weedon’s family problem in the novel The Casual

Vacancy

3. To find out the effect of family condition toward Krystal Weedon’s

character in the novel The Casual Vacancy.

1.4 Scope and Limitation

In order to prevent non-relevant problems, the study will be limited to the

novel of J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Then, the study will be focused on

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1.5 Significance of The Study

Through this study, the researcher hopes that this study will be useful to the

ones who study about literature especially in New Criticism theory. Then, the

researcher divides the significance into two categories. Both are theoretically and

practically categories.

Theoretically, the results of the study are expected to give contribution to

develop the study and analysis on literary study related to New Criticism theory on

the novel The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling. The researcher expects that it can

give knowledge about the characterization and character’s life.

Practically, the researcher also expects this study will give an inspiration for

other studies especially in English Letters Department of State Islamic University

of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Also, the researcher hopes that this study can be a

helpful reference for other writers who are interested in conducting further research

on analyzing novel The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling.

1.6 Method of The Study

This research is library based. The researcher applies qualitative research

method. It means the writer describes and analyzes the data which are not numeral

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1.6.1 Data Source

The researcher has the primary and secondary data in this study. The

primary source is from the novel by J.K. Rowling untitled The Casual Vacancy.

The secondary source is from the books and online resources.

1.6.2 Data Collection

The researcher uses qualitative research method. The research follows the

following steps:

1. Reading the novel as the primary source to get the complete and well

understanding on the whole story.

2. Reading the secondary source which related to the problem.

3. Selecting and collecting the data in form of narration and conversation from

the novel related to the problem.

4. Analyzing the data collected by categorizing them into two points, dealing

with the statement of problems.

5. Making conclusion based on the result of data analysis.

1.6.3 Data Analysis

The researcher follows the following steps as follows:

1. Reading the whole story and deciding the topic to research problems.

2. Analyzing some data that have been collected based on the statement

problems.

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CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2.1 Theoretical Framework

In this chapter, the researcher will explain more about the theory that will

be used in analyzing The Casual Vacancy novel. Then, the researcher uses New

Criticism theory to analyze it. In analyzing this novel, the researcher focuses on

analyzing the character, characterization, and theme in the novel. But the

researcher takes only one character from the novel. She is Krystal Weedon. The

researcher uses New Criticism to answer all of the statement of the problems. The

theory is explained as follows.

2.2 New Criticism

According to David Carter, New Criticism was active from the late 1930s

to the late 1950s, also took on most of the ideas of Eliot and Richards, as well as

those of Empson (26). Tyson said in his book Critical Theory Today that the most

important concepts in New Criticism are concerning the nature and importance of

textual evidence – the use of concrete, specific examples from the text itself to

validate our interpretation (135). So, the analyzer who wants to analyze uses New

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New Criticism’s purpose in analysis is to reveal the true meaning of the

text based on the text itself. Tyson added that “the text itself” became the battle

cry of the New Critical effort to focus our attention on the literary work as the sole

source of evidence for interpreting it (136). It is believed that a single best or most

accurate interpretation of each text could be seen when it best represents the text

itself and best explains what the text means and how the text produces the

meaning (148). New Criticism focuses on internal element of the text. It does not

explain about external factor. The internal element itself can be characterization,

theme, setting, plot, point of view, symbols, images, rhyme, and so on.

D H Lawrence stated in his essay Morality and the Novel (1925) he wrote:

‘If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what

the relationships may consist in.’And in Why the Novel Matters (1936) his

concept of ‘Life’ is as mystically and vaguely defined as ‘To be alive, to be man

alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the

novel supremely, can help you’ (qtd. in Charter 30).

2.2.1 Character

Characters are the persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work,

who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with particular moral,

intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and

their distinctive ways of saying it—the dialogue—and from what they do—the

action (Abrams 35). Character is going to bring the reader into their imagination

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Moreover, Bennet and Royle also agreed that characters are considered as

the life of literature. Characters become the objects of the readers’ curiosity and

fascination, affection and dislike, admiration and condemnation. Indeed, our

intense relationship with literary characters makes them to be more than becoming

simply objects because in which through the power of identification, through

sympathy and antipathy, they can become part of how we conceive ourselves, a

part of who we are (60). Sometimes the readers imagine themselves to be one of

the characters in the story. By imagining it, the reader can get the real meaning

and goal from the story.

In fiction, characters are divided into some types. Based on its significance

role in developing a story, characters are separated into major and minor

characters. Major or main character refers to character which appears in almost all

or totally in the whole story. He or she is character which is mostly told and

always relates to other characters. On the other hand, minor character is character

which appears only in some parts of the whole story and he or she is told less than

major character. Minor characters may exist just when they are having correlation

with the major characters (Nurgiyantoro 176-177). In the story, there are some

kinds of character. They can have positive and negative side. It is like good and

bad character. Sometimes good character can cover whole story. The reader will

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2.2.2 Characterization

Characters are generally known to undergo some process in how they are

told in a story; this process is what is called a characterization. Commonly in

characterizing the characters, there are two ways that an author usually used.

Those are direct and indirect characterization. Using direct manner means that the

author describes directly about the character. The author attributes the qualities of

characters in direct description. Otherwise, in indirect manner of characterization

the author does not merely tell the characters but showing them to the readers

through how the character looks, what the character does, what the character says,

what the character thinks, and how the character affects other characters (Baldick

37). From these five things, the reader can understand and get a clear description

of the character’s personality. So characters and characterization cannot be

separated each other. Also, characters become an important point to analyze in

this study.

2.3 Psychology of Behavior

B. F. Skinner’s entire system is based on operant conditioning. The

organism is in the process of "operating" on the environment, which in ordinary

terms means it is bouncing around its world, doing what it does. During this

"operating," the organism encounters a special kind of stimulus, called a

reinforcing stimulus, or simply a reinforcer. This special stimulus has the effect of

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This is operant conditioning: "the behavior is followed by a consequence, and the

nature of the consequence modifies the organisms tendency to repeat the behavior

in the future." (Boeree 4).

Behavior is a primary characteristic of living things. We almost identify it

with life itself. Anything which moves is likely to be called alive—especially

when the movement has direction or acts to alter the environment. (Skinner 45).

Human’s behavior is controlled by external factor. It can be environment and

social-culture. Skinner also states that many theories of human behavior,

nevertheless, neglect or ignore the action of the environment. The contact between

the organism and the surrounding world is wholly disregarded or at best casually

described. This is almost always true in clinical psychology, for example. The

clinician often speaks of people, places, and things as "facts" entering into the

interpretation of his patient's behavior, without further specifying their action

(129).

Human comes from the environment. He/she was born by having some

talents which can be developed in every way. By passing shaping process, human

can be the certain character who has certain behavior (Farozin 74). It can be

concluded that human is able to do some actions based on his/her initiative in

his/her environment. He/she is known as an active object. So that is way, the

environment has the important role to build human’s character and behavior.

The environment which can build human’s character can be the world

around his/her. It can be from family lives around his/her. Those can be explained

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2.3.1 Family

Family is a group of people live together with special bond either

emotionally or economically. It is about how to live together with some aspects

like economy and emotional aspect and how to create the good relation inside.

According to George Murdock, in his book Social Structure, family means social

group which has the characteristic by living together and there is cooperation in

economy and there is also reproduction. But that statement is disputed by Ira

Reiss. She stated that the main characteristic in family is socialization process

which accompanied by support of emotion called nurturant socialization (qtd. in

Lestari 4).

In generally, the relation of family is started by marrying man and woman.

As the beginning of relation, it determines the harmony inside the family (9). If

the family can create the harmony, they can solve the problem easily. Not only

harmony, belief is also needed inside the family. How husband and wife can

support each other if they do not have belief. There are five important aspects in

the happy family. They are communication, flexibility, closeness, personality

harmony, and conflict resolution.

Communication is the most important aspect because it concludes all other

aspects (11). All needs and problems can be solved by communication. It

determines how important communication is. Style and diction in communication

are also important. If husband uses bad style or diction to speak with his wife, it

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problem in family. So, to decrease some problems inside the family, husband and

wife have to often introspect themselves.

Beside communication, flexibility and closeness are also the aspects to

create the happy family. Flexibility reflects the ability of husband and wife to

change and adapt when it is needed. It has relation with job and role between

husband and wife (12). In flexibility, husband and wife have their own

responsibility in managing the family. They have to do their job well in order to

create good situation in the family. But in deciding each responsibility, they have

to be fair. The decision has to depend on both decision. Closeness between

husband and wife describe the level of emotional closeness and the ability of

balance between separation and gatherness (12). Closeness here does not mean

that the body between husband and wife together. It means the closeness of

emotional between them. If they do not have any closeness, they must have many

problems in their family life.

The following aspects are personality harmony and conflict revolution.

Personality harmony means the character and behavior between husband and wife

do not make negative effect to one of them. The harmony does not depend on the

same character and hobby. The differences of them do not become the problem as

long as they can take and understand each other (13). If they can take and

understand each lack of their partner, their family life must be happy because

there are some problems which come from the differences. Take and give from

their character is very needed to create the harmony in the family. Conflict

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their relation. It covers the understanding to know and solve the problem. Not

only that, it also covers strategy and process to end the disputation (13). The

problem which always comes inside the family does not have to be avoided, but it

has to be solved as soon as possible. Solving problem functions to keep the family

harmony.

After explaining about the relation between husband and wife, the

following explaining is about the relation between parents and child. Having baby

can also make the harmony family. It is the transition era for the parents when

they have the first baby. Sometimes, it can cause the new problem for them.

Moreover if they also have problem of economy. When it is happened, the support

from husband and their family is much needed. Children grow in the environment

and relation. The relation which is built by parents and child from childhood can

help the growing of child. Child will feel closely with someone who takes care

with him. It can also build the emotional relation between them. So, parents and

family is the important aspect in growing a child.

2.3.1.1Parents and Children’s Relationship

Having baby can make harmonious family. It is the transition era for the

parents when they have the first baby. Sometimes, it can cause the new problem

for them. Moreover if they also have problem of economy. When it is happened,

the support from husband and their family is much needed. Thompson stated that

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parents and child from childhood can help the growing of child. Child will feel

closely with someone who takes care with him. It can also build the emotional

relation between them. So, parents and family is the important aspect in growing a

child.

Family is the place where child grows physically, emotionally, spiritually,

and socially. Family is source of affection, protection, and the identity for child.

The important function of family is curing and socializing for child. Socialization

means the process undergone by child to get belief, values, and behavior which is

considered appropriate by parents. Family is not one of place of socialization. But

family is the first place for child to undergo his life (22). Parents will always teach

how to live until the child can get his following era, from child to adolescent era

and so on.

Adolescent era is transition era when someone grows between childhood

and mature. Simply, adolescent era can be started by showing the evidence of

puberty and followed until sexual maturity and development of emotional by

measuring intelligent test (Panuju 4).The age of adolescent is between fifteen until

twenty one years old. In adolescent era, adolescent begins to ask who he is

actually. He also begins to think what he will be in his future. He will face same

phases in his life. It is what some experts said that the growing of each individual

passes some certain phases which have each specification. The phases are begun

by the development of physic. It is followed by the development of emotional and

also the intelligence (17). They have to be smart in choosing their environment

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the child will continue their school to university, parents have to give some

understandings about the positive and negative side in choosing the certain

university. The child can choose their choice based on the parents’ agreement.

To appreciate the nature of the interaction between parents and adolescent

it is necessary to recognize that the parent-adolescent relationship extends back to

the time when the adolescent was born. It is essential, to recognize that, in the

typical family situation, parents are not all-powerful persons who can control a

child’s destiny, for better or for worse. It is true that harsh, abnormal, and abusive

parents can have traumatic effects on children, especially at the infancy level. But

in the usual family, there are limits to what parents can or cannot do. These limits

are determined to an important degree not only by the qualities of the parents, but

also by temperamental qualities of their children, often manifested from the time

of birth. The influence of the social environment, especially the young person’s

peers, also obviously is an important factor (Jersild 305). So, the parents’ attention

is very needed in adolescent life in order to they will not fall in wrong world.

2.3.1.2The Adolescent Life

The adolescent era is the time when the children grow to the mature. The

growth can be some changes. Those are not looked only by the body changes

which can be femininity and manliness but also by the changes which cannot be

looked by the other one easily. The adolescent him/herself gets the changes from

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effect in learning process in the school. He/she will have big question about it.

Moreover he/she will ask to his/her friend each other.

Friend also has big role to the adolescent’s growth (91). The good friend

will bring the good effect to his/her life. There are many behaviors which can

make his/her life useless. It can be like the using of drug, cigarette, and so on. In

other hand, the bad friend will bring him/her get worse life. It can be like he/she

will interest in joining some positive organization in the school or outside of

school.

2.4 Review of Related Studies

The researcher finds only one previous study from the same object, the

novel untitled The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, but from different

perspective. It has been written by Impian Nopitasari titled Exclusivism Reflected

in J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy Novel (2012): A Sociological Perspective.

In her analysis, she tried to analyze implication of exclusivism from the novel

used sociological perspective. The reason why the writer uses that theory causes

she wants to answer her statement of problems. Those are about to describe and

identify the characteristic of Exclusivism in the novel and to reveal the necessity

for J.K. Rowling to address exclusivism.

From the previous study above, there is a difference between the previous

study and this one. Although both discuss the same novel, but they have different

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researcher uses Psychological approach in analyzing which focuses on Krystal

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CHAPTER 3 ANALYSIS

In this chapter, the researcher will analyze the family problem and its

influence into one of characters in the novel, Krystal Weedon. This chapter

explains the data which refer to the problems stated in chapter 1. The data are in

the form of paragraph, direct or indirect quotation from the utterances of the

narrator, or from the conversation among the characters. By firstly examining on

Weedon’s family life, the researcher hopes the explanation will be delivered

clearly. After knowing Weedon’s family, it will help to analyze the next problem.

It is about the family problem faced by Krystal Weedon. After having the

description about the family, the researcher is going to answer the effects of

Krystal’s family life on her own life.

3.1 The Description of Weedon’s Family

Actually, family does not only function as continuing generation. Family

functions in some aspects like education and entertainment aspect. In educational

aspect, family is the main source of education because all of the knowledge can be

got from parents and family members (1). If a child cannot get the knowledge or

positive knowledge from his family, it can conclude that there is something wrong

happened in the family. Based on this story, there is famili that is Weedon’s

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members; Terri Weedon, Krystal Weedon, and Robbie Weedon. They live under

monitoring of Social Services. It can be seen from the quotation below.

… I’m Kay Bawden, from SocialServices. I’m covering for Mattie

Knox.’... ‘Just to explain: Mattie has been signed off sick, so I’m covering

for her. I’ll need to go over some of the information she’s left me, to check

that nothing’s changed since she saw you last week, all right? (Rowling

50-52).

Kay Bawden, she is a Social Services officer who handles Weedon’s

family. She replaces Mattie Knox’s task, the previous Social Services officer,

because Mattie is sick. Because she is new officer who handles Weedon’s family,

she has to recheck the previous information which is done by Mattie. She also has

to recheck what has been changed since last week Mattie handled them.

One of Weedon family member which is handled by Social Servise is

Terri.

‘Terri, you’re on themethadone programme at the Bellchapel Clinic, isn’t

that right?’ ‘Mm,’ said Terri drowsily.

‘And how’s that going, Terri?’

Pen poised, Kay waited, pretending that the answer was not sitting in front

of her.

‘Are you still going to the clinic, Terri?’

‘Las’ week. Friday, I goes.’

Robbie pounded the boxes with his fists.

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‘Hundred and fifteen mils,’ said Terri. (Rowling 54).

The conversation above is the conversation between Terry and Kay. It

describes Terri’s condition. Terri is an addict. Kay, as Social Services officer, has

to monitor whether Terri still uses drug or not. The answer got by Kay is that

Terri still uses it. As an addict, Terri joins a rehabilitation program in Bellchapel

Clinic, medical clinic for drug users. In monitoring Terri, Kay notes the

development of Terri and reports it to her office.

… while her mother sat in the kitchen, smoking and staring out of the back

window. ... ‘Hello, Terri,’ said Kay.

‘All righ’?’ said Terri, taking a deep drag from her cigarette. (Rowling

79-80).

The quotation above explains that Terri still uses drug by smoking.

Generally, drug and cigarette can be one for an addict. She keeps smoking when

Kay comes to her house.

The other Weedon family is Krystal Weedon. It can be seen by the

quotation below.

‘Krystal is your daughter, isn’t she? How old is she?’

‘Fourteen,’ said Terri dreamily, ‘’n’a half.’

Kay could see from her notes that Krystal was sixteen. (Rowling 52).

… the picture of the Winterdown rowing team on the day that they had

beaten St Anne’s. Barry had given all the parents an enlarged copy of this

picture, in which Sukhvinder and Krystal Weedon were in the middle of

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Krystal is Terri’s daughter. She is sixteen years old. Kay has some

informations about Krystal. So, when Terri says that her daughter is fourteen

years old, Kay has known that it is not true answer from Terri. Krystal is a student

of Winterdown Senior High School. Being a student of Senior High School,

Krystal joins the rowing team with her eight friends. She is rather good at joining

the rowing team because her team ever wins the competition. All of the members

of rowing team have the winning picture of their team.

The last of Weedon family member who is handled by Social Service is

Robbie Weedon.

A bare-legged little boy was standing in the middle of the floor, dressed in

a T-shirt and a bulging pull-up nappy. Kay knew from the file that he was

three and a half. …

‘So this must be Robbie?’ said Kay.…

‘Hello, Robbie,’ said Kay, opening Terri’s file. (Rowling 51).

Robbie is Terri’s boy. He is three and a half years old. Kay knows some of

himself from her file. When Kay comes to Weedon’s house, Robbie looks like

ignored child. He wears nappy which has been full. His mother does not change

his nappy. It is like irritating his skin is used to it.

Besides the description of Weedon family member, this point also

describes Weedon house condition. The house is looked like an unorganized

house. It can be seen from the quotation below.

A pile of refuse was heaped against the front wall: carrier bags bulging

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Bits of the rubbish had tumbled or been scattered over the scrubby patch

of lawn, but the bulk of it remained piled beneath one of the two

downstairs windows. A bald old tyre sat in the middle of the lawn; it had

been shifted some time recently, because a foot away there was a flattened

yellowish-brown circle of dead grass. After ringing the doorbell, K ay

noticed a used condom glistening in the grass beside her feet, like the

gossamer cocoon of some huge grub. (Rowling 50).

Those sentences describe how Weedon’s house looks like. The house is

not empty. There are three people who live in the house, but the house condition

is like unorganized house. It is according to Kay’s view. He looks at the house

condition from in front of the house when he comes to monitor Weedon’s family.

There are many types of rubbish in front of their house. It is not clean house.

Generally the house will be organized depending on the people who stay in. It is

Weedon’s house. The addict mother can cause why the house is not organized

well.

Unorganized house of Weedon’s is not only looked from outside the

house, but also from inside the house. It can be seen from the quotation below.

… The house smelt of stale food, of sweat, of unshifted filth. …

There were no books, no pictures, no photographs, no television; nothing

except a pair of filthy old armchairs and a broken set of shelves. Debris

littered the floor. A pile of brand-new cardboard boxes piled against the

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What Kay looks from in front of the house is not so far different from

what she looks at inside the house. It is still unorganized house. The smell of the

house is not nice. Terri does not clean the house for long time because the smell is

full of filth smell. There are also many types of rubbish like outside the house.

Besides the cleanness of her house, Terri also does not decorate her house at all.

There is no the single picture patches on her house wall. There are no some books

and television also.

That is all about the description of Weedon’s family. They live in their

unorganized house consisted in three family member. They are Terri, the addict

mother, Krystal, the adult daughter, and Robbie, the ignored boy. Their family

condition is not like the family in generally. They are not able to organize their

house well.

3.2 The Problem of Krystal Weedon’s Family Life

In generally a group of people called family is when there is father,

mother, and child. They live in a house. They have close relationship and

dependence each other. One and others help each other. Besides that, family is

place for sharing everything. It is the real school for the children to grow with.

The children will get some knowledges from their family, parents exactly. Talking

about the family and family member, in this story there are some problems found

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3.2.1 No Father Figure

Father is the important figure for growing the child. He becomes the

example for his children. Father’s task is commonly known as the leader in the

family and as the one who looks for money for household expenses. Not only that,

father is knows as figure which can cover the whole family. His responsibility is

to teach and share much positive knowledge for her child exactly.

Besides that, father is figure of affection and love. He teaches his child

patiently. It can cause the development of growing the child. A child can grow

well depends on how his/her parents teaches him/her in every single day. It also

can cause how the child’s character grows. Not only because of his/her parents’

figure, child can grow well from where he/she lives in. His/her environment is

also important to contribute the child’s growth.

In this story, Krystal grows without her father’s figure. She grows only

with her mother and some of her other family member. Unfortunately she does not

know who her father is. Her mother also does not tell to Krystal about her father.

It brings some effects to Krystal’s life. Some of them makes Krystal more

positive, but many effects also can make her live negatively. The absence of

Krystal’s father figure can be seen from the quotation below.

(Death came to the young in her mother’s circle, sometimes even before

their faces and bodies had become emaciated and ravaged. The body that

Krystal had found in the bathroom when she was six had been of a

handsome young man, as white and lovely as a statue, or that was how she

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doubted it. It was hard to know what to believe. She had often heard things

as a child that adults later contradicted and denied. She could have sworn

that Terri had said, ‘It was yer dad.’ But then, much later, she had said,

‘Don’ be so silly. Yer dad’s not dead, ’e’s in Bristol, innee?’ So Krystal

had had to try and reattach herself to the idea of Banger, which was what

everybody called the man they said was her father. (Rowling 143).

The quotation above tells about Krystal’s father figure. It describes about

Krystal’s father unclearly. There are three different statements which tell about

her father said by Terri. Terri ever said that Krystal’s father died. She also ever

said that Krystal’s father is still alive. In different time, Terri said that Krystal’s

father is in Bristol. Krystal gets confused with Terri’s statements. Terri can talk to

Krystal with her different statement. She cannot focus on what she talks. It can be

caused by the effect of using drug. Not only that, Terri also often has the

relationship with different men. So, she talks to Krystal some men about Krystal’s

father.

3.2.2 A Drug Addict Mother

Living without husband figure makes Terri as the leader in the Weedon

family. But she is not able to doing her job well. She is not able to lead her family

life. As a single parent in generally, she can change father’s position in leading the

family. But she cannot. The harder thing in the Weedon family is Terri as a leader

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addict, it can bring some negative effects to her family life. Some effects of

Terri’s using drug can be seen in the quotations below.

Terri shoved aside a scratched old biscuit tin, which had been sitting on

one of the dirty frayed armchairs, and curled herself into the seat, watching

Kay from beneath drooping eyelids. Kay took the other chair, … (Rowling

51).

Drug brings some negative effects to the user. Terri gets it. It can be seen

from the quotation above. When she talks to Kay, she sits unwell. She curls

herself on the chair. If she is fine, she will sit well when talking to Kay. Not only

that, Terri talks with her bad condition. She watches and talks to Kay with her

eyes almost to be closed. She looks like not able to bearing her sleepy feeling. It is

because one of the effects of using drug.

The other effect of using drug is the user cannot focus on what he/she talks

to some one. It can be seen from Terri’s behaviour based on the quotation “…

Robbie began to wail. Kay watched Terri, who was staring at her son,

blank-faced. … (51).” The other effect of using drug is that Terri cannot focus on what

she looks at. Her child wails around her. Generally, a mother will quickly respond

her child when he/she asks for something. She must come and ask Robbie what

happens with him. But Terry did not. Although she knows that Robbie wails, she

only looks at her child with blank-faced.

The following effect of using drug is the user will feel sleepy so hard. It

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‘Shouldn’t he be there today, Terri? Isn’t Tuesday one of the days he

goes?’

Terri seemed to be fighting a desire to sleep. Once or twice her head

rocked a little on her shoulders. Finally she said, ‘Krystal was s’posed to

drop him and she never.’ (Rowling 52).

Terri also shows that she does not focus on talking to Kay. When she is

investigated by Kay, she gets hard sleepy feeling. Kay has to wait for Terri’s

answer when he investigates her. While waiting for her answer, Kay stares at

Terri. She is sleepy until her body sometimes falls to her arm. How Terri’s

behavior is, it describes that it is because she uses drug and it is the effect.

The next effect of using drug is losing of conscious feeling. It can be seen

from the quotation “‘I had him dressed,’ said Terri, dragging the words from deep

in her consciousness. (53).” In answering Kay’s question, Terri has to try hard to

speak with Kay. Because of her unconsciousness, she is difficult to answer Kay’s

question. She cannot think well. It is started by her hard sleepy feeling, then she

cannot focus what she looks at and talks. All is got by her because of her

unconsciousness and her effect in using drug.

The following effect of using drug is losing of the balance. It can be found

by the quotation “... After another long pause, Terri lurched out of her chair and

wove her way into the hall. (55).” Terri cannot balance herself when she walks.

She gets dizzy when she wakes from her chair. It is also one effect of using drug.

Kay who monitors her growth knows that Terri is like that because of after using

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The next effect of using drug is no having pain feeling. It can be seen from

the quotation below.

… She missed the seat and collided with the arm of the chair on her first

attempt; Kay heard the bone collide with wood, but Terri seemed to feel

no pain. She settled herself back into the sagging cushions and surveyed

the social worker with bleary indifference. (Rowling 56).

The effect of using drug can make Terri cannot feel the pain in herself.

Whereas Kay looks at and hears by herself that Terri sits on the chair but her seat

is not in right place. If someone’s body strikes hard some solid thing, it must be

sick. But Terri does not feel it. She is seemed as usual like before, no pain. And

she is back to sit on her chair without feeling her pain.

Besides getting bad effect of Terri’s herself, she also gets the effect to her

family life. She has to loss her children. It can be found by the quotation below.

Kay had read the file from cover to cover. She knew that nearly everything

of value in Terri Weedon’s life had been sucked into the black hole of her

addiction; that it had cost her two children; that she barely clung to two

more; that she prostituted herself to pay for heroin; that she had been

involved in every sort of petty crime; and that she was currently

attempting rehab for the umpteenth time.

But not to feel, not to care … (Rowling 56).

Among those effects of using drug which has been explained in the

explanation above, it can be concluded by Kay in her note. Terri has spent her life

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because she cannot nurse her children well. And the reason she cannot nurse them

well is because she is too busy with her heroin. The hardest thing is that she has to

prostitute herself to get heroin. She also has to join the rehabilitation program

because of her addiction.

‘Using again, is she?’ said Alex, one of the women with whom Kay shared

an office. ‘Bellchapel’ll kick her out for good this time. She claims she’s

terrified Robbie’ll be taken off her, but she can’t keep off the smack.’

‘It’s the third time she’s been through Bellchapel,’ said Una. (Rowling

60).

After losing her children, Terri is afraid if Robbie is taken by country like

her two previous children. She has made the decision if she will not use drug

anymore and the country will not take her children too. In the fact, while joining

the rehabilitation program in Bellchapel Clinic, Terri still uses drug. The workers

of Bellchapel Clinic have said that she will be got out from clinic if she still uses

drug. They also say that Robbie can be taken by the country because of Terry’s

bad habit which cannot be stopped. Terri is difficult in stopping to use drug.

‘Yeah, we’re still seeing her, but she tested positive last week. If she uses

again, she’s out. We’ve got twenty people right now who could take her

place on the programme and maybe get some benefit from it. This is the

third time she’s been through.’ (Rowling 61).

Bellchapel Clinic has tested the result of Terri’s using the drug. The test

shows that the result is positive. It means that Terri is proved still using drug. She

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joining the rehabilitation program, she still uses the drug. She cannot stop using it.

Clinic will be got her out from there if she cannot stop using drug because there

are still many drug users who can cahnage Terri’s position in Bellchapel Clinic.

She cannot be serious in joining in Bellchapel Clinic.

‘Look, I can see neither of you wants to lose Robbie—’

‘Don’ fuckin’ takehim away, then!’ shouted Krystal.

‘It’s not as simple as that,’ said Kay. She sat down again and lifted the

heavy folder back onto her lap from the floor where it had fallen. ‘When

Robbie came back to you last year, Terri, you were off the heroin. You

made a big commitment to staying clean and going through the

programme, and you agreed to certain other things, like keeping Robbie in

nursery—’ (Rowling 83).

The quotation above tells about Terri’s big commitment to stop using drug

in order to Robbie will not be taken. Kay has reminded Terri about her last

commitment. Not only breaking her commitment to stop using drug, Terri also

breaking her commitment that she will take Robbie up to playgroup. Robbie is

seldom taken up to playgroup by Terri.

Terri gets many bad effects because of using the drug. She gets bad effect

to her body and her behavior. Her body becomes so thin. Her behavior also

becomes strange. It is like she cannot focus on what she does and talks. She also

loses her conscious and balance, and so on. Not only those, she also gets bad

effect to her family life. Her previous children have been taken by the country.

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will not be taken by country anymore. The appointment is about Terri has to stop

using drug and nurse her children well.

3.2.3 Krystal’s Unappropriate Role in The Family

In her age, sixteen years old, Krystal has to do some things that she should

not do that. She is as a daughter in Weedon’s family, she grows without her

father’s presence. Sometimes she can nurse her young brother. She is better in

nursing her young brother then her mother. She wants to defend her young brother

in order to he is not taken by the country. Those can be seen in the quotation

below.

… Krystal ordered Terri to put on some proper clothes, forced Robbie

back into clean pants, reminded him he couldn’t piss in this kind, and

marched him off to nursery. … and set to work to clean up the house a bit,

sloshing pine-scented disinfectant over the kitchen, scraping all the old

food and cigarette butts into bin liners. She hid the biscuit tin holding

Terri’s works, and heaved the remaining computers (three had already

been collected) into the hall cupboard. (Rowling77-78).

All those mentioned in the quotation above is done by Krystal before Kay

comes to her house to recheck the development of her family. Krystal does it

because she does not want if Robbie is taken by the country. She loves her

brother. She wants to show that she and her family are better than before. She also

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house well. Krystal cleans all inside her house in order to Kay looks at the change.

Not only that, Krystal also asks Terri to change her cloth to better cloth.

Krystal also reminds Terry not to forget that Robbie has to wear clean

pants when Kay comes to their house. Krystal wants everything can change into

better thing and Kay looks it. The one who should do that is Terri. If she does not

want her child taken by country, she should clean her house and make her child

looks better in order to Kay can look at the better changes of her family. If Kay

gets some better changes of Weedon’s family, she will report it to her office and

country will take Terri’s children anymore. But Terri does not think like that.

The other thing which is done by Krystal is that she has to take her young

brother up to nursery. It can be seen from the quotation below.

‘Robbie’s at nursery,’ Krystal told Kay. ‘I’ve took ’im. I’ve put ’im back

in pants. She keeps puttin’ ’im back in pull-ups. I’ve told ’er not to. I put

cream on his bum. It’ll be all right, it’s on’y nappy rash.’ (Rowling 80).

The quotation above tells about what Krystal does. She takes her young

brother up to nursery while her mother is in the house is busy with her heroin.

Moreover Krystal also has some other activities which have to do by her. She has

to go to her school because she is still a student. Because of her mother’s

passiveness, she has to go to nursery to take her young brother up. Not only that,

Krystal also has high care feeling in nursing her young brother. It is proved when

Robbie does not wear diaper anymore. Before it, her mother still puts diaper to

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Because she has to do some duties that she does not have to do, she gets

some problems with herself. One of her problems is that she cannot concentrate

on her study. It can be seen from the quotation below.

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat

through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and

uncomfortable for both parties concerned. Not that Krystal was always in

class: for much of her career at St Thomas’s she had been taught one

-on-one by a special teacher. (Rowling 45).

From the quotation above, it can be known that Krystal’s achievement in

the school is not good enough. It can be caused by Krystal seldom studies at home

because she has some other activities that makes she does not study at home. In

the school, she gets special treatment from her teacher. She has to get the lesson

from her teacher privately. Generally, if the student gets the special treatment like

that, he/she cannot accept the lesson in the class well or he/she has problem with

his/her classmate. It can be she disturbs his/her friend when the learning process is

running.

Talking about disturbing the friend in the class when the learning process

is running, Krystal does it in her class. It can be found by the quotation.

“Doubtless Fairbrother would have coached the girl, and the truth about her foul

mouth, the endlessly interrupted classes, … (48).” The quotation describes clearly

that Krystal likes disturbing her friend in the class.

Some problems explained in this second point are found in Krystal

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make her life unwell. Not only that, she also gets some negative effect because of

her family condition. It will explain in the following point.

3.3. The Effect of Family Condition on Krystal’s Life

The condition of family can influence the growth of children. How the

parents teach the children also influence the growth of children’s characteristic.

All the parents’ behavior can make the children imitate it to their daily life. In this

story, Krystal has some characteristics because of her daily life with her family.

Some of those can make Krystal has positive effect, but some of others can make

negative effect. Those can be explained as follows below.

3.3.1 She Becomes Tough

The family condition has made Krystal become tough girl. It can be seen

from the quotation below.

… They had jeered at her name, but instead of crying, as most of the little

girls would have done, five-year-old Krystal had caught on, cackled and

shrieked, ‘Weed-on! Krystal weed-on!’ And she had pulled down her

pants in the middle of class and pretended to do it. … (Rowling 24).

Krystal has the power to fight all of her friends insult. The quotation above

tells that her friend in the school insult her. But she does not cry like the child in

generally. She follows what her friend says. The quotation above is happened

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she may cry when her friend insults him, or she said to her parents what is done

by her friends. But Krystal did not. She is tough in facing her friends’ insult.

3.3.2 She Becomes Violent

The other effect of family condition has made Krystal become violent girl.

It can be found by the quotation “… Krystal had once hit Lexie Mollison so hard

in the face that she had knocked out two of her teeth. … (45).” One of the

violence done by Krystal is that she fights with her friend. She is Lexie Mollison,

she is Krystal’s classmate. She hits Lexie’s face so hard until Lexie’s teeth breaks

out. How she can do it. Krystal is girl. In generally girl does not like the violence

thing. She has the affection. But Krystal does not. Krystal is like boy. She is brave

to hit her friend so hard. She does it without worrying about the consequences.

Moreover Krystal also does the violent with her close friend, Jemma. It

can be seen from the quotation below.

… Jemma kept needling her about Fats Wall; finally Krystal exploded and

lunged at her; Nikki and Leanne had to hold Krystal back. … (Rowling

76).

The quotation above tells one of other proofs that Krystal fights with her

friend again. Jemma is one of her close friend. But Krystal hits her. Krystal is

brave to fight with some ones, not her friend, not her close friend. Fortunately

when Krystal hits Jemma, there are Nikki and Leanne, Krystal’s close friends,

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3.3.3 She Becomes Impolite

The following effect of family condition has made Krystal become

impolite girl. It can be seen from the quotation below.

‘I told your fuckin’ ’usband—’

‘Krystal, for the last time, please do not swear at me—’

‘I told ’im I never laughed, I told ’im! An’ he’s still gave me fucking

detention!’ ... ‘If you ain’ gonna talk to me, I’ll go,’ said Krystal.

‘Don’t be rude, please, Krystal,’ said Tessa. … (Rowling 36-38).

Krystal often does the impolite thing. The quotation above tells that

Krystal speaks rudely to Tessa, her teacher. The student has to respect his/her

teacher when he/she speaks with the teacher. But Krystal does not do it. She

speaks with some dirty words to her teacher. Moreover she gets angry and speaks

with loud voice to the teacher.

Not only with her teacher, Krystal also speaks rudely with her mother. It

can be found by the quotation below.

‘You stupid fuckin’ junkie bitch, they’ll kick yer ou’ the fuckin’ clinic

again!’

But heroin took Krystal’s mother where she was beyond reach. Though

she responded by calling Krystal a little bitch and a whore, it was with

vacant detachment. Krystal slapped Terri across the face. Terri told her to

fuck off and die.

‘You fuckin’ look after him fer a fuckin’ change then, you useless fuckin’

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The quotation above is the conversation between Krystal and her mother,

Terri. She does it again. She has spoken rudely with her teacher in the school. And

she speaks with her mother using some dirty words also. But it can be seen from

the quotation above that Terri also speaks the dirty words to Krystal. What child

does, it can be same what her mother does. They are Krystal and Terri. They

speak loudly each other using the words which are not suitable to speak.

The other impolite thing done by Krystal is that she spats her mother

bravely. It can be seen from the quotation “‘Fuckin’ little know-it-all, ain’t yeh?’

yelled Terri. ‘You know fuck-all—’ Krystal spat at her.(300).” It is the brief

conversation between Krystal and her mother. How dare she is. She spats her

mother when she talks with her. Generally, the child is impossible to do the

impolite thing to his/her mother bravely if his/her mother is a good person. In the

story, it can be seen that Krystal is brave to do it because of her mother’s behavior

to herself.

3.3.4 She Becomes A Criminal

The last effect of family condition has made Krystal become a criminal

girl. It can be found by the quotation below.

… She was also unsettled and guilty about having stolen Tessa Wall’s

watch. But why had the silly bitch put it there in front of Krystal and

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The quotation above tells that Krystal steals her teacher’s thing. She is

brave to take her teacher’s thing. She has bad attitude because of her family

condition. She does the bad thing in the school. She steals her teacher’s watch.

The worse thing is Krystal steals the watch when she is in front of her teacher

while her teacher closes her eyes. If she does not have the high bravery, she will

not do it. She does not think how if her teacher looks at what he does.

The other criminal done by Krystal is same as before. She steals. It can be

seen from the quotation below.

… (Krystal kept hers in a box she had stolen from Nikki’s house. Krystal

was much given to sneaking things into her pockets that belonged to

people she liked. … (Rowling 78).

Besides stealing her teacher watch, Krystal also steals her friend’s thing.

She steals the box from Nikki’s house. It still talks about Krystal’s bravery. Nikki

is Krystal’s close friend. She also often stays in Nikki’s house. But she is brave to

do the bad thing in Nikki’s house. She is brave to do the criminal thing. What she

does not have makes her brave to steal the thing from the other one.

The other criminal thing done by Krystal is that she steals her mother’s

mobile phone. It can be seen from the quotation below.

… with Terri’s mobile in her tracksuit bottoms. She frequently made off

with this phone; many rows were triggered by her mother demanding it

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Krystal has stolen some things from her teacher and her close friend. The

worst thing is that she also steals her mother’s mobile phone. Krystal’s bravery in

stealing can be called as high bravery. She does not think what she does is right or

not.

3.3.5 She Becomes Naughty

The next effect of family condition has made Krystal become naughty girl.

It can be seen from the quotation below.

… so Andrew knew that Krystal was sometimes present, often not, …

(Rowling 25).

… Krystal frequently walked out of school when upset, angry or bored.

She was sometimes apprehended before she reached the gates and

frog-marched back inside, … (Rowling 35).

One of the proofs of Krystal’s mischief is that she often does not come to

school. She is absence in her class. Her teacher and friend have known that

Krystal is often absence. In the quotation above is told that Krystal is ever asked

to go back to her class when her teacher knows that she will go out from the

school.

The other bad behavior done by Krystal is doing free sex. It can be seen

from the quotation below.

… neatly lined up on top of the cupboards at the back, to find Rob Calder

and Mark Richards taking it in turns to cup and squeeze Krystal’s breasts.

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from the teacher by their upstanding textbooks, while the girls, many of

them flushed scarlet, were pretending not to have seen. … (Rowling 24).

The other Krystal’s mischief is that she does free sex in the school with

her two class mates. She is brave to do it in the class. Meanwhile her teacher is in

the class too, but the teacher does not look at them. Not only her teacher, her other

classmates know and look at what they do but they are silent. How brave Krystal

is. Krystal’s behavior in doing free sex has made her do it bravely without

thinking where she does it.

The other bad behavior of Krystal is that she does free sex again but with

different man. It can be found by the quotation below.

‘So, you wanna hear something interesting?’ said Fats, grinning

uncontrollably.

‘Go on.’

‘I fucked her last night.’

Andrew nearly said ‘who?’, before his befuddled brain remembered:

Krystal Weedon, of course; Krystal Weedon, who else? (Rowling 126).

Krystal does the free sex not only in the school, but also outside the

school. This occasion, she does it with her different friend. But she still does it

with her school friend. Krystal can do the negative thing and with different boy. It

is like what her mother does. Her mother’s behavior has made Krystal imitate the

THE EFFECT OF FAMILY CONDITION ON KRYSTAL WEEDON'S CHARACTER REFLECTED IN J.K. ROWLING'S THE CASUAL VACANCY.

ABSTRACT

INTISARI

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

CHAPTER 3

ANALYSIS